Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-05-21
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon.
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Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
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for April were sold for SO cents.
The Whatcom county salary warrants
The long-distance telephone line will be
extended from Everett to Arlington.
island county reports a great increase
In the potato acreage this year.
The April fees turned over to the treas
urer of Clarke county by the auditor,
clerk and sheriff amounted to sso4.69.
Travel to the Okanogan country via
Coulee City is greater this year than for
some time, says the News
hlickitat farmers are taking advantage
OF the good roads and spare time to maui
In their surplus wheat, and quite a Juan
! tity OF 1t is being received daily at r.'le
| Dalles
The Chehalis Valley creamery worked
up little more than 100000 pounds of
milk during April, and the quantity will
likely be third larger in May
A Blaine man is endeavoring to interest
eastern capital in plant for Blaine fer
utilizing the refuse from the salmon cam
neries and dog fish for the manufacture
of commercial fertilizer
Those desiring to take the examination
Tor the United States engineering depart
ment or the civil service can do so by lp-
plying to W. L. Geary, secretary of the
examining board room COZ Burke putld-
ing. Seattle, for application blanks.
townsend last year to the Cook inlet
country to operate pack train. and, al
though they had plenty of food eit;ht
head died from the effects of cold during
the winter. Another company operating
II horses at the same place lost the entire
outnt The horses were common caylses,
and 1t is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold
state Treasurer Young has been de-
manding OF the county treasurers that
they remit to the state not only the ORIG
mai assessment for the state taxes col
lected after delinquency, but the pen alty
and interest on such taxes as we'll The
treasurers of the respective counties have
been inclined to resist payment of the adj
dition to the tax assessed, but the assist
ant attorney general has just rendered an
opinion wherein he holds the state II ,as-
urer Is right in his demands.
Two meetings of the Baptist people of
washington and Idaho, which will be spe-
cially interesting to the people of rekoa,
VIII take place in the near future, says the
Times. The first is the annual meeting of
the Spokane association of Baptist
churches, which will be held at the church
In Tekoa June 10 to ID. The second Is an
assembly under the auspices of the ,sap-
fist Young Peoples Union OF eastern
Washington and northern Idaho, TO be
held at Chatcolet June 20 to July g.
Idaho.
The high water in the river near Star
destroyed about II acres of one mans
ranch.
The eastern Idaho district Epworth
League will meet In Pocateilo May 2s and
continue three days.
The board of education of Boise has
made some changes In the salaries OF the
teachers of the city schools which will
take effect this coming year. The plan
una - T.. A.
the present teachers, and II any adj
vance was made to give them the bene-
mt. The salaries of some of the posi-
lions have been reduced as those will be
niled by new teachers whose value has
not been demonstrated.
The Ada county assessors are having
some trouble in collecting poll taxes. some
claiming that they can not be collected
under the law. Others say that they
We're not compelled to pay them last year
and they think they can get off this time
There were only about 70 collected In all
l psnef Xear r 2at 81 ST fetal aG aqrlx ao
to about $s45,OOO, and the entire indebted
ness of the city in bonds and warrants ID
$736, S12.55.
Last year at Butte there were 450 per-
mits issued for structures of the esti-
mated cost of $4S3, 264, against S06 permits
issued the preceding year for buildings
costing 1914, S57
bunch Of six antelope have located
in the river bottom about ]. 5. White
heads ranch near Chinook. They were
seen within 80 yards of the Catholic
church. Luckily for them the game law
protects them and there are enough gai-
liant sportsmen around town to watch one
another.
Regarding the wool crop this, year,
sheep men arriving in Great Falls are
of one opinion, and that is that the clip
for 1897 will be much heavier than in 1895.
They also say that owing to the mild
winter weather wool will be of far pet-
ter grade.
A live stock broker at Miles City re-
ports the following sales: 1850 yearling
| ewes at 81, 500 stock cattle at $23. 400 stock
| cattle at $23, 1900 stock cattle at ~, SooV
| Texas cattle (three years. at $40. delivery
at Clayton, N. M; 1000 and 4-year-oid
steers at $33, delivery at Miles city; wv
| Gallatin valley steers, 2-year-olds, at Szz.
on cars at Bozeman; 200 2-year-old heif-
ers at Bozeman, SIS; 1000 Idaho steers,
yearllngs, at SIG; rs at s22; 5000 stock cat
lie at $40; small punches of the stock at
$40 and $50