The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-05-20
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of interest From Idaho, Mon
tnnn and Washington.


for April were sold for 9S cents.
The long -distance telephone line will be
extended from Everett to Arlington.
Island county reports great increase
IN the potato acreage this year.
The April fees turned over to the treas
urer of Clarke county by the auditor,
clerk and sheriff amounted to sao4.6s.
Travel to the Okanogan country VIA.
coulee City is greater this year than for
some time says the News.
Klickitat farmers are taking advantage
of the good roads and spare time to naul
In their surplus wheat, and quite n Juan
tity of 1t is being received daily ut '.le
Dalles.
The Chehalls Valley creamery worked
up little more than 100000 pounds of
milk during April. and the quantity VIII
likely be third larger In May,
| A Blaine man Is endeavorlng to interest
eastern capital In plant for Blaine fer
utilizing the refuse from the salmon can
neries and dog fish for the manufacture
of commercial fertilizer.
Those desiring to take the examination
for the United States engineering depart
mcnt of the civil service can do 80 by.,p
plying to W. l.. Geary. secretary of the
examining board, room COP Burke pu,ld-
ing. Seattle, for application blanks. -'---
Sixteen horses were sent from Port
Townsend last yenr to the Cook inlet
country to operate pack train, and, al
though they had plenty of food, eit,ht
head died from the effects OF cold during
| the winter. Another company operating
81 horses at the same place lost the entire
outfit The horses We're common cayases,
and 1t is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold.
State Treasurer Young has been de-
manding OF the county treasurers that
they remit to the state not only the orig
inal assessment for the state taxes col
lected after delinquency. but the pen tlty
and interest on such taxes as well. The
treasurers of the respective counties have
been inclined to resist payment OF the ad-
dition to the tax assessed but the assist
ant attorney general has just rendered an
opinion wherein he holds the state Il 'as-
urer Is right in his demands.
Two meetings of the Baptist people OF
Washington and Idaho. which will be spe-
cially interesting to the people of relxoa
will take place In the near future. says the
Times. The first is the annual meeting OF
the Spokane association of Baptist
churches, which viii be held at the chnrcl
in Tekoa JunSl0 to l3. The second Is AZ
assembly under the auspices of the Pap
list Young Peoples Union of eastern
Washington and northern Idaho, 20 l..
held at Chatcolet June 20 to July o.
Idaho.
do.trovad ahont 10 .cros 90 ono ,,,a,,,
ronch ~
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continue three days.
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,olea ecroct ,his co,,i,,a voar ,rha nia,
In ,,oo, ,,,os 20 ,oanan,.a 40 ,or,h -
Tho nrasent tc,chers and n anv ad
l.,,,r,.', 80, ,,,.,l A., ,i,o .ho,, ~ -,
II, rra saiarias so,,a of ~ nos,
. ,ions hn,,a haa,, rad,,oo1 ~, ,hosa III ~
hlled hy now to,chors uhoee ,al,,a hn,
not heen de,onnstr,tod
The Ada county assnssora ,ra bavin,
somn ,rouIlo I'm col,ectine noll tavas com
clainins thot ,hev am, not he coi,ac,o
,rdo. H. Io,g othars $40 ,hot NO
u,ero no, comne,,od 70 nov tho,, ,ost vea
ana mo-, thini tho,, cor s,ot ar ,his tino
rhere ,yern onlv ahor, 7o coIlected In al
ia.,t ,ea. out 81 a total or nenr,, 9no
voters The ossassors aav maj no an
, win escann and thot ri muet oheerv
, tho law IN ,his rasnaot
Moptnun.
The outstandlng warrants against th
general fund OF Helena amount In nj
to about s3l5. 900 ana the entire Indebted