The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-23
Spokane Letter

Spokane, Wash. Aug. 23--Thirty-
five millions barrels, or 12.00O,OOO
barrels more than in 1908, is the estim
ated apple crop of the United States
and Canada this season, according to
Rem II. Rice, secretary-manager OF
the second National apple show in
Snokane, November Is to 20, who
added in giving out the foregoing:
"While the quality of the product
east of the Mississippi river Is not as
good as last year, the crop will be
much larger and probably more prof.
table. The yield in the states west
of the Mississippi Is lighter than In
1908 but the fruit is of a better
grade"
The International Apple Shippers
association has issued an official
statement that the crop in the New
England states Is 20 per cent in eX-
cess of 1908, while the yield n'the
central states is about 1-2 per cent
below last year. and the middle of
western states report a crop double
that of last season, when the yield
was light.
Growers in the southern states re-
port a crop of from 1875 to $50 per
cent larger than In 1908. The Pacific
group will have smaller crop than
last year, but the decreases in Idaho,
Washington and New Mexico are
| more than made up by the big yield
| in Colorado, so that the western crop
| will be fully as large as the previous
season.
Losses are shown in reports from
| New York, New Hampshire. Kansas
and Oklahoma. Michigan and Wis
i consin and other states have gains.
| The Dominion of Canada, not includ-
ing Nova Scotia, shows a gain of
rs per cent, and the crop in the prov
ince of Nova Scotia is fully as large
as In 1880, when a bumper crop was
harvested.
while there is no way by which
the crop can be figured to certain
| ty" said Mr.. Rice, the foregoing
| figures show as near as 1t is possible
to get than what the yield will be and
| they Will govern prices. There are
| indications that the export business
! from the Northwest will be larger
than In 1908, when many apples were
sent abroad
Spokane. Wash. Aug 23--Mary ID.
IL
cred one of the luckiest young women
, in the country, having drawn No. 2
in Uncle Sans big lottery for land in
the Spokane Indian Reservation
There were more than 100000 appli-
cants for registration on this reserve
where only 40 quarter sections. or 640O
acres of land, will be opened to set
tlemeh and entry next April. Miss
McNickle's good luck is due entirely
to the work of the Spokane chamber
OF commerce, which deposited a fund
with Postmaster Harrison to guarantee
the delivery of all unstamped letters
addressed TO James w. Witten, sup
erintendcnt of the opening. coeur
d'Alene, Idaho. Her letter was one
OF those on which the postage was
paid by the organization, she having
mailed II without attaching a two-cent
stamp Miss McNicile will have second
choice of the land opened on the re-
seryation. Nora n. Gilbert of Seattle,
drew No IL. Mary G Hanning of Chi
cago, drew No 32 and 80 went to
Emma Schaffner of Evansville. Ind.
These are the only four women to
secure numbers of the first 40 names
selected The claims are worth $1O,-
600 each and are adapted TO agri-
culture.
spokane, Wash, Aug. 23--"Indians
of the Northland are fast learning the
ways of the white man." said Jere-
miah Smith OF Spokane, a member
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, who has just returned from
Alaska. They have gone Through
their first strike in the Copper River
country. where the Guggenhelm In
trests were constructing railroad and
they were successful from the start. ]
The reds went In like q lot OF dock J