The new North-west., 1897-04-16
NORTHWEST BREWT|ES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
The COUNTRY'S RESOURCES.
NeW Industries and Matters of Cen
erni Interest in Idaho, Montana
and Washington.

There is talk of a hosiery factory al
| Ballard.
Two logging camps have been started
| at Leland.
School directors near Tacoma have beer
arrested for letting contracts to them
! selves.
lodge of Rathbone sisters, with 4(
! members, has been instituted at Blaine
| new fruit and vegetable cannery is
the next thing on the program for in
! dustrial Fairhaven.
The board OF state land commissioners
mas Withdrawn all school lands from the
market at the present low prices These
lands will be offered for lease, and it l.;
thus expected to add $40, 900 a year to the
school fund.
| Women's clubs will hold it's first meeting
at Olympia, June % and %. in the club
room Of the Woman's club of Olympia.
treasurer Young reports that March
81, 1897, the total amount of cash in hand
in the state treasury was $34O, 424.51, a
larger amount that at the end of any
quarter in two and one-half years.
A large quantity of lumber is being
shipped from Astoria, to Scarborough
head for the government buildings which
are being erected at that point.
Not since the days when the farmers
of Washington confined their crops to
hops and wheat has there been such
shortage of fat stock of all kinds.
The grand jury at Snohomish returned
81 indictments and reported the county
affairs in excellent condition, but de-
clared a new court house is needed
A San Francisco syndicate has pur-
chased the plant for constructing the
Joggins' RATS, which for some time has
been on the Washington side of the Co
lumbia, only a few miles up from the
mouth Of that river. The lumbermen are
satisfied the cigar-shaped rafts will rev.
olutionize the lumber business of the Pa
cific coast
The snow at Monte Cristo and Silver
ton is settling gradually and there are
now no fears of flood Across the di-
vide in the Silver creek and Index dis
tricts the snow, which was light, is near
ly all gone.
The fact does not seem TO be generally
understood that the new state law rela-
tive to licensing corporations is in effect,
and that every corporation doing business
in the state must pay $40 to the state be-
fore July l, for the privilege of contn-
uing it's business for the year.
Notice has been received that United
States Surveyor General William f. Wat
son will receive sealed proposals at his
office in Olympia until May l, for run
ming, measuring and marking the stand
ard township, section and meander lines
of 10 townships. Two of the townships,
25 and 26, are in the unsurveyed strip on
the Idaho line, just east of Spokane.
Montana.
All A. o. U. w. lodge has been or
ganized at Logan.
Rev. Wiley Mountjoy has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Orphans home
at Twin Bridges.
Judge Knowles has summoned the
United States grand jury to meet in Hell
ena April 20.
Four hundred and fifty foreigners We're
in the courts of Lewis and
Clarke county in 1896
County and city officers at Butte have
succeeded in breaking up a most des-
perate and successful gang of robbers
after tracking them to their hiding place
in the mountains, and have landed one
of it's leading membe s, bad man
known as Texas Chal .ey," in the coun-
ty Jail.
The assessor has fixed the following
values for Choteau county live stock for |
the current tax year: Stock cattle, SIG
per head; beef cattle and milch COWS, |
S25 sheep. $l.5O; common range horses,
$40; hogs, S. per head Ranch land values
We're fixed by the board of appraisers at
s1.25 to $15o per acre.
Al the annual meeting of the State |
Medical society at Helena, the following !
officers were elected: DR.. G. l.. McCul- /
ough of Missoula. president; DR.. b. f.
Sandow of Neihart first vice president; /
DR.. c. M. Chambliss of Bozeman, second I
vice president; DR.. b. c. Brooke, secre-
tary; Dr. George II. Barbour, treasurer;
DR.. w. w. Billiard, corresponding sec
retary, and the following judiciary
committee: DIR. Holmes of Butte, DIR.
3. x. Cole of Helena and DR.. Rudolph
Iorsky of Helena.
The sawmills at Bonner have started
'or the seasons run and the indications
ire that there will be plenty of business
,or the lumbermen till fall. The mills
start up with a full crew and are run
hing full time. The drive on the Black
,oot will not begin for some time, as the
liver has hardly begun to rise. There
ire logs enough, however. in the dam at
Bonner at present to keep the mill rum
hing till the winters cut gets down.
Idaho
There is a growing interest in the fruit
ands of Idaho.
The mines of the state are stimulating
'ailroad building this year.
The state normal school at Albion has
oeen closed for the remainder of the
ear, the board of trustees alleging eX
and mismanagement.
Governor Stennenberg has issued a proc
setting aside May Tth as Arbor
lay.
The attorney general of Idaho has de-
'ided that it is not necessary for the
aides to register in order to have Il legal
rote
The superintendent of the soldiers
lome, has made his quarterly report to
he board. 1t shows Il saving of $2l4.al
,er month or s643. % for the last quarter
,ut of the amounts allowed by the legis-
ature and the government.