White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-04-20
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS Of INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings
Of the Week Collected for
Our Readers


white, Sc; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 54hc;
bluestem, 637ac.
Butterfat-18c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 @ tic.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1885 @ 400.
Cattle-Choice steers, $500 @ 5.25.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $3.50 @ $40.
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, &c; soft white and west
ern white, 55kc; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
53Ac.
Hay-Buying prices, +. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $500.
Butterfat-19 @ zoe.
Eggs-Ranch, IA @ 15c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @ 4.35.
Lambs - Good to choice, $500 o.
$50.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $500 q 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1885 @ 400.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75 O.
6.25.
All records for mass production
In the bovine family probably have
been shattered by purebred Hol-
stein cow. Harriet of Cerelia, No.
1263026, owned by Mr.. and Mrs. J..
G. Chamberlin of Ceres, near Chehal-
is. February 13, 1880. she dropped
her first calf, heifer, and June H.,
1881, her second calf, also heifer.
April Is, 1892, she gave birth to
twin heifers, and Tuesday she gave
birth to triplets, making a total of
five calves inside 81 months.
The hum of the band saw and the
scream of the planer are harmonizing
a melody Of renewed activity in the
lumber business of the Inland EN-
pire. During the last two weeks, ESQ
men have been put back to work in
the mills. The Dalkena Lumber COM
pany at Dalkena put SO more men
to work last Monday.
The first immediate effect of the
newly established logging rate that
will be available on the Cowlitz, Che
halls G Cascade railway out of this
city to points beyond the Cowlitz RI
yer, southeast of Chehalis, is the an
nouncement that a camp will soon
be operating on Winston creek.
S. C. Woodruff, accountant the
state industrial. school for boys, at
Chehalis, has retired after SO years.
service to the state. For many years
he was superintendent of the state
custodial school at Medical Lake and
was also associated with the asylum
at Steilacoom.
Plenty of water seems assured for
the Okanogan irrigation district this
season. Reports come from the water
shed that more than two inches of
snow fell during March. The snow
fall last winter was greater than for
some seasons.
Reports from Ilwaco say that mer-
chants Of that community have unit
ed on a plan to issue "Ilwaco salmon
currency" The new issue will be out
April 10 and will be backed by
county, road district and other war;
rants.
The state department of public
works will carry it's battle against the
Columbia basin grain rate differen-
tial to the federal court. The state
supreme court has denied a petition
for rehearing.
What the return OF beer has done
for the Yakima valley hop industry
is shown in contract records that re-
veal 2,677,000 pounds Of the 1888
crop contracted at is to % cents per
pound.
Sheep-growers within the Colville
reservation report an excellent lamb
crop, but cold weather has retarded
the growth of grass, so essential to
the successful start of the newborn
lambs.
Money obtained from beer licenses
In Whatcom county outside Of incor-
porated cities will be used for pay
ment of old age pensions, according
to decision of the county commits
sioners.
E. K. Cherrington, whose grocery
store at Yakima was recently robbed,
has discovered in checking his March
telephone bill that the robbers used
his phone for a long-distance call to
Seattle.
President Hugo Winkenwerder Of
the University of Washington will
leave the question of beer at frater-
mites for meals entirely up to the
students.
The first irrigation district to take
advantage of recent legislation is