The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

the Week Collected for
1 Our Readers.
THE MARKETS.
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hare
wheat, Soc; soft white and western
white, 3S1sc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 371sc.
Hay-Buying prices, fob. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $12.
Butterfat-19@20c.
Eggs-Ranch, 22@24c.
Cattle-Steers, good, S5@5.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, S3.25@4.
Lambs-Good, s4.75@5.D.
Seattle
| Wheat-Soft white and western
| white, 39c; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 40c; blue
stem, Acc.
Butterfat-19c.
Eggs-Ranch, 23c.
Hogs-Good to choice, S3.50@3.65
Cattle-Choice steers, $4.25@5.
Sheep-Spring lambs, S4.25@5.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, S4.25@4.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.10@3.25
Lambs-Med. to good, $4@4.5O.
An application from Snohomish
county for a $4,000 unemployment
relief loan from the reconstruction
finance corporation was approved
by Governor Hartley.
Thomas E. Ross, Cheney's last
Civil war veteran, and life COM
mander of General George Wright
post, died recently at his home in
Cheney. He was SO years of age.
DR.. w. C. Brandon, health officer
Of Garfield, has ordered schools
closed and has placed ban on
public gatherings, to be enforced
until the influenza situation Inn
proves. sj s.gs 81 ... IL.
Surveys Of funds available for
state highway work during the COM
ing biennium indicate that there
will be shortage of about $1,000
900 as compared with the present
biennium. '-,
Jobless water and light users Of
Cashmere are paying their bills by
shoveling snow from the streets
and sidewalks for the city. A wage
scale Of Is cents per hour has been
set for the work.
The application Of four motor We
hicle freight lines for authority to
operate over the Stevens Pass high
way, between Everett and Wenat-
chez were denied by the depart
ment Of public works.
The trapping season is now open
In Klickitat county and many have
expressed their intention of trying
their luck this year. Fur prospects
are reported good. A number of
farmers will run trap lines.
sAaIuFrs~Saass~ees <sssaesse~e->rsSs.4
Proud of his Christmas wheel
barrow, frankie Curtis, 8, pushed
it several miles from home in Sc
attic recently. A policeman, seeing
him on the downtown streets, took
him to headquarters, where his wor-
RED parents called for him later.
The skilled hand of q Spokane
surgeon virtually restored the nose
Of John Chance, 24-year=old Fruit
land rancher, In an operation re-
Gently after the young man had
been kicked by a horse and the
nose nearly severed from the face.
observation-disclosures
Those who are able to get auto
licenses are to be taken off the
Spokane county ~commissary list.
The county commissioners are Of
the opinion that q person who has
to buy a license would use
money to buy gasoline and let the
county feed him.
Yakima has become the eastern
terminal of the Tacoma division Of
the Northern Pacific, AZ years after
the railroads tracks reached Yaki-
ma. The s250,OO0 project has been
completed, with the exception OF
the removal of 115-foot turntable
from Ellensburg.
Finishing touches have been put
upon bill that would put all state
and county employees under civil
service and that will be submitted
to the legislature by the Washing
ton Civil Service league. Max Gar
retson of Tacoma has become presi.
dent of the league.
Plans for the completion of the
Indian Canyon golf course at Spo-
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