White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-23


small airplane flying around. 1t has
been many years since one Of these
lareg birds have been seen.
With lambing having started early
In one or two points of the valley,
conditions are not nearly SO ideal as
in early February. Near-zero wealth
err and a foot of snow combine to
make the ranges and camps anything
but conducive to health Of newborn
lambs.
Mrs. L. A. Kramer, living near Top
penish, with fourth of her body
burned, is battling for her life at the
home of relatives. She was burned
while starting a fire with kerosene.
She saved herself from immediate
death by jumping into watering
trough.
The Asotin county commissioners
awarded the contract for building two
miles Of road on highway No. 7, near
Cloverland, to Atkinson & Davis,
Charleston, Wash. The accepted bid
was for s26,1o9. The contract includes
an agreement to employ local hand
labor.
j. J. Harper, about 60, lone Wah-
Riakum rancher living about one mile
west of Cathlamet was found dead re-
Gently in the barn across the road
from the small house where he lived.
He apparently died when he was out
to feed his stock.
John Brooks Shaw, known as
"Munis Leo" when he trouped
through the West as circus aero
bat SO years ago, is dead at his home
near Colby. He was rs years of age.
He retired in 1905 to a small farm
near Colby.
spectacular race for city commission
er In the history Of Spokane. There
are 1872 candidates. Ten men and one
woman filed on the last day. The
election will be held March 4.
A 3-inch snowfall has insured pro-
lection for the heavy wheat crops Of
Benton and Franklin counties. Sheep
men occupied with lambing are sus-
tanning some loss, with the mercury
below zero.
Trustees Of the Walla Walla Cam
ming company have announced COM
pletion of arrangements whereby the
equipment in the Cascade Canning
company, Wenatchee, will be brought
and shipped to Walla Walla.
Alexander Mayhem, 81, living alone
In shack on the Idaho side of New
port, barely escaped with his life
when his home caught fire last week.
He suffered burns which may prove
fatal.
Ernest Miller, giving his age at 101,
claimed the distinction of being the
Oldest registered voter in Spokane
when he signed the registration books
at the city clerks office Friday.
The Howard Morthland bill to per-
NIT cities Of the first, second and third
classes to establish the city manager
plan of government has passed the
senate by vote Of 33 to 10.
The Walla Walla Grain Growers,
wheat cooperative, plans to construct
an 8O,OO0-bushel elevator at Tracy,
up Mill creek. Work will start as
soon as the weather settles.
Prospects for irrigation water this
valley. Storage holdings in reservoirs
are greater than in any previous sea-
son at this time Of year.
Wallace Floch, Cheney high school
senior, has been awarded the 500
Union Pacific scholarship for the best
project work in agriculture during his
high school course.
Yakima Indians who have turned
to trapping wild horses to raise money
other $500. The horses are shipped to
plant at Portland.
Apple sheds here are loading, in re-
spone to orders, and the price has
been raised cents on some varieties,
owing to the recently reduced rates
on the railroads.
The Reconstruction Finance .corpor-
alton is willing to make q loan of So
cents box to apple growers, but re-
fuses to grant the 62-cent loan asked
| for.
Loans to apple orchardists by the
United States department of agricul.
ture, under the seed loan" act, may
be raised from $25 to $50 an acre
Gerald Parrish, IA, Custer high
school student, was killed last weel
when an automobile skidded and
threw him against a telephone pole.