Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-08-21
NEWS AROUND HOME
ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON IDAHO
AND MONTANA.
Assessment Figures, DufiuS Vper"-
tons 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 %. 30 and October /,
The current school fund OF the state
has been increased S2l ,020.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 Tor the
penitentiary, amounting to $2lO9.34
Eighty-fye carloads of hay were ship
ped from Ellensburg in July, most of 1t
going to the sound. 1t is still beng 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
be necessary to make it deep water
harbor.
The Eastern Washington Hospital for
the Insane purchased 100 barrels of flour
at $349 per barrel, and the penitentiary
laid in supply of 204 barrels at 1928,
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 Pomeroy, while there will be about
800 90 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 state
fair to be held in that city in Octo-
ber
The date of the annual teachers eX-
animation in Latah county has been
changed to August 26.
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. & 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 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 I, Ray, who has been Auditor
Bragaw's chief deputy for the last seven
years, has resigned his position and in
company with George T. Roberts, well
known merchant of Clarks 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 viii be a saw
ing of cent and a half bushel in freight
rates, and while last year the market
opened at about "a cents it is almost
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 has
reported in the form contemplated by
the new law. 1t reports the number
of sheep grazed in the county two
months, the number three months, and
so on, while the other counties either
average the number or neglect to make
any reference to the sheep grazed only
a portion of the year.
Montana.
Placer mining has been resumed on the
river bar south of the fair grounds at
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 /,
1897, to August /, 1897.
The Bozeman postof1ice is one that will
receive increased pay owing to its improv-
ed business. The sum of $500 has been
added to the postmaster's salary.
During the month of July there were
shipped from Townsend by the Northern
Pacific company 1900 pounds OF wool;
$4,000 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
beef shipments will be in full swing about
the latter part of August The Milk
river pool is said to purpose shipping its
/ first trainload from Chinook about Aug
/ ust 20.
The management of the new coal com