Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-29
GLANCE OVER NORTHWEST.
NEWS OF CROPS AND BUSINESS.
Satisfaction of MISREPRESENTATION
Trade of the SOund-The Mineral
Com naissiOners Are at Work In
MOntana-AshcrOft Water Works.


Observation-Disclosures Water Works.
Wenatchees total valuation is a trifle !
over $l23,O0O.
Oakesdale expects to ship about l,2OO,-
600 bushels of grain this season.
Seattle street car lines report an aver
age increase of 40 per cent as compared
with the travel year ago.
Owners of wheat warehouses at Asotin
find it necessary to erect additional she'd
ding.
Harvest is progressing rapidly and fully
30 per cent of the wheat in the northern
part of Whitman county has been cut.
Ex-State Senator b. G. Van Houten has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal with headquarters at Seattle.
BY vote of 10 to 4, the Tacoma city
council has passed an ordinance making
it imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
Mr.. Loop, living in Whatcom county,
estimates that $500 people have passed
his ranch en- route for the Mount Baker
gold mines.
The Wenatchee Twitsp state road is
now open in manner to the mouth of
the Methow river, and the presumption is
that work has commenced on the upper
end.
The road that the Klickitat county
commissioners are having built from
Hartland to Lyle is to be surveyed with
a grade that can be used for railroad
bed.
A party of surveyors has left Northport
to run permanent lines for the railroad to
the Boundary creek country, in behalf Of
the Corbin interests.
From September !, 1899, to October 20,
1896, five satisfactions of mortgages were
filed with the Columbia county auditor.
During the same period for 1897 there
have been "a recorded, and only small
percentage of the years crop sold.
The lumber business on Gray's harbor
is in fourishing condition, and nearly
all the sawmills are improving their
plants with view to increasing their out
put, and are figuring on running overtime
to supply stock ordered.
HaVnto1os
, Six hundred members are said to have
been added to the Butte Miners union
, during the past six months
: w. b. Rodgers has been appointed
assistant United States district attorney
= to succeed George F. Shelton. recently
' resigned.
The United States mineral land com.
| l. ~s,rs,>
y classifying lands on the Upper Yellow
!. stone.
a Policeman Samuel Lynch. who left
e Helena last spring for the north, is now
II ut Juneau, where he is working in the
" company store for the winter and is lay
i ing by a stake to 60 through with in thu
n spring.
:. Newt Chaffin. who lives about eigh'
8. miles south of Stevensville, shot and kill
ed mountain lion measuring over 81,
- feet to tip of tail in his front yard tn
q other day.
~ The Kalispell Industrial Company i
"a the name of new organization which ha
~ sent articles Of incorporation to the secre
N tary of state. The company is capital
lieu lOT TaU,VUO, Auu ITO obJCNt 10 ~ Ouh
ia and run Touring mill and engage il
i. other enterprises if desired.
r., The famous collection of gold nugget
m held for long time by the First Nations
r. bank of Helena, has been sold by the n
nc cever of the institution to A. j. Davi
RI of Butte son of the late millionaire OF tn
70 same name, for $4,000.
ovn,.@c,pov, oro ooru MA iuiuU 4
at the scarcity of ..rds this month, and the
no all report Indifferent shooting all over IL
county. In the Clearwater valley, whic
has always been one of the best regioI
for duck, there are not many this year.
Last winter the farmers of the Fla
head valley. became disguised at the 10
y price then paid for pork, and nearly a
" of them went out of the business The
VI are not enough hogs in the valley tn
year to come anywhere near suPplyir
Oh the local market, and pork is selling +
q cents.
Sam Livingston, one of the oldest 81
Vi tiers in the northwest territory, and w
known in northern Montana, dropp
on dead in Calgary a few days ago.
ice was so years of age. He went to Alber
eht from Fort Benton in early days and
Inc quired considerable fortune by tradi
be- with the Indians OF late years he h
IN occupied a ranch on Elbow river and h
les watched with interest the growth and
I'VE velopment of the northwest, on both sic
nat of the boundary line.
no.
sey
.hs Kendrick is to have q tannery.
lne Inc "aru"er |''.4e" ""' '1r'"N
int publication.
The Juliaetta tramway company is n
running its cleaner night and day.
Harvesting is completed in the r
lo+.h and MANY fa rmerS are hauling tn