The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM WASHING
TON. IDAHO AND MONTANA.
Industrial Developments, Crop Re
ports and Matters OF General
Interest.

cashier in the custom house at Port I
Townsend. Salary, $500.
George Webster is convicted by jury /
in Spokane of numbering Mrs. Andrew
Aspland May 8. Two of the jury have
signed a statement saying that they
agreed to the verdict only because the
physical and mental strain of holding out
longer in the jury room was too much for
them.
The Walla Walla public library will
be opened about October |. The directors
voted to purchase $500 worth of new
books.
A contract has been closed by a Los
Angeles Cal, party to establish large
fruit drying works in various parts of the
state of Washington, with headquarters
in Tacoma.
County Auditor Lewis is Offering to
lease all the vacant school lands in Adams
county to the highest bidder for cash.
A shipment of 100 tons of hemloclI bark
has just been made from Port Angeles to
Victoria b. c., tannery.
The Whatcom teachers have entered
into contract to sell their warrants at
92 cents This is a good deal better than
last year, as most of them received only
So cents.
The shingle shipments by rail from
Washington for the eight months of 1897
exceeded those of the months in 1896 by
over 100000.
A number of fruit growers in the vicin-
ity of Mount Vernon, Skagit county, have
Just forwarded carload of prunes to
Philadelphia.
1t cost $72l6sl to run the electric light
plant in Ellensburg for the year ending
September l, 1897. During that time
the collections amounted to $S2599S.
The pennant for the largest yield of
oats ever produced in Whitman county is
claimed by County Commissioner
Stephens, 10 miles west of Oakesdale. He
threshed II acres of oats that yielded l25
bushels to the acre.
The city council has fixed the tax
levy of the city for 1897 The rate was
fixed at seven mills, based on the valu-
alton, for all taxable property in the
city, of 81, 32l ,953, as returned by the
county board of equalization.
1t is estimated by several prominent
fruit growers that at least 100 tons 81
. Whatcom county fruit will be allowed tC
= decay this fall because of the congesteC
: condition of the market and the local lacl
,, of proper means to preserve or handle
= theh enormous surplus, especially o
n prunes.
Idaho.
y Work is being pushed on the telephon
line between Kellogg and Kingston.
Superintendent Clark of the soldiers
home reports that there are so inmate
at the home at present
The state auditor has finished sending
out statements to the different countie
r showing their delinquencies The tota
amount for the entire state is $llS,555.5C
l. Grangeville reports that the hog rails
D. ing industry is receiving an impetus i
.e the way of good markets and fair prices
Vt theh demand exceeding the supply an
i merchants are shipping in eastern cure
e. meats.
lie Shipments from Kendrick are bein
lie made daily of prunes and apples to east
? ern points About eight carloads have a
n ready been shipped and it is though
K about six more will be loaded. The dry
a ers are being operated and large quar-
?; tity of fruit will be dried this season.
ot Troop f, Fourth cavalry, Captain Hal
of field commanding, has left Boise for Foi
to Hall Indian agency. There was recent
s trouble there over the placing of an Ii
in dian girl in school. She had been ma
Is ried and the bucks thought she shoul
NOT rO 70 school lonUar Tho oirl wa
sent to the school room, however, an
R. now the agent wants help in arrestin
:. the bucks who made the trouble.
Montana.
Livingston.--The United States geolog
4 cal department is conducting series
H. surveys in the Yellowstone national par
IT, under the direction of Walter H. Weed.
III The Thomas Cruise wool, at Billing
Ill consisting of three seasons clip an
y amounting to nearly 100000 pounds, hi
Is been sold to San Francisco buyer.
n is said that the price paid was 10 cents.
- About so men are at work on the ne
% college buildings at Bozeman-steam fl
y tiers, electricians, skaters, carpenters, m
= sons-and the work is rapidly neariI
:" completion. With favorable weather Il
- slate roof will be on in about thr
- weeks, after which the contractors CO
~ rest easy for the finishing.
~ Fort Benton-Harvest operations a
progressing satisfactorily on the Sho
kim Most of the ranchmen expect
er harvest from 60 to so bushels of oats, al
or 25 to 80 bushels of wheat to the acre.