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. had a herd through to Colorado on a di- Judge Webster. Dyer Goodnight, than the preservation of this taken 15 miles wide in places, a paradise for cattle. route. Young Goodnight had helped him Odessa citizens for Late apples may bring fairly satis- rearguard of the “thundering herds” of long rect Palo Duro canyon proper begins in the western voted a SSOOO out country as as factory returns to growers, according ago. In fact, the existence of this particular of the timber far Red river. part of Randell county and extends approxi- bond issue for improvement work on Loving also had trailed cattle into Illinois and to J. D. Hamilton, representing the herd is due largely to the efforts of “Aunt mately 75 miles. Crab creek to save the town from fu- Orleans markets. go United Market News service. Mary” Goodnight, as she was lovingly known in to the New He asked to Colonel Goodnight took supplies for six ture winter and spring floods. Two States with Goodnight on his trail-blazing venture. the Wenatchee districts the Texas Panhandle. Back in the late seventies months, erected a four-room log house and re- hundred three votes were cast for the In Yakima and Goodnight had prepared a huge bois d’arc this pioneer woman, witnessing the ruthless turned to Denver for Mrs. Goodnight. against. he states that with a short crop of wagon, oxen bond issue, 19 slaughter of the buffalo by hide hunters, real- requiring twenty to pull, which At this time John George Adair of Wrath- clean apples and close co-operation be- believed first chuck wagon ever seen in While Sheriff Porter of Grant coun- ized that it was only a question of time until he the dair, Ireland, was consumed with the idea of tween shippers the outlook is improv- the cow country. Each man gathered up ty Lewiston, the great shaggy beasts would be extinct. She his a ranch in America. He was breezing about was en route to Idaho, ing. cattle, making began talking to “Uncle Charley” about captur- own a combined herd of some in Denver, talking cattle and range and look- to attend a meeting of the Inland Em- thousand of stuff. One hundred cars of apples have ing a few of the calves and starting a herd of head mixed They started in ing for a man big enough to handle his proj- pire Peace Officers’ association two June, with eighteen adventuresome cow hands been shipped from Oroville this sea- their own. ect.t. A few years previous John Adair had armed bandits held up and robbed the and reached Fort Sumner two months later. son. According the depot So in June, 1879, Colonel Goodnight roped opened a brokerage office in New York city, Wilson Creek bank of $2492, to agent, On the whole trip not an Indian had been had married an American girl in 1869, they are going out at the rate of 10 two buffalo calves and gave them to his wife. met and The town of Skamokawa now has a She was much interested in the little brown fel- sighted. Through 600 miles of totally unin- and they then divided their time between their cars a day. That vicinity shipped 216 good ship channel into the docks of lows, was greatly delighted at the alacrity with habited country a new route for Texas cattle estate in Ireland and the joys of the New cars year and willequal that rec- Farmers’ Creamery last which they learned to drink milk and was sur- had been blazed, immediately becoming known world. Mrs. Adair was the daughter of Major the Skamokawa ord this year. Four carloads of grain as Goodnight the first and greatest Brook- prised at their appetites which seemed to be the trail, General Wadsworth and the young widow of association. Two dredges of the shipped breaking have been and six carloads of insatiable, one of her pets requiring as much of the colonel's trail achievements. Montgomery Richie, attached to General Wads- field Quarry company have completed was extended through the Raton moun- canned tomatoes. as three gallons a day. Two years later a neigh- Later it worth's staff. dredging the Skamokawa sloughs. tains, past Pueblo and Denver and into Chey- A second sawmill is under construc- boring ranchman captured two full-grown buf- John Adair and Charles Goodnight met in fish 12 feet Fort Laramie. Three hundred thou- Fossilized skeletons of & falo and presented them to Mrs. Goodnight and enne and Denver and made a contract which brought tion at Kalama. The Rowles Markle sand cattle passed over it in six years, while long uncovered in a silica bed near three calves were also added to her little group, the first development to the Panhandle. It is Lumber company started construction perished on the way or fell the Pomona have attracted the attention the present of her brother. From this beginning thousands into there today, the J. A. Ranch, with its 400,000 last week. The mill will cut 50,000 hands of the Comanches. of scientists and may lead to further came the great herd of nearly 250 today. On the acres and its 19-room ranch house that was feet of lumber a day when running full When Goodnight arrived at Fort Sumner he knowledge of prehistoric days, when “game refuge” which the Goodnights established built around the log home of Charles Good- blast. They are now employing 20 men found the government had 9,000 Apaches “loose was a lake. on their ranch were also started herds of elk, night. The ranch at one time comprised 1,300.- the Yakima valley great in construction and building a railroad herded like cattle” there. Loving and Good- more than 100,000 head of cattle. deer and antelope, but they never thrived as 000 acres and The county commissioners of Wash- spur. When operations the night sold their cattle two years old and up on was run years they start did the buffalo. The first contract made to five ington have adopted a resolution ask- the hoof for eight cents a pound, an enormous specified 12,000 acres should be bought first of the year they will employ 30 It was on the Goodnight ranch also that a and that ing coming legislature to divert an price for the time. Loving took the stock cat- additional 25,000 the men, animal was created—the catalo, produced by the first year with increase to gasoline new tle cut back by the government into Colorado however, respected additional cent from the state crossing buffalo with Aberdeen Angus cattle. acres. Adair, so the judg- A volunteer potato vine which had and Goodnight took a part of the hands and he gave tax to the lateral highway fund. Under hybrid, according to Colonel Goodnight, ment of Charles Goodnight that him only one stalk of unusual size and This $6,000 in gold and silver, and returned to Palo authority buy the existing law only 1 cent is diverted. was hardier than range cattle, thrived on less personal to what he saw fit, and produced ten tubers which tipped the Pinto county. There he purchased extensively first years 92,629 food, was immune from all disease, did not at the end of the five acres Lew Waldron, who lives on the An- scales at 414 pounds was dug up in the of his neighbors and trailed back over the route on record. picked stampede so easily nor drift with storms and were drews plase near Hillyard, all garden of William Sachtier Sr. of he had marked out. Goodnight bought land at various prices as had other advantages which made it a more the pears from his back yard tree a spuds It was in the spring of 1867 that Loving lost in various places, paying on an average Ridgefield. Two of the were al- valuable type of beef animal for the plains. He well as days ago. Now he finds the tree his life. The partners started with two herds, an acre. few most as large as the average man’s found an enthusiastic disciple in the work in of 25 cents to 33 cents He admitted the two men going ahead with the first one. The that bought up every good is in blossom again. An apple tree fist and the others were of a market- the person of the late “Buffalo” Jones and at he water hole: second herd, made up of weaker cattle, lost every good range; every place a rancher was 'also has blossomed since the fruit was able size. The tuber vine came up one time it seemed likely that their experi- the before it had 1,000 head to Comanches likely to go, and that it was the ‘“very devil to Ipicked. near a fence and received hardly any ments in producing the catalo might have a reached the Pecos. Another band of Indians upon the industry survey.” This original section was called the The Lackamas Valley Co-operative attention during the summer, revolutionary effect cattle attacked Goodnight and Loving on the Clear oOld Crazy . of this country. Loving, Quilt. has completed construc- The 365-day milk 14,227 fork of the Brazos. Joe who was no John Adair bought the land, gave Goodnight record of Although Texas claims Col. Charles Good- Loving, neck, of its new modern cheese factory pounds pounds relation to Oliver was shot in the a $2,500 yearly salary and at the end of the ‘associationtion and 918.41 of butterfat night one her greatest men, he was a Proebstel. The factory was erected as of the herd stampeded and 160 head of -cattle five years one-third of the land and cattle, for the state of Washington, made of another state, Illinois. He was born an arrow of the plant which was native ran out. Goodnight pulled out but charged 10 per cent interest for the use of iat'on the site of more than 20 years ago by the register- there March 5. 1836, just three days after Texas a pair of nippers and Joe destroyed by approxi- Loving's neck with the money during that time. It might seem a fire July 2, at an ed Jersey, The Owl’s Golden Queen, declared her independence from Mexico, so his well, l got little salary, and a big rate of interest, but |mate cost of S6OOO. owned by the late E. of Sat- history paralleled her history. [His parents L. Brewer After the herd had been driven about 100 Charles Goodnight knew he would be rich in county produced to Texas in 1845, the year Texas entered Cowlitz bees about sop, Wash,, for cows over five years moved miles up the Pecos from Horseshoe Crossing, the end, and incidentally the contract was l Union, young Goodnight grew up as a tons of honey during the season of age, has at last been broken by a the and Oliver Loving decided to take one man and go renewed for another five years. |2O pioneer Lone Star state with its hard- has just ended, Martin Pykonen Lewis county bred animal, St. Mawes of the ahead to Fort Sumner. One-Armed Bill Wilson, From the J. A. ranch Colonel Goodnight next lthat every-day life. bee inspector for the county, is owned ships as a part of his the “coolest head in the outfit,”” according to laid off a trail to Dodge City, Kan., traversing | of Kelso, Annie of Forest Grove. Annie Chehalis. By the time he was nineteen ne decided that Colonel Goodnight's description, was selected territory then inhabited only by Indians and | estimates. There are approximately by Fighback Bros., route 1, he knew Texas pretty well and was about ready as escort. What happened on the trip is still buffalo. It was 250 miles in length and known ; 1500 stands of bees in the commercial Her 365-day test, completed last week, to move farther west to a newer country— an epic of the cow camps. as the Palo Duro-Dodge City trail. This was i apiaries of the county and about 600 shows a production record at seven young companion, an California. With a and The second day out, in the southern part of the third of the great trails he had blazed. are owned by individuals who years three months of 14,807 pounds horses, they started on the men were attacked by years imore ox team and a few New Mexico, the two After a partnership of ten with Adair, | have only a few stands. of milk and 924.60 pounds of butterfat. long trek west. But by the time they had gone some 500 Comanche warriors. The only shel- Colonel Goodnight sold his third interest in the a few hundred miles into West Texas they de- ter was the Pecos, four miles away. They head- property to his partner and together with a Reduction of Walla Walla county’s E. J. Doyle, 52, city attorney of Clark- was large enough for them. Dismounting, they hid cided that the state ed for it on a long run. man named Moore from Kansas City bought tax ratio by the state commission from ston for 15 years and long a promin- Goodnight went back to Palo Pinto county cane brakes. An Indian, creeping through ranch. Later So in the the Quitaque he sold this property 46 to 44 should mean about a 10 per ent leader in civic affairs of south- where he ranched and supported his widowed shot Loving in the arm and side. Not purchased what was known the cane, and in 1888 as the cent reduction in state tax for local eastern Washington, suffered fatal in- During the Civil war he served with wishing to die and his folks not know of his Goodnight ranch which he operated until mother. recent property owners. It is brought about juries when his automobile plunged Texas Rangers, fighting mostly Indians, end, Loving persuaded Wilson to go for help. Mrs. Goodnight died in 1926 and a year the vears. by a per reduction property highway into Mexicans and cattle thieves. Wilson swam the river and, barefooted, walked later Colonel Goodnight’s marriage to Miss 25 cent in off the Clarkston-Asotin values. After the war, there was no cattle market. three days down the Goodnight trail, through Corinne Goodnight. a twenty-gix-vear-old tele- an orchard. other plants containing Texes for state purposes be the past two weeks or more The plains swarmed with herds, and cattle cactus, mesquite and graph operator and former nurse in Montana, to raised For could be bought on credit. Goodnight saw the thorns until he came to the Goodnight herd. attracted nation-wide attention, Although hear- on Whitman county valuations next residents of the Chehalis district have pecessity of finding a western market., So Colonel Goodnight took all available hands ing the san#e name, the ninety-one-year-old year are $13,834 lower than those of been enjoying a .second helping of the scene of the fight, sixty young were did some others, but the young plainsman, and set out for plainsman and his bride not related, this year. The state levy has been luscious Marshall strawberries. Quality away. late the next day the party ar- romance developing during a then thirty, differed from the rest in that he de- miles their correspond- raised from 10.47 mills to 12.915 mills and flavor excels the berries marketed was already one up rived, but there was no trace of Loving. Two ence started by the similarity of their termined to find it, There names. because of the shrinkage in property in June, due principally to drier grow. many of weeks later 8 Texap told Goodnight the stam (® Wastero Newepaper Unlon ¥ at Ahilene. Kan. where the cattle bv valuations, jng comditions,