The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-05-18

WuedC-blS beuu DlueStem, nara
wheat, zoe; soft white and west
ern white, Coo; hard winter.
northern spring and western
red, 58kc.
Hay-Buying prices, +. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $500.
Butterfat-22 @ 23c. s
Eggs Ranch, Is a Ice.
Cattle - Steers, good, $3.50 @
6.15. H.. =. -.
Hogs Good to choice, $3.50 @
4.50. ....s.. !. + .5...a. r. f..
Lambs Good to choice. s4.25 q
4.75. es.
| Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $5.25 O.
$50.
Hogs Good to choice. $3.50 @
400.
Lambs 49, Medium to good, $3.50
@ 5.85.
| A moratorium on irrigation
| power charges was declared by
the state department of public
works pending an investigation
of rates. Formal complaint was fill
ed against the Puget Sound Pow
er & Light company, Washington
Water Power company and the
Pacific Power e Light company.
The utilities were directed to furn-
ish power pending completion Of
the investigation.
The Great Northern railroad
headquarters at Seattle report an
increase of per cent in east
bound carloadings for the first
week of May from the Pacific
northwest, as compared to the
same period Of 1892, West bound
movements was 25 per cent great
er by the same comparison, the
railroad officials said.
One hundred and fifty members
OF the Franklin County Taxpayers
league, meeting at Pasco, have
adopted resolutions to fight for
reductions in the courthouse
stats and for salary cuts for
county and state employees and
teachers, along the lines that in.
dustrial salaries have been cut.
Two more vessels are steaming
up in Lake Union today in prepar-
alton for return to active serv-
ice on the intercoastal route. The
steamships Hegira and Pomona,
owned by the Weyerhaeuser lum-
Der interests will be put into serv-
ice May 80 and June Is, respec-.
lively.
One hundred and ninety-five
welfare relief men are working on
Improvement projects at Walla
Walla, the greatest number yet
used. Commissioner Robert Carey,
in charge Of the work, says the
men are as efficient as any he
has had working for the city.
Two navy men from the U. S. s.
New York walked off with the
honors In the rapid-fire champion
ship in the Northwestern rifle
matches Thursday at Fort George
Wright. They were II. T. Stuckey,
who scored SO out of a possible
100, and R. R. West, scoring 81.
Cold storage of the state held
nearly 100 carloads less apples
May / than at the same date last
year, according to reports released
by the Yakima and Wenatchee
Valley Traffic associations. There
were 1915 cars held this year and
1926 last, the report said.
Immediate construction of 90
mile steel pipe to furnish pure
mountain domestic water from
Icicle lake to the Wenatchee val
ley has been recommended by a
committee that has been studying
an engineers report on the FEAST
bility of the project.
A reduction of s3S,376 in April
unemployed relief over March was
announced by the King county
welfare board. The April total was
$29O,667, as compared with $780,
O43 in March.
The three city high schools Of
Spokane and the two junior highs
will graduate approximately 1898
boys and girls at exercises next
month.
Evidence that the Kennewick
region in prehistoric ages, was a
Mecca for huge animals, Of species
now extinct, gained weight, when.
near Hover, county road crews re-
Gently uncovered the shoulder
bones of huge mastodon.
For the coming school year the
Walla Walla school board has or
dered a salary cut averaging per
cent, the contracts carrying riders
that further cuts may be made il
necessary.