The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-05-06
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tuna nnd WnshinGtO

Clarke county expects big fruit crop.
Seattle is already preparing for
Fourth of July celebration.
Logging camps along the Fort Towns
end Southern are busy.
movement is on foot to establish
hospital at Snohomish
The books in the Whatcom county Of
fees are being examined by experts.
Several yards about Chehalis have been
trained, which is two weeks earlier than
the training was done last year.
The exports of Puget sound were nearly
100000 more during the first quarter of
this year than for the corresponding time
last year.
The New Whatcom board of trade has
received two letters from parties desiring
to start nurseries In Whatcom county.
one from a Montana man, the other from
Florida man.
Tacoma's fire record for 1896 shows the
loss by fire the past year to have been
4 S27.1502O while s2S76S.04 insurance was
I paid total Insurance. 5000, 735. There were
\ 1872 alarms. while the fire department cost
the city SAL, l,7745O
There are 500 Indians In the west end
Of Clallam county the various tribes liv-
\ ing at the Hon. Ozette, Quillayute and
| Neah bay. Chief Peter. OF Neah bay, Is
! at the head of the Indian government,
| and is recognized by the United States
1 government as police officer. Chief Peter
4 conducts his council with all the dig
nifty of the newly-eiected justice of the
! peace. He lives In what was formerly
! the school house. using the large room
| for his council chamber Before him are
I determined the controversies which arise
in the tribe but his decisions sub
ject to review by the Indian agent.
4 Montana.
There Is talk OF building a concentra-
tor at Neihart, to cost 100000.
The cattlemen of Dawson county say
their winter losses will not exceed rs
per cent of their herds.
More building permits were issued IN
Butte during April than for any previous
two months in four years.
\ Cascades county attorney gives the
\ opinion that the new liquor license law of
Montana does not apply to unincorpor-
1 ated towns and camps.
4 The recent boom in cattle values has
| brought offers to many Montana stock
men that they would have instantly ac-
| cepted had they been made six months
ago, but they lose attractiveness under
present conditions. 1t Is said that one OF
the largest owners on the Shonkin was
| recently offered $26 per head for his cat
tie possessions. but he positively refused
to entertain the proposition.
| Farm products are quoted at Bozeman
as follows: Butter Is 20 to 22l5 cents per
pound; eggs only cents per dozen; pota-
I toes are 20 cents a hundred pounds
wholesale: oats are so cents per hundred
wheat is GO cents and hard wheat 10 cents
per bushel; hay is selling loose, per ton.
for $3.50 to 5000, and baled from $40 to 81.
Wheat is being held by the ranchmen. al
d though the amount of wheat unsold in
+ this valley is not large.
4 Idaho.
q Wheat farmers have worked with more
a courage this spring.
= The Pocatelo Herald has been absorbed
- by the Tribune.
. There is complaint that the state law
"a forbidding the sale OF cigarettes to min.
r ors is not enforced.
r. Plans are to be drawn for the contem
a plated improvements at the asylum fol
q the insane at Blackfoot.
r More attention than ever will be pait
O by the fruit raisers of Idaho to properly
; grading and packing the product OF theil
n orchards.
June 20, 23 and "a have been settled up
on the dates for the state Christian
Endeavor convention, which will be helC
q In Boise.
n Idaho sports are expecting a decision
ia from the supreme court by June | on thu
II legality of the anti-gambling law. 1t |!
If said that on and after May all gambling
# will cease until after the court passes or
( the matter, and that no attempts will b'
> made to evade the law.
J. The compilation and publication of thu
N laws of the last session has developed
J. the fact that a serious blunder was mad
N In connection with the horticultural bill
,e The law as 1t stands contains no provis
,e ion for collection from owners of or
chards of the cost of eradication of pest
when the same is done by the state.