The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
NORTHWEST BREVITltS
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE CoUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Gem
eruI Interest i'm Idaho. Montana
and Washington.

Clarke county expects a big fruit crop.
Seattle is already preparing ror
Fourth of July celebration.
Logging camps along the Fort Towns
end Southern are busy.
A movement is on foot to establish a
hospital at Snohomish.
The books in the Whatcom county Of
fees are being examined by experts.
Several yards about Chehalis have been
trained, which is two weeks earlier than
the training was done last year.
The exports of Puget sound were nearly
$500, 900 more during the first quarter OF
this year than for the corresponding time
last year.
The New Whatcom board OF trade has
received two letters from parties desiring
to start nurseries in Whatcom county,
one from Montana man, the other from
a Florida man.
Tacomas fire record for 1896 shows the
loss by fire the past year to have been
$27, 1920, while 1923. 76S.Q insurance was
paid total insurance, $693, 1876 There were
1872 alarms, while the fire department cost
the city $l, 774.5O.
There are 500 Indians in the west end
of Clallam county, the various tribes liv-
ing at the Hob, Ozette, Quillayute and
Neah bay. Chief Peter, of Neah bay, is
at the head of the Indian government
and is recognized by the United States
government as police officer Chief Peter
conducts his council with all the Dig
nifty of the newly-elected justice of the
peace He lives in what was formerly
the school house, using the large room
for his council chamber. Before him are
determined the controversies which arise
in the tribe, but his decisions are sub
ject to review by the Indian agent.
Montana.
There is talk of building a concentra-
tor at Neihart, to cost 100000
The cattlemen of Dawson county say
their winter losses will not exceed 20
per cent of their herds.
More building permits were issued in
Butte during April than for any previous
two months in four years.
Cascades county attorney gives the
opinion that the new liquor license law of
Montana does not apply to unincorpor-
ated towns and camps.
The recent boom in cattle values has
brought offers to many Montana stock
men that they would have instantly ac-
cepted had they been made six months
ago. but they lose attractiveness under
present conditions. 1t is said that one of
the largest owners on the Shonkin was
recently offered $26 per head for his cat
tie possessions, but he positively refused
to entertain the proposition.
Farm products are quoted at Bozeman
as follows: Butter is 20 to 221a cents per
pound; eggs only cents per dozen; pota-
| toes are % cents a hundred pounds
wholesale; oats are so cents per hundred
pounds barley is out of the market soft
wheat is 60 cents and hard wheat 20 cents
per bushel; hay is selling loose, per ton,
| for $50 to $10.50, and baled from $40 to $11.
Wheat is being held by the ranchmen. al
though the amount of wheat unsold in
this valley is not large.
Idaho.
Wheat farmers have worked with more
courage this spring.
The Pocatello Herald has been absorbed
by the Tribune.
There is complaint that the state law
forbidding the sale of cigarettes to min
ors is not enforced.
Plans are to be drawn for the contem-
plated improvements at the asylum for
the insane at Blackfoot.
More attention than ever will be paid
by the fruit raisers of Idaho to properly
grading and packing the product of their
orchards.
June %. 20 and "a have been settled up
on as the dates for the state Christian
Endeavor convention, which will be held
in Boise
Idaho sports are expecting a decision
from the supreme court by June l on the
legality of the anti-gambling law. 1t is
said that on and after May all gambling
will cease until after the court passes on
the matter, and that no attempts will be
made to evade the law.
The compilation and publication of the
laws of the last session has developed
the fact that a serious blunder was made
in connection with the horticultural bill.
The law as it stands contains no provis-
ion for collection from owners of or
chards of the cost of eradication of pests
when the same is done by the state.