The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-02-16

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The first offshore troll catches
Of the season, 16 chinooks averag-
ing 90 pounds, was brought into
Grays harbor last Tuesday. West
port buyers offered 10 cents a
pound, but the fishermen brought
the catch into Aberdeen where it
brought 13 cents. The Columbia
river trolling fleet Of $50 boats is
expected at Westport during the
next few days.
M. C. Myers of Tenino has in-
vented a device to take the guess
work out of setting raker-gauges
used in filing bucking and falling
saws. 1t consists of q bar, or sad
die, which can be hung accurately
on the teeth of a saw. A gradu-
ated gauge in the center of the bar
indicates to a thousandth of an
inch the proper length for the
raker teeth.
Yakima produce men checking
the produce sent to market last
year report that it totaled $4,000
carloads. It is claimed that few dis
tricts can show a gerater variety Of
produce. Valley dealers shipped
IL kinds of fruit, including mel
ons; II varieties of vegetables, four
kinds of livestock and four kinds of
poultry, besides dairy products,
eggs and wool.
Captain Lindley Davis Of Seattle
Is looking for a knotty piece of
timber, at least 1a feet through
and eight feet long. He says his
partner in towboat firm, George
r. Cary, is too much of a whittier.
In their 20 years at one office.
Davis declares. Cary has whitfield
through three thick planks on the
office rail.
Charles G.. Barth, 76, who helped
found Yakima, died at his home
last Monday. At the age of &c he
came to Prosser with the North.
ern Pacific railroad and then help
ed railroad men lay out the site Of
Yakima a year later, in 1884. For
ty-nine years ago the town was of.
ficially incorporated.
On behalf of the Great Northern
railway, the. state highway depart
ment asked the county commits
sioners for right Of way over coun-
ty property along the Stevens Pass
highway, where the railway plans
to build an electric transmission
line from Leavenwort,i to Wintou.
Growing out of the policy of the
city of Yakima in pruning and cut
ting shade trees. Richard Stro-
bach has filed a claim with the
city commissioners for $500 dam
ages for the destruction of a 40
year-old elm tree at the corner Of
his property.
With the first car Of asparagus
box shocks scheduled to arrive at
the washington Early Crops this
month and several more cars to
follow soon afterwards, it is indi-
Gated that Kennewick growers will
have their asparagus on the mar
ket at an early date.
The first bill to pass the legis-
lature in aid of home owners was
the Mehner-Marshall m ure,
which gives owners whose homes
are about to be sold for delinquent
assessments a two-year redemption
period.
Indian agent employees at Nes-
pe.em who. went to the Little Nes-
peiem valley to scatter feed for
birds report that Chinese pheas-
ants are feeding through the VIM
ter very well.
Tiller Brothers of Highland Vail
ley. near Morton, are moving their
mill to Alex Justices place near
Rife, where they will have an exc
tended cut that will give employ
ment to a number Of men the next
few months.
A second horse-racing bill, which
would permit So pari-mutual bet
ting. has been introduced in the
legislature. The measure proposes
racing only at state, county and
Interstate fairs, and at stock and
horse shows 1.