White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-23
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district. Hatchced in Chelan county
last year, the fish had grown to
from three to four inches in size.
Declaring an emergency n Il
Yakima valley, the Yakima county
commissioners have voted to issue
$4,000 in warrants to finance CHAR
ity work for the remainder OF the
year. OF the sum, 100000 Will pc
needed for INDECENT relief and the
remainder will be for mothers pen
sions, disqualification and the poor
farm.
A total of 77S,820 boxes of apples
and pears were exported through the
port of Seattle in February, w. 5.
Cahill, port traffic manager, advises.
The exports were 286,298 boxes less
than February, 1882. So far THIS
season, 3,843,7O7 boxes Of the two
fruits have moved through n 9 e,
compared with 4,130,005 boxes year
ago.
The Chelan county welfare COM
mittee has abandoned it's commits
sary and instructed the county and
city engineers to outline road and
street improvements to give work to
the unemployed. The men Will pc
given two days work each week and
81 in grocery orders.
Hundreds of applications for
homesteads on the governments new
Kittitas irrigation project have
been received at Ellensburg. A 20
mile canal, finished last fall, opened
$4,000 acres to cultivation. OF this
acreage 5000 acres will be home
steaded.
A close inspection of soft fruit
in b Chelan valley shows t h a t
while there is considerable injury
from the February freeze it is less
than in most other fruit sections.
Apricots are damaged so per cent,
pears SO per cent, and peaches 80
per cent.
Resembling blasts from whistles
of the Cascade Lumber company saw
mill at Yakima signalled the open
ing the seasons run last Thursday
morning, n d summoned 400 en-
ployees back to their jobs. The Cas-
cade company has the city's largest
payroll.
In addition to crews working on
county roads and city streets, for
groceries paid for by Reconstruction
Finance corporation money, the dis
trict highway office sent out loo
men on central Washington highways
to do odd jobs.
The medicinal waters Of Soap Lake
are not drying up, as has been re
ported. The lake is three feet highe
than it was a year ago and 15O fee
deep in places. The water is stronge
and has to be diluted franuently be
fore taking.
The Lincoln County Taxpayers as
ISOLATION has passed resolutions pro
testing to the governor and the leg
islature against the imposition o
any new taxes and asking that tn
budget control bill be passed.
Twenty thousand dollars WORT
of scrip will be issued by the Biles
Coleman Lumber company at Omak
This will keep the logging camps
} sawmill n woodworking plant
going this month.
!, Preparatory work for the repair
ing of the railway bridge that span
the Cowlitz river, two miles south o
Kelso, to provide the railway con
, nection for Longview has been begu
!, by a Northern Pacific crew.
Charleston orchardists are bus
: with their annual dormant sprayln
schedule and about rs commerce.
rigs for spraying are in operation
Oil and lime sulphur are being use
for the control of scale.
7 Constitutionality of the recent leg
: islation, which cancels interest an
allows liberal rebates on delinquer
taxes, will be tested in the court
q according to Mrs. Bessie Lewis, enc
q Ian county treasurer.
! Possibility that the Conconully re-
ervoir, upon which the Okanogan II
rigation district depends for all II
s gravity water, will be filled tn
: year for the second time in histor,
a is seen.
Charles Alfred Parsons, who intr'
duced into the Idaho legislature !
1910 the bill that later became la;
y hos direct primary law, is dead
;, Longview at the age of 70 years.
The school board at Walla Wal
has adopted it's preliminary budg
: for next year, calling for $227,l9
L which is $11,782 less than the i'm
budget adopted for this year.