Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-06-12
NORTHWEST BREYITIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Gem
eral Interest in Idaho. Montana :.
and Washington.

The Montesano Creamery Company Is
receiving between three and four tons
of milk daily.
The rural mail delivery system for
Yakima Is apparently n success. The
cost OF delivery per package is one and
half cents, the second lowest average
in the various experimental districts,
California having the lowest.
Thirty-two thousand tons of coal
were exported from Tacoma in May.
Compared with 1896, the total output Of
coal during the first five months of
this year exceeds last years shipments
by 10000 tons.
Assistant Attorney General Vance
has advised Auditor Cheatham that he
is authorized to issue certificates of
Indebtedness against the penitentiary
revolving fund and the state grain in
spection fund. There have been no
appropriations made by the legisla-
ture to pay expenses which should be
paid out Of those funds.
The board of curators of the state
historical society at a meeting in Ia
coma decided to relieve the defunct
Historical Magazine. Secretary Ho-
bart and Professor w. N. Allen will
have charge Of the publication. Gov
ernor Rogers and Secretary of State
Jenkins were elected members at their
own solicitation.
The members Of the Thurston coun-
ty bar have organized a law school
and propose to prepare q course of lee
lures upon different branches, to be
delivered at stated periods by lawyers
resident in Olympia, 1t is proposed
TO arrange these lectures with a view
to preparing students for the examina-
ton to which they are subjected by
the supreme court before admission to
practice.
Judge Hanford's order allowing the
expenditure of $1050OO by c. J. Smith
receiver of the Oregon Improvement
company, in standardizing and equip
ping the Columbia & Puget Sound rail-
way has been filed in court at Seattle.
The order says that the securities shall
be receivers certificates on the prop
erty of the road, which shall be a first
lien. BY the courts order these certi-
ficates shall not be sold for less than
par.
MONTANA
The university commission have let
the contract for 100000 brick, at 81,
for the construction Of the new build
ings at Missoula, Mont.
The comptroller of the currency has
granted permission to II. f. Douglas,
d. r. Mead, II. r. Porter, G. w. But
Ter and f. p. Fleming to organize the
Merchants National bank Of Glendive.
Capital $1,000.
The ranchmen have reason to rejoice
over the recent rain. The ranges have
been so dry for the past month that
- Hi hut
is now springing up anew, so that
there is fair prospects of good ranges
yet this year,
The gambling houses in Centerville
are far from receiving the patronage
of former days and as the time draws
near when the Monte Carlo of Butte
will be compelled to close It's doors in
observance of the anti-gambling law,
which goes into effect the LIST Of July,
the men who have been in the habit
of bucking King Faro are not the reg
ular freQuenters Of the place that they
used to be.
1t is said there will be more wool
shipped from this point this year than
ever before. Wool from the northern
part of the county, which has hereto
fore been stored and shipped from other
places will, this year, be brought to
Big Timber for shipment. Last year
over 1000, 900 pounds Of wool was ship
ped from the warehouse at this place,
and it is estimated that there will be
5000, 900 pounds or more Of wool shipped
from this point this year.
Wool is already beginning to roll into
Billings. At present the two mann
moth warehouses are scenes of consid-
able activity and nearly 100000 pounds
of wool have been stored, awaiting the d
appearance Of the eastern buyers.
From 80 to 100 families from Indi-
ana are expected at the Burton colony
in August 1t is the intention to estab-
Iish various industries and already a
creamery turning out large amount or
dairy product each week has been es-
tabliShed.
IDAHO.
Judge Stewart of Boise decides that
the new fee law of Idaho is constitu-
tional and also that it applies to coun-
ty officials now in office.
There are at present at Boise l3o
prisoners in the penitentiary, only one
short Of the largest number ever con-
fined there.
Governor Stunenberg has appointed
Warren S. Truitt Of Moscow regent OF
the state university to fill the vacancy
that has existed since the selection or
the new board
J. ]. Coakley deputy United States
marshal, has returned to Boise from
Detroit, Mich, where he went with III
United States prisoners The trip was
made without incident and also with
out sleep, as the men in charge ca not
allow the slightest opportunity for any
escapade. The prisoners viii not De
allowed to see or speak TO each other
during their confinement in the prison
Following is the business at the Lew
iston, Idaho. land office for the month
of May: Seventy homestead entries
embracing 9,771.9S acres; IL final home