The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-05
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST.

time.
A train load of mutton sheep was
shipped to the east from Pendleton this
week
An attempt is to be made to reclaim
by drainage wet londs in the Colville
valley.
1t requires 100000 gallons of water
every twenty-four hours to supply Elem
burgh's needs.
Harvest in the vicinity of Pomeroy
has begun. So far the guam is better
than expected.
Ten Inuits or Esquimaux have been
brought down from Alaska, en- route to
the worlds fair.
Out of the 1877 townships embraced in
the limits of Kootenai county, Idaho,
less than 23 are surveyed.
1t is expected that the orchards of
Boise valley will bring in something
like 100000 this year.
The annual statement of Whitman
county's treasurer show a balance OF
SIS, 900 in the county fund.
A little 9-year-old girl was recently
committed to the reform school from
Seattle because of incorrigibility.
Timothy cut near Clearbrook, in the
western part of the state, the other
day, measured over eight feet in length.
A colony o. 80 families are reported
travelling with their teams overland
from Nebraska to the vicinity of Olym-
pia.
Work has been commenced on the
Nakusp & SLOGAN railroad, and It is ex-
pected that it will be finished by the
end of the year.
There are stored in the warehouse at
Pendleton about 100000 pounds of
wool. Only $50, 900 pounds have been
sold at that point.
The receipts of wool at Great Falls,
Mont. this year will probably amount
to almost a half million pounds more
than ever before.
Work on the Fourth of July and Ar
lington mines has been shut down and
the reduction mills at Ruby will soor
suspend operations.
On the Fraser the salmon run is re
ported extraordinarily large, ovel
$4,000 fish being put up at one cannerl
alone one day last week.
The Salvation Army of Walla Wall;
has established a free soup house where
persons out of employment and out 0
funds can obtain a meal.
The combined harvesters are meeting
with much favor in Umatilla county
and a number will be at work in tn
fields or that section this season.
An attempt is being made by tn
Yakima hop-growers to secure 500 0
: 600 Nez Perces to aid in harvesting tn
, hop crop in that section this fall.
The electric light plant of Ceu
d'Alene is about to pass under the cor
troll of an incorporated company tn
capital stock of which is placed a
$4,000
The first cargo of lumber ever brough
to Port Townsend was shipped almos
35 years ago from Seabeck. At tina
time dressed lumber commanded SIC
per 1000.
Experiments have been made in hoI
growing in the Palouse country thi
year, and as high as 5000 pounds pc
acre are being produced in favorabl
locations.
i The supply ditch of the Yakim
d Water, Light and Power Company broA
J. last week, since which time the con
0 pany as been running its steam puml
l ing plant, using water from the HUI
t bard ditch.
!, Work was commenced this week c
the new road down the Methow vale
from the 2O-mile post to the mouth
the river. 1t is estimated that it wi
e cost about 900 to build the road, bl
a nearly enough work has been subscribe
e to complete it.
e The scarcity of salmon this year
IS the Columbia is more marked than eve
y before and led to the belief in mar
!. quarters that the river is fshed our al
n that fish wheels, traps and seines mu
n - aLo1s.ha5 - f,tura ;f tho industry