The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-03-17
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.


Snehaile county paid out about $50.
GOO Tor roads in 1888.
Aprcject Is on foot to construct q small
smelter 1t Hamilton.
A fruit grower association IL beipa
Organized At Wsitsburg.
The lony-distance telephone Il 70 be
extended TO Monte Cristo.
Reform has cut down Port Tow nsend's
annual budget some 5000.
A plank road costing 5000 10 TO be
built 1cross the big snOhomish marsh.
Tacoma brewers are drying out and
making merchantsble . good deal Of
wheat.
The early-closing agreement 1t WalIs
Wails 10 enforced with . clause forfeit.
ing SIS.
A sample invoice Of . ton OF the South
Bend tsnnin extract has been sent To
Liverpool.
The Fairhaven Chamber OF Commerce
is forwarding resolutions for the pilot
chart TO Washington.
The Whatcom Agricultural Association
Ii agitating the subject Of fruit can
merry and county fair.
The Vancouver creamery il turning
out 800 pounds Of butter per week,
and cannot supply the demand.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision Of Judge Pritchard OF Tacoma
that An individual cannot garnishee q
county.
A citizens league has been formed in
Port Townsend, which guarantees 10 re-
duce city expenses SIS 900 annually II
given control Of Affairs.
Ernest Slim. the Tacoma opium snug.
gler. gets off with four months ut Nc
Neil's Island. His friends will make 10
his 500 fine among them.
During the month Of February the
Olympia land Office received twelve
entries, nine final homestead
proofs. four cash entries and six coal
filings.
Thomas Canboy, the principal witness
In the MAnville murder case, has been
put under 81 600 bonds at Olympia on
the charge Of having perjured himself
In his testimony At the trial.
The output Of the Grny's Harbor lum-
her mile for 1893 il figured by the Ho-
GUAM Washingtonian At -. 700 600 feet.
There are at present On the harbor about
o.OO, 600 OF logs uncut, all except 7, Co.,
Oo oil which have been sold.
The taxes paid TO the Klickitat County
February amount 10 SIS. ITO, or about
one-third OF the total for the current tar
year. This 10 considered . good showing
under existing circumstances.
The Interstate Fair matter nj Tacoma
10 moving along smoothly. The com
mittee appointed recently report that
they are meeting with success in their
trip. and express themselves
confident Of raising the money.
The suit OF Elizabeth Davis against
the Northern Pacific Coal Company for
80 900 damages for the death Of her
by an explosion in the Roslyn
mine Vas decided in the Federal Court
In Tacorua by q verdict for the defend
ant.
General Otis will make q tour Of the
different army posts in the department
Of the Columbia In about six weeks. HI
will visit Boise Barracks and make . re-
port on the advisability Of abandoning
that post. which General Scho6eld has
recommended.
The detailed statement Of the peni-
tentiary's jute-hag output for the past
six months is ~ follows: In September,
log 800 bags; October, lis, 700: Novem-
Der, lie. 400; December, lS2. 900; Janu.
AIRY, $4,000; February, l6l 100. The
original plant for making grain bags in
the penitentiary in the jute mill CON-
prised City looms and other machinery.
The last Legislature authorised An add.
lion Of twenty looms and other machin.
Fry, which were put in position last fall.
since then there has been . very marked
Increase in the output.
Or~goa.
There is q good deal Of scab among the
'heep bands Of Lake county.
GIANTS Pass Odd Fellows have sold
he Council . site for . city hall, to be
erected in the spring.
The output OF gold in Jackson and 10
'ephine counties last year is put at 81
10, 600, and the indications are betterS
or this year.
In the Lakeview land district there
ire 2,22l 900 acres OF unsurveyed lands,
lot including Indian reservations, and
Isl. 900 acres are in Lake county.
c. II. Dewitt Of Harvey county ie
aking an eight-le4Hed calf to the Mid
sinter Fair. The calf, q heiter, lie finely
developed. with two organs Of genera.
ion, same sex: one head and eight legs;
.alved near Harvey, and died despite
.reat care given il by the owner.
The Secretary Of War has approved
he plans for the railway bridge across
foung's BAY. Mayor Kinney OF Astoria
las received the following dispatch from
senator Mitchell: Everything all
light. Duplicate license papers are be-
ne prepared in the department author.
King the bridge. They will be forwarded
n few daye."
Seven miles Of the Bailey irrigation
itch have been already completed and
90 feet Of the hume built. The latter
Till be 3 100 feet in length and the ditch |
miles. Az soon a. the fiume
] done il lie intended to turn in the wa
er, causing it to follow ~ fast ~ work
n the canal progresses. A dam was
above the point where the |
later IL diverted from the Umatilla
liver and the fiume put down to the bot.
,m Of the channel. The prospect 10
ARE for an abundant flow OF water along |
he canals Of the company. In three |
'eeks the water will be turned in.
The question 81 ratifying the contract |
,ade by the Modoc and Klamath In
ian tribes and the Yahoo band Of Snake
Indians Of Oregon and their agents is
ending action by the Interior Depart.
lent The contract stipulatee for ,erv.
Ne to be rendered by the latter in pro e.
cutting the claims Of the Indians aga INST |
he United States arising from an al |
ged error in the survey Of the out
oundaries Of the Klamath reservation
/ Oregon. 1t is provided that one agent
E given commission Of ~ per cent of |
.nas which are valued at (2OO, 900 20
400, 900. Commissioner Of Indian Az.
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