Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-17
OVER THE NORTHWEST
NEWS ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON
IDAHO AND MONTANA.
Hon Growers, Fruit Growers, Wooi
Growers and the News OF
other Industries.

ed rate for picking.
The receipts of the land commissioners
office at Olympia for the quarter Just CLOS
ed, are S2s,242l0, as against Slo,0oo ior
the corresponding period last year
4 Mckee farmer hangs out lanterns III
his corn fields to attract the moths when
Law the eggs which hatch out into worms
in the ears
General Hazard Stevens has received
from independence, Or, hero OF loo
head of Angom goats and % well-bred
Cotswold sheep, with which to stock MS
ranch. south of the city of Olympia
The receipts for the school fund at the
office Of the land commissioner for the
quarter ending June 30, aggregate SIS
242l The receipts from Whitman coun-
tv alone for leases of school lands amount
ed to $4,000
The books of the county auditor show
that the running expenses of Pacific coun-
tv. exclusive of salaries. for the fiscal year
ending June 30 were $754S3S, as COM
pared with Sl3046.49 the preceding year.
or saving of $5498.ll.
ors of the state wagon road proposed from
Buckley, Pierce county, on the west SIDE
through the Matches pass, to point near
the mouth of the Matches river, on the
east, has been filed in the governors Oh
flee. and has received official approval.
George Venable Smith of Port Angeles,
has returned from Iowa and Chicago,
whittier he went in behalf OF the State
Immigration Association. He states that
he has secured 1000 prospective settlers
who are getting ready to come to Wash
ington, ard he has a few of them with
him, SAYS the Seattle Times.
The failure of the recent legislature 10
pass the proposed act abolishing the fish
traps has had a more disastrous effect III
Skagit county than even the most pessl-
mistic fisherman dared to predict. Be
tween 400 and 500 gill net fishermen who
gained livelihood i'll the Skaglt river
district are going out of business now;
claiming that they cannot make living
at catching fish at ! cent per pound, the
price at which the fish trap men are at
present more than supplying the de-
mand.
State Fish Commissioner James CraW-
ford has ordered the egg-hatching capac-
ity of the Baker lake sockeye salmon
hatchery to be increased from 5000 600 to
l2O00,000 The enlargement, necessitat-
ing the erection of new quarters for the
men, will cost about $500, and the hatch
cry will be the largest in the world. The
increased annual cost will be about $500.
Montana
Sweetgrass county is building new
court house at Big Timber.
A large clip of wool has been sold at
Billings for l3l cents, the highest price to
date this season i'll Montana.
A large number of horses are being
driven into Montana from points in
Washington and Oregon.
The wool season is about over at Malta,
nearly all the clips having been sold at
prices ranging from % to ii cents.
An investigation into the affairs of the
state reform school shows that each in
mate costs the taxpayers $34 per month.
Convicts in the state penitentiary cost
about $1,000 per month.
A new garbage crematory is placed on
wheels at Butte to be drawn around the
streets and burn the refuse as it is gath
cred, the crematory being fitted with a
drying chamber and a combustion cham
Der, into which acids and liquid fuel are
forced to destroy the animal portion of
the refuse and reduce the mass to ashes,
which can be dumped on the street.
During the month of June there were
issued from the Butte free public library
5663 volumes for home use and 229S for
use in the library, total issue of 905 vol
umes. This is an increase of 9O5 volumes
for library use, or a net increase of 100
volumes in the total issue as compared
with the record for June, 1896. During
the month 7SS persons registered as using
the reference department as compared
with 176 in June of last year.
Adyiees from Helena report that Attor
ney General Nolan gives an opinion to the
effect that the anti-gambling law prohih
Its shaking dice for drinks, playing freeze
out and slough in clubs for any consid-
Grafton of value, or for cigars for the
crowd, and that if there were a DISPOSE
ton TO enforce it it could be made to APP
ply to card parties in private houses
where prize is put up
The Farmers Cooperative Canal Com
pany of Burton, have completed the sur
yey of their ditch from the Teton river
and begun excavation work, Eighteen
teams are now employed and about two
miles of the ditch has been completed.
The length OF the canal, with branches
will be about II miles. and it will have a
carrying capacity of 5000 inches OF wa
ter.
While there are more sheep in Montana
in the year 1897 than there were in 1872
the net profit per head will not be so large