Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-10-30
GLANCE OVER NORTHWEST.
NEWS OF CROPS AND BUSINESS.
satisfaction of MOrtgages-Lumber
Trade of the SOund-The Mineral
Commissioners Are at Work In
Northumberland water Works.

find it necessary to erect additional shed
ding
Seattle street car lines report an aver
age increase of 40 per cent as compared
with the travel year ago.
ExState Senator b. G. Van Houten has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal with headquarters at Seattle.
Harvest is progressing rapidly and fully
90 per cent of the wheat in the northern
part of Whitman county has been cut
Mr.. Loop, living in Whatcom county,
estimates that 1900 people have passed
his ranch ell route for the Mount Baker
gold mines.
BY a vote of 10 to 4, the Tacoma city
council has passed an ordinance making
it imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
The Wenatchee-Twitsp state road is
now open in manner to the mouth of
the MethOw river, and the presumption is
that work has commenced on the upper
end
The road that the Klickitat county
commissioners are having built from
Hartland to Lyle is to be surveyed with
a grade that can be used for railroad
bed.
A party of surveyors has left Northport
to run permanent lines for the railroad to
the Boundary creek country, in behalf of
! the Corbin interests
From September !, 1896, to October 20,
1896, five satisfactions of mortgages were
filed with the Columbia county auditor.
During the same period for 1897 there
have been "a recorded, and only small
percentage of the years crop sold.
The lumber business on Grays harbor
is in a 1ourishing condition, and nearly
all the sawmills are improving their
plants with view to increasing their out
put, and are figuring on running overtime
to supply stock ordered.
Montana.
Six hundred members are said to have
been added to the Butte Miners union
during the past six months.
w. b. Rodgers has been appointed
assistant United States district attorney
to succeed George f. Shelton, recently
resigned.
The United States mineral land com
missoners are at work examining and
classifying lands on the Upper Yellow
stone
Policeman Samuel Lynch, who left
Helena last spring for the north, is now
at Juneau where he is working IN the
company store for the winter and is lay
ing by Il stake to go through with in the
spring.
Newt ChafIin, who lives about eight
miles south of Stevensville, shot and kill
ed mountain lion measuring over six
feet to tip of tail in his front yard the
other day.
The Kalispell Industrial Company is
the name of a new organization which has
sent articles of incorporation to the secre-
tary of state. The company is capital
lied for $4,000, and it's object is to build
and run a Touring mill and engage in
other enterprises if desired.
The famous collection of gold nuggets
held for long time by the First National
bank of Helena, has been sold by the re-
ceiver of the institution to A. j. Davis
of Butte, son of the late millionaire of the
same name, for $4,000.
Missoula sportsmen are complaining OF
the scarcity of p4rds this month, and they
all report Indifferent shooting all over the
county. In the Clearwater valley, which
has always been one of the best regions
for duck, there are not many this year.
Last winter the farmers of the Flat
head valley became Disguised at the low
price then paid for pork, and nearly all
A. Il 4
are not enough hogs in the valley this
year to come anywhere near supplying
the local market, and pork is selling for
j cents.
Sam Livingston, one of the oldest set
tiers in the northwest territory, and well
known in northern Montana, dropped
| dead in Calgary a few days ago. lie
was so years of age He went to Alberta
from Fort Benton in early days and ac-
quired a considerable fortune by trading
with the Indians. OF late years he has
occupied ranch on Elbow river and has
watched with interest the growth and de-
velopment of the northwest, on both sides
of the boundary line.
Idaho.
Kendrick is to have a tannery.
The Wardner Citizen has suspended
publication
The Juliaetta tramway company is now
running its cleaner night and day.
Harvesting is completed in the Pot
latch and many farmers are hauling their
grain to the warehouses.
F. \. Hardwick, a former Pullman
school teacher and son of W. D. Hard
wick of Nez Perez. has crossed the Skag'
nay trail and is now on his way to Daw-
son City.