White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
winter, Tic; soft white and western
white, 61hc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 59hc.
Hay-Buying prices. I. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.
Butterfat-Pound 13@15c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@14c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @4.00
Cattle-Choice steers, $6.00@6.50
Lambs Spring, $4.00@4.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
hard winter, &c; western red, Gle;
northern spring CSC; bluestem, 72c.
Eggs-Ranch. 13@15c.
Butterfat-Pound 15c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4@4.15.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@6.50.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $5@5.50.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.50@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.75@3.85.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.00
The Wilson Creek school district
has voted 3-mill extra tax levy need
ed to retain an accredited high school
and six instructors.
A gang of burglars operating in Top
penish stole merchandise worth more
than $1,000 last week from the general
store of E. M. Condor & Co. =
Resolutions favoring the substitute
ton Of state police system for the
highway patrol have been adopted by
the Okanogan county Pomona grange.
Indians of the Yakima reservation
have protested against paying the
state of Oregon a SIS license fee to
fish for salmon in the Columbia river.
Tetanus, or lockjaw, following q
powder burn from a toy pistol, has
taken the life of 11-year-old Bobby
Clark of Seattle, after desperate
fight.
Operation of the Kelso city library
without any paid staff during June,
July and August was decided upon by
the library board at it's meeting last
week.
Adolph Saarinen, so, a bachelor,
committed suicide near his home at
Cloverdale, south of Kalama, last week
by igniting a charge of dynamite
against his body.
Resumption soon of work on city OF
Seattle's Skagit light hydro-electric
project appeared likely, as officials
checked bids of three contractors for
proposed construction.
Walter v. Zelinsky, former deputy
auditor of Pierce county, has been sen.
fenced in the superior court to serve
from three to five years in the state
penitentiary for embezzlement OF
county funds.
Two men held up the First National
bank at Elma last week, escaping
with between $4,000 and $1,000 in cur
rency In their haste to scoop the
money from the vault they overlooked
a bundle of $40 bills.
AS the result of an election the
Butte and Peach school districts are
to be consolidated with the Creston
district. The merger will make it
possible for the Creston high school
to retain it's generalization.
Auburn has a new industry, de.
signed to protect cabbage and cauli.
flower plants from the root maggot,
and it is to be manufactured CONNER.
cially. Robert Bates and Ralph Wal.
ton will handle the output.
About 200 acres of slashing at Lake
Gle Elum will be burned under super.
vision of Wenatchee national forest
officials. The slashing and burning
are incidental to clearing land that
will be submerged by the federal dam.
Tacoma firemen have notified the
city council that they will refuse to
accept the 10 per cent cut in wages
voted by the council. The present
wages were voted by the people and
it is claimed the council has no au.
thority to reduce them.
While Glen Womack, II, and Claud
Woodwork were fishing from raft
on swollen Yakima river near Selah
bridge young Womack lost his bal.
ance, fell into the stream and was
swept against clump Of willows Oh
a partly submerged island. Glen
Schiller, ex-BOy Scout. swan to the