The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-06

Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, SIC; soft white and
western white, 491sc; hard
winter, northern spring and
western red, 47kc.
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.00,
Butterfat-15 % Ice. ~
Eggs-Ranch, Is @ Ice. E
Cattle 80 Steers, good, $5.25 @
$50.
Hogs Good to choice, $3.50 q
4.35.
Lambs-Good to choice, s5.25 O.
s5.65.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $4.25 q
500.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500 @
40.
Lambs - Medium to good, salts
q 500.
Walla Walla county was 1856
cars ahead of the produce market
in 1892, figures compiled by the
horticulturist snow. Nine hum
dred and sixty cars of fruit and
vegetables were shipped and IS,
mostly tropical and semi-tropical
fruits, were imported. Exports
were: apples, 125; prunes, 302;
mixed, L; potatoes, "a: onions,
211; cabbage, 10; lettuce, 40; car
rots, 8; asparagus, 8; spinach,
1O1; rhubarb, IS, and mixed vege-
tables, "a.
Petitions are being circulated
at Chelan and at Lakeside, asking
the city councils to do all they
can to obtain lower electric and
water rates from the Washington
Power company. 1t was said that
some 400 heads of families have
signed the petitions and it is be-
lieved that a hearing will be held
before the department Of public
works soon.
Spring has arrived in the Yakf-
ma valley, Wildflowers on the
hills, pussywillows by the streams,
small boys with marbles and base
ball bats and other signs of the
season are nothing compared with
the report of the first rattlesnake.
1t was sighted by v. T. Heiden-
reich, assistant forester for the
Indian service, on the rocks near
Fort Simcoe.
There are between 100000
and 100000 bushels Of wheat
still on hand in warehouses, is the
estimate of the county assessors
office at Walla Walla. These fig
ures are not estimates Of the COM
ing crop yield, as was enormously
reported. The carryover is unusu-
ally heavy.
Commissioner Jay Jerry has an
|nounced that the Benton county
commissioners have let contract
for grading and surfacing four
and one-half miles of the Han
ford Richland. highway to G. M.
Barber, Prosser, on bid of So
666.
The sum Of $365,000 will be
needed to complete the Gle Elum
reclamation dam, reclamation Of
ficials advise. If an appropriation
is made by congress this spring,
the dam can be completed by fall,
they said.
Although food is fed him
through medicine dropper. the
six-day-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William A. Jones of Wapato, is
getting along splendidly. The ba-
by weighed two pound at birth.
The city attorney of Wenatchee
questions the right of cities to IL
cense the sale of beer should the
United States supreme court de-
eide that it is not intoxicating.
! Passage of the beer bill by con-
gress has stimulated the contract
ing of hops in the Yakima valley
and encouraged some growers to
plant additional acreage.
| Lockjaw ended the life of Swear
-old Robert T. Richter after he had
been struck in. the neck with a
cedar arrow about a week ago.
Blood-poisoning set in.
| Describing the recent session OF
the legislature as disgraceful, Mrs.
Lillian Vincent, state president Of
the w. G.. T. u, urges that strong
men, preferably preachers, be sent
to the constitutional convention to
keep Washington a dry state.
Governor Martin announces
that he will not call special ses-
/ sion of the legislature to enact
beer legislation, until after the
United States supreme court has
passed upon the constitutionality
of the act of congress.