Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-11-19
NORTHWEST IN PARAGRAPHS
NEWS GATHERED AND CONOeNoeO
rr,,t sbipments and Grain Receipts
-uontana's Soldiers HOme-ida-
b.,s Insane Asylum - Notes in
General.

loads Of prunes Il week
4 steamship line is to be put on next
simmer tbeween New Whatcom ana
Dawson City. !
Seattle merchants are complaining Oh
an increase in rents.
The women of Chehalis are interesting
themselves in the cleaning OF the town
streets.
Most of the wheat tributary to Car
field has been hauled in. not more thah
one fourth being left to be delivered.
Ahout % carloads of wheat were ship
ned from Mabton. Yakima county, during
October.
Six sections of pasture land belonging
,o the state have been leased by the Co
lumbia county auditor They brought
from SD to $40 per section year.
The receipts OF the Everett customs
house for the last month were $l6,26o.Zl,
which is the largest months business
that has ever been done in the history OF
the office.
An ordinance reducing the salaries,
which was passed by the Vancouver
council. reduces the salary of the city
treasurer to SO per month, city clerk TO
$25 per month and city attorney to 500
per wear. and 800 additional for each
time he appears before the superior court
in city ease.
W. IL. Brown. insect inspector of fruit
pests for King county, has made the
alarming discovery that the pernicious
San Jose scale, the greatest OF fruit pests,
has at last gained foothold i'll King
county.
Much comment is being caused by the
report that there is probability of work
being resumed on the proposed railroad
from Portland and Seattle and Tacoma
practically pralleling the Northern Pa
cific track The opinion at Seattle seems
to be that President Hill of the Great
Northern is back of the scheme.
Idaho.
Senator Heitfield and family have left
Lewiston for the national capital.
Boise valley has shipped ll6 carloads of
fruit the present season.
There are 100000 bushels Of wheat
vet unthreshed on the Nez Perez reserva-
ton.
Bonners Ferry reports that Great
Northern officials are looking up the mat
ter of opening stone quarry ut Gale
ma Landing.
| 4 SQuaw Butte nncher, near Emmet,
had quite a crop of black walnuts, white
walnuts, or butternuts, and japanese wal
nuts on his farm this season.
| Considerable whiskey is being intro
duced on the Nez Perez reservation by
white men from the towns of Camas prai-
RE.
The report of the business transacted
in the Lewiston land Office for the month
of October is AS follows: Fifty eight
home entries, SOO4.43 acres II final home
entries, 25O3.05 acres: cash entries
1862 acres; ? state selections, GAO acres
4 contests filed; total receipts, $llS7.65.
The following are some figures from
the last quarterly report of the asylum
for the insane at Blackfoot Number OF
patients received during quarter ending
October 10, is; number of patients dis
charged, 10; number of patients died, 2;
number of patients remaining, male, ll6;
female, 62; total, It's.
Governor Steunenberg has received tn,
resignation of John jackson, commission
er for the Third district of Washington
county. His successor will be appointed
in a short time. The reason for the resig
nation is not stated in the official com
munication, but it is understood Mr.
jackson is going to Alaska.
Montana.
! Hundreds of prospectors make thei
winter quarters in Butte.
There are "a inmates in Montana's sol
diers' home at Columbia Falls and seye,
applications on hand, with places for onl,
: about four more.
: Dmpuyer stockmen say that the rang
mas not been better in this section an,
iail for years than this year. The gras
Is remarkably thick. and from presen
appearances there is little danger Of stool
suffering this winter.
!. One OF the features of this season
, cattle transactions in Choteau county ha
been the number of deals in calves. Tn
, active demand has caused sharp rise i,
prices, and heifer calves readily comman,
VIZ per head, with the price of steer calve
little in advance of that figure 7,
some cases SIS per head has been offere,
and refused for an extra good bunch q
calf stock.
State Land Register Moore offered a,
school lands situated in Fergus count,
j, ior sale, and afterward leased for n ter,
: OF hve years some 50 sections. embrac;r
: about 10000 acres. Only two parcels a
0 lands were sold. l2O acres to Andrew Fe,
5 gus at $3.50 per acre, and 100 acres =
5 William Fergus at $ll per acre. As
: general rule the lands were leased at IN
e MINIMUM rate of 81 per cent per annur
!. OF the appraised value.
British Columbtn,
Within few days the provincial, 90,
eminent will begin the additions 70 IN
:, Nelson courthouse.
/. Inc British admiralty has declined ii,
torla offer to provide a res;do,oo g. a.,