The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS 0E INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our. Readers

of the Week Collected for
Our. Readers
THE MARKETS
Seattle
Wheat markets closed.
Butterfat-16c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 @1Sc.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @
400. .-, -
Cattle-Choice steers, $4.25@
ass. - ..t @ar
sheep-Spring lambs, 5000
$50. .s e..
T. >..- Portland
Wheat markets closed.
Hay - Buying prices I. o. b..
Portland; Alfalfa, Yakima, $3.50.
Butterfat-15 % Ice. H..
Eggs-Ranch, 16 @17c. E~:.u
Cattle - Steers, good, $4.y5 q
5.25. ua.l..... r....
Hogs-Good to choice, $500
4.25. r.~..r s# d r..
.Lambs-Good to choice, $5.25
@5.65. et.: z,s.... s-
Spokane ."s (
. Cattle - Steers, good, $4.25 @
500. Ri. .s.-. II
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50
1856. i .@5
Lambs-Medium to good. s4.25
@4.75.
Work was resumed March 1st
in the logging camp of the Carlisle
Lumber company near Onalaska
following a months suspension,
due to an oversupply of logs. The
company's sawmill recently in
creased from a five-hour to an
eight-hour day, while the planning
mill is running ten hours a day.
During the past week trainload
of 38 cars of finished lumber left
Onalaska, most of which was for
export trade.
A report that the medicinal wat
ers of Soap Lake were drying up
was printed in several papers of
the northwest recently. The truth
is that the lake is three feet high
er than a year ago, is three miles
long, mile wide and $50 feet
deep at places. The water is
stronger and frequently has to be
diluted before taking.
Members of the Asotin county
chapter of the United Farmers Of
Washington have started a move
ment to recall County Commits
sioners Anderson, Roup and
Brown and Prosecuting Attorney
Halsey in an attempt to obtain
hand labor for highway construc-
ton.
Through the cooperation OF
members of the Smelt Fishermen's
union, the Washington state fish
cries department and truckers,
half ton of smelt is supplied
daily for distribution to needy
families in Portland and arrange
ments are being made for fish to
go to Seattle.
The newly created state game
commission will require a budget
of $S48,167 to operate for the first
biennium of its existence. 1t is
estimated that the receipts of the
commission will be about $685.
270. The major part of revenue
will come from licenses.
Joseph Mccarthy, II months
old, was burned to death in a fire
that destroyed the Mccarthy home
near Des Moines. The child was
asleep in his crib. The other child
rem escaped. The parents were not
in the house when the fire broke
out, from an undetermined cause.
The county assessor of Walla
Walla county will assess all ag-
ricultural p r o d u t s, including
wheat, at SO per cent. of market
value March /. Assessments on
horses and mules will range from
SIS to $50. cattle So to SIS, shep
$1.50 to 81.
Resentment on the Yakima 1r-
dian reservation against the use
of foreign labor has caused menu
bers of the Yakima Filipino club
to appeal to the two Filipino COM
missioners at the national capital.
There are about $50 Filipinos
working on the reservation.
Abandonment of the commits
sary at Wenatchee was announced
by the new county welfare COM
mittee, which has instructed the
county and city engineers to out
line road and street improvements
1 49, o,.,, - ;oh1acc