Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-08-20
NEWS AROUND HOME
ITEMS FROM. WASHINGTON, IDAHO
e.: AND MONTANA.
Assessment Figures, building Opera
lions and other Interesting
GleanlnGs.

The total assessment of Wahkiakum
county is $747 ,53s, and of Chehalis coun-
ty $l.426.3S5. =.
The concrete foundation for the light
house at Westport is about completed.
The Stevens County Fair Association
will hold. their annual fair at Meyers
Falls September 20, 80 and October /.
The current school fund of the state
has been increased $2l ,O2O.l3 since April
!, this year, by rents collected from
leased school lands.
The board of audit and control has
passed upon the July pay roll for the
penitentiary, amounting to $2lO034.
Eighty-fi carloads of hay were ship
ped from Ellensburg in July, most of It
goir" to the sound. 1t is still being ship
ped at a lively rate.
A survey of the mouth of the Quill
layute river is being made to ascertain
the cost of the improvements that will
he necessary to make it Il deep water
harbor.
The Eastern Washington Hospital for
the Insane purchased 100 barrels of -four
at $3.40 per barrel, and the penitentiary
laid in supply of 2O4 barrels at 1925,
both Just in time to save the recent rise
of 40 cents a barrel.
The railroad company estimate that
they will move about $500 cars of grain
from P6meroy, while there will be about
500 20 to Snake river and be taken by
boats to Riparia and there shipped by rail
to Portland. tbfI-ft 3
II. " hyley Of Port Townsend, who
for. t3ars. past has operated pack train
at &dbk, inlet. Alask has with Others
purchased the Cotton schooner Norman
Sunde,: which they will send to Cook in
let ut once with a cargo of provisions, to
return with miners who wish to come
south for the winter.
Boise is contributing funds for a state
fair to be held in that city in Octo-
Der.
The date Of the annual teachers ex.
animation in Latah county has been
changed to August 20.
A new saw mill is to be erected at
the head of Lapwai creek, near Mason
butte ON the Nez Perez reservation.
Lewiston reports that the peach crop,
owing to some. climatic condition, is not
up to the standard of excellence of past
years. =.
The o. r. l. N. company has put an
other boat in service on the Snake river.
The traffic demands this additional SER
vice.
The. Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company ia strfnging the poles for the
new. line between the Occur d Alenes and
Spokane. @-'-.
The Short Line is after the box car
fare collectors and within the past few
days about dozen conductors and brake
men have been discharged for forgetting
to turn in such fares.
Henry T. Ray, who has been Auditor
Bragaw's chief deputy for the last seven
years, has resigned his position and in
company with George f. Roberts, well
known merchant of Clark's Fork, have
left Rathdrum for the Klondike.
1t is estima ted that. 100000 or 10000
bushels of wheat will be shipped from
Genesee this season. There will be a saw
ing of cent and half bushel in freight
rates, and while last year the market
opened at about "a cents it is almost
double, that this year.
II is found the reports of the assess
ment of sheep is very unsatisfactory.
Boise county is the only 'one that has
reported in the form contemplated by
the new law. 1t reports the number
Of sheep srazed,. in the county two
months, the number three months. and
so ON, while the other. counties either
average the aumber or neglect to make
any reference TO the sheep grazed only
portion Of the year.
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Placer mining has been resumed on the
river bar south Of the fair grounds ut
Livingston.
Recent discoveries of mica in the up.
per Bitter Root are attracting atten-
ton.
There have been 542 quartz and placer
locations filed for record with the county
clerk at Virginia City from January l,
1897, to August l, 1897,
The Bozeman postofiice is one that will
receive increased pay owing to it's improv-
ed business. :, The ssum of $500 has beer,
added to the postmaster's salary.
Duying the month Of July there were
shipped from Townsend by the Northern
Pacific company z-v.oOO pounds of wool
S2.5OO.pounds of ore.
Notwithstanding the dry weather OF
May the Fergus county hay crop prom
Uses to be far in excess of what was
originally anticipated.
1t Is expected that northern Montana
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