Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-11
EVENTS OF THE NORTHWEST
IMMENSE OUTPUT OF LUMBER
Government Survey of the Pend
d,OreiIIe Rivef-InIf IL Million of
Acres in Montana Patented to the
Northern Pacific-HeIenn Men in
the Nlondil<e.

The Oakesdaie public schools have be-
come so crowded that another teacher has
been employed.
1t is estimated that the 40 and odd
mills in Snohomish county cut annually
about l00000000 feet of timber.
Yakima county Is agitating the estab-
lishment of a plant to evaporate vegeta-
bles
a delegation of Indians from Neah bay
was at Port Angeles the other day get
ting bids prepared and bonds executed
for mail contracts from Neah bay to Ia
toosh and Suez.
The selection of 1885 acres of land in
Vancouver district has been approved,
making a total of 81 427 acres of land
thus far approved for the maintenance of
scientific schools.
William Welsh, chief deputy under the
late Assessor Walsh, has been appointed
Pierce county assessor.
The erection of the lifesaving station
at Westport has been completed and will
be manned about March ! with crew OF
seven surfmen and keeper.
The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal has
secured a list showing that at least 80
per cent of the shingle mills in the state
of Washington either have or will within
the next 90 days close down for the win
ter.
/ The Indian commission which has been
in session at Yakima, of which Prof.
Barge is member, has been ordered to
Il
they will have work for some time to
come
Anacortes reports that the seasons sal
mon fishing has been good beyond all pre-
cedent. The three canne1es have now
closed down and the steamers, etc, have
gone into winter quarters. The output
has been l22, 500 cases, valued at $42S, 800.
The Fdalgo cannery packed $4,000 cases;
Anacortes cannery, 10000 cases, and the
Rosario cannery, 10000 cases. The fish
were principally sockeyes.
Another consolidation of papers has
taken place at Mount Vernon The Rec
ord which has been published by Al Sc
bring for the past four years, was sold
to j. B. Edwards of the Post Argus, and
the new publication will be known as the
Weekly Post Argus Record, This leaves
two newspapers in the city.
The attorneys for Kitsap county and
for Snohomish county have settled on IL
80 per cent basis the suit brought by Kit
sap against Snohomish county for $G64 so.
alleged to have been overpaid by Kitsap
county on the salary of the superior Judge
of both counties.
Notice of the sale of the Fort Colville
military reserve has been published. This
reservation lies three miles north of the
present site of the town of Colville and
comprises an area OF about 400 acres.
The sale will take place at the old mill
tary post on February next, and the
tract will be struck off to the highest bid
der for cash at a price not less than the
appraised value of the land.
Idaho.
Idaho state penitentiary raised over
10000 pounds of potatoes on six acres OF
ground
Judge Piper has decided in favor of the
constitutionality of the age of consent law
passed by the legislature of 1893
Governor Steumenberg is paying a visit
to the Occur d'Alenes, comforting with the
people in regard to their wants and neces-
sites.
Shoshone county's jail is full at present,
mostly serving time in accordance with
sentences from justice courts, and few
awaiting the action of the grand jury,
which will meet next February, unless
the supreme court shall decide III the
meantime that an indictment by intOrma-
ton is valid.
OF special interest to the residents OF
the Pend d'Oreile valley is the result OF
the government survey of the Pend dor
ellie river, which has been recently com
pleted. The survey shows that the chan
mel of the river, from Rocky Point to
Priest river, has a depth of over 40 teet'
water enough TO float the largest steam
ships in the world. The official report IS
expected to be entirely favorable to the
opening OF the river to navigation from
the lake to Metalline, and will give an es-
innate of the probable cost OF overcom-
ing the Priest river rapids, where the
river drops II feet in six miles, also Al
bany falls and Box canyon.
Mayor John II. Orr, one OF the pioneers
of the Pacific northwest, died at ms nome
near Caldwell the other day. tie was
born in Lawrence county, Ark" IN 1917.
He crossed the plains to Oregon IN 1898
and resided for time in Polk county ana
at Portland. He studied law and was al
mitted to the bar in 1860. Soon after
ward gold was discovered in large guam,
titles in the Boise basin and he joined
the rush that occurred. He supplied the
leading mining camps of Idaho and Mon