The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-07-15
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST


Ellensburg reports light hay crop.
Miss Idaho won the Spokane derby in
gals.
Seals are getting thick in the Colum-
bia river
Ten cases of smallpox are reported at
Anaconda.
Tacoma has expenden $50, 900 on Point
Defiance park.
Most of the racehorses left Spokane
| Monday for Anaconda.
There are 32s, 1868 acres of unsurveyed
land in Chehalis county.
The Presbyterians are building
handsome church at Kaslo.
The state library at Olympia contains
over $4,000 bound volumes.
A still for the manufacture of mint
oils Is talked of at Yakima.
The Spokane races closed Saturday.
They were well patronized.
stephen Delacy has been appointed
deputy collector at Tacoma.
Great quantities of strawberries are
being received at Ellensburg.
The city Of Missoula, Mont, has
total Indebtedness of $12S, POS.
Grain and fruit crops are unusually
] promising in southern Oregon.
The county board of Chehalis has set
apart $4,000 for road purposes.
The Pendleton Methodists have spent
$1,000 in repairing their church.
After three years of trial the Evening
Examiner of Astoria has suspended.
Nearly all the men who vent on
strike at Gilman have returned to work.
The measuring worm is playing havoc
in the great forests on the Hoqulam
river.
A factory having a capacity of 1000
boxes day is a new enterprise in Ana
cortes.
The Spokane women's exchange will
try to supply reliable women for house
hold work.
Work will begin soon on the Butte,
| Anaconda & Pacific railroad in the Bit
ter Root valley.
Indiansg on the Lapwai reservation
have applied for work as hop pickers in
the Yakima valley.
The Presbyterians of Watervllle have
decided to build a meeting house this
summer to cost 81, 800.
Two boys under seven years of age
are under arrest in Helena for setting
fire to several buildings.
About $4,000 have been received
from the sale of school lands in this
state during the past two years.
Cheney's school census figures up
total of 238. The city has population
1G6s at the ration Of seven to one.
The sale of butterine and oleomarga-
rine stamps in the Puget sound district
has reached about SIS, 900 this year.
Hobos have become so plentiful in
North Yakima that the Republic advo-
Gates the establishment of a chain gang.
Thirty-one Japanese immigrants have
landed at Fairhaven. At the custom
house they are entered as students"
Some of the Cnur d'Alene women say
they will not ask for a new bonnet until
the country has free coinage of silver.
The members of the Spokane Second
regiment band are preparing for an ex-
tensive trip throughout the entire state.
Seattle has contracted with the Union
| Electric company to furnish 1000 can
| die power street lights for $40 % each
| per month.
| The receiver of the Tacoma & Puyal-
lup railroad has sold the personal prop
erty of the road to the employees 10
whom wages were due.
Violators of the salmon fishing laws
in the neighborhood of Fairhaven are
! lighting shy of Fish Commissioner Craw-
ford just now.
President Pierce appointed the first
governor of Washington territory, Bre.
vet Major Isaac S. Stevens, United
States engineers.
Yakima county commissioners have
ordered the issuance of warrants TO the
amount Of $4,000 for the purchase of
The state tair site.
Great Falls, Mont, reports that wool
continues TO arrive at a lively rate. The
| product is being baled, as it saves $50 a
car to the shipper.
The 100000 enterprise of the Koote-
mai Hydraulic Mining company began
its work of washing gold from the
Waneta gravel bars Tuesday.
The annual report of the Olympia
land office shows 1856 final entries, EN-
bracing 4S,77S acres. The total receipts
for the year were $50, 72G.14.
The supplies for the Oregon insane
asylum at Salem for the coming six
months include nearly $1,000 worth of
coffee and $500 worth of tobacco.
DR. T. j. Newland of the board of
! trustees of the normal school at Ellens-
burg thinks it unwise to try to complete
the building fer use before next summer.
Insects that usually put in an appear
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