Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-05-28
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington.
county looks forward to an

Whatcom county looks forward to an
abundant fruit crop.
The long distance telephone will be ex-
tended from Everett to Arlington
The Island County Times reports a
great increase In tine potato acreage this
year.
The annual meeting of the Washington
Pioneer Association will be held in Sc
attic on June 10. -
About 1900 head of cattle purchased in
washington, Oregon and Idaho were
shipped last week from Spokane to the
ranges of Montana and Wyoming
Asotin county stockmen complain that
| their most valuable geldings are missing
from the ranges, and aver that a whole
lot or stealing has been going on during
the past year.
The Beaverland Woolgrowers' Associa-
ton has decided to pay shearers cents
per head with board or cents per head
without board, the shearer to tie the
wool.
The brickwork of the state normal
school at Dillon is finished and the roof
of the tower is being put on
Inc state land commission has granted
loO leases OF school land in various parts
IN eastern Washington since May / and
many applications are pending.
A Blaine man is endeavoring TO interest
eastern capital in a plant for Blaine for
utilizing the refuse from the salmon can
neries and dog fish for the manufacture
of commercial fertilizer
1t Is estimated that there will be up
wards of 1900 men employed in the fishing
INDUSTRY In Whatcom county this sum-
mer. There will be over so traps in oper-
alton in the vicinity of Point Roberts IT
is expected that several hundred gill nets
VIII pc used in the gulf below Point Rob-
erts and Lummi island
sixteen horses were sent from Port
townsend last year to the Cook Inlet
country to operate q pack train and al
though they had plenty of food, eight head
dled from the effects of the cold during
the winter. Another company operating
81 horses at the same place lost the entire
outf1t The horses were common causes
ana 1t is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold
Ell Hathaway, who was a merchant Ill
Whatcom in 1855. Is trying to get the gov
eminent to pay him for property destroy
ed by Indians during an insurrection in
that year. Mr.. Hathaway left his store
ana went out to fight the Indians and
while he was away the store was burned
to the ground. When congress passed a
law authorizing the court of claims to adj
Indicate all Indian depreciation cases.
Mr.. Hathaway failed to file his claim ,ln-
III aiter the expiration of the time limit.
Montana.
Comrades of the Grand Army depart-
ment or Montana, will go to the national
encampment at Buffalo in considerable
numbers this year.
Cincinnati capitalists have a 10000 acre
tract set aside in the Big Horn basin
which they propose to cover with a ditch
that Will cost about $75,000
The supreme court holds that the anti
scalpers law passed by the third Montana
legislature, in 1893, which Is still on the
statute books, is constitutional
lnnlE 0e,4zN
that the lamb crop of this season is the
greatest in the history of the sheep indus
try OF northern Montana, and that the in
crease in many bands will be more than
100 per cent, while the loss Is practically
nothing. ....
The outstanding warrants of Helena
against the general fund amounts In all to
$345, 255, making the entire Indebtedness
OF the city in the form of bonds and war
| rants $736. 812.55. There are due to the CITY
from suspended banks $6S,5S2.17.
The Marias roundup has gathered most
OF the cattle that drifted south of the
Missouri during the winter the outfit ag-
gregating some 5000 head. The cattle are
In very good condition for this season of
the year, a circumstance which leads
stockmen to the conclusion that they will
have early beef shipments for 1897
Idaho.
Hope people are catching fine trout.
Priest river valley is filling up with set
tiers
Ranchers are becoming uneasy over the
rising waters in Pend d'Ore!lle lake.
The assessment rolls of Alturas county
figure up a total of $647, .76
There has already been received this
season at Mountain Home over a half
million pounds of wool.
The trustees of the Crttenden home
have negotiated n loan of $500, with which
they expect to be able to complete the
home by the first of July
A gambler has been fined 5000 by the
probate judge at Boise for violating the
gambling law. The defendant immedi-
ately applied for a writ of habeas corpus,
and the law will now be tested in the
courts.