The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-04-06
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Geographic Re.
ports of Late Events.
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Sstsrsss - Pssass cssss People.
The work Of beautiiying the custom
house grounds Ia Port Townsend haa
begun.
Stevens county. Wakh., has completed
the sale Of t45.000 current expense
bonds q PEI. 7
The Columbia mine OF Baker county,
Dr.. has the machinery on the way from
the Fast for ten-stamp mill.
II 10 estimated that the total output
Of potatoes from Grand Konde, Or, this
sesson will reach 20O carloads.
Spokane 10 threatened with . meat
famine. Chicago buyers have bought
all the fat cattle and sheep, and ehipped
them out 81 the country.
Mrs. Mary Phinney, OF Seattle, ID
suing the Mutual Lille Insurance Com.
pany 70 recover 500. 444 insurance on
the life oil her deceased husband.
Cattle buyers from the East have pur.
chased 2 600 head OF cattle in the John
Day country. They will be driven Ia
Huntington Tor shipment East sbou,
May l.
A colony OF Hollanders has bought
$40 acres of land IN snohomish county,
Wash. The coionists are planning 70
20 into thc butter making business on Q
large scale.
The Whatnom county commissioners
have let the contract for the improve
ment Of the Lake sAmish and FAirhA.
ven water front road. Q distance of one
and one-quartrr miles, for $500.
Two national banks Of Yakima.
WASH. sho~ an increase Ia deposits l,s-
tween January and March Of abont fl4,-
57s.s3. and hold total deposit Of $50, :.
0ss. ID or about t62 ~ per capita.
whaioom county, Wash., 10 now A..
sured Of . wagon road outlet 10 the
souih, and the completion of the new
road 10 Blanchard will connect the bay
sities with one of the hnesi farming sec-
tons Of the stAte.
Tacoma merchants have . grievance
apon the action Of come Of the steamers
They say that thesc steamers Wort en-.
The detrimcnt Of Tacoma.
Seattle street car companies contrnd
hat they cannot Afford 10 light the
treess along which their tracks run, al.
though their franchises call for il. and
hey ask 10 have their franchises amend.
ID 10 relieve them OF that expense.
John 4. Hongh. the fruisdcaies and
surperymap. stairs that there will Ice on
Z conservative estimate I'D, 90 fruit
Sess ses out in Sranje Rond. ysllcy,
Dr., this season. And all trees tina; are
icing planted are OF first-elass stock.
The hop acreage in Lewis county,
Haah., this season will approx mate
about l. 900 acres. OF which 800 acrsa 10
Tributary 10 Chehalis. About City acre.
Of new Ards come into hearing this eea-
put out in new yards.
Everett. Wash. expects soon 10 go
work begin on . new whAlcbAck. Esti.
mates on the earnings Of the whAiebscA
City Of Everett show . net profit Of
g. 600 . month. This would provide
Tor - per Sent yearly dividends and pay
TOR the boat in i've years.
Corvallis. Or, people will he disap-
pointed when the census returns are all
IN. Assessor Alexander has practically
completed the enumeration OF the city.
with the exception Of Jobs addition.
and gives II - his opinion that the total
population will not reach 1000.
The city council OF Fairhaven. Wash,
l. -.
mish road at an expense Of 81 500. The
wosk will be let in seciions. The Fair.
haven Land Company will improve the
road over its holdipgs. and the improve
ment at the skagit end 10 now assured.
Hon. George Turner. OF Spokane,
ANTICIPATION attorney. has been en-
ployed by the farmers OF Walla Wal,a
and Columbia counties 10 conduct their
cAscs against the Oregon Railway 4
Navigation Company and +. Mcneil n.
receiver, before the interstate commerce
commission. which will take testimony
In the casee, commencing April II.
J.Fritsch and Coran Watt. have pur.
chased q cite at Ellensbure, WASH, and
are erecting = checee factory, using one
vat and twelve thirty-inch presses a. 9
starter. They will handle 10. 900 pound.
Of milk, and produce 900 pounds o,
cheese daily. The building will be 2ox
Is feet in dimensions and two stories
high. The creamery business has multi.
piled 20 rapidly In the kit,i,a. valley
that the number OF COWS IL insufficient,
to supply the various plants.
Two adventurous residents o. Puyal.
lup, WASH, are preparing to 20 TO the
gold fields OF the Yukon dietrict In
Alaska. They will not make the trip Ia
the ordinary manner, but propose 10 ge,
out OF the beaten track. Instead oil
travelling over the Ch,lkoot pass e.
Lakes Bennett and Iindeman and there
building a boat 70 trasport them down
the streams leading 10 the Yukon, they
propose taking their boat with them
and transporting Il on runners over the
pass.
That the United States 10 importing
fax seed in large quantities from Ar.
eentina IL q good indication, says the
Wet Coast Trade, that there IL q home
market for considerably increased pro.
duction, and that the farmers in the
eastern portion Of Washington who arc
sowing nearly all the seed obtainabls
are making no mistake. Argentina i'm.
porte, after paying duty, are worth u. o
per buehel In New York, and dealers
who are furnishing seed to Washington
growers are guaranteeing 80 cents to 81
q bushel, which is said TO insure a con.
siderably increased profit over wheat.
growing. II IL believed that the manu-
facture Of hsx.sced oils will soon he.
come an industry Of considerable i'm.
portance In the state, while In Western
Washington, where the fax fiber il
equal II not superior to that produced
anywhere In the world. another profit
able branch OF manufacture will b.
opened up, should fax culture assume
the proportions which experiments ex.
tending over considerable period seem