The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-18
WALLA WALLA NEWS.
The Strawberry Yield Fifty Per
Cent Larger Than Ever.
HUGH VILLAGES BIG PULL.
\ sssssssfal ApDlseaas fer O0es Gives
Chief 1niSsan Pan Need 81 Credit
-o9nlay DeAeoi Ceaveataea.

WALLA WALLA. June l7.-rSpecial r
lhe strawberry harvest in this vicinity
TINS year - the most bountifui ever
known. The average 10 fully 50 per cent.
ereases than ever before and the yield. both
In Quantity and quality. has been UMPIRE
eedentsd. We are now in the midst
OF the berry picking season. An aver
age OF more than svo car loads
day have been coming in during the
week. On Monday the local market was
giussed and prices took tumble to 81 .
crate, but have since advanced slightly.
Seattle Was the principal consumer Until
the Puget sound berries npened sufh-
GENTLY TO supply that market Since
then our commission merchants have
made heavy shipments to Denver and Salt
Lake City. which are new markets for
Walla Walia berries.
z. W. Dixon. Of this city. who received
the appointment Of special agent OF the
interior department. returned from WASH
ington City this week. and after visiting
frisndS for day in this city. went to San
Francisco. where he has been ordered 20
duty: He was in Washington City dur
ing the Washington tight, ~ it was called.
II Is his opinion that everything re-
iatine to patronage in this state 10 being
done through the national committeeman
Hugh Wallace. As to the turning down
OF Henry KEELING he states that the ap-
pointment Of Fallon was made unex-
pectedIy. while Wallace Was in the thick
OF the Eight made upon Maloney and
Snively, and wss not aware Of the fight
that was being made upon Mr.. KEELING.
The walla walla county Sunday school
convention has been IN session here this
week. Dixie was chosen - the next place
OF meeting. Oficers for the ensuing year
we're elected - follows:
President. J. ~. Hill: vice presidents. Rev.
Riding ana william PHILIPPE; secretary and
treasurer. Miss Ella u. esciye: assistant secre-
tary. ?. A. Alexander: executive committee, H.
A. Reynolds. Miss Eva Barnes and Xiss Cora
Lochf.
II was voted to send so to the state con-
vention 70 assist in the work.
There il always more or less anxiety nm
til wheat ripens about what il called the
hot wind. which passes over the fields,
leaving tho growing grain withered and
blighted. These destructive winds blow
from the north. The term hot
WsoO 1oASUUSoSSs kuO tSmRCt8~
ture having nothing to do
with tho destructive effect produced. This
10 caused By the dryness of the atmos-
phefe. Thus for this year the humidity
OF the atmosphere has been exceptional.
which 10 . most favorable condition for
the wheat CROP Strange to say. the day on
which the atmosphere showed the greatest
percentage Of humidity Was . hot day
when the wind was blowing from the
north. and many were fearful lest
crops were being destroyed by
''hot wind" No harm whatever
was done and all apprehension was al
layed when the excessive percentage Of the
atmosphere became known. Two weeks
more will place the greater portion Of the
wheat Of this valley beyond ell ehancs.
Over 5000 grain sacks. manufactured
at the prison jute mill. are now on hand.
and the mill II now manufacturing
ct the rate of 10000 day.
About 100000 or 100000 sacks arc
required to supply this market. The peni-
Tertiary trustees do not expect to meet the
demand. but they can come near enough
TO control the market