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Tbs total loss la this estimate was 1544 saoks of rloe wbioh at 
$4*60 per sack was worth $4946*00* In other areas near Willows and on 
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the east side of the riser the loss was fully as great so that at a 
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conservative satinets at least 250 sores of rloe were taken by docks* 
valued In money at about $18*600* 
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by market banters and others who desired to kill tbs birds as a pretext 
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and to cover the entire northern half of the stats* Certain newspapers 
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took the matter up and aade it the basis of a vicious attack upon the 
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