White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-04-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Bret Resume Of Happenings
of the Week Collected Tor
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Wheat - Soft white and western
white, SIC; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, SIC:
bluestem, 59c.
Butterfat-16c.
Egg%Ranch. 15 q 16c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.4O @ 4.5O.
Cattle-Choice steers, $500 @ $50.
sheep-Spring lambs, $5.25 q $50.
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 58c; soft white and west
ern white 49hc; hard winter.
northern spring and western red,
47hc.
Hay-Buying prices, +. o. b. Port,
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.00.
Butterfat-15 @ 16c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is @ 16c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.25 q $50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @ Abs.
Lambs - Good to choice, $5.25 @
5.65.
Spokane
Steers, good, $4.25 q 500.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500 q 4.10.
1.ambs-M Medium to good, $4.75 @
500.
Walla Walla county was 8S5 cars
ahead of the produce market in 1882,
figures compiled by the horticultur-
ist show. Nine hundred and sixty
cars of fruit and vegetables were
shipped and Is, mostly tropical and
semi-tropical fruits, were imported.
Exports were: apples, 1875; prunes,
3O2; mixed, L; potatoes, "a; onions,
211; cabbage. 10; lettuce, 40; car
rots, Q; asparagus, 8; spinach, 1Ol;
rhubarb, IS, and mixed vegetables,
"a.
Thanks to R. W. Harper, office
manager for petroleum company in
Seattle, robbers had no trouble in
getting into the office safe over the
weekend and looting 1t of $3.50.
Prizing the safe more than it's con-
tents, Harper put a sign on the safe
door reading, ''The combination of
ILLS SALE 10 Ou Il1O 4ONOA0O oANS Va
this card" And it was.
Petitions are being circulated at
Chelan and at Lakeside, asking the
city councils to do all they can to
obtain lower electric and water rates
from the Washington Power comp
any. It was said that some 400 heads
of families have signed the petitions
and it is believed that a hearing will
be held before the department of
public works soon.
Spring has arrived in the Yakima
valley, Wildflowers on the hills, pus-
sywillows by the streams, small boys
with marbles and baseball bats and
other signs Of the season are nothing
compared with the report of the first
rattlesnake. It was sighted by V. t.
Heidenreich, assistant forester for
the Indian service, on the rocks near
Fort Simcoe.
There are between 100000 and
100000 bushels of wheat still on
hand in warehouses, is the estimate
of the county assessors office at
Walla Walla. These figures are not
estimates of the coming crop yield
as was enormously reported. The
carryover is unusually heavy.
Since the first of the year three
race horses owned by Lester Pearne
of White Swan have been stoler
from his ranch. The last one, mare
named Jessie Kidwell, disappeared
last Monday night. The three trotters
have participated in events on the
state fair track at Yakima.
A suit to test the constitutionalitJ
of the state income tax law enacted
by the legislature has been filed il
the Thurston county superior court
The validity of the law is attacked
on the ground that it imposes differ
ent rates on the same kind of prop
erty.
Lloyd Williams of the William.
Bottling company of Colfax, is plan
ming to locate in Walla Walla imme
diately to open bottling plant which
the company will operate in addition
to the Colfax plant.
Lockjaw ended the life of Swear
old Robert T. Richter after he shat
been struck in the neck with cedar
arrow about a week ago. Blood
poisoning set in.
Passage of the beer bill by con
gress has stimulated the contracting
of hops in the Yakima valley ant
encouraged some growers to plan
additional acreage.
Martin Gruber, Of Gruber & Doch
erty, Helm sawmill operators, stated
recently that the firm may resume
cutting at Its plant within shor
time.
The Longview American Legion II
forming a blood TRANSMISSION squad