The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-12-18

period was equaled only once before, and
that was during the three months includ-
ing January, 1895, when occurred the big
powder explosion. The coroner's report
shows that during September, October
and November he held 81 inquests. There
were 10 in September and nine each in
October and November.
The first report of the Montana state
board of sheep commissioners shows that
since March ] last there were sheared in
this state 2,l69,92l pounds of wool, which
were sold at an average price of ll.4S
cents per pound, bringing in the aggregate
S2,547 JOY. In addition TO their wool, Mon
tana sheep men sold since March last
587 ,267 pounds of pelts, which, at the
average price of 5.74 cents per pouad,
brought them $33, 709.3l. No estimate of
the value of mutton consumed at home
or shipped abroad was made, but the
amount from sales was unusually large
this year.
The survey of the new canal of the
West Gallatin Irrigation Company has
been completed, and it is now definitely
settled that it will be built next spring.
The length of the canal will be about 20
miles, and will be taken out one and a
half miles above Shedd's bridges follow
around the hillsides, thence across God
frey's canyon, and empty into Camp
creek at the head of the lateral of the
upper Tor old) canal. This canal will be
,,cad IN ;,rioa 70 ovar IN 200 o.roa of land
idaho.
J. II. Anderson Of Weiser, the state au-
ditor, has been elected president of the
Sentinel Publishing Company of Boise.
The Sentinel is the state organ of the
peoples party.
w. b. McCraw, sentenced at Moscow to
Is years in the penitentiary for criminal
assault on Florence Cartwright, has been
released on $4,000 bail, pending an appeal
to the supreme court.
The dam and ditch for the electric light
plant is about completed at Salmon City.
The water will be taken from the Lemhi
about mile above here, near the -four
mill, and the power house situated near
the Lemhi bridge. The machinery and
supplies have been ordered and the work
will be carried forward with all possible
speed.
Inc Great Northern is the second rail
road company to pay its takes in Koo-
tenai county for 1897. Assessor Callahan
received the company's check for $22,-
3349S, which is the total of its taxes for
this year. Several school districts through
which that line runs get large slices in the
way of special school taxes. District No.
40 gets $1,000, No 3 $l092 and No. ID $7l5.
British Columbia.
A company is about TO develop the coal
mines at the north end of Vancouver
island
A couple Of enterprising Victorians
have expeditions out visiting Indian vii
lagos along the coast, buying such Alaska
dogs as they can find to supply to men
fitting out in this city for the Klondike.
At the next sitting of the provincial
legislature John Cobaldick, mine owner
and capitalist, will apply for an act TO
incorporate a company to develop and
turn to commercial use the rich iron de-
posits on the coast lines of British Co
lumbia. The company proposes to con-
struct blast furnaces and rolling mills.
The entire line of the Crows Nest Pass
road with the exception of little piece
near Goat river has been finally located.
Work on the Kootenay lake end of the
road is fairly under way and contracts
for 20 miles of the road from Goat river
east will be given as soon as Contractor
Armstrong can sublet the work. He is
finding no little trouble in getting men
who will accept sub-contracts from him,
as it is stipulated that the men shall be
pam only $3.50 per day.