Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-11-06
NEWS ! OF THE NORTHWEST
LATEST REPORTS OF THE CROPS.
Parties Organizing to 60 to the
Klondike - Digging Deep Wells
Items From Washington, Idaho
Montana and British Columbia.

laundry work 100 per cent.
Colfax is to have two new business
buildings, to be completed by December |.
Garfield county has never had such fine
roads for grain hauling as this fall
Chehalis buyers are now paying from
81 to Al cents for hogs, and large num-
bers of them are being brought to market
every day.
PuyaIlup shipped this year to Montana
and mining regions tributary to Spokane
ever 10000 worth of fresh berries.
w. j. Woods of Lost Springs Columbia
county, bought $40 acres of land one year
ago, paying therefor $1,000, on time. He
realized enough out of this years crop to
pay for the place and had a balance of
5000
The state treasurer has called for gen
eral fund warrants from No. 1921 to
No. 1850 inclusive, also military fund
warrants No. 2024 to 2030. The call ma
lures November o. The amount of the
general fund call is $40, S2l27; military
fund, $4730.50.
Twenty men from Yakima, under
the charge of j. G. Cameron, have left
this city on a special freight with ii cars
or horses and six fiat cars of supplies
bound for the sound, where four steamers
will take them to the Klondike Many
of the Yakima men are old miners and all
are strong and hardy.
The largest single cargo of wheat to
leave Tacoma this season has Just been
taken out by the British ship Crocodile,
which had stored safely away in her hold
l4l 1852 bushels, valued at $4,000. This
makes the total shipments to date l,49l,-
45S bushels, with an aggregate value of
81 ,288, 900.
A farmer residing in the Eureka Flat
district, Wala Walla county, has just
completed the boring of a we'll PA feet
deep, which will yield 1900 gallons of
water every "a hours. This quantity is
amply sufficient for his needs, and the
well, which cost $3.50, saves the labor Of
hauling water from the Touchet river, Is
miles away.
Expert G. p. Dam has filed his report
on his investigation in the Pacific county
treasurer's office. He found ex-Treasurer
Lockwood short $4793, of which about
$4,000 was previously known. He found
the accounts of eX-Treasurer f. A. Hazel
tine carefully and correctly kept and com
mends the work of the present incumbent,
S. Heichner.
Idaho.
Kendrick will have brewery.
Rev. A. H. Lyons has resigned the pas
torate of the First Baptist church of Po-
eatello, accepting call to North Yakima,
Wash.
The surveyor generals office at Boise,
Idaho, has been crowded with applica
lions for surveys and mining patents this
quarter more than for any quarter for
the past 10 or II years.
There are rumors of large sawmill to
be put on the banks of the Weiser near
the town of Weiser 1t is said the par
ties are contracting for 100000 feet of
sawlogs to be brought down the river
in the spring.
An immigrant car containing several
families of Dunkards has arrived at Jul
iaetta from Boone county, Iowa. These
people are part of a colony located near
Nez Perez, and left for their destination
soon after They went up the grade with
what goods they couldn't get in their
wagons packed on their backs, the women
and children bearing their share.
In his last quarterly report Auditor
Woodwork shows Latah county's war
rant indebtedness to be as follows Gen
eral county fund, $l2,494.7S; road fund.-
S26.479.49. bridge fund, l525.l2; school
funds, $974.98; hospital fund, SlO,9491o;
current expense fund, $lO,235.55; total
1862. 659.67. The county had issued SOL
1920 up to the date of the report and
reduced $48,76l48. County Treasurer
Cornwalls report showed $27O.Ol cash on
hand.
The big eddy near Agatha, on the Clear
water, will soon cease to be an obstruc-
ton to river navigation. Twenty men I'M
der an engineer from the war depart
ment are working there, and unless WIN
ter closes in earlier than is expected, Will
soon have enough rock out of the way to
insure a good channel. The o. r. & n.
Co, is building boat that is especially
adapted to this river. They expect TO
make regular trips between Lewiston and
Kamiah next spring
Montana.
The telephone line from Sylvanite to
Leonia has been completed.
The Troy-Yahk wagon road requires
1T 5000 foot of grading to complete it.
The total value of all assessed property
in Jefferson county for the year 1897 Is
a. 25O55O. ON which the total tax to be
collected amounts to $60,296.55.
A Virginia City man expects TO leave
for the Sandwich islands about the first
of the year. He will go there to look into
the coffee raising business and II he is sat