White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-01-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, soc; soft white and western
white, 39c; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 371ac.
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b. PORT
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $12.5O.
Butterfat-19 @20c.
Eggs-Ranch, 23@24c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.O0@5.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.75@3.85.
Lambs-Good to choice, s4.75@
500.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 800; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 401ac; bluestem,
49kc.
Butterfat-21c.
Eggs-Ranch, 27@2Sc.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1855 q 3.75.
Cattle-Choice steers, $4.25 $500.
sheep-spring lambs, $4.25 q 500.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.25@4.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1885 $3.50.
Lambs Medium to good, $4,000
as
Ernest Minor, Lincoln county audi
tor, has been offered a deputyship
by Cliff Yelle, state auditor elect.
Minor will accept.
Speaker-Elect George +. Yantis of
Olympia is believed to be one of Gov
ernor Martins selections for the state
tax commission. Yantis is a lawyer,
The regular quarterly dividend of
rs cents a share, making total of
100000, has been voted to stockhold-
ers Of the First National bank of Sc
attic. This will bring the banks divi-
dends for the to 100000.
Mayor Dore Of Seattle has an
nounced that he will veto an ordi-
nance that places the s350,000 saved
by city. departments during 1882 in
the emergency fund for 1893. Under
the councils plan, the money would
be used for items not included In
the budget.
Publisher A. S. Hillyer of the Sunny
side Sun paid off an election bet and
celebrated the New Year by walking
barefooted from his home to his Of
flee in the center of the business Sec
ton while early morning spectators
cheered loudly.
The epidemic Of influenza and colds
continued to hold Yakima in its grip
as 555 school children, or 10 per cent
Of the total enrolment, failed to re-
port at the end Of the holiday period.
For holding an automobile draw
ing contest, the Inland Theaters, Inc,
Of Walla Walla paid fine of $50
In superior court.
Commander Harold Jones, 40, Ia
coma, recently retired from the navy
because of a n 81 vO u s breakdown,
leaped to his death from the fourth
pia last week.
A Chevrolet truck, loaded with gro
ceries, was stolen from Eli Ponder,
of the Rockford Meat COM
pany of Rockford, while on buying
trip in Spokane.
Six Grays Harbor mills have re-
sumed operations since the Christmas
shutdown and at least one other will
start cutting within the next three
weeks, operators announced.
The quick action of 9-year-old
boy who spotted a washed-out trestle
over Ahanum creek was believed to
have saved the lives Of two passen-
gers and motorman on the fast in
terurban car speeding between Yak
ina and Wiley City last week.
Discontinuance of the commercial
clam season on the GrdyS f1aTDOr
beaches is advocated by John Troup,
commissioner. He contends
the clam season annually brings in
hundreds of destitute families which
cannot make a living on the clans
even in favorable years. The season
is scheduled to open March /.
The body Of John OLeary, about
As, bachelor of the Mills creek dis
trict, was found in his cabin by Elmer
Payne, a neighbor. O'Leary's body
was found upright in chair, his legs
crossed. 1t is believed that O'Leary
either died from heart attack, or
was poisoned by eating some old fish,
some of which was found in his cabin.
A truck containing 26 celebrators
from watch night party
hurtled down the steep Wenas cam
yon grade, mile from Naches, at 80
miles early the first, and crashed
into a concrete culvert at the bot
tom, critically injuring three women.