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

A $500 issue Of self -liquidating scrip
will be put into circulation at Wenat-
chez with the approval Of the cham
Der of commerce. The scrip will be
issued to school teachers in lieu OF
warrants and sold to business men for
prorated among contributors to the
fund raised last month to keep the
schools open.
Purses Of Yakima Indians are heav-
Ter by $1,000. which they have recently
acquired through the sale of wild
horses. The tribesmen have also taxi
en- in several hundred dollars by SELL
Ing beaver hides, and will soon re-
ceive payment OF $1,000 in grazing
fees, which is about half the sum U.s.
ually returned in fees.
The story, oft repeated by woods
men, that coyotes become wolves af-
ter living in the timber several gen.
erations, received new confirmation
recently, when word reached Chelan
from Stehelin, of schoolboy being
trailed and freed by four coyotes.
For the Seth consecutive year, Fred
Euehlke, Davenport blacksmith, has
received tax receipt No. from Lin
coin county: Zuehlke first received
receipt No. in 1897 when he paid his
taxes. At that time Sprague was the
county seat. He has been the first
man to pay ever since.
Two acres Of certified Melted Gem
err nearly 500 was the project which
aided John Liedtke, IS, Washougal
high school senior, to win the 1888
county Hughes scholarship to
Washington State college.
A building program for the Uni
versity of Washington calling for the
expenditure of s530,000 is announced
by the new board of regents. The
funds are to come from students fees
and returns from the Metropolitan
Building company lease.
Thousands Of wild geese spent the
winter on the Columbia river in east
ern Klickitat county. This caused
many old timers to believe that the
winter would not be severe, but with
the Thermometer at 20 below, they
changed their minds.
Six carloads OF cement, something
over 1900 barrels. were loaded for
shipment from the Lehigh plant at
Metaline Falls last week. Four car
loads went to the new bridge being
built over the kootenai river at Bon
ners Ferry, Idaho.
Seattle, with four city councilmen
to elect this spring, has So candidates
to date in the running. The office
pays $3.50 per month. It has been sug-
gested that candidates wear badges
so that they shall not solicit one an
other.
Distribution Of s7217, representing
an per cent. dividend, from the de-
funct Central bank of Toppenish is
being made to depositors. Two prior
dividends, amounting to 65 per cent,
have been made.
James Gyett Of Kalama was injur-
ed in an unusual accident last Sunday
when the tube in tire which he was
repairing exploded, the tire rim srtik-
ing him in the face. His nose was
broken.
With success in sight In their cam.
paign for lower transcontinental rail-
road rates on apples, Yakima valley
fruit growers will next try for rate
slash on boat shipments to the Orient.
A rabbit hunt, now planned to pro.
vide food for needy families along the
Columbia river, Is a plan which was
carried out in eastern Klickitat coun-
ty for several years. However, the OBJ
ject formerly was not to provide food,
but to exterminate the animals, which
caused damage to crops.
A tired mother who had brought
her 9-months-old son by airplane and
steamship 1000 miles to Seattle in an
11-day race to save his life was re-
warded with the best of news-"that
the child would live"