Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-10-29
GLANCE OVER NORTHWEST
NEWS OF CROPS AND BUSINESS
Satisfaction of MOrtgages-Lumber
Trade of the SOund-The Mineral
Commission Are at Work In
Montana-Ashcroft Water Works.

Oakesdale expects to ship about l,2OO,-
600 bushels of grain this season.
Seattle street car lines report an aver
age increase of 40 per cent as compared
with the travel year ago.
Owners of wheat warehouses at Asotin
find it necessary to erect additional she'd
ding.
Harvest is progressing rapidly and fully
80 per cent of the wheat in the northern
part of Whitman county has been cut.
Ex-State Senator B. c. Van Houten has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal with headquarters at Seattle.
By vote of 10 to 4, the Tacoma city
council has passed an ordinance making
it imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement
Mr.. Loop, living in Whatcom county,
estimates that 1900 people have passed
mis- ranch en- route for the Mount Baker
gold mines.
The Wenatchee-T witsp state road is
now open in a manner to the mouth OF
the Methow river, and the presumption is
that work has commenced on the upper
end.
The road that the Klickitat county
commissioners are having built from
Hartland to Lyle is to be surveyed with
a grade that can be used for railroad
bed.
A party of surveyors has left Northport
to run permanent lines for the railroad to
the Boundary creek country, in behalf of
the Corbin interests.
From September l, 1896, to October 20,
1896, five satisfactions of mortgages were
filed with the Columbia county auditor.
During the same period for 1897 there
have been "a recorded, and only small
percentage Of the years crop sold,
The lumber business on Gray's harbor
is in fourishing condition, and nearly
all the sawmills are improving their
plants with view to increasing their out
put, and are figuring on running overtime
to supply stock ordered.
Six hundred members are said to have
been added to the Butte Miners union
during the past six months.
w. B. Rodgers has been appointed
assistant United States district attorney
to succeed George F. Shelton. recently
.
resigned.
The United States mineral land COM
missioners are at work examining and
classifying lands on the Upper Yellow
stone
Policeman Samuel Lynch, who left
Helena last spring for the north, is now
at Juneau, where he is working in the
company store for the winter and is lay
ing by a stake to go through with in the
spring.
Newt Chaffin, who lives about eight
miles south of Stevensville, shot and kill
ed mountain lion measuring over siA
feet to tip Of tail in his front yard thu
other day.
The Kalispell Industrial Company il
the name of new organization which ha
sent articles of incorporation to the secre
tary of state. The company is capital
lied for $4,000, and its object is to bull
and run a Touring mill and engage il
other enterprises if desired
The famous collection of gold nugget
held for long time by the First Nations
bank Of Helena, has been sold by the r'
ceiver of the institution to A. j. Davi
Of Butte, son of the late millionaire of til
same name, for $4,000.
Missoula sportsmen are complaining {
the scarcity of D.rds this month, and the
all report indifferent shooting all over I'll
county. In the Clearwater valley, whic
has always been one of the best region
for duck, there are not many this year.
Last winter the farmers of the Fla
Cd oh tho n
price then paid for pork, and nearly a
of them went out of the business The
are not enough hogs in the valley tn
year to come anywhere near supplyir
the local market, and pork is selling +
"a cents.
Sam Livingston, one of the oldest sc
tiers in the northwest territory, and W.
known in northern Montana, dropp'
dead in Calgary few days ago. I
was so years of age, He went to ALDER
from Fort Benton in early days and a
quired considerable fortune by tradil
with the Indians OF late years he h
occupied ranch on Elbow river and h
watched with interest the growth and
velopment Of the northwest, on both sid
of the boundary line.
Idaho.
Kendrick is to have tannery.
The Wardner Citizen has suspend
publication.
The Juliaetta tramway company is NJ
running its cleaner night and day.
Harvesting is completed in the p
latch and many farmers are hauling tn
grain to the warehouses.
F. A. Hardwick. former Pullm
school teacher and son of w. d. Hal
wick of Nez Perez, has crossed the SKI
uay trail and is now on his way to Da
son City.
For the first time in several years tn
is not vacant house in Occur dale
and several families are compelled to ia
rooms in the brick blocks
Charles Halstead and two eompaniC