The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-24
NORTHWEST PROGRESS
INDUSTRIES OF WASHINGTON,
IDAHO AND MONTANA.
Sales of Wool, News of the Logging
Camps and Variety of
News Notes.


milchie road, in Thurston county, got out
65,0O000O feet of logs from June, 1896,
up to June of this year.
A general complaint is being made by
the prospective bidders for the army post
work at Seattle to the effect that there
is a scarcity of labor about Seattle on ac-
count of the exodus to the various mines
in this region, says the Times.
While it was estimated that at least 10
tons of cherries would have been shipped
from Puyallup, the rains, which split and
softened the fruit, have shrunk the out
put down to single ton.
The farmers along the Nooksack river
are circulating a petition to forward to
Captain Harry Taylor, United States en-
gineer, to have the snag boat go to the
mouth of the river and make a channel
through the jam to allow the water to
run through and not back up and flood
their farms.
The rather novel feat of taking 700
head of sheep into the Yukon country, is
to be undertaken by George Miller, well
known Alaskan. He will ship
them to Dyea via the steamship Al
XII, which sails Sunday. From Dyea the
sheep are to be driven across the pass and
along the shore of a chain of lakes to
Klondike and towns on the upper Yukon.
A proposition is on foot to reorganiyc
the Olympia Collegiate Institute, an in
stitution that for several years held
commanding position among the schools
of Washington territory, being under the
management of the M. f. church. 1t is
understood that the trustees of the Puget
Sound university at Tacoma are willing
to turn over their business college and
normal departments to the Olympia i'll
sttution.
Under the law passed by the last legis-
lature making all corporations in the
state pay an annual license of So, many
of the corporations heretofore organized
have taken steps to disincorporate. The
fee is required to be paid before July l.,
and $3.50 penalty is added if not paid
before January | next, after which time
the officers and stockholders are subject
TO fine for every day the corporation
continues, no matter whether doing any
business or not.
Arrangements have been perfected by
which Port Angeles will secure the Pitts
burg Iron, Steel and Tin Plate Works.
John Cain, representing the syndicate,
submitted a proposition to the citizens Of
Port Angeles and deposited a certified
check for a substantial amount as evil
dence of good faith. AT a meeting of cit
liens on Tuesday night, the agreement
was signed. Port Angeles furnishes Il
site for the works and an additional real
estate bonus of $4,000. The Pennsyl-
vania company agrees to begin work
within 90 days and will employ from 400
to 700 men.
The Washington Central railroad is to
be sold July 9th to the highest bidder
and it is hoped that the purchaser will
then extend the road to Okanogan coun-
ty and across the setate to Puget sound
says the Chelan Leader 1t is believed
that the best route for it would be UP
Lake Chelan and through Cascade pass
as this route would open up one of the
most extensive and promising mineral
districts in the world and insure the road
all the business it could do, right from
the start.
Boise-The state land board has ap
pointed Sam H. Taylor of Idaho Falls a:
land seecter.
William Jones has sold his wool, be
tween 100000 and 100000 pounds, at
l0l cents a pound, the highest price paiC
at Boise this year.
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penitentiary from Gilmore county for tn,
murder of her husband, John Kensler, oI
October II last, has given birth to a Cir
baby.
Charles NJ. Webster, cashier of tn,
Great Falls, Mont, bank, has been ap
pointed internal revenue collector for tn,
district comprising Montana, Idaho an,
Utah.
The saw and shingle mills of Kingston
are running full time, lots of timber mel
are employed, and the season is genrall,
considered a most promising one.
The faculty of the Albion norma
school will be composed of the followin,
persons: j. c. Black of Indiana, princi
pal; ASSISTANTS, Mrs. C. b. Steunenberg o
Caldwell, w. A. Mullins of Mountain
home, IL. S. Hampton of Ilbion and Mis-
Ethel Thomas of Denver.
William Everling, an old time residen
of the Occur d'Alenes, died of Bright
disease at the Providence hospital j
Wallace, the other day. He enlisted in
Wisconsin regiment during the war an
after serving three years was honorabl
discharged. He was a member of Camb
post NJ IL q A u of AI,,r,.n,- midi