White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-11

Washington with two fires in the
Leavenworth district. Both resulted
from brush fires. Over 20 acres was
burned before the fires were brought
under control.
Citizens of Renton are supporting
a movement to divide King county,
making the 40th county of the state.
The proposed new county would have
a population Of 82,70S, and would
take in the portion of King county
south of Seattle and east of Lake
Washington as well as part of North
ern Pierce county.
Immediate construction of 30
mile-long steel pipe, to furnish pure
mountain domestic water from Icicle
lake to the Wenatchee valley, today
was recommended by a special COM
mitee which has been studying a re-
port on feasibility of the project by
r. H. Thompson, Seattle hydraulic
engineer. a
Interest and penalties on delin-
| quent water assessments of the Okan-
| ogan irrigation district have been
| waived, Secretary Dale Thorp said
| yesterday. Water is running into the
| districts reservoir 80 acre feet a day
and already 1922 feet are stored in
the 14,000foot capacity reservoir.
A 50-cent bet was called off when
cow at Whatcom county farm gave
birth to twins. The superintendent
of the farm and resident of the
farm argued over the sex of the COM
ing calf and bet SO cents on their
convictions. The cow gave birth to
q bull and heifer.
Henry Fox, about 40, member Of
the Walla Walla water department,
dropped dead of heart attack while
umpiring close decision at second
base in Valley league baseball
game between Prospect Point and
Pantorium. The inhalator crew work.
ed for an hour.
The cabbage maggot may be con-
trolled by the corrosive sublimate
treatment, according to Arthur j.
Hanson, entomologist of the Western
Washington experiment station at
Puyallup. This maggot also attacks
radishes, cauliflower, mustard, beets
and celery.
An honor for which she has waited
% years will come to Mrs. Beulah
Whitcomb of South Bend, May 81,
when she graduates wit the senior
class in high school. Nineteen years
elapsed between her grade school
graduation and high school entrance
in 1929.
Edwin Evans, condemned at Sc
attic for the murder of his father in
an argument over being allowed to
carry on postgraduate work at the
University of Washington, plans to
continue his college work in the state
penitentiary at Walla Walla.
The Chelan county commissioners
have revoked a $4,000 road contract
to gravel and oil roads in the Man
son Orchard district as preliminary
step in complying with recent legisla-
ton that will allow the county to act
as it's own contractor.
Delinquent maintenance charges
have been paid by 1872 Tieton ranch
ers, according to j. S. Moore, district
reclamation superintendent. The out
look for further payments is good.
The ranchers are paying up as we'll
as they did last year.
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, president
of the University of Washington
board Of regents, reports that appli-
cations and recommendation for the
position of president of the institu-
ton are coming in at the rate of
one dozen per week.
The $4,000 United States custom
office and building projected for Lau-
rier have been indefinitely postponed,
the government having seen fit to
use the money for other purposes for
the present, Postmaster G. H. Kidwell
has been advised.
While attempting to ride saddle
horse across the swollen Methow
river driving two other horses be-
fore him, man believed to be Julian
Stokes, %, was drowned near Twisp
last week. The body was not re-
covered.
Spokane's exhibit at the Century
of Progress fair at Chicago will con-
sist of by 18-foot mural formed
by enlarged photos mounted on can
vas, and colored, according to de-
cision of the chamber of commerce.
Pete Smith of Bellingham has been
sentenced to serve four months in
the county Jail for the theft Of five
pairs of stockings from department
store.
Farmers in the vicinity of Farm
inpton are bl1Sy al work in the fields.