The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-21
NEWS AROUND HOME
ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON, IDAHO
AND MONTANA.
Assessment Figures, Building Opera
lions and Other Interesting
GIeanings.


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 ,020l3 since April
l, 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 $2lO934.
Eighty-five carloads of hay were ship
ped from Ellensburg in July, most of it
going to the sound. 1t is still being ship
ped at lively rate.
A survey of the mouth of the Quill
layute river is being made to ascertain
the cost of the improvements that will
be necessary to make it a deep water
harbor.
The Eastern Washington Hospital for
the Insane purchased 100 barrels of flour
at $3.49 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 barrel.
The railroad company estimate that
they will move about $500 cars of grain
from Pomeroy, while there will be about
500 go to Snake river and be taken by
boats to Riparia and there shipped by rail
to Portland.
H. V. Bayley of Port Townsend, who
for years past has operated a pack train
at Cook inlet, Alaska, has with Others
purchased the Cotton schooner Norman
Sunde, which they will send to Cook in
let at once with cargo of provisions, to
return with miners who wish to come
south for the winter.
Idaho.
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 &C.
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
ND to the standard of excellence of past
years.
The o. R. & 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 is stringing the poles for the
new line between the Occur dAlenes and
Spokane.
The Short Line is after the box cal
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 sever
years, has resigned his position and il
company with George f. Roberts, wei
known merchant of Clark's Fork, have
left Rathdrum for the Klondike.
1t is estimated that 100000 or 100000
bushels of wheat will be shipped from
Genesee this season. There will be a saw
ing of a cent and half bushel in freigh
rates, and while last year the marSe
opened at about "a cents it is almos
double that this year.
1t is found the reports of the assess
ment of sheep is very unsatisfactory
Boise county is the only one that ha
reported in the form contemplated b!
the new law. 1t reports the humble
of sheep grazed in the county tw'
months, the number three months, anC
so on, while the other counties eithe
average the number or neglect to max
any reference to the sheep grazed onl,
portion of the year.
Montana.
Placer mining has been resumed on tn
river bar south of the fair grounds Il
Livingston.
Recent discoveries of mica in the up
per Bitter Root are attracting atten
ton.
There have been 542 quartz and place
locations fled for record with the count
clerk at Virginia City from January
1897, to August l, 1897.
The Bozeman postoflice is one that wi
receive increased pay owing to its improy
ed business. The sum of 5000 has bee
added to the postmasters salary.
During the month of July there wer
shipped from Townsend by the Norther
Pacific company 1900 pounds of wool
$4,000 pounds of ore.
Notwithstanding the dry weather {
May the Fergus county hay crop prom
Uses to be far in excess of what wa
originally anticipated.
1t is expected that northern Montan
haaf Shinmants will he in full swing ahOil