White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-16

around" They offered to man any
sawmill plant on Grays harbor and
have their pay deferred until the
operations cash in on sales. They an
nounced they would rather work and
wait 80 days for their wages than 90
nothing.
A report that the medicinal wat
ers of Soap Lake were drying up was
printed in several papers OF the
northwest recently. The truth is that
the lake is three feet higher than
year ago, is three miles long. a
mile wide and $50 feet deep at places.
The water is stronger and frequent-
ly has to be- diluted before taking.
The Oroville district shipped about
426 cars of apples the last season.
twice as many as last year, and the
district because of the number OF
young trees, is expected to produce
even more this season, although re-
cent low prices and the difficulty OF
financing may affect the production.
Through the cooperation of mem
bers of the Smelt Fishermen's I'M
ion, the Washington state fisheries
department and truckers. half ton
of smelt is supplied daily for dis
tribution to needy families In Port
land and arrangements are being
made for fish to go to Seattle.
Torrential rains uprooted big
hemlock tree that crashed through
an automobile and killed Manley
| Patton of South Bend and injured
his companion, Miss Vera Skidmore,
on the new Observation-Disclosures high
way. Rescuers had to cut the tree
in three lengths to free the automo~
bile.
The Railway Mems Welfare lea
que of Seattle has suggested to the
legislature a constitutional amend
ment setting up a single-house as
sembly of rs members to be presid-
ed over by the lieutenant governor.
It is claimed that it would greatly
reduce the cost of government.
The legislature has passed the
$16,O00,OO0 road bill. Compared
with last year it shows cut of so
per cent. and leaves the decision as
to where the money is to be spent
up to the highway department in
stead of the legislature.
The Inland mill at st. John is in
stalling a 6OO0-egg hatchery here.
The hatchery and poultry plant will
be under the supervision of Verne
Eisinger, who was formerly with the
poultry department. Of the Univer-
sity of Idaho, Moscow.
Abandonment of the commissary
at Wenatchee was announced by the
the new county welfare committee,
which has instructed the county and
city engineers to outline road and
street improvements to give work to
jobless.
The Lincoln county commissioners
signed an order closing all grayeled
roads in the county to travel by
trucks of more than a ton rated ca
pacity, and to stages weighing more
than ton, including weight of pass
engers.
Frank A. Williams, Toppenish pi'
oneer and business leader, who died
last July, left an estate valued at
s184,515, according to an inventory
| lust filed in the superior court. Oh
the estate $69,650 was in real es
tate.
E Chelan county's 1888 gasoline sup.
: ply will be distributed among sever
: dealers, the commissioners decided
l when they reopened bids and foune
1 that number offering to supply gas
r oline at 1879 cents a gallon.
The 23d session Of the Legislature
D may cost as much to operate as an.
v other session. The first approprla
! ton for expenses was 100000. An
q other appropriation of $12,5OO will
: be asked for.
The formation of a surplus crol
n corporation to control the supply o
g prunes of Walla Walla and Yakim
t valleys is suggested in circular let
; ter being sent out by William Bern
b ey, a Walla Walla shipper.
p. N. Smalley, trustee of the Sinai
n ley estate, announced today the sal
O of the 8OO-acre A. L. Smalley stoc
q ranch to Manuel Silva for cash. MI
n Silva had been leasing the propert
), three years.
Whitman county tax payments
70 February were 60 per cent. less tina
j. in February last year. The total TIL
= year was $61,764 as compared wit
Vt $104,953 last year.
The house by vote of 81 to 3
i has defeated senate bill No. I'll
n which would exempt agricultur;
d products, except timber, livestock an
t. poultry, from taxation for one veal
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