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Show St. John, Wash. St. John, Wash. Sept. 12, 1003 Tho sound of the hammer is getting to be a familiar noise on thesticetsof St. John. Residences aro going up on every side. Wheat liaullng'salmostoverand both warehouses are tilled and also considerable consid-erable ground outside is covered with sacked grain. Mr. Benton representing represent-ing the northwestern grain company is now in St. John loading out Sonora Wheat for the Battlo Creek Breakfast Food Co. This wheat Is used exclusively exclu-sively in the manufacture of the different dif-ferent .breakfast foods put on the market by this well known concern. It seems strange that wheat can be shipped from hero to Chicago, made Into breakfast food, icturned and sold at an enormous prollt, but such Is the case. Tho Spokane fair Is over today and the Colpo fair will now begin. be-gin. A prominent feature of the Spokane fair was Jabour's street carnival. carn-ival. The devil's chimney ride, the high djvc of sixty feet into a tank by a woman were great drawing cards. This woman dicsscd in a suit of asbestos places over this a suit of bur laj which Is lighted with a toich by an assistant, then she makes the plunge, the (lames being extinguished In the tank (SO feet below. Sho has to be careful to hold her bieath, as to Inhale the flames would bo certain death. "Rojalty," a foui-jear-old gelding owned by Hairy Green of Spokane, won the Spokane dei by October 8th. The courso was a mile and an eighth; tlmel:581. Estimated wheat yield of the Pacific Paci-fic Northwest for 1003, 34,750,000 bushels. About 150,000,000,000 feet of lumber has been cut the piesent jear In the Inland empire. This would 1111 a solid train 700 miles long. The piice of wheat In St. John club, number 1, 01 cents; number 1 bluc-steln bluc-steln 07 cents. ROIIKUT AlllSL. |