Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-12-10
EVENTS Of THE NORTHWEST
IMMENSE OUTPUT OF lUmeeH'
Government survey OF the
L,o..,rl. Rive,-HaIf q Million Of
Acres In Montana Patented 10 '"e
Northern Pacinc-Helens Men IN
the klOndike.

come 50 crowded that another teacher mas
been employed. -,
II is estimated that the 40 and odd
mills in Snohomish county cut annually
about 100, 600 900 feet Of timber.
Yakima county Is agitatng the estab-
lshment 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 APT acres OF land
thus fur 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 life saving station
at Westport has been completed and Will
be manned about March l with crew OF
seven surfmen and keeper.
The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal has
secured list showing that at least 30
per cent Of the single 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 Prot.
Barge is a member. has been ordered to
the Cintah reservation in Utah, where
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 cannenes have now
closed down and the steamers, etc, have
gone into winter quarters. The output
has been l22, 500 eases, valued at S42S 800
The Fidalgo cannery packed $1,000 cases ;
Anacortes cannery, 30,5OO 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. t. 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 d
80 per cent basis the suit brought by Kit
sap against Snohomish county for 1864. 80
alleged to have been overpaid by KitsaE
county on the salary of the superior Judge
of both counties.
Notice of the sale of the Fort Colvillt
military reserve has been published. Thi.
reservation lies three miles north of tn,
present site of the town of Colville ant
comprises an area of about l4OO acres
The sale will take place at the old mill
tary post on February 9 next, and thu
tract will be struck off to the highest bid
der for cash at price not less than thu
appraised value of the land.
Idaho.
The Richards party has arrived safel,
ut Dyea, according to letter received a
Boise.
Idaho state penitentiary raised owe
$1,000 pounds of potatoes on six acres 0
ground.
Judge Piper has decided in favor of tn
constitutionality of the age of consent Law
passed by the legislature of 1895.
Governor Steunenberg is paying visi
to the Occur d'Alenes, comforting with tn
people in regard to their wants and neces
sites.
Shoshone cOunty's Jail is full at present
mostly serving time in accordance witt
sentences from justice courts, and few
awaiting the action of the grand jury
which will meet next February, unles
the supreme court shall decide in tn
meantime that an indictment by informa
ton is valid.
OF special interest to the residents Q
tho Pend d'Oreille valley is the result @
the government survey of the Pend dol
ellie river, which has been recently CON
pleted. The survey shows that the char
mel of the river. from Rocky Point t
Priest river, has a depth Of over 40 fee
water enough 10 float the largest steam
ships in the world. The official report
expected to be entirely favorable to tn
opening Of the river to navigation fror
the lake to Metalline. and will give An q
innate of the probable cost of overcon
ing the Priest river rapids, where tn
eriver drops II feet in six miles; also A
bany falls and BOX canyon.
Mayor John H. Orr, one of the pionee,
Of the Pacific northwest, died at his HON
near Caldwell the other day. He va
born in Lawrence county, Ark, in ls3:
He crossed the plains to Oregon in ls5
and resided for time in Polk county an
at Portland. He studied law and was a
mitted TO the bar in 1880. Soon afte
ward gold was discovered in large qua,
titles in the Boise basin and he joine
the rush that occurred. He supplied III
leading mining campo of Idaho and Mo,
tana with beef cattle. He was at Eur
: ka, Cal, in its palmiest days, where /
| practiced law in 1872. He afterward wer
east, returning to the Boise valley, whe,
: he has since resided, in 1875. He left
large family.
Montana.
A Fort Benton man il said to have y
ceived An offer of Is cents for next year