Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-11-26
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
PROGRESS IN BUSINESS CIRCLES
IdahO's Game Law Held to be tncOn-
stttutionnl-Shippi Apples to
Honolulu on n Sailing Sessel-
uontnna's Inhe ritance Law.


to Japan.
Wenatchee grain buyers are complain
ing of lack of cars.
4 tribe of Red Men has been organized
at Hoquiam with 60 charter members.
The city council of Seattle has elected !
I. j. Humes mayor to succeed w. u.
Woods.
Three prisoners escaped from Jail at
Mount Vernon by locking in the jailer
when he brought their supper
The attendance at the public schools
of Kendrick has reached 1913.
William Oxley was killed at Delta,
falling from wagon and breaking his
neck.
The Banner Mining Company at Wal
lace has completed its cabins and has
two men facing up for the tunnel until
the contract for running it is let
The telephone line which is under con-
struction between kendrick and Pierce
City and Nez Perez will be completed as
far as Leland at once.
The experiment of shipping apples to
Honolulu on sailing vessel Is being
tried at Port Townsend.
The liveliest demand is reported on the
mart OF eastern railroads for Washington
fir for car building.
The years shipments of salmon, cod
fish, oats, lime and shingles from Ana
cortes to points outside of this state foots
up in value to $6SO.OOO.
Flathead county, Montana, raised AGO.
600 bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels Of
oats and 100000 bushels of barley the
past season, valued at a total. of nearly
half million.
Warrants on the special school fund for
any particular year, it is held by the at
toney general, must be paid in order Of
issue from any funds in the special levy
fund in county treasurers' hands to the
credit of the district
Editor +. A. Hazeltine Of the South
Bend Journal finds himself and wife
somewhat affected by the recent passage
of civil marriage law in the Peruvian
congress. About three years ago Mr. Ha-
zeltine married Methodist missionary
then located in Peru, the marriage being
considered illegal there, as neither party
was a Catholic.
Eleven HOllanders and two Frenchmen
have formed a colony to file upon land %
miles from North Yakima. There are So
each family contributed $25 towards
. sinking an artesian we'll, work upon
which will be begun at once The land
selected is wonderfully fertile. More
Hollanders from Michigan are expected
Montana.
A car load of horses has just been ship
ped from Hamilton to PASSPORT, Kan.
8 Missoula's wholesale merchandise bust
ness has been unusually heavy this fall
> Work has been begun on the railroad
south of Whitehall known as the Parrot
a l. Ruby Valley.
a 1t is estimated that between 900 ant
! 1900 fruit trees have been delivered il
Q Beaverhead county this fall.
o The wolves and coyotes continue il
). great numbers in the upper Sand Coule'
v country, and are very TROUBLESOME, to tn
+ ranchers and stockmen.
While hunting at Potato Hill lake
near Phillipsburg the other day, Bur
Tarr got within rifle range of flock o
10 wild swan, and succeeded in shootin,
one of them, which weighed 10 pounds.
The supreme court has sustained tn
IS constitutionality of the inheritance Law
d passed by the last legislature. The Law
10 imposes tax of per cent on bequest
D. to any beneficiary not relative, wher
T.. the estate amounts to over 500.
re The report of the Lewiston land ofYic
for the month of October shows 1915
I'd acres entered under the desert land &C
and final proof made on ,2SO acres unde
ID that act: 20 homestead entries aggregat
" ing 4,633 acres, and nine homestea
ir proofs aggregating LAO acres; two tin
he Der culture final proofs agrregating 80
al acres. and one sale of public lands, il
H. GLIDING l2l acres.
Good prices for sheep and cattle hay
had the effect of almost clearing til
ranges in eastern Montana, and both ca
OF tie men and wool raisers are alarmed. d
he they do not know where they will get
he new supply.
d. Recently lob Indians from the Fol
rs Peck Indian reserve went up into IL
n third, fourth and sixth points, on IL
go Missouri river, and killed enough de,
as to feed the wards of the government +,
ne the next 10 years. In one day, out
IN one point, they butchered something ill
200 deer.
Antelope are again reported to be lea
!, ing the Yellowstone park for the low,
ne country, where they are being slaug
% tered by the hunters The residents
-, the upper Yellowstone are DESTROYS of a
III fording these. animals every protectit
-, provided by the Montana game laws. ar
yin have petitioned the board of county cor
". m'ssioners for the appointment of sp
ciai game warden for that section
he Idaho.
Probate Judge Clinton of Elmore con
ty holds the game law invalid. declar;,
i'll that tie law had not been passed in co
IN iormity with the constitution. "a 90
ar strued in the fee bill case
ir- Buyers have bought up about all
nrs the choice apples in the vicinity of &c