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VOLUME 50.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26. 1929
NUMBER 30
HARVEST IS UNDER
WAY ABOUT ATHENA
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Next Week Crop Saving Op
erations Will Be At
Peak Stage.
Harvest operations are well under
way in the Athena wheat belt, but
f, not until next week will they be at
4 the peak stage. A number of
ti; chines not in operation" this week,
i, have been held back on account of un
! even ripening of the standing grain
:! in some fields. This applies solely to
s land where the straw has not thor-
oughly ripened in the gulches.
Enough grain has been threshed
this week to demonstrate that the
' Athena crop this year on the average
V is a good one. Already; some fields
,: of 60 to 60 bushel yield are heard of,
it but of course this does not apply to
the average yield in the district
i Warehouses and elevators are pre-
; pared to handle ; the crop with su.
j perior facilities over last year, and
already the newly threshed grain is
,' pouring in tot storage. As a rule the
wheat hauling is being done with auto
,' trucks; in fact the entire output of
bulk grain is being carted from the
field by trucks, and the few horse out
i fits will be seen later when sacked
grain is delivered for storage from a
distance. ' '
Apparently the market remains
' firm and no wheat is being offered for
sale at this time. If there is any
wheat being shipped out at present
it is gram that was sold under con
tract a couple of weeks ago.
,h Harvest Notes .
H. I. Watts has completely fell out
with Fortyf old wheat and says he
.will, never sow another acre of it.
His big threshing outfit harvested
I 200 acres of Fortyf old on his ranch
north of Athena this week, and he
says that fully 10 bushels per acre
; never ran through the , separator.
This is the amount which Mr. Watts
conservatively estimates to v have
shattered out on the ground.'
i The Hansell-Wood threshing com
bination finished on the Hansell home
place yesterday noon, and moved to
the Wood ranch west' of Athena. The
- machine, an International 16 foot cut
r combine, threshed 34 truck loads,
. 2,612 bushels, Monday. .The field
averaged 56 bushels per acre.
Till Beckner brought his caterpil-
'' lar to town Tuesday forenoon, hitched
to a new International harvester at
the Rogers & Goodman lot and pulled
it out to the ranch south of town,
where it began cutting and threshing
' a blamed good field of wheat.
' And Grady Herdon followed suit.
He visited the lot, hitched his truck
to an International and headed for
his ranch east of Weston.
Glenn Dudley has been in the field
with his big outfit snce ,Mondav. It
I is working in good wheat, south of
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. Up, the flat, Alex Mclntyre is well
s along in his harvest work. He bulks
his grain and , stores in his own ele
vator at Waterman Station. A few
f weeks ago, Alex shipped out fourteen
ft carloads of last year's crop from his
Waterman elevator. ..
Ralph McEwen's threshing outfit
is having a successful run in the pine
Creek district, north of Athena.
Seven threshing outfits in operation
t in the Downing Station neighborhood
Monday, taxed the receiving capacity
of the Downing elevator. A part of
; the time, machines were compelled to
wait on the return of the wheat
f trucks, reports W,. S. Ferguson, s
The Charles Kirk outfit is thresh
ing this week on the Tom Kirk wheat
' . acreage in the Dry Creek district.
f: Clifford Wood will drive an Inter-
, rational Caterpillar furnishing trac
tor power for the Charles Kirk com
bine harvester.
". ; I , and J. T. Lieuallen, Jr, crop
ped an average of 53 bushels per acre
from the MeArthur place, near town.
J ... Art Jensen, foreman of the Farm,
f era' Grain Elevator company crew,
had his hands full Wednesday when
, 311 truck loads of bulk grain ' was
h received, weighed and run into the
elevator storage bins.
National Ruler of Elks
Walter Andrews of Atlanta, Geor-
gla, Grand Exalted Ruler of the B.
' P, O. E., was entertained at Pendle
" ton Wednesday evening, by the Elk
," lodges of Heppner, Walla Walla and
Pendleton. Mr, , Andrews addressed
, the membership group, outlining his
administrative policy for the coming
yea'" . . .
Car Thief Captured '
James McNeal, exonvict, is 'a the
county Jail awaiting officers from
" Eugene, where he stole a car. He
was driving the car when captured
Friday on the highway near Adams
by Merle Anderson, traffic officer.
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Rebekahs Picnie
The Freewater Integrity Rebekah
lodge held a picnic for members and
i families at Cold Springs Sunday. A
picnic lunch and recreational features
were enjoyed durJf the" day.
Bean Harvesters Here
To Handle Crop in the
v Athena-Weston District
Holt, Harris and International com
bine harvesters, especially : equipped
to handle the Eickhoff Farm Products
company bean crop in the Athena
Weston and Walla "., Walla districts
have arrived and are being assembled!
Four Holt model 38, one Harris and
one International machines are , in
Athena. All machines are equipped
with special . cylinder arrangement
and pickup attachments, devised to
harvest beans. The machines will be
in readiness for-operation when the
beaiferop is -matured for1 harvesting;.
The payroll of the Eickhoff Pror
ducts company has been of consider
able magnitude this year in addition
to cost of all machinery in produc
ing the crop. For the Athena crop
at one time eighty men were ort the
payroll, and the Weston Leader
states that 104 were employed in that
neighborhood, when cultivation was
at the peak. ; . v...- ';-,;
Including the Walla Walla district
about 250 men have found employ
ment in the bean fields at good wages,
Approxibately 10,500 acres of beans
have been under cultivation, which
has been completed in time for the
men to be released for employment
in the harvesting of the wheat crop.
, .Twelve combine harvesters will be
required to harvest the bean crop and
operations will begin about August
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Through the Pansy Ring Means an
gagement
Says Huckleberry Crop
v Is Nearly A Failure
Conflicting reports come from the
mountains concerning the huckle
berry crop. Athena people have been
led to believe that there was a fair
crop of berries to be picked from the
bushes this year, and , accordingly
many have planned to , go to the
mountains about the first of August.
But the following from the Walla
Walla. Union may cause these plans
to be changed:
Walla Wallans who have laid plans
to go to the national forests to gather
huckleberries the laater part .of July
will be sadly disappointed to hear
that there will be practically no huc
kleberries according to Albert Baker,
district forest ranger, who states that
the crop this year will prove a total
failure.
A late freeze that came in the lat
ter part of June almost totally ruin
ed the crop. Should this prove true.
Mr. Baker sees a year of few forest
fires for he states a good huckleberry
year means a season of heavy fires
while a season of few huckleberries
generally proves to have few tiros.
Last year the berry crop was good
and there were more fires in the for
ests than for 12 years.
Results of Spraying
Morning Glory Noted
Walla Walla. O. C. Lee of the ex
tension department of the Washing
ton State college arrived here Mon
day and with County Agent A. W.
Kasten has been inspecting the re
sults obtained by treatment of various
plots for morning glory or bindweed.
On an alfalfa plot at the peniten
tiary, inspected yesterday, a control
of 99 per cent was achieved the men
report, the plot having been sprayed
last July or August with sodium
chlorate. ' A few plots showed second
growth where the ground was treat
ed earlier.
j Twelve brides-to-be, members of the senior class of the University of 1 Sduthern California at, Los Angeles,
divulged their engagements at the annual "Pansy Breakfast" given by the Delta Delta Delta sorority in honor of
the graduating class. The pretty custom requires that ur a glvep signal during the breakfast each engaged senior
must arise and pass through the ring of pansies. ' ' ' ,. -. , , ,r , .-,
OLD SOAK IS HAPPY
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son's famous parrot that was brought
from the Philippines, Is happy now
for he has rejoined his master In
Washington. He Is shown above In a
genial mood. ..
Both Legs Broken
Frank Hutchinson, an oiler in the
Pendleton Flour Mill, was struck by
a belt he was attempting to place on
revolving pully in such a manner
as to have both legs broken. He was
thrown close to another machine
which made his position precarious.
With both legs useless, Hutchinson
made a determined effort and with
his hands succeeded in dragging
himself out of the zone of danger
and then called for help.
Dr. Sharp U Hospital
Dr. S. F. Sharp, veteran Athena
physician, has been seriously ill in a
Walla Walla hospital this week. The
doctor's health has been gradually
failing of late and swelling of his
limbs was noted in an advanced
stage last week. His daughter Alta,
was also at the hospital for medical
treatment, but has returned home,
The doctor is reported better, with
prospects of retprping home.
Timber Blaze Controlled
A $500,000 fire between Lakevicw
and Alturas in which more than 7000
acren of the fine timber was burned
is- reported under control. All the
buildings of a modern mill, built
less than a year ago, were destroyed
with the exception of the main mill.
Many automobiles and other personal
property were swept by the flames.
f Perfect Harvesting Weather
The weather conditions have been
perfect for grain harvesting this
week. The straw is dry and the grain
is threshing well. Cooler nights
and fairly warm days have contri
buted to ideal weather Cbntiitions. ,
Toll Gate Road Takes
Change In Its Route
The Walla Walla Union reports
that a public hearing on the proposed
improvement of the McDougal Camp-
Toll Gate section of the Weston-Elgin
road has been called by the Bu
reau of Public Roads, to take place
in Portland Aug. 14. According to
Dorsey M. Hill, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, it is believed
that a contract for this section, in
volving an expenditure of $60,000,
will be let Monday. -
Bids were opened early this sum
mer but the Bureau of Public Roads
recommended to the forest service
that all bids be rejected, because the
bureau believed, due to a recent in
vestigation that an alternate location
for" the road, previously thought un
tenable by reason of late snow, should
be adopted, .,; n
This proposed new location will be
h&IT a mile shorter, will be, it is be
lieved clear of snow before the sum
mer is open and will have a better
Curvature according to the bureau.
A new survey of the section Is be
ing made by the bureau and every
effort Is being made to get as much
work done before winter as possible.
"Sunrise" at Standard
An especially fine picture and one
sure to please, comes to the Stan
dard Theatre tomorrow and Sunday
nights, when George O'Brien and
Janet Gaynor appear In the leading
roles of the William Fox production,
"Sunrise." Especially good music
with the theme song, "The World is
Waiting for the Sunrise," blenda with
pleasing effect in screening the photo
play., Regular admission prices pre
vail, and three one-reelers, News,
Sports and Comedy are merged with
the feature picture in making up an
excellent program,
' Asylum Escape, 8uiclde
A body found hanging from a rope
near Cascade Locks a week ago, was
believed to be that of Pete Walters,
who escaped from Eastern Oregon
State Hospital on May 27, says the
East Oregonian. Hospital officials
said that the number 15 found in his
clothing indicated the ward that he
was in at the hospital, while the
shoes, which were from Bond Broth
ers store, had been purchased for that
w-d matt time agJ. .v
They Hunted At Night
and It Got Their Goat
A bulletin from the office of the
Oregon State Game Commission
states that a number of valuable but
rather expensive lessons in sports
manship were learned by James Cook
of Bend and Lew Tillock, of Bay View
a few days ago but undoubtedly the
most important was when.: hunting
deer at night with a spotlight make
sure that you do not shoot your own
goat. On July 3 Mr. Tillock and Mr.
Cook went into the wilds of Upper
Drift Creek in Lincoln county on a
combined hunting and fishing trip.
They had neither hunting or angling
licenses but this matter did not con
cern them so much as did the fact
that while gone they would be with;
out fresh milk. ;
To solve this latter problem they
took a milk goat, which one of them
owned, tied her in the back of one
of the automobiles, went into the
mountains and N. established camp.
When darkness came .they et forth
from camp equipped with a flashlight
and a rifle in search of deer. ,
Their quest was unsuccessful, and
upon returning and . nearing camp
theyheard a noise in the brash. One
of the hunters flashed a light and saw
two eyes in the brush. The other
fired between the eyes and the animal
fell dead. The chagrin of both was
great when they found that their milk
goat-had broken free from its rope
and become the victim of the rifle
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Neighbors heard the shot and in
vestigated. Deputy . Game Wardens
Price and Hearing got on the job, and
arrested Tillock. Cook ' escaped and
made his way back to Bend where he
was later taken into custody. Cook
pleaded guilty to hunting deer ot
night with a flashlight and paid a fine
or $zuu and costs, liuock was un
able to pay his fine and went to jail.
Coyotes Migrate North
Are Invading Alaska
Olympia. A joint survey made by
members of the bureau of biological
survey and Alaska Game commission
brings to light the fact that the predatory-animal
situation in the North
is rapidly becoming acute, principal
ly because of the phenomenal in
crease and spread of the coyote, ac
cording to Charles R. Maybiiry, di
rector of the department of fisheries
and game.
Coyotes were first noticed some
years ago near the international
boundary where they had drifted in
to Alaska from the Yukon territory.
Now they are found in large numbers
throughout the eastern portion from
the Porcupine river on the north to
the Kennicott and McCarthy regions
on the south. They have drifted west
ward to the Kenai Peninsula, to the
headwaters of the Kuskokwim, and
to the reindeer grazing areas near
Norton Bay. Wolves are also increas
ing in the same areas but at a much
slower rate than the coyote.
, The survey shows the coyotes to
be preying heavily on the fur-bearers
and caribou of the north regions
and that they have entered the
ranges of the mountain sheep, where
they are killing great numbers of the
latter, On the lesser breeding grounds
of the Upper Tanana and Yukon
rivers they are also preying heavily
on migratory waterfowl.
Cited For Heroism
The first citation for heroism ever
issued by the department of interior
was given to Charles B. Browne, park
ranger of Mount Rainier national
park for the rescue work and re
covery of bodies early in July when
a party of mountain climbers fell in
to a crevasse at a high altitude.
Lindberg's Cousin
Colonel Charles Lindberg has a cous
in who resides in Umatilla County
the cousin is Carl Lindberg, a farm
er reading amil bf iVnUletbrt. -
Boy Scouts Honored, ?
I ; Camp Rotary Is Active
Four Pendleton Boy Scouts, who
are at Camp Rotary summer camp,
on the Walty Walla river, above Mil
ton, received honors at the Court of
Honor held there last Sunday. They
are David Hamley; Jerry Erickson,
James Stangier and Robert Boynton.
The East Oregonian reports that
during last week, many interesting
camp experiences were scheduled, in
cluding a great mail robbery which
required the sleuthing abilities of the
entire camp to solve, a relay of an
important forest fire message from
Bear Creek ranger station to Camp
Rotary, six miles in 43 minutes.
The Rangers took a three-day hike
along the breaks between north and
south forks of the Walla Walla Hom
ing back over Blalock. Intense rival
ry in .baseball, soccer, and track
events with inter-troop honors well
divided,' has developed great troop
spirit.:- s,..;.. , ..; .,
' Scheduled forMjhis week,- the sixty
boys and leaders in camp are plan
ning much test work and three hikes.
The hikes will all start Tuesday eve
ning and end Friday so that the
scouts may be in camp Friday and
aaturday to receive visitors and to
complete tests for another big court
of honor Sunday. ; . ?
Great interest is being shown by
the scouts in the leathercraft class
es conducted by .H. J. Kirby of Pen
dleton. Some of the more artistic
scouts are weaving baskets and can
ing chairs with material gathered on
the camp grounds, and a largo group
is busy chasing insects for close
study. The five o'clock morning bird
study classes are crowded. On their
last trip the bird students identified
eighteen birds,1' and have a total of
nearly one hundred varieties seen in
camp and on hikes this summer.
Scout executive F. D. Hawley ' an
nounces that there is room for some
more scouts for the last period of
camp, beginning next Sunday, July
21, and ending August 4. Scouts
will be accepted during this time for
one or two weeks.
Oregon Legislators Will
Not Receive Increase in
; : Pay, the Court Rules
t. Palem. Judge , L; . H, McMahan of
the Marion county circuit court ruled
! today that the 1929 legislators will
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ui receive uie nuuiuunai 90 a uay
expense money 3 which they voted
themselves during the last session' of
the legislature when he signed the
order overruling the demurrer of Hal
E. Hoss, secretary of state, and state
treasurer Thomas B. Kay to the com
plaint brought by W. A,: Jones, head
of the Marion county grange,
The demurrer claimed insufficient
cause of complaint and in . his order
overruling the demurrer which allows
the complaint to stand Judge Mc
Mahan allows the defendants until
August 1 to make their answer, i
duster E. Ross, attorney for Jones,
said Monday afternoon that the an
swer will probably not be filed by
hoss and Kay and that it will be ta
ken to supreme court after, a de
fault decree is given Jones in circuit
court.
Before the legislators had an op.
portunity to receive the $5 addition
al daily expense money from the
state treasurer the granee started
the injunction against the state of-
ncials. 1 Two years ago the additional
expense , money , which aggregates
more than $22,000 was paid the sen
ators and representatives before any
action was taken to restrain the pay
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Girls Can Also Hoe ,
The Misses Ruby and Rae Case,
Charlotte and Bessie Hess, Elizabeth
Avery and Lucille Staggs have quali
fied as "women with the hoe," having
plied that humble implement so suc
cessfully as to rid a ten-acre field
of potatoes of weeds in one and one
quarter days, says the Leader. Wild
oats complicated their task, but Andy
Barnett, who employed the girls
when he could not get men, says that
he couldn't ask for a better crew.
Wearing men's overalls "and work
shirts, they tackled the weeds like vet
erans. The gratified Andy afterward
hired the girls to pick cherries at the
Charles Pinkerton place.
Rebekahs Elect Officers
The new officiers of Evangeline Re
bekah Lodge of Helix, were installed
for the coming term, Thursday eve
ning, with Mrs. Gammell, district
deputy president as installing officer.
The following officers are Alma Gar
rett, N. G.j Etta Patta, V. G.; Hazel
Stanton, secretary; Daitsa Gammell,
treasurer; Agnes Borquist, financial
secretary, , Pearle McKee, past N. G,
County Jail Populated
There arc accommodations for 32
prisoners in the county jail, and at
the present time the Jail limit is
crowded with 26 inmates, the largest
number for some time. Six more
prisoners, and the jail will be full.
Two women prisoners are confined in
the, Pendleton city prison and one at
St. Anthony's hospital.
Trucks Are Numerous
More trucks are. r operation in the
Athena seetjort than ever before. The
B. B, Richards office reports that
more drivers licenses have been ap
plied for this season than have been
taken bu'S altbgVther in year's' pt,
Wheat Shot Up 8 Cents
t, On Monday Crop Reports
Chicago. Blazing Into a new con
flagration Monday, the wheat market
went whirling upward again Monday,
at a furious rate, and left $l.B0-a
bushel prices far outdone. Specula'
tive buying took on breakneck speed,
and raced values up to 8c above Sat
urday's closing level. Meanwhile,
spring wheat crop conditions were re
ported as fast becoming more and
more wretched, with an authoritative
estimate of yields in the Canadian
prairie provinces putting the total at
219,000,000 bushels, ' showing last
year's figures reduced already much
in excess of one-half. :
Wheat closed' excited,' 7c to 7c
higher than Saturday's finish, with
rye showing 6c to 5c gain. Corn
closed 2Vic to 3 Vic up, oats lttc to
2c advance, and provisions unchanged
to 5c down. , , , j , , ,
Surprise over sudden advances in
price at Liverpool, where setbacks
had been expected did much to
set the wheat trade afire in Chicago.
Corn, oats and rye moved up with
wheat. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri
and Kansas crop reports told of un
usual backward conditions of cron
growth.
Vodka Added to Worries
Of Prohibition Officers
- Seattle. Now the federal prohibi
tion authorities have a new worry.
Is was bad enough with Scotch from
Scotland, schnapps form Germany
and a little bit of everything from
Canada, but now comes the word that
vodka, the high-powered Russian beverage,-is
being smuggled in from Si
beria. This was revealed today by As
sistant United States Attorney Jef
fery Heiman, who obtained an order
from Federal Judge Jeremiah Neter
er for sending Len Rone and John
Satterwhite to Portland to fa-e smug
gling charges.
Heiman said the importation of
vodka was not very prevalent yet.
About 100 cans of the liquor was seiz
ed when Rone and Satterwhite were
arrested here last week. ,
Mrs. Read At Home
Mrs. Velton Read, who was serious
ly injured when her car left the high
way at a point near Blue Mountain
station a couple of weeks ago, came
home from the hospital at Walla Wal
la, the fore part of the week. She
is recovering from her injuries. Mr,
and Mrs. Read have a new Ford se
dan in place of the one which was
wrecked to some extent in the accident.
Louisanians Entertained
Under auspices of the Commercial
Association, Pendleton royally enter
tained a party of Louisanians, Friday
last. The visitors arrived in Pendle
ton by a special train from the east,
remaining all day. The Southerners
were entertained at a garden break
fast, after which they were conveyed
in automobiles to Umatilla county
wheat fields and saw the combines at
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Grass Fires
So far Athena has escaped having
a grass fire this season. Other towns
are reporting fires of this nature. It
is well at this time of year to use
care and precaution against setting
fire outdoors where there is liabil
ity of dry grass igniting.
Masonic Hall Front
The new front of Masonic Hall Is
receiving a fresh- coat of paint. Wil
liam Heritfericluferi ii doing thg work.
FARMERS SHOULD
ORGANIZE; BOARD
Wants To Do Relief Work
Through Co-Operative
Agencies Only.
Washington, The federal farm
board sent word td American agri
culture to organize. , . ., .;
In a statement, Chairman Lcgge
and Vice-chairman Stone, called at
tention that the board was directed
under the recent farm 'relief act to
do its relief work through cooperative
marketing agencies. ', '
The board has concluded after sev
eral days' study of the law that its
work is confined almost entirely to
contact with the cooperative market
ing associations. Therefore the mem
bers have decided individual appeals
will have to be passed over while the
board directs its energies to relations
with organized farmers. V ;'
Charles L, ,. Qhristensen, . secretary
of the board and a leader in the co
operative marketing movement esti
mates that only about one-third of
the 6,000,000 farmers of America are
now organized.
Just how the board will attempt
to encourage efforts to mobilize the
farmers into marketing groups is in
definite. ' Chairman Legge hopes that
the public appeal will help the cause.
Pending a reaction to this appeal, no
decision has been reached . by the
board on the extent of the national
organization to be required.
Legislation to encourage cooper
ative marketing organizations was
embodied in the Capper-Volstead act
of 1923 but Christensen said today
the associations must organize under
state laws. This confines the associa
tions for the most part to state
groups. .!,;"-" . 1 .. - '
Virtually every commodity is now
organized for marketing purposes but
the farm board wants the organiza
tion to bo more inclusive. ,
"One of our greatest; problems," de
clared Mr.- Stone, "is to make the
farmer 'cooperative-minded." We
want him to organize."
Two Groups To Sponsor
This Year's Potato Show
The Umatilla County Potato show
to be held at Weston the coming fall
for the eight successive year, will be
sponsored by the Weston Commercial
association and the Weston grange,
says the Weston Leader.
This decision was reached at a joint
meeting of the two bodies held Mon
day evening. "
Heretofore the shows have been di
rected by a continuing committee
whose members reported at the meet
ing that they wished to resign, be
lieving that it would be preferable to
have the association and the grange
get directly back of the show. They
said that the sum of $280 was avail
able for this year's show, and sug
gested that the cash prizes be aug
mented by gift merchandise pre
miums from local business men, in
order that a better showing of local
farm products aside from potatoes
might be stimulated. In fact, a dis
trict fair in connection with the po
tato show is under consideration.
. Rigby Says Crop Is Light
W. P. Rigby, a former Athena farm
er says that the Alberta, Canada,
wheat crop will be considerably below
normal this year, although in some
sections the wheat is in fine con
dition. Mr. Rigby has a consider
able acreage of wheat in Alberta
which 'he says shows fair prospects
now and with favorable weather con
ditions from now until harvest time,
it may produce a crop but slightly
below normal. As a whole, Alberta s
crop will be about 35 per cent of nor
mal, Mr. Rigby believes.
Hermiston Hay Harvest '
The harvest of the second crop of
alfalfa at Hermiston, was started
Monday of this week over a large
part of the project. Growth has been
rapid since the first cut and those re
porting on the second crop say that
it will be a good one. No advance in
the price is expected over the first
cutting of hay.
Poison Caused Death
Mrs. J. T. Mulligan, 21, died at a
Walla Walla hospital from the effects
of poison taken when despondent over
family matters. Her husband was
called from Yakima. She had been
married two and one-half years.
Prior to that time she lived in Free
water and Walla Walla. She leaves
her husband, ber mother, a brother
and a sister.
Condition Improved ,:!
Leonilla Gray of Gibbon, who wu
recently seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident near Pilot Kock, 1?
recovering at St. Anthony's hr s;:f !
in PtfndMdn. .- . ,