Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-06-11
NORTHWEST SEwR AND ITEMS
Items Of Interest From Idaho, Montana
and Washington.

receiving between three and four tons
of milk daily.
For the first time in years smoke is
coming out of the chimneys of the large
Ocosta sawmills.
The Aberdeen postoff1ce will be made
an international office after July 5
next.
December municipal salaries in Ia
coma were paid last month, and most
of the January salaries were settled.
If the receipts keep up the city will
soon bring it's salary roll up to date,
says the Union.
The rural mail delivery system for
Yakima is apparently success. The
cost of delivery per package is one and
half cents, the second lowest average
in the various experimental districts,
California having the lowest.
Thirty-two thousand tons of coal
were exported from Tacoma in May.
Compared with 1896. the total output of
coal during the first five months of
this year exceeds last years shipments
by 10000 tons.
Assistant Attorney General Vance
has advised Auditor Cheatham that he
is authorized to issue certificates Of
Indebtedness against the penitentiary
revolving fund and the state grain in
spection fund. There have been no
appropriations made by the legisla-
ture to pay expenses which should be
paid out of those funds.
The board of curators of the state
historical society at meeting in Ia
coma decided to relieve the defunct
Historical Magazine. Secretary Ho-
bart and Professor W. N Allen will
have charge of the publication. Gov
ernor Rogers and Secretary of State
Jenkins were elected members at their
own solicitation.
The members of the Thurston coun-
ty bar have organized a law school
and propose to prepare a course of lee
lures upon different branches, to be
delivered at stated periods by lawyers
resident in Olympia. 1t is proposed
to arrange these lectures with a view
| to preparing students for the examina-
ton to which they are subjected by
| the supreme court before admission to
| practice.
Judge Hanfords order allowing the
expenditure of 100000 by c. J. Smith,
receiver of the Oregon Improvement
company, in standardizing and equip
ping the Columbia & Puget Sound rail-
| way has been filed in court at Seattle.
The order says that the securities shall
be receivers certificates on the prop
erty of the road, which shall be a first
lien. By the courts order these certi-
ficates shall not be sold for less than
par.
MONTANA.
The university commission have let
the contract for 100000 brick, at 81,
for the construction of the new build
ings at Missoula, Mont.
The comptroller of the currency has
granted permission to H. F. Douglas,
d. r. Mead, H. r. Porter, c. w. But
Ter and r. p. Fleming to organize the
Merchants National bank of Glendive.
Capital $4,000.
The ranchmen have reason to rejoice
over the recent rain. The ranges have
been so dry for the past month that
the grass was nearly all dried up, but
is now springing up anew, so that
there is fair prospects OF good ranges
yet this year.
The gambling houses in Centerville
are far from receiving the patronage
of former days and as the time draws
near, when the Monte Carlo of Butte
will be compelled to close it's doors in
observance of the anti-gambling law.
which goes into effect the 1st of July,
the men who have been in the habit
of bucking King Faro are not the reg
ular frequenters of the place that they
used to be.
1t is said there will be more wool
shipped from this point this year than
ever before. Wool from the northern
. part of the county, which has hereto.
fore been stored and shipped from Other
places. will, this year, be brought tC
Big Timber for shipment. Last veal
J over 100000 pounds of wool was ship
ped from the warehouse at this place
and IL is estimated that there will bt
100000 pounds or more of wool shipped
i from this point this year.
From so to 100 families from Indi
2 ana are expected at the Burton colony
2 in August. 1t is the intention to estab
-. lish various industries and already {
creamery turning out a large amount o
dairy product each week has been es
D tablished.
e Wool is already beginning to roll int
: Billings. At present the two mann
: moth warehouses are scenes of consid
! able activity and nearly 100000 pound
: of wool have been stored, awaiting tn
. appearance of the eastern buyers.
@ IDAHO.
Judge Stewart of Boise decides tina
t the new fee law of Idaho is constitu
a tional, and also that it applies to coun
= ty officials now in Office.
y There are at present at Boise Is
a prisoners in the penitentiary, only on
9 short of the largest number ever con
i fined there.
Governor Stunenberg has appoints
Warren S. Truitt of Moscow regent 4
!. the state university to fill the vacanc
! that has existed since the selection @
e the new board.
e ]. ]. Coakley, deputy United State
8 marshal, has returned to Boise fror
: Detroit, Mich, where he went with
u United States prisoners. The trip wa
= made without incident and also with
!. out sleep, as the men in charge did nc
= allow the slightest opportunity for an
n escapade. The prisoners will not b
n allowed to see or speak to each othe
l. during their confinement in the prison
Following is the business at the Lew
a iston, Idaho, land office for the mont
l. of May: Seventy homestead entrie
8, embracing 9,771.9S acres; IL final hom'
e steads, 1861 acres; contests and
% Accomplishments filed; 8 cash cntrie
:, 326.95 acres; three soldiers declarator
- statements, and q state selections
n 100 acres each, divided between tt
a normal schools, scientific schools. agr