The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-03
NORTHWEST BREVlTIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries md Matters OF Cen
eraI Interest in IdDho. Montana
and Washington.

collecting an exhibit of the mineral
wealth of the state.
Gail Latin, ON trial at Colville, Wash,
for the murder of 5. L. Moody, has been
convicted of manslaughter
The volume of farm products of Lewis |
promises to be greater this year
than ever before
Work on Seattles Magnolia Bluff army
post site is to be commenced August /,
the available installment appropriation
being $4,000.
The Pierce County Fair Association,
among other improvements, will build
third of mile track, 40 feet wide at the
home stretch and 25 at the back.
The fruit crop in southern Mason coun-
ty will be somewhat light this season, but
in the northern part of the county there
will be good crop of apples, pears, cher
ries, plums and prunes.
Captain j. NJ. Sllidmore of South Bend
organized the Indian war veterans of IL
waco and vicinity into Il post, which is
named in honor of Ex-Governor |. l. Stew
ems. E. b. Stone is captain.
Spokane county warrants are still in
creasing in value. Offers made by broil-
ers at 90 cents have been refused by hold
ers of blocks aggregating amounts suili-
cient to justify bidding.
A lagoon i'll Sequim bay is being pre-
pared by the Park Oyster Company Tor
the cultivation of eastern oysters. A dam
has been built across the mouth of the 1t
COON and seed and Gull oysters are on
their way from Baltimore.
The Lewis county commissioners at
their latest meeting decided to postpone
indefinitely the proposition to issue fund
ing bonds to take up the county's float
ing Indebtedness
Material for the new Northern Pacific
depot at Chehalis has arrived, and most
of it is now stored in the old building or
on the tracks in the yards.
In Lewis, Cowlitz, Clarke and Skamania
the showers of the past week have been
very beneficial and there has not been
too much rain. Cherries, raspberries and
black berries are ripening. Prunes and
apples appear to be doing we'll In Clarke
county haying has been interfered with
by the rains; clover is somewhat light
Potatoes are fair.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has dis
patched two members of the United
States geological survey-G. L. Fletcher
and Thomas G.. Gerdine-tO Washington
for the purpose of making a report upon
the Cascade forest reserve, one of the
tracts set apart by ex-President Cleve-
land, with a view to the modification, and
possibly the complete revocation of the
order as it regards this reserve.
Montana.
More than 100000 pounds of wool ale
already in the Northern Pacific ware
house at Big Timber, and it is being re-
ceived at the rate of $4,000 pounds daily.
The register of the Montana state land
Office has completed his labors in Boze-
man, having leased Al tracts of land
amounting to 5000 acres, for about $500
and sold 800 acres for $3440.
Tom Cooper of the Northern Pacific
land department says that a conservative
estimate of the amount of railroad land
disposed of in Lewis and Clarke county
since the first of the year would be 100,
600 acres, while he believes that about
$4,000 acres of Northern Pacific lands 10
Gated in Choteau county have been solo
in that time.
What will be important news TO thu
large lumber companies who have beer
cutting timber on public lands under spe
cial permits from the government ha
been received at the Helena land Office il
the form of an order from Commissions
Binger Hermann. Heretofore it has beer
the custom to allow the companies tn
right to cut timber from no more thai
four sections, or 256O acres. The maxi
mum has been reduced to 100 acres,
quarter of a section, and restrictions ar
to be placed upon the granting of permit
even for that acreage.
Idaho.
1t is expected that the telephone lin
between Salmon City and Gibbonsvill
will be in working order July /.
The report of Superintendent McGint
of the soldiers home for May shows tn
total expenses for the month were S76S.4i
The total appropriation available wa
S936.35. The saving for the month wa
therefore Sl67.SS. For the first fiv
months of the year the expenses wei
S952.77 less than the available appropri,
ton.
Work on the hot water well at the ba
racks at Boise has been resumed. II
funds were exhausted a short time ae
Just when success seemed to be with
sight, a good-sized flow having been ei
countered. Senator ShOup was COMMIT
nicated with and he at once secured a
order authorizing necessary addition