The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-11-05
WASHINGTON \! /! NEWS NOTES ]
Recent Happenin0s In This state
Given In Brief items for
Busy Readers.
Land Bank PAYS.

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Land Bank Pays.
SPOKANE.-Nearly $1.OO0,0OO was
paid Monday by the Federal Land
Bank on it's semi-annual interest cou-
pOns attached to outstanding bonds
of the bank.
Cheian Grows Fast.
WASHINGTON. - Chelan county,
Washington, shows remarkable
growth in irrigation in the last 10
years, according to figures announced
by the census bureau
Sheep Flock to Valley.
-YAKBMA.-Several hundred thou
sand sheep that have been grazing
on forest reserves during the sum-
mer are now being trailed back to
winter ranges in the valley. Sheep
men estimate that about 25O,00O will
winter in the valley.
Crops Worth $4,000, 900.
WALLA WALLA.-Crops of Walla
Walla county this year are worth
$2O, 200, 900, according to census an
nouncement by w. H. Tailey. Wheat
heads the list at $11. 900, 900, with hay
$1,56O,0OO; apples, 100000; other
fruits, and vegetables. $2,460.7 $50.
!. $4,000 Glover Crop Burns
YAKIMA.-Word has reached Yak
ina Of another fire, believed to be of
incendiary origin, on the reservation,
where three hop kilns were recently
destroyed at q loss Of $4,000. S. s.
Busch's clover crop from 80 acres,
worth nearly $4,000, was completely
destroyed
Seattle Rains Apples.
SEATTLE.-Hundre OF Seattle
people Saturday became CONSUMERS"
of central Washington apples, when
the first annual apple parade was
held through downtown streets.
Twenty tons of apples were thrown
to the crowds from trucks in the
parade.
It's Grab Harvest Time.
Between $4,000 and 10000 dozen
crabs are estimated as the catch off
Westport this season by veteran crab
fishermen, states an Aberdeen report.
Twenty boats will be in operation by
November /, it Is expected. Fisher
men are getting $3.50 for first grade
crabs and $1.75 for Willapa Harbor
crabs.
Reindeer Steak for Seattle.
SEATTLE.-The Alaska Steam
ship company's Behring sea liner
! Victoria, which sailed from Nome,
Alaska, Sunday carried 1000 carcasses
Of reindeer which will be placed on
the market here to augment the
fresh meat supply of Seattle. 1t is
the largest shipment of reindeer ever
brought down from Alaska, 1t is said
Pomeroy Man to Raise Foxes.
POMEROY.-J. A. Armstrong, q
wheat farmer, recently received "a
pair Of silver-black foxes from the fox
farm of c. p. Ellis, in Manitoba Mr.
Ellis personally delivered the foxes
to Mr.. Armstrong, who paid $1,000 for
the pair. He will try breeding here
for commercial purposes. According
to Mr.. Ellis, it costs four cents day
to feed a fox in Manitoba. The lit
tiers average from three to four and
mature in 10 months.
Cecil Davis Fatally Injured.
LATAH.-Cecil T. Davis. son of
George H. Davis. Of this place, was
fatally injured Saturday while at
tempting to start traction engine
ON the farm of ]. B. Clark, about
two miles east Of town. The injured
man was attempting to move the
engine "off center by rolling on the
fly wheel from a position on the ma
chine, evidently having left the. throt-
tie open. when the wheel started with
a jerk and hurled him head fore
most over 1t against the machinery.
Memory Comes Back.
TACOMA.-Mrs. Charles Bloomfield
who disappeared here September IA,
wearing jewels worth $4,000, was re-
turned to Tacoma recently, after hav-
ling lost her identity. Her husband
! brought her here from Portland.
where she has been in a sanitarium.
Until this week Mrs.. bloomfield was
unable to remember her name I'm