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2 WHITE BLUFFS, WASHINGTON, SPOKESMAN H. B. Rousch of Hood's Canal was WASHINGTON NEWS doing a good business peddling fish from house to house at Wenatchee until he came to the home of a county ITEMS OF INTEREST game warden. To Save Famous Goodnight More than two tons of hops to the Brief Resume of Happenings of acre, the heaviest yield in 30 years, has been harvested on the greater por- the Week Collected for tion of W. H. Campbell’'s hop yard Our Readers. near Sunnyside. Herd of Buffalo Mrs. George Renko of Seattle, shop- ping for eggs, decided to take the large THE MARKETS ones at 34 cents a dozen, rather than Portland the smaller ones at 18 cents. When Wheat ~— Big Bend bluestem, hard she got home she said, she found that wheat, blc; soft white and western nine of the eggs had double yolks, and white, 47c; hard winter, northern had a triple yolk. { gpring and western red, 45c. one and Hay—Buying prices, f. o. b. Port Marshall Berg, 2, son of Mr. was larnd; Alfalfa, Yakima, $12.50. Mrs. Morris Berg, Loomis, taken to a @lßc. , Tonasket hospital, but died en- Butterfat—l 6 route, after over a chicken Eggs—Ranch, 26@28¢. ; stumbling trough yard par- Cattle—Steers, good, $§[email protected]. " in the back of his ents’ Physicians ascribe his Hogs—Good to choice, $3.85@4. home. death to internal injurics. Lambs—Good to choice, [email protected] Seattle A permit has been issued for the Wheat Soft white and western construction of a 20x45-foot frame white, 47%c; hard winter, western red structure to house the Grace Lutheran church and northern spring, 47c; bluestem, of Longview, which has been holding meetings Herd i6c. its in a residence on A Nlonarch of the the Butterfat—lsec. Ocean Beach highway. Cost of the building is given at S3OOO. tling news Loving was at Fort Sumner. Good- Eggs—Ranch, 28c. night hastened there and learned that the day Hogs—Good to choice, [email protected]. Closed since May 17, the United Hillyard reopened / after Wilson'’s departure for help the Indians Cattle—Choice steers, [email protected]. bank last week with Nrs.Chas. had left Loving's Bend, as the place is now Sheep—Spring lambs, [email protected]. deposits of $370,000. It was taken over e called. Loving had dragged himself five miles Spokane by the state banking department after to a narrow pass, where he remained five days, Cattle—Steers, good, $4.50@5. its surplus had been tied up in a bank and was eating a glove when some Mexicans Hogs—Good to choice, [email protected]. failure. A holding company was or- Col. Goodnight found him. He gave the Mexicans $l5O to take Chas. Lambs—Medium to good, [email protected]. ganized to operate the institution. him the 150 miles in a cart to Fort Sumner. Al- Eight Loving was walking about, the wound teachers in the Nob Hill By though ELMO SCOTT WATSON in his arm was infected, and nine days after school, on the outskirts of Yakima, The assessed of Lincoln F HEN Col. Charles Goodnight Goodnight’s arrival Loving died. valuation have surprised the directors of the dis- =y county is $21,298,034. This is $4,579, BV died in Tucson, Ariz., on De- Goodnight went on up into Colorado and in trict by asking reductions in wages in age valuation. 5 cember 12, 1929, at the of January returned. Exhuming the coffin, he 836 less than the 1931 order that the 1933 budget may be ninety-three years, it not only ) ‘ drove with it 600 miles to Weatherford, Texas, Plans for the formation of a co- balanced. Prior to the voluntary re- marked the passing of one of v.{ where he delivered it to Loving’s family. A operative dairymen’s association in ductions the directors faced a deficit the most Interesting figures of year over the Loving L33 later he turned to estate the Woodland district were discussed of f‘,"/'?"-Ygf% the Old West but it also seemed gave partner, Sheek, $20,000, and SIOOO. $40,000, his recently. ;‘.‘/,/jb,'k‘%;:,”';-',-(',;,-{-g-"?'ii" likely to spell the doom of the with $20,000 as his own share, went his way A fleet of trucks left Wenatchee for largest herd of buffalo in the APart ofthe Goodnight Herd ofBuffalo alone, A proposal for a $54,000 bond issue, Seattle last week with another thous- =) 4{;’!@ United States—more than 200 The second of the famous trails blazed by to enable the city of Newport to ac- and boxes of Delicious and Jonathan men took their herds to sell, but Goodnight in number but only a pitiful the colonel was that known as the New Good- quire a municipally owned water sys- apples for King county jobless. It was remnant of the millions which had roamed saw a greater opportunity up in New Mexico, once night trail, from Alamogordo, N. M., to Gra- tem, carried 253 to 107. the third thousand-box consignment of the Great Plains, For the famous Goodnight Colorado and Wyoming, where there were nada, Colo. fine potato crop is a lot of 15,000 boxes arranged for by herd of buffalo in Texas had passed into other Indian agencies looking for beef and willing Goodnight found ten cents a head An exceptionally pay Colonel the Gellatly-for-governor club for Se- hands and there were sensational rumors afloat to well for it. was being charged for all stock which passed reported by A. A. Fehrenbacher, Trout The drawback the scheme was that between attle’s jobless. that the new owners were planning a “big game in through Raton Pass, the only known passage Lake valley, many of the spuds weigh- hunt” where Eastern sportsmen (upon payment the Panhandle and this promising territory lay through the Raton mountains, in New Mexico, ing from 114 to 134 pounds each. The Oroville public schools are be- a great expanse and territory inhab- of a big fee) would be allowed to enjoy the of desert by the famous “Uncle Dick” Wooton, the “keep- by ing operated efficiently, this year with ited by Comanche Indians ready to pounce upon A total of SIBOO has been raised thrills of an old-time buffalo chase. er of the gate through the mountains.” The a the cattle. Without heavy the Camas Relief association’s annual budget of $25,000, which is S6OOO Immediately a storm of protest against the de- invaders and drive off colonel refused to pay. He struck another trail, through. Goodnight fall drive for funds. The set less than that of last year. The extra struction of the Goodnight buffalo herd arose protection, no herd could get 100 miles shorter, through the mountains and quota knew that as well as any of his neighbors, and 36 canvassers was 5 mills asked in other years will not among Texans and the legislature passed a bill up to Cheyenne. for the SISOO. be voted on this year, as the school authorizing the state game and fish commission he laid the plan before them. He knew the Goodnight was married on July 26, 1870, to Twenty-four hours. after her nurse country, and mapped a by which he to purchase the buffalo, provided a suitable place out route Miss Mary A. Dyer of Tennessee, and soon aft- dropped dead while attending her, Mrs. board will try to operate within the to for keeping them could be obtained. But no ap- hoped trail his animals up into Colorado. erwards established a ranch in Colorado. But legal 10-milllevy. But the other cowmen had troubles of their Eudora L. Thorpe, an 83-year-old resi- propriation was forthcoming for the project and the panic of 1873 ruined him financially and spring own to to co-op- dent of Spokane, died from a heart A rare combination of and it was not until a syndicate, headed by A. C. attend when he sought their he had just 1,800 head of cattle with which to They saw attack. fall was found on a drive to Toutle Nicholson of Dallas, was formed to take over eration. only the danger connected make a new start. He turned his face as al- venture, river, east of the Pacific highway in the buffalo and a part of the Goodnight estate with the and excused themselves. ways toward the new country, and the Pan- Boards of commissioners of nine of But young Goodnight found a He Cowlitz county recently. A party from and to finance the project of maintaining the partner. handle seemed to hold the greatest possibilities the counties involved in the railroad was Oliver Loving, who became one of his Longview found the purple of bloom- herd intact that its preservation was assured. with the fewest inhabitants, in fact, none but tax litigation have signed an agree- closest companions. Loving was probably the ing dog- No finer monument could be erected to the Indian It held, though, that great an attorney appeal wild violets and the white of experienced cowman at and buffalo. ment to retain to memory of Col. Charles Goodnight, “the Father most in Texas the time. Palo Duro canyon, with its rim of Cap Rock, its wood intermingled with the red and In 1859, while the Comanches were quiet, he ‘from the recent decision of Federal of the Texas Panhandle,” and his wife, Mary ragged depth of 1,300 feet, its marvelous valley gold of the turning leaves.
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