The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-11-20
NORTHWEST N PARAGRAPHS
NEWS GATHERED AND CONDENSED.
Eruft Shipments ana GSais Receipts
-sientana's soldiers Heme-Eaa-
hos Insane AsyIum Notes In
GeneraI.

Seattle merchants are complaining Of
an increase in rents.
Vancouver ID shipping about six ear
loads Of prunes q week.
The women Of Chehalis are interesting
themselves In the cleaning Of the towns
streets.
About rs carloads Of wheat were ship
ped from Mabton, Yakima county, during
October
A steamship line is to be put on next
summer tbeween New Whatcom and
Dawson City.
Most Of the wheat tributary TO Gar
field has been hauled in, not more than
one-fOurth being left TO be delivered.
Six sections Of pasture land belonging
70 the state have been leased by the Co
lumbia county auditor. They brought
from $i2 to $40 per section a year.
The receipts Of the Everett customs
house for the Last month were &I6,26s. 81,
which is the largest months business
that has ever been done in the history Of
the Office.
w. II. 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 q foothold in 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 nralleling the Northern Pa.
cifc track. The opinion at Seattle seems
to be that President Hill of the Great
Northern is back Of the scheme.
A New England party Of IL men, whose
ultimate destination is veiIed in mystery,
have arrived at Seattle. The party Is
headed by r. Herbert Haines Of Salem.
Mass, who will only voaehsafe the in
definite information that his party l.
headed for the Copper river country, Alas.
ka, where a great amount of gold awaits
them.
II is reported that the Great Northern
railway has engineers in the field making
surveys for a cutoff from the main line.
by which new entrance will be obtained
20 Seattle through Cherry Valley. This
valley starts the slope of the west side
Of the Cascade mountains II will bring
the road 90 Seattle by saving Of several
miles.
The steamer City Of Seattle has Just
sailed for Skaguay and Dyea with IS
passengers and full cargo Of freight. The
latter includes So head Of cattle belonging
to the Smith party, which will attempt
10 drive them over the Dalton trail. The
vessel also took out carload of maehin.
cry for the Chilkoot Tramway Company,
which is building road across the pass.
idaho.
Senator Heitfeld and family have left
Lewiston for the national capital.
Boise valley has shipped lilo carloads Of
fT1lit the present season.
There are 100000 bushels Of wheat
yet unthreshed on the NeE Perce reserva.
ton.
Boomers Ferry reports that Great
Northern officials are looking up the mat
ter of opening stone quarry at Gale
IA Landing.
A Squaw Butte rancher, near Emmett,
had quite crop Of black walnuts, white
walnGts, 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 il as follows: Fifty-eight
home entries, SO0l.43 acres; IL final home
entries, 250395 acres; cash entries,
l00.02 acres; 2 state selections, GO acres;
I 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 Is, loi number of patients dis.
charged, 10; number Of patients died, 2;
number Of patients remaining, male, ll6;
female, g.; total, lis.
Governor Steunenberg has received the
resignation Of John jackson, commission.
er for the Third district of Washington
county. His successor will be appointed
in short time. The reason for the resig-
nation Is not stated in the official com.
munication, but Il IL understood Mr..
Jackson is going to Alaska.
Montana.
Hundreds of prospectors make their
winter quarters in Butte.
John Gaeble, one Of Butte's best known
labor leaders and editor Of the Butte BY.
stander, is dead.
There are "a inmates in Montana's sol
diers' home at Columbia Falls and sever
applications ON hand, with places for only
about four more.
Battes football season opened with q
game between the Montana Agricultural
college Of Bozeman and the High schoo
team of Butte, the High school winning
by score Of - to IL.
Disappointed in love and in straiteneS
circumstances financially, Louis II. Weir
man, new conner TO Butte, took his owl
life in his noon in lodging house b,
means Of poison.
Benjamin Tibbey, for many years sn
perintendent Of the mines Of the Parro
company, has resigned his position an,
Is succeeded by Matthew Hodge. wh'
for Il years has. been foreman Of tn
mine.
Dupuyer stockmen say that the rang
has not been better in this section an,
TALL for years than this year, The gras
Is remarkably thick. and from prcsen
Appearances there is little danger Of stool
suffering this winter
II One Of the features Of this season
cattle transactions In Choleaa county Ia