The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-10
NORTHWEST NEWS AND ITEMS
Items OF Interest From Idaho, Montana
and Washington.

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1923, 700
The Montesano Creamery Company is
receiving between three and four tons
of milk daily.
For the first time in years smoke Is
coming out of the chlmneys OF the large
Ocosta sawmils
The Aberdeen postoffice will be made
an international Office after July S
next.
December municipal salaries in Ia
coma We're paid last month, and most
OF the January salaries were settled.
III the receipts keep up the city will
soon bring Its salary roll up to date,
says the Union
The rural mail delivery system for
Yakima Is apparently a success. The
cost of delivery per package is one and
half cents, the second lowest average
in the various experimental districts.
California having the lowest
Thirty-two thousand tons OF coal
We're exported from Tacoma in May.
Compared with 1896. the total output of
coal during the first five months of
this year exceeds last years shipments
by 10000 TONS
<ASSiStdut Attorney General vance
has advised Auditor Cheatham that he
lis authorized to issue certificates of
indebtedness against the penitentiary
revolving fund and the state grain in
spection fund. There have been no
appropriations made by the legisla-
ture to pay expenses which should be
paid out of those funds.
The board of curators of the state
historical society at meeting in Ia
coma decided to relieve the defunct
historical Magazine. Secretary Ho-
bart and Professor w. NJ Allen will
nave charge of the publication. Gov
ernor Rogers and Secretary of State
jenkins We're elected members at their
own solicitation
The members OF the Thurston coun-
ty bar have organized a law school
and propose to prepare course of lee
lures upon different branches, to be
delivered at stated periods by lawyers
resident in Olympia. 1t is proposed
to arrange these lectures with a view
to preparing students for the examina-
ton to which they are subjected by
the supreme court before admission to
practice.
Judge Hanfords order allowing the
expenditure OF $105.0 by C. j. Smith,
company. in standardizing and equip
ping the Columbia & Puget Sound rail-
way has been filed in court at Seattle.
The order says that the securities shall
be receivers certificates on the prop
erty of the road, which shall be a first
lien. BY the courts order these certi-
lcates shall not be sold for less than
par.
MONTANA.
The university commission have lei
the contract for 100000 brick, at 81
for the construction of the new build
ings at Missoula, Mont
The comptroller of the currency ha.
granted permission to II. T.. Douglas
d. X. Mead, II. r. Porter. c. w. But
Ter and f. p. Fleming to organize tn,
Merchants National bank OF Glendive
Capital $50, 900.
The ranchmen have reason to rejoic,
over the recent rain. The ranges hav,
been so dry for the past month tha
the grass was nearly all dried up, bu
is now springlng up anew, so tina
there is fair prospects of good ranges
yet this year
The gambling houses in Centervill
are far from receiving the pauonag
of former days and as the time draw
near when the Monte Carlo of Butt,
Will be compelled to close its doors II
: observance of the anti-gam bling law
, which goes into effect the 1st of July
the men who have been in the habi
Of bucklng King Faro are not the reg
ular frequenters of the place that the
used to be.
I 1t is said there Will be more woo
shipped from this point this year tha
ever before. Wool from the norther
part of the county. which has hereto
: fore been stored and shipped from othe
1 places, WILL this year. be brought t
= Big Timber for shipment. Last yea
s over 100000 pounds of wool was shiI
! ped from the warehouse at this place
and II is estimated that there will b
!, 100000 pounds or more of wool shippe
/ from this point this year.
Wool is already beginning to roll int
e Billings. At present the two man
e moth warehouses are scenes of consic
!. able activity and nearly 100000 pound
" Of wool have been stored. awaiting tn
! appearance of the eastern buyers.
a From SO to 100 families from Ind
e ana are expected at the Burton colon
= in August. 1t is the intention to estal
: lish various industries and already
n creamery turning out a large amount
:, dairy product each week has been e
n tablished
il IDAHO.
Judge Stewart of Boise decides thu
It the new fee law of Idaho is constit'
N tional, and also that 1t applies to cou
!; = ty officials now in office.
~, There are at present at Boise /
a prisoners in the penitentiary, only oi
re- short of the largest number ever co
s. nned there.
sy Governor Stunenberg has appoints
- Warren S. Truitt of Moscow regent
the state university to fill the vacan
.s that has existed since the selection
ce the new board.
he j. j. Coakley, deputy United Stat
,is marshal, has returned to Boise frc
a Detroit. Mich, where he went with
"a United States prisoners. The trip W
made without incident and also wit
~ out sleep, as the men in charge did I
,r- allow the slightest opportunity for a
on escapade. The prisoners will not
,or allowed to see or speak to each oti
la during their confinement in the pris'
hs Following is the business at the lie
,,a 'ston Idaho, land office for the NOR
in of May: Seventy homestead entri
1g embracing 9.771.9S acres; II final hor
ore steads, 1,66561 acres; contests and
10 acknowledgements fled 8 cash cntr
g. 326 95 acres; three soldiers declarat
w W statements, and 27 state selections
on 1850 acres each, divided between
a normal schools, scientific schools. al
Ell, cultural college ana insane asyn
ca Total receipts, s1.340.s9.
in ormoopnT FcTED cONGRESSN
Till 1c"'OO''0' -S
ave -. x,..or, ut.trtct Give. IL.
AXE Isiye Thousnnd NaIority
low ct Louis June 2-Estimates based u