Show W washington ON NEWS spokane is 1 threatened with a robat famine chicago buyers have bare bought ill all the tat fat cattle and sheep and shipped them out of the country it Is 19 sald bald that the acreage acre afre of wheat in the washington wheat belt will this thin year be only 60 per cebirt of what st hs has been tn in former years the farmers will turn their attention to something else promising more profit J fritsch and coran watts watta have purchased A sita at El Ellens lenaburg burg and altre ire ere odric a cheese factory foo tory using one v vat at said mid twelve thirty inch as a starter arter Bt they will handle pounds of milk and produce 1000 pounds ot of choose cheese dally daily charles C warren formerly foreman on oil the iho Ca canadian naillan pacific railway now ot of seattle tells a str strai alige ige story lory of adventure and captivity lie went 10 to lo eleven years ago afro to seola his fort fortune une loca anK a goia laine at yucatan he says sayf the mine proved rich and bandits looted the aulce box killing his con comrade trade he says abe govern inc nt or the richness of the brive arit him on tile the charge of oc treason and kiet him captive on f hn I 1 n juan island until last july or t I 1 T ohp abc gold mine in ili the meantime 14 he e finally nally 11 esca ped to alien ta and mid made e h hla Is way to A farmer named nami d siegel who had shot hot and badly wounded woi indeA IL man w was t s put on trial at spokane ills hla coll e t put lit in the plea pica of 0 but the jury found cunil ale gel guilty of 0 Asial lit with intent to kill when lie he said gentlemen of the jury r thank you tor for your sensible concil conclusion ision I 1 am guilty but not insane id rather be in h b than lit in a lunatic asylum A firm Is in shipping ten ca CIT loade at 0 fatato DoLi tots a to st blaul the cash being paid for thorn tie nf fast att as aa chipped the amount paid for potatoes in kane is to 5 a a ton several carlei dalere ivere from ft om colfax for omaha last week tha th growers receiving a t lightly high ahr r price than that gentl arec d at yakima the herald notes that thai homie home lind outdo buiners have ben bidding up potatoes quite strongly bad fully arleada oarl ar loada dads were sold flold nt at 6 to 7 cash cah with lato offerings as high as a 8 for somo soma days a cow be lanKing to mayor mann or of olympia appeared ito 40 be sick ri fusing to can or doriak and upon of her ber mouth it waa wa 14 pound found that part of her fatigue had bad been cut off und upon the promises prem leeg the missing piece was found tn in the horses still the cow had evi dently been carousing tile horae borse and h he e becoming led of her bar advance ad 3 had liaa snapped at her in some rna r catching her by the tongue two gnann inches on ot of which he had bitten square oft off and dropped in Ms his manger tha cow hits has recovered to chew her cud and take a mile little |