Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-03-08
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Different Parts of the States OF wa sh-
,nptop. Oregon and IdahO-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
joseph Dame has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Ashland, Or, mine.
Herrick's new cannery at The Dalles,
Or, is being put in shape for work.
A Tacoma man has applied for a d.
vorce because his vile called MIN
fraud.
The bonus and easements for the Med,
ical Lake, WASH, sanitarium have all
been secured.
There is movement on foot in Ia
coma to raise bonus among the trult
men for cannery.
The fruitgrowers of Salem and vicin.
ity have formed an association to build
and operate a cannery.
Albany's, Or, new charter provides for
issuing $40, 900 in bonds to pay OH ac-
cumulated Indebtedness.
A New Whatcom, WASH, mill has
contracted to furnish Chicago firm
800 900 feet of fir wagon-tongue plank.
Everett, WASH, has taken fit of spite
against Seattle, and will show it by join
ing Tacoma in calling Mt. Rainier Mt.
Tacoma.
Lieutenant George H. Fortson has
been elected captain of company at
Seattle, to succeed Captain L. s. Booth,
resigned.
The Great Northern has assured the
Shippers Association of Seattle that
suitable terminals will be constructed
Immediately.
The Lakeview, Or, Examiner is cir
culating a petition to have United
States army post at Lakeview, as a sub
stitute for re-occupying Fort Bidwell
should it be decided to restore that
abandoned post.
An unusual and peculiar disease is
spreading among the Indian ponies on
the Umatilla reservation and causing
much uneasiness to white settlers in the
vicinity. The horses afflicted reel and
stagger, hair drops off and sores break
out all over the body.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision OF the superior court of Spokane
county in the case of Helen Grier, SEN
fenced to ten years for poisoning her hus-
band. The case was made interesting
from the fact that the woman's own
daughter testified against her.
The Weiser FIGURING Mills Company
of Weiser, Idaho, is looking into the adj
visibility OF removing its plant to Baker
City, Or. 1t is said that the proposition
has been favorably considered, and that
the mill would be moved if the citizens
will guarantee to buy the product Of the
mill. There is no better point in the
state for the establishment of Touring
mill than this. Powder river valley pro-
duces more than enough wheat to keep
100 barrel mill running night and day
the year round, and the products of the
mill will find ready sale in the adjacent
mining camps and supply points.
The board of curators of the Washing
ington State Historical Society is COM
posed of Elwood Evans, Tacoma, presi-
dent; Henry Roeder, Whatcom county,
vice president; General L. P. Bradley,
Pierce county, chairman; B. F. Barge,
Kittitas county; A. A. Denny, King
county; Senator F. G. Deckenbach,
Chehalis; J.. H. Long, Lewis county;
Miles G. Moore, Walla Walla; W. F.
Prosser, Yakima; Allen Wier, Olympia;
Charles w. Hobart, Tacoma. At meet
ing held in Olympia the other day Ezra
Meeker, of Puyallup, was elected
member of the board to succeed the late
j. T. Stewart, of Puyallup.
The coast and geodetic survey steamer
Hassler is practically out of commission,
and will be sold to the highest bidder on
or about March 20. The Hassler has
wintered at Tacoma for two seasons.
No appropriation was made by congress
to continue her in the service, and rather
than have her lay up possibly two or
three seasons in charge of shipkeeper
1t was decided to sell her. The Hassler
was built in 1871 and cost about SIC, 900.
She went into commission in 1872, and
has been in continual service ever since.
Her commander is Lieutenat G. H. Har-
Der, who commanded the expedition
sent to the Arctic regions to recover Ex-
plorer Longs body
the cannerymen on the washington
side of the river are interesting them
selves in an effort to secure the estab-
llshment of a hatchery on the Kalama
river, in Cowlitz county, as we'll as one
on the Chinook river at or near the
point where Deputy Fish Commissioners
AL Houchen conducted his successful
experiments in salmon Matching last
fall. The Gamers expect that the re-
cent appropriation OF $4,000 bv the
Washington legislature will be sufficient
when economically expended to estab-
llsh two hatcheries at the points named
on such scale as will prove q powerful
argument in favor of more liberal an
preparation by the next legislature.
At a recent meeting of the Tacoma
chamber OF commerce the following
resolution was introduced by R. G. Hnds
son and passed: "Be it resolved that II
is the sense of the Tacoma chamber oi
commerce that it is unwise, and will
necessarily result in great loss to con.
tinue the construction of the can;tol
building now in course of erection at
Olympia, and we therefore urge the
legislature to enact a law which will
suspend the construction of said build-
ing until more prosperous times than
the present and the value of the lands
donated by the general government for
this purpose shall have been more az
curately and fully ascertained."
A deal has been consummated undo-
which j. E. Jennings, of Salt Lake and
associates VIII purchase the Ridenbauoh
canal near Boise and some s, 200 acres If
land belonging to the company. The
price paid is in the neighborhood of
s35O,OOO. The canal irrigates a large
section OF country below Boise. incIndo
ing lands in the vicinity of Mamma t.
ia understood that - IL