Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-29
NORTHWEST BREvITIEs.
Washington,

washington.
They expect 1000 yachtsmen at What
com for the regatta July A.
A summer school for teachers will be
In session at sprague, beginning July s.
Aberdeen's assessment roll foots up
only $4O0, 600. Last year 1t was 5000, 900.
Whether to ask for new charter or
not is the burning question at Town
send.
The vote by which Spokane's City
Council ordered reduction in the sala-
ries Of the city's employees was IL to A.
They look for Colonel Ingersoll at Spo- |
kane this summer when the smelter |
starts up. He is President of the COM
pany.
Negotiations are pending for the re-
opening of the Puget Sound Loan, Trust
and Banking Company at New What
com in the immediate future.
Whatcom county has just finished
four good bridges over the Nooksack at a
cost OF $4,000 All rest on cylindrical
piers OF iron filled with concrete.
The litigation in the war against bar
maids at Spokane has taken the form Of
q campaign before the Council on the
refusal of license to the Louvre.
Albert John Rath, the boy who lost
leg last year in the Union Depot Com
pany's freight yards at Spokane, has Sc
cured verdict for $15, 900 damages.
A convention is talked of for the Com
mercial Associations of the Gray's Har-
Dor towns to move on Congress for an
appropriation to resurvey the harbor.
Brockmier, Hopkins, Flynn and SUIT
ton OF the defunct Washington Farmers
Insurance Company have been indicted
by the Spokane grand jury for conspiracy
Lincoln county expects a bigger h r
vest this year than in 1893. Only fcw
farmers are following their farms, and
the acreage is nearly as large as year
ago, while the crops are two or three
weeks more advanced.
Kalama's So, 900 Of school bonds were
bid in by the State School Land Com
mission at per cent straight. The bid
made by the State is the best made for
any school bonds of that amount in this
State. The School Board has bought 9
site for the building.
Property holders on Eby Island, Sno-
homish county, are resisting the pay.
ment OF the balance due on an assess.
ment OF $4,000 for dixie. which was
built around the island a year ago. They
have already paid $16, 900, and now claim
! the dixie is useless.
At Port Townsend last week a mar
: applied to Judge Ballenger for final nat
uralization papers. The Judge asked
him whether he had ever been convicted
OF crime, and he admitted that he haC
! recently been arrested and convicted o
5 an oifense against the laws of the State
. Thereupn he refused to admit him tt
3 citizenship. There is some talk about j
t up there, but the decision is in the mail
r commended.
1t having come to the knowledge o
Governor McGraw that the farmers o
! Eastern Washington were compelled t,
: pay from 80 to 30 cents per pound TO
! Irvine with which to sew their sacks las
u season, Warden Coblentz reports he ha
:, ordered sufficient quantity OF sewing
!. Irvine to be manufactured at the Wash
y ington State jute mills and sold to actua
V consumers who are residents and citizen
!, OF the State Of Washington at the pric
= of 10 cents per pound. =,
a A proposition from DIR. d. X. Pearson
o Of Chicago, donating Whitman Colleg
4 the sum OF $4,000 provided the trustee
4 raise the sum OF $780, 900 within twent
n months, has been accepted by the trus
! tees, and the following committee wa
appointed to take supervision of tn
matter: Levi Ankeny, Miles G. Moore
w. p. Winans, William O'Donnell an
Q III. A. Reynolds. The conditions are tina
! 100000 be raised in the State of Wash
ington and at least $780, 900 in the Wall
!; Walla Valley.
n The Tacoma Light and Water Com
h pany has begun suit against the city 70
4 S13, 1854 for the water pipe which MAYO
4 Huson and the Board of Public Work
4 seized by moonlight over year age
! The water company wants the pipe re
: turned or the value OF it. The seizur
i created sensation at the time, and tn
~ President of the water company, Thee
! dore Hosmer, swore a great oath an
!. said the water company would have tn
4 pipe. 1t was claimed by the city author
tiles referred to, but not by the Cit
Council, that the water company ban
boozled the city on its reports Of tn
10 amount OF supplies, pipe and other ma
y terial on hand, and the Mayor and tn
Board OF Public Works ostensibly mad
the seizure to even up matters on tina
y score.
Or Oregon.
: Supreme Judge-elect Wolverton ha
= resigned his place as attorney in Lin
l. county for the State School Land Com
Il mission. ]. R. Wyatt was appointed i
It his stead.
y At the recent convention OF the Logs
" Temperance Legion at Salem the L
= Grande Legion was awarded the Stat
= banner for the largest number of gradu