White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-01-05

ogs-Good to choice, $3.10@3.25.
.ambs-Medium to good, $4@4.50.
Anton Linn, an itinerant preacher,
who had strolled from town to town
over the Pacific northwest for the
last IS years, died at Seattle recently.
An application from Snohomish
county for $4,000 unemployment
relief loan from the reconstruction
finance corporation was approved by
Governor Hartley.
Thomas E. Ross, Cheneys last Civil
war veteran, and life commander of
General George Wright post, died re-
Gently at his home in Cheney. He was
80 years of age.
Taxes in Asotin county have been
reduced by per cent through the
medium Of lowering assessed valua-
ton, according to announcement Of
Treasurer j. B. Jones.
DR.. w. G. Brandon, health officer
of Garfield, has ordered schools closed
and has placed a ban on public gather
ings, to be enforced until the influ-
enza situation improves.
Taxes in Asotin county have been
reduced by per cent through lower
assessed valuation. On farm land the
reduction in valuation was 20 per cent
and on pasture land 40 per cent.
Surveys Of funds available for state
highway work during the coming bien-
mum indicate that there will be a
shortage of about 100000 as COM
pared with the present biennium.
Jobless water and light users of
Cashmere are paying their bills by
shoveling snow from the streets and
sidewalks for the city. A wage scale
of rs cents per hour has been set for
the work.
The applications of four motor We
hicle freight lines for authority to
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way, between Everett and Wenatchee,
were denied by the department of pub
lie works.
The trapping season is now open in
Klickitat county and many have ex-
pressed their intention of trying their
luck this year. Fur prospects are re-
ported good. A number of farmers will
run trap lines.
Deputy Sheriff Paul F. McElrey OF
Spokane has been chosen sergeant-at-
arms of the state senate, according to
an announcement by Representative
Robert f. Waldron, chairman Of the
Spokane house delegation.
The minor rhythmic chant Of In.
dian sacred songs and the steady beat
of drums emanated from the Yakima
reservation Indian longhouse in Wapa.
to last week. The annual Christmas
celebration was under way.
Five long hours Mr.. and Mrs. James
Navotney battled the snow in covering
II miles from their home at the Viii.
bur-Keller ferry, on the Columbia
river, to Wilbur, to bring their 212'
year-old daughter to doctor.
Yakima has become the eastern ter
minal of the Tacoma division of the
Northern Pacific, Al years after the
railroads tracks reached Yakima. The
$250,00O project has been completed
with the exception Of the removal Of
O 115-foot turntable from Ellensburg
Those who are able to get auto II
censes are to be taken off the Spo
kane county commissary list. The
county commissioners are of the opin
ion that a person who has money tt
buy license would use money to blu,
gasoline and let the county feed him
A proposal to have the state pur
chase the Brewster toll bridge is be
fore the commercial clubs at Okanoga.
j and Omak. 1t is claimed that tn,
bridge takes about $4,000 annual.
(: on the Bridgeport com
muuities.
The skilled hand of a Spokane sui
geon virtually restored the nose Q
John Chance, 2i-year-old Fruitlan
rancher, in an operation recently afte
the young man had been kicked by
horse and the nose nearly severe
from the face.