The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-07
NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
NEWS ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON.
MONTANA AND IDAHO.
Opening of the Yakima Indian Res
ervation-snle of All the Prunes
Around kendrIck.

The Seattle Ost-Intelligencer has been
sold to George U. Piper and his brother
Edward b. Upper, for 100000. The Pip
ers have for several years been connected
with the Oregonian.
Representatives of eastern hop buying
firms have been in Chehalis displaying
great deal of eagerness to make contracts
for the 1897 crop.
Tacoma reports that sockeye salmon
have started to run unusually early this
season and the run promises to be extra
ordinarily large.
The new school directors of district |
No. l, in Thurston county, have made Il
horizontal cut of $40 in the salaries of
teachers in the public schools.
The contractors for the government
lighthouse at Westport have the foun-
dation for the keepers house about com
pleted.
The lumber yards of Ritzville are un-
able to fill their orders, owing to the fact
tnat nearly all the farmers are doing
more or less building.
Several parties are making arrange
ments to erect a dry house near Sterling
in which to take care of the surplus
amount of fruit raised in Skagit county.
The penitentiary at McNeills island
will be condemned and the federal gov
eminent will make arrangements with
the state to keep its prisoners at Walla
Walla.
There is in Spokane county 500, 229,3S4
worth of real estate and improvements,
according to the assessment just com
pleted by County Assessor Daniels. OF
this $2O,96l 1913 will be taxed and 81 ,26S,-
OIL will be exempt, being government
| land school land, church property, etc
The value of real estate and improve
ments of Spokane city are $l7Ol4,90S.
Judge Carroll of the superior court at
Tacoma has issued an order denying the
legality of the collection of delinquent
taxes prior to June 80, 1895, the court
holding that the debt came under the
statute of limitations and could not be
collected. The loss to the county is
about 100000. The supreme court will
pass on the matter
Judge Williamson of the Pierce coun
on the new mortgage law, passed by
the last legislature, which would imply
that the law was unconstitutional and
without effect. BY this ruling the court
has ordered the sheriff to act under tn,
old sale law in the foreclosure of mort
gagged property where the contract wa
made prior to June 9, 1897. The opinion
! L.
Judges Prather and Richardson of Spo
kane county and Judge Mcdonald o
Whitman county, sitting en- banc.
Idaho.
A Joint teachers institute of Kootena
and Shoshone counties will be held a
r Rathdrum beginning August l6 and end
&. ing August 20 inclusive.
G Harry L. Smith, brakeman, lost hi
8. life at Nampa while switching. He caugh
( his foot in a frog and fell under the cars
l one leg being terribly crushed. He die
I about two hours after.
T. L. S. Pond of Gentle valley, Ban
l. mock county, and Thomas Preston G
5 spending a few days in Boise. The ger
i tlemen are elders of the Mormon churc
:. and their mission is to establish MOI
:. mon church in that city.
i The Sunday school convention a
Boise elected the following officers: Pres
dent, H. E. Neal, Boise; secretary, E.
! Cook, Boise; treasurer, Mrs. Burton
!, Boise; corresponding secretary, Juniu
Wright, Boise; first vice president, Mr.
e j. II. Barton, Caldwell; second vice pres
J. dent, F. F. Kirkland, Pocatello; thir
/ vice president, j. j. Schwartz, Moscow.
II The incorporators of the Snake Rive
: Valley Telephone Company held a NEE
2 ing at Rexburg and elected officers. I'll
L old telephone poles which were set in I'll
y ground three years ago have been pu
'e chased and the system will be in oper
L ton inside of 60 days. The followir
l. points will be reached on the line: NJ
1t nan, Rexburg, Salem, MILFORD, Teton al
IL st. Anthony. Other connections will
y made as fast as possible.
er Montana.
IS Attorney General Nolan holds that be
1T ting on horse racing is not gambling
Is the eyes of the Montana law.
Dr. The Helena Independent has pass
N into the hands of John S. NJ. Neill, t
IN former surveyor general of the state.
ne p. j. Moore of the Little Elk, on t
hi is better than it has been for - yea
Mt About 300 men are at work in t
mines at Aldridge and about the co
works at Horn. Everything is runni
ip full blast.
on At Great Falls the brewers license
LEI. raised for those of the first class to s