Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-17
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
A GLANCE OVER THE NoRTHWts
FIELD.
Tax Levies in Several ConhtieS y"
Neutrality-suspicious. Enter
prise in Northumberland Lign'
Plant at salmon city.

hens is reported from hlC'it"'
The way tax payments have rolled INTO
Columbia county treasurer's office during
the last 80 days has been remarkable.
It is estimated that the receipts from
taxes in Chehalis county for the last quar-
ter will amount to between $4,000 ana
100000. -,
Cowlitz county's tax levy for 1897 VIII
have to be sufficient to raise the sum oil
9,72s for state, county and school pur'
poses.
In Snohomish county the total amount
of taxes levied for all purposes is $751;
OO2.9O, and the average rate OF taxation
is SO mills. --.... -........
The fifth annual meeting of the Wash
ington State Dairymen's Association VIII
be held in Seattle December %, ~ and ~,
at the rooms of the chamber of commerce
The butter and cheese exhibit will be
held at the same time and place.
The levee just completed in the Klam'
ath river bank, which will prevent the
escape of Klamath river water through
the slough into Lost river, will not only
reclaim thousands of acres of land in the
Tule lake valley, but will reclaim many
acres of bottom land that has heretofore
been overfowed by slough waters.
Montana.
A petition for survey of lands on the
ceded Crow reserve is being circulated
throughout Sweet Grass county.
The Shoshone Irrigation Company has
instructed General Manager George 7.
Beck to get out the lumber and material
for the construction of Touring mill
at Cody early in the spring.
The buildings at Fort Buford were sold
at public auction the other day, most of
them being knocked down to mnchers
living in the immediate vicinity for a
mere nothing.
Two horsemen from Wisconsin are on
the Madison in search of smooth, blocky
horses, weighing from 1850 upward. They
are paying $25 for wild horses filling
these requirements.
st. Marks parish oil Anaconda, organ
lied by j. b. Dosee, f. E. Sargent, j. H
Durston and others, to build church and
maintain Protestant Episcopal religious
society in Anaconda. has just been in.
corporated.
A dispatch from Glendale says that
while coming down Lion mountain John
Blennerhasset and Frank Weber, miners
in the Hecla Consolidated, started snow
slide which killed them, making 26 who
have been lost in snowslides since the
camp was established. Blennerhasset had
family at Lowell, Mass, and Webbel
family in Slayer, Iowa.
Several mountain streams in the upper
Teton country have been choked with
small ice gorges, which are backing vi
the water, and small new channels ar,
being made all over the district. Trave
is reported to be extremely dangerous.
Northern Montana stockmen have beer
engaged in gathering up their cows ant
calves for winter care. During the pas
summer several large stockmen hav,
erected sheds, ETC., for this purpose, ant
some have been made sufficiently large t,
afford accommodations to those who ar
not prepared, at a fixed price of SIS pc
COW and calf for the winter season.
The county coroner has submitted hi
report to the Silver Bow commissioners
covering the three months ending will
November 30. 1t shows that the recor,
for violent deaths in Butte during tina
period was equaled only once before, an,
that was during the three months includ
ing January, 1895, when occurred the BIZ
powder explosion. The coroner's repor
shows that during September, Octobe
and November he held 81 inquests. Their
were 10 in September and nine each il
October and November.
The first report of the Montana stat
board OF sheep commissioners shows tina
since March l last there were sheared il
this state %, l60,92l pounds of wool, whic
were sold at an average price of ia
cents per pound, bringing in the aggregat
S2,547 JOY. In addition to their wool, Mon
tana sheep men sold since March l las
5S7,267 pounds of pelts, which, at tn
average price of STA cents per pound
brought them $33,7O9.3l. No estimate q
the value of mutton consumed at HON
or shipped abroad was made, but tn
amount from sales was unusually larp
this year.
The survey of the new canal of tn
west Gallatin Irrigation Company ha
been completed, and it is now defnitel
settled that it will be built next spring
The length of the canal will be about 3
miles, and will be taken out one and
half miles above Shedd's bridges. folio,
around the hillsides, thence across God
1reys canyon, and empty into Cam
creek at the head of the lateral of tn
upper Tor old) canal. This canal will h
used to irrigate over 10000 acres of lane
Idaho.
j. H. Anderson of Weiser, the state :,
ditor, has been elected president of IN
sentinel Publishing Company of Bots,
Inc Sentinel is the state organ of til
peoples party.
w. b. McCraw, sentenced at Moscow Z
10 years in the penitentiary for crimina
assault on Florence Cartwright, has bee
released on $1,000 bail, pending an appea
to the supreme court
The dam and ditch for the electric l;o,,
plant is about completed at Salmon CT,
Inc water will be taken from the Lemi
ABOUT a mile above here, near the flou
mill. and the nowa, ho,,.