The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-11-23
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Coulee - Specifications for ex.
cavation at Grand Coulee dam call
for completion of the job within
$50 calendar days. Bids will be
opened at Spokane, November 20.
Yakima-Cattle owned by Yak
ina Indians have come out of the
hills in the best condition in re-
cent years. The Indians are plan
ming to sell at least 100 head.
Wenatchee-Apple growers and
shippers of the Wenatchee dis
trict hail with enthusiasm a re-
port that Brazil plans to buy 1000
cars of C grade apples in the
Northwest.
Okanogan - About $4,000 in
payments for wheat reduction
contracts will be available for
Okanogan county wheat growers
between December 1 and Christ
mas. About So per cent of the
growers in the county have signed
applications for contracts.
Seattle - James Ashe reputed
literary critic, has been arrested
at Dallas, Texas, on a $500 grand
larceny charge made by Mrs. Sara
Shannon of Seattle, who charges
Ashe with having mulcted her out
|of $4,000 on promise of getting
$4,000 for a novel she wrote.
Waitsburg-The First National
bank of Waitsburg has issued its
statement of condition, showing a
gain in deposits of more than
$4,000 since the June 80 report,
and total deposits of s493,506.
The gain is especially encourag-
ling, as almost no wheat has been
sold here this fall.
Spokane - The finest of fall
vegetables, grown on the flats of
the lower Columbia in Oregon, are
reaching Spokane by truck. Var
|ieties include cauliflower, celery
and celery hearts, sprouts and ar
|tichokes. Spokane markets are ex-
pected to be we'll supplied from
that source. e..
Observation-Disclosures for 15,-
600 men now on relief rolls, and
sufficient funds to maintain a di-
rect relief program in the state
throughout the winter, are assur-
ed through a state supreme court
decision to the effect that funds
raised by the $10,000,000 state
bond issue can be used for direct
Tor home relief in addition to con-
struction work for unemployment
relief. go .--.. ......... .-.. 49,. .... ..
Chehalis - During the recent
harvesting season reports appear
ed in the press from several dis
tricts calling attention to what
were rated as unusually large
Yields of oats. Chris Knutzen OF
Burlington had a crop of 1S9
bushels on one acre. A grower
near Norway, Sask., had a yield
of 1874 bushels from single acre.
However the mark established
about 20 years ago here by the
late Theodore Harms of the Ethel
district yet stands. He raised on
a measured acre 224 bushels.
Walla Walla-The last prefer
red claim, $4,000, against the
Peoples State bank, Walla Walla,
has been paid. From now on all
money received can go into the
fund for dividends for depositors.
Toppenish - The city commits
sioners of Toppenish have passed
an emergency ordinance placing
taxes on beer and wines. The tax
on beer will range from 81 a bar
rel to half cent pint. The wine
tax will be 20 cents a gallon and
21z cents a pint.
Chelan-The Chelan Box and
Manufacturing company has es-
tablished a camp at Washington
creek. There will be 80 men en-
ployed there as late as the wealth
err will allow cutting. 1t is plan
ned to get out about 100000
feet Of logs to use in the box mill
next summer. 1t is new employ
ment and will do much to help the
employment situation here. The
logs will be hauled to the lake by
trucks and floated to the mill
pond.