The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho. Mon
tuna and Washington.


abundant fruit crop.
| The long distance telephone will be ex
tended from Everett TO Arlington.
| The Island County Times reports
great increase in the potato acreage this
year.
The annual meeting of the Washington
Pioneer Association will be held in Sc
attic on June TO-
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 of 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 10 tie the
wool.
The brickwork of the state normal
school at Dillon is finished and the roof
of the tower is being put on.
The state land commission has granted
$50 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 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. 1t
is expected that several hundred Gill nets
will be 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 pack train and al
though they had plenty of food. eight head
died from the effects of the cold during
the winter. Another company operating
81 horses at the same place lost the entire
outht. The horses were common cayuSes
and ii is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold.
Eli Hathaway. who was merchant III
Whatcom in 1855, is trying to get the gov
eminent to pay him for property destroy
ed by Indians during an instruction in
that year. Mr.. Hathaway left his store
and went out to fight the Indians, and
While he was away the store was burned
to the ground. When congress passed
law authorizing the court of claims to adj
judicate all Indian depreciation cases.
Mr.. Hathaway failed TO file his claim I'M
til after the expiration of I'll. time limit.
Montana
Comrades of the Grand Army, depart
ment Of Montana, will go 10 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 ditch
that will cost about $4,000.
The supreme court holds that the anti
scalpers law passed by the third Montana
legislature, in 1898, which is still on the
statute books, is constitutional.
Flsckmasters from Teton county say
that the lamb crop of this season is the
greatest in the history OF the sheep indus
try or 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 3l2.55, making the entire Indebtedness
of the CITY in the form of bonds and war
rants $736, S12.55. There are due TO the city
from suspended banks SOS, 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'Oreille lake.
The assessment rolls of Alturas county
figure up a total of $647. 771.76.
There has already been received this
season at Mountain Home over half
million pounds of wool.
The trustees of the Crittenden home
have negotiated a loan Of $500. with which
they expect TO be able to complete the
home by the first of July
A gambler has been fined $500 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.
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