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WASHINGTON NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard wheat, 51c; soft white and western white, 41c; hard winter, northern spring and western red, 39c. Hay-Buying prices, f.o.b. Portland; Alfalfa, Yakima, $12. Butterfat-24@25c. Eggs-Ranch, 24@25c. Cattle-Steers, good, $5@5.50. Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50@3.75. Lambs-Good to choice, $4.75@5. Seattle
Wheat-Soft white and western white, 41c; hard winter, western red and northern spring, 42c; bluestem, 51c. Butterfat-26c. Eggs-Ranch, 26c. Hogs-Good to choice, $3.35@3.60 Cattle-Choice steers, $4.75@5.25 Sheep-Spring lambs, $4.50@4.90 Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.25@4.75 Hogs-Good to choice, $3.10@3.25 Lambs-Med. to good, $4@4.50
Film feeding into the projector ignited and caused a fire that badly damaged the theater at Longview last week.
Ninety thousand dollars' worth of warrants of Cowlitz county districts were called for payment last week by Treasurer H. D. Renner. The currents in the north Pacific ocean brought a bottle from the coast of Japan to Vancouver island, 4500 miles, in two years and 10 days.
Loot valued at about $3000 was stolen from the Kulzer store at
Valley by burglars who broke in through the rear door and carted off their plunder by truck.
Fruit growers of the Kettle Falls locality report that a good crop was harvested and about 90 carloads of apples were shipped to the east, Europe and other parts of the world. Yakima county called in $51,000 worth of warrants, putting the valley on a cash basis up to August 15. 1932: The current expense fund indebtedness was reduced to $199,000.
Votes cost $6 apiece in Naches the other day when supervisors for the Yakima county drainage district were elected. Two votes were cast and the cost of the election was $12.
One hundred fifty loggers returned to work at the Ostrander Railway & Timber company after having been laid off for the past ten days on account of cold weather.
The Yakima County Grange council has voted to ask the state legislature to return 1 cent a gallon additional of gasoline tax funds to the counties for road purposes, making cents in all.
South Bend's recent city election slipped by practically unnoticed. Probably not to exceed 100 votes were cast. There were no contests. The election cost the taxpayers approximately $150 to $175.
A dividend of $30,000 was paid depositors of the Cashmere and Dryden State banks last week, according to E. W. Ostenberg, special deputy supervisor of banking, liquidating both banks.
County Auditor Sarilda McKeown has announced that the direct cost of the general election was $3636 in Stevens county. There were 7171 votes cast, making the cost for each about 50 cents.
A prisoner being taken to the Chelan county jail for mental examination escaped and six people were hurt when a car loaded with deputy sheriffs seeking him collided with another car on the highway near Monitor.
D. A. Vancil, 70, lost his right foot to a buzz saw at Prosser last week. A block of wood became lodged under the saw and in an attempt to kick it out his leg came in contact with the saw and was severed at the ankle. There can be no greater rage than this: City water department employes digging a ditch turned up a rattlesnake that had hibernated a foot below the surface. Furious at being disturbed the snake went into a frenzy and bit itself to death.
Increase in Seattle's taxicab fares has been recommended by the city council safety committee. The proposed rise, on a sliding scale depending on the length of the ride, amounts to a dime on a five-mile trip.
Fred Peterson, a farmer near A1bion heard a commotion among his chickens. It was caused by a large arctic owl, which he killed. The bird had a wing spread of 57 inches and measured 21 inches from "bill" to tail.
Fire swept through the main structure of the Schafer Brothers Lumber & Shingle company mill No. 1 at Montesano recently and threatened the lumber schooner Hubert Schafer, owned by the same firm, docked nearby.
A cordwood pile of regulation height and width, four feet each way, and 10.43 miles long. is estimated as the amount of timber cut from the Walla Walla district of the Umatilla national forest under permit during the summer of 1932. Walter Kimmerly, county auditor at Walla Walla, received word from the state attorney general's office that the county game commissioners are to remain in office and in charge until the new state game commission is appointed and organized.
A bill to broaden the powers and duties of the Washington state highway patrol to give the value and importance of a state police system will be pushed in the next session of the legislature by the Washington State Sheriff's asso-
Motorists recently reported great flocks of seagulls at the conjunction of the Klickitat and Columbia rivers at Lyle, attracted by the unusually heavy annual run of dog salmon. The fish spawned and died, furnishing a feast for these graceful scavengers.
Charges and counter charges flew between residential district and downtown meat dealers of Yakima at a city commission meeting there when downtown proprietors attempted to have the annual license fee boosted from $25 to $100 year.
Predatory animals slew 565 deer in the Mount Baker national forest this year compared with 34 killed by men, but hunters scored highest in the number of bears killed, felling 19 to the one dropped by a cougar, according to reports filed by rangers.
A class of woodturning and construction work is being offered to women at the State Normal school at Cheney. Woodturning includes the making of such articles as rollingpins, tool handles, gavels, candlesticks, lamps. pin trays, jewel boxes, and nut bowls. The Chelan county commissioners last week opened bids for that county's share of a joint state and county project, which calls for elimination of the last two "death curves" on the Chelan-Wenatchee highway, both at underpasses on the Great Northern railway. Yakima apple shippers who have forwarded apples under standard ventilation have changed to heater service in transit. No reports of damage to fruit on the road on account of the extreme cold have been received at Yakima, but some cars shipped from Wenatchee have been frozen. The city council of Davenport denied a petition of the Wenatchee Chamber of Commerce for a permit to erect a large sign at the intersection of the North Central and Sunset highways at Davenport. The action was taken after 12 property owners near the proposed site of the sign protested. Indian police officers of Toppenish are looking for the "world's meanest man." They discovered the theft of 600 pounds of bacon, beans, flour and sugar from a warehouse at Fort Simcoe, near Toppenish, The food. government
