The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-02-09
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
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Condensed Geographic Re.
ports of Late Events.
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Di6ersnt Parts Of the states Of wash
tsstss. Orsgs. ssd Idshe-Itsms Of
Istsrsst - Pacific Cost People.
Work on reconstruction Of the West
mill 1t Aberdeen, Wash, will be COM
menced 1t once.
A new telephone line IL soon TO be put
In between Ocosta. Takelund, North
Cove and South Bend, Wash.
The people OF Warrenton, Or, and
Clatsop Plains have subscribed 500 for
building . good road between those two
places.
The Lombard Lee Company has begun
harvesting . crop foot thick at Hood
River and expects TO put up Ii 600 tons
in 10 days.
The stockmen Of Eastern Oregon gen.
orally report stock doing we'll and
enough feed on hand 70 pass through
the winter in good shape.
Steps are being taken to open . wagon
road from Brookfeld, WASH, TO Fran
ces, . station on the railroad from Che
halls 70 South Bend, Wash.
Yakima, WASH, parties want to buy
the machinery Of the old Tacoma starch
works and move it TO the Yakima VAL
lev to make starch from potatoes.
A number OF citizens of Dunginess.
Wash, under the lead OF Rev. Robert
Lee, Q Methodist minister, have begun
| Q crusade against saloons and vice.
It 10 reported that the Oregon I'm
provement Company will build four
cantilever bridges across the rivers south
OF Port ownsend, WASH, At . cost Of
$3.50. 600.
An effort 10 being made to secure $40.
600 in subscriptions OF stock at Salem
for the proposed railroad from indie
pendence, Or, TO Salem, ten and one
hall miles.
The survey Of tide lands OF the third
| class on Gray's HaFbor have been COM
pleted. Gray's Harbor has twenty
seven miles OF tide iands-more than
any other harbor in the State.
Typhoid fever has become 20 preva-
lent in Seattle that the Board Of Health
ie making . special investigation into
l Tic CAuSCs Auobk ostsSs hhSt .
will be meteorological analysis OF Lake
Washington water.
A petition is being circulated in East
ern Oregon asking the Legislature tc
provide Tor . reduction of grain rates
that q reduction Of 5 cents on a bnshe
would save the farmers there $50, 900 q
year.
The Seattle Chamber OF Commerce
has appointed . committee 10 receive
the St. Louis capitalists who will visit
that city February 8. to look into the
south canal and tide land improvement
scheme, the bonds for which they have
purchased.
Much excitement prevails among thu
II, mere about Uniontown. Wash, ov.
ing to Q rumor that one oil the promi
pent wheat BUYERS had been deceivin
:hem ever since harvest by false report
OF market pricee, thereby cheating then
out Of several cents on each bushel sold
Governor McGraw, Of Washington
has made the following appointments
lumber inspectors: Edwar McMonogut
Seattle, second district; Albert Taggar
! Utsalady, first district; James II kuhr
! Hoauiam, fifth district; z. B. Brown
Wiliapa, sixth district; Clinton Cutie
Vancouver, seventh district.
Umatilla county, Or, keeps up h
= record. Of twenty indictments at u
, present term OF court there have bee
4 seventeen convictions and three acqui
: tails; ten men have been sent to u
|. penitentiary and seven fined. Five
a The latter were well-known citizen
: who pleaded guilty to charge OF gar
q bling, and were fined $50 each.
& Mr.. Gibbs, . prominent horticulture
Q OF Orcas Island, who devotee much tin
lr 10 epecial researches in the line OF ag'
y culture and promology, believes that 4
Z Nookeach Valley is wonderfully VI
= adspted to the raising Of chicory, a
II that such an industry would prove We
d profitable there, rs the annual impoI
.! Il chicory root from Europe are We
- large.
- Julius Ehrlich, manager OF the Int
.. national Commission Company OF n
con, B. c., loaded q car with fresh vel
tables 1t Colville. Idaho, last week. I
in stove and took passage for Nelst
He SAYS this will be the only fresh vel
IN tables that Nelson will have during
cold spell. and he will be amply co
pensated for his trouble by being able
| IUIutSu tttC othCt VIZ" eaS sAse'N ~
n, product OF the Colville Valley.
re- A new ditchine and grading machi
ne capable OF excavating sand. ore, gra
ID. or dirt. has been invented by 10
is. Pickard and Thomas Cleif OF Wa
Walla, Wash. 1t Was tested with
ne three-horee power gasoline engine,
IN did work to the satisfaction OF those v
AZ witnessed the performance. As 1t
on handle . yard Of dirt per minute wit
~ ten-horse power engine it is likely
~. prove An important factor in the new
aat rigation schemes now under WAY in
~ section.
Of Another consignment Of fresh hall
ct will shortly he shipped to Boston Fl
Of the Pacific Northwest, to compete "
ws the New England catch. The stea'
Capilano, belonging to the New EnSl'
Fish Company, OF Boston, arrived
Vancouver, B. c.. the other night q
N. the fishing ground near Queen Charl,
Island after An absence Of thirteen
A"c with 5000 pounds. On her prevl
ter trip the Capilano after being out e
sey days brought in IN. 600 pounds, 60
Tho pounds being taken in one day, mai
the the largest single DAYS catch on rec
fall This steamer and outfit, which is ur
md the amusement Of II. B. Joyce Of
use ton, has taken and brought in GAO
pounds Of fresh halibut since Septen
"a, 1894, being more than double
amount ever landed by one vessel {
srv ing the same time Of the year.
~ schooner st. Lawrence, belonging
v Ainsworth h Dunn, and the Elw'
the belonging to the wyman Fish Comps
ad- both Of Seattle, will shortly he on
lors fishing grounds, and will no doubt .