White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-15

ROCK, lS the latest Vlctlm OIL d IrdC'
tious bull. Mr.. Crane had taken the
brute outside when it charged on him
and landed him on a disc. Help arrived
soon, however. and the owner was
rescued.
The Cox and Brasser fish camp at
Dry Gulch below Charleston, shared 40
big salmon the first day of their
operation last week. The salmon run
will last for about 60 days, reaching
its peak toward the end of this month.
Horse-drawn nets are being used to
catch the fish.
Peach growers in parts of the lower
Yakima valley, where the harvest Is
half completed, stopped picking when
the price dropped to 20 cents per box.
The price gives no return. 1t is
claimed. Dealers offering the fruit at
Is cents per box are receiving but
little response.
Tomatoes are being trucked in from
the Yakima valley to be canned at
Walla Walla. Trucks also are bring
ing Kennewick fruit and some Is stiu
coming in from Walla Walla county.
The cannery is putting up % tons, or
700 cases, daily. All the possible out
put has been sold.
The year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Al
vim Wade was crushed to death under
the rear wheels of a truck driven by
his 15-year-old brother, Wayne, on
their farm at MAYHEM, II miles from
Pomeroy. The baby, unnoticed, had
toddled to the rear Of the truck, which
was backed over him.
The Western Union will spend $40,-
900 in the vicinity of Walla Walla this
fall, it was announced by M. T. Cook,
general manager of the Pacific divi-
sion, and G. A. Newson, division com.
mercial agent, both Of San Francisco.
The lines from Touchet to the Snake
river will be entirely replaced.
The city of Seattle will soon refuse
to pay gasoline tax to the state. If
the city is sustained it will mean an
annual saving of $4,000. The city
has also protested the 1-cent federal
tax on the ground that the federal
authorities have no right to impose the
IN oil ototo
A gold band lily of Japan, rare
plant for the Longview community, is
blooming in the garden Of the Charles
Risdon home there. The flower is
white flecked with bronze and with q
gold band in the center of each petal.
1t has sweet and heavy scent. The
plant has nine blossoms and two buds.
The Standard Asphalt Paving COM
pany started recently to lay nine and
a half miles Of plant mix oil mat on
the newly completed revision Of the
Pend Oreille highway at Newport
and in the vicinity. Through the
business district Of the town full
width mat will be laid from curb to
curb.
A group Of local growers has petit
toned the city commissioners of Walla
Walla to repeal recent ordinance re-
quiring $500 annual license fee for
fruit and vegetable dealers. The petit
TONERS claim that only large concerns
can afford to pay such license and
that small dealers are forced out Of
business.
Only Cowlitz county men will be en-
ployed on the six miles of grading on
the new s61,OOO Spirit Lake road pro-
ject, for which the LaDee Logging COM
pany has the contract, according to G.
Hedger, resident engineer on the pro-
ject. 1t is estimated that two shifts of
40 men each will be employed, work
ing not more than 30 hours week.
The depression is increasing, rather
than decreasing applications for en-
rollment in Whitman college, accord
ing to Douglas V. McClane, registrar,
who stated that freshmen applicants
on September list equal the total first
year enrolment last September. The
74th year of the institution will open
at Walla Walla with freshman days.
September 20 and 81.
Large cucumbers, larger heads of
cabbage, tall flower stalks and similar
"big" things have nothing on cauli-
flower grown on the A. E. Runquist
acreage in the Columbia Valley Gar
dens, Longview suburb. The head
weighs 5h pounds and measures 10
inches across. Mr. Runquist says it is
some in advance of the main crop,
which is expected to come in late in
October.
The F. w. Dustan G Son cannery at
Charleston has handled approximately
half million pounds Of homegrown
tomatoes at its plant this season. The