White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Uuc 0GouCIS
THE MARKETS
Seattle
Wheat markets closed.
Butterfat-16c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 @ 18c.
Hogs - Good to choice, $500
400.
Cattle - Choice steers. $4.25@
4.85.
sheep-spring lambs, $1,000 $50
Wheat markets closed.
Hay-Buying prices +. o. b. p RI,
land; Alfalfa. Yakima, $12.5O.
Butterfat-15 @ Ice.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@17c.
Cattle-s Steers, good, $4.75 @5.25.
Hogs - Good to choice, $500
z.25.
Lambs-Good to choice. $3.50
SOS.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, $4.25 % 500.
Hogs ~ Good to choice, $3.50
3.85.
Lambs - Medium to good, $4.25
OATS.
Work was resumed March LIST in
the logging camp of the Carlisle
Lumber company near Onalaska fol-
lowing months suspension, duebto
~ M
pany's sawmill recently increased
from five-hour to an eight-hour
day, while the planning mill is rum
ming ten hours a day. During the
past week a trainload Of 38 cars Of
finished lumber left Onalaska, most
Of which was for export trade.
Two hundred taxpayers Of Walla
Walla county have notified Cover
nor Martin and the Walla Walla
county delegation in the legislature
that they are unalterably opposed to
any bond issue that will work hard
ship on future generations, and also
opposed to any taxation that will add
to the present burden. They ask for
fair trial Of the income tax and tho
4O-mlll limit tax.
The newly created state game COM
mission will require budget OF
$848,167 to operate for the first BIZ
ennuim Of it's existence. 1t is esti-
mated that the receipts of the COM
mission will be about $878,270. The
major part Of revenue will come from
licenses.
Joseph Mccarthy, II months old,
was burned to death in fire that
destroyed the Mccarthy home near
Des Moines. The child was asleep in
his crib. The other children escaped.
The parents were not in the house
when the fire broke out, from an
undetermined cause.
Although other farm commodities
and machinery have dropped to new
levels, horses and mules will be as
sessed higher this year in Chelan
county. Animals assessed at $50 last
year will be raised to $45 this year
Cattle and poultry will be reduced
about Is per cent.
Members of the Asotin county
chapter of the United Farmers Of
Washington have started a move
ment to recall County Commission
ers Anderson, Roup and Brown ane
Prosecuting Attorney Halsey in al
attempt to obtain hand labor TO-
highway construction.
The rights of farmers desiring tt
repurchase property Of which the.
have been dispossessed under mort
gage foreclosure are safeguarded il
the enactment Of bill by the leg
islature.
Elk herds in the northwest section
of Grays Harbor county have becom
so tame. because Of hunger tina
woodsmen can walk among them, &C
cording to Jack belong, Hoquiar
hunter.
Prospects for establishment Of a.
asparagus cannery at Sunnyside t
replace the one destroyed by fir
last spring appeared favorable whe
growers met with Walter Rowe
president of Evaporated Fruits, Int
Spokane's new S711,000 postoffic
will be built on the Havermale is
land triangle at Howard and Havel
male avenue, just north of the Grea
Northern depot.
G. e. Pipgras, who owns the ST
gar Bowl, at Tekoa, returned frol
Spokane this week and has reopene
his ice cream factory and candy XII
chen.
The regular force Of workers {
the Curlew Creamery company {
Chewelah went on full time jobs b
ginning March LIST.
Approx m e ly $16,356.21 hi
been received in payment of person;
property taxes in Asotin county sint