Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-01-18

BRiEF sPAKks SfoH THE WIRES

The annual cut OF WOOD at Meacnam,
Or, is 5000 cords.
The Dalles, Or, boasts OF unsurpassed
coasting on the hills.
Miss Emma Driscoll has been elected
City Librarian at Spokane.
Eugene, Or, is collecting carload of
provisions for the Nebraska sufferers.
The Tacoma Poultry Associations first
annual show will be held from January
10 to 10.
Proposed amendments to the Spokane
city charter would reduce the salary list
by $4,000.
The Historian predicts great activity in
road construction by the Clatsop county
farmers next spring.
The A. P. A. will establish State head
quarters at Olympia during the session
of the Legislature.
According to Librarian Gilbert's re-
port the Washington State library has
over 10000 volumes.
Suit has been brought at Seattle by
Dexter, Horton & Co. for $217, 1883
against William A. and Anna B. Har-
rington.
The first Southern Oregon State Board
of Agriculture will hold its annual meet
ing and election of officers at Ashland
on the 14th instant.
A female deer, driven out of the mount
aims by the storm, was seen quietly
browsing in Max Pracht's orchard in
Ashland few days ago.
Umatilla county, Or, figures out
profit during the first six months of the
salary system, as compared with the fee
system formerly in vogue.
The Tacoma Rod and Gun Club has
ordered four dozen Monaghan pheasants
to be distributed in Pierce county. 1t
has also drafted new game law.
The Tacoma Land Company has COM
menced suit to set aside an assessment
of $26, 40497 for street Improvements
upon technicalities in the Council pro-
ceedings.
A fairly well authenticated report
comes from the Nasel country to the eff
feet that Weyerhauser syndicate has
purchased 5000 acres of timber land in
that section of Washington.
]. j. Kaufman has been elected Chief
of the Walla Walla fire department.
The retiring Chief, Y. G. Blalock, was
presented with a gold match safe by the
members of the department.
A petition to the Oregon Legislature is
being prepared at Eugene, asking for
legislation preventing Indians from
hunting deer off the reservations, as they
are rapidly exterminating the game.
A hunting party in the Olympic
Mountains report having seen 500 elks
in a single day without attempting to
shoot any of them, because their pack
animals were already laden with game.
Piling for an extension of the Harris
mill wharf at South Bend, WASH, is be-
ing cut. The wharf will be extended
twenty feet farther into the Willapa river
and made 500 feet in length. There will
then be depth of thirty feet alongside.
Dell Lashier, representing the A. P.
Hotaling Company of Portland, was
taken from the State Hotel in Walla
Walla to the Jail recently, having vio-
lent hallucination that persons were en-
deavoring to kill him. 1t was the result
of protracted spree.
The Grand Ronde donation to the Ne
braska sufferers is ready to be shipped.
1t consists of four cars from La Grande,
one from Island City and one from Ell
gin. The value of the subscription can
hardly be estimated in dollars and cents,
as it consists except the -four donation
of produce that has no stated price in
the market, but probably worth 81 800
at fair valuation.
The annual meeting of the Roseburg
Building and Loan Association was held
the other night. Secretary Sykes re-
port shows that the association has been
running six years and the gain to the
stockholders has been $10,856. The
value Of each share is $10375. 1t is ex-
pected that they will mature in two and
a half years. Miss Carrie Sykes was re-
elected Secretary.
A meeting of the taxpayers of the
Roseburg Orr school district is called
for the 21st instant to consider the oues-
ton OF building new schoolhouse to be
located in the southern part of the city.
The present schoolhouse will accommo-
date 500 pupils, but its capacity has
proved inadequate. The proposition is
meeting with general favor, and two
mill tax will doubtless be voted for that
purpose.
The trial of Adolph Selheim, who was
charged with the murder of William
Smith at Spokane, was concluded by the |
Jury bringing in q verdict of acuuittal.
The verdict was surprise to everybody.
The Taxpayers League is to take up and |
discuss the question. Selheim shook
hands with the jury after the verdict.
and immediately invited them out to be
dined and wined. Selheim shot and
killed William Smith in a saloon No
vember II while Smith was unarmed.
He is wealthy rancher and old pioneer.
The biennial report of the Superin-
tendent of the Eastern Washington Asv-
Ium for the insane, situated at Medical
Lake. has been issued. Superintendent
Semple reports POI patients. The death
rate during the past three years has been
low, as the climatic influ-
ences are good. 1t is noticeable fact
that the proportion of melancholics is
less and the number of maniacs greater
in this hospital than in several other in
situations where comparisons have been
made. This state of affairs is believed
to be due to the clear, dry atmosphere.
No case of epidemic disease has occurred
in the hospital for the year; no suicide
Or homicide since the opening of the in
stltution, and but one dangerous attack.
Many Improvements and additions have
been made. About twenty acres of new
land have been cultivated; 1000 addi-
tional straw berry and 1000 raspberry
plants have been planted. Mr.. Semnl,
advocates the examination of
persons suspected of insanity by comr
tent phVsicians instead IF tha Sroo.:. |