White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-10
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

PortIand
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
winter, 6S1sc; soft white and western
white, Soc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, SIC.
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land: Alfalfa, $14.5O@15, oat and vetch
s13@13.5O.
utterfat-1S@20c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@16c.
Hogs-Good to choice, s3.75@4.65.
Cattle-Choice steers, s5.5O@6.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4,000.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
northern spring, 591hc; hard winter,
western red, 57kc; bluestem. 7Ohc.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@1Sc.
Butterfat-Per pound, 22c
Hogs Good to choice, $4.60@465.
Cattle-Choice steers, $5.25@6.
Sheep Choice lambs, $500.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.25@575.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.35@4.40.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.
Benton county's road levies are the
lowest they have been for % years,
according to County Commissioner
Hughes of Kennewick.
To protect the credit of Lewis coun-
ty so that warrants may not be dis
counted or refused, the county COM
missioners will issue 100000 in re-
funding bonds.
A freak lamb with five legs, six feet
and two tails has been born to eve
belonging to R. K. Matzen of Topper
ish. 1t gets about readily and keeps
both tails wagging.
The Ostrander logging camp, east
of Ostrander will start soon after hay-
ing been shut down for several months.
The cc1npany's mill has been operat-
ing one shift recently.
The old Great Northern bridge, built
about 1901, over the Columbia river
at Marcus is being removed. The
bridge had served as a trade channel
to the Kettle River country.
Formation of an independent ship
pers' credit association with a capital
of 100000 that will insure govern
ment loans of 100000 to finance fruit
growers is announced at Yakima.
Construction at the U. S. Veterans
hospital No. IS at Walla Walla, call.
| ing for the expenditure of nearly $780,
900 by the government, has been start.
| ed by A. E. Mowatt, Seattle contractor.
Installation of 1000 feet of wooden
flume and eight miles Of concrete for
the Highland irrigation project started
March list, according to G. R. Smith,
in charge of the Prosser reclamation
office.
Plans for beginning work in April
on the new 100000 University OF
Washington Law schools building
have been approved by the board OF
regents. The building is to be com
pleted in October.
The spending of s2,5oo,ooo in Wash
ington state this yeai for ties, lumber
and other material is announced by
the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul &
Pacific railroad. Much Of the mater
ial will be sent East.
Yakima fruit and business men esti
mate that it will take $S,250,000 tt
grow and haul to warehouses pros
pective apple crop of $4,000 carloads
this season. The cost Of packing ant
storage is not included.
Edward Johnny, 80, an Indian, wa:
killed instantly and Darrald D'Lancy
IL. was cut and bruised when a Woo
truck Johnny was driving was strucl
by southbound Great Northern pas
senger train at grade crossing nea
Bellingham.
Charles Lewis Of the Hob valley Il
conducting one of the few surviving
"pony express" services in the west
Over wilderness trails and puncheo1
roads along the Hob river, Levi
carries mail from Forks to Spruce. H
hes relays of ponies to make tn
route.
The American Exchange bank q
Seattle, which closed it's doors ther
early last fall, will reopen in fe,
days, j. P. Gleason, president, ar
nounced. He said the bank was so
vent and that assets were liquid. 4
majority of depositors have agree
to leave so per cent OF their balance
on deposit with the remaining so pc
cent available for withdrawal soon.
The commissioners of Pend Oreill
county and officials Of the HANKS
national forest have under constru,