Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-02-11
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
A GLANCE OVER THREE STATES
Single Mills in Western Washing
ton Resumfng OperatiOns-Wheat
Shipments From the sOund-News
From the Ranges of Montana
work on the Railroad to Lewis
ton, Idaho.

Loggers from Olympia are cruising on
the upper reaches of Elk river, in Che
halls county, with view to opening up
big camp.
General fund warrants of Chehalis coun-
ty have been called up to and including
No. 23ll, dated April 8, 1894, amounting
to about $4,000 All of the warrants
drawing 10 per cent are now out of the
way.
The British ship Jordanhill has cleared
from Tacoma with full cargo of wheat
the 49th cargo for the season. She car
ries l32,925 bushels, valued at $4,000
Exports thus far amount to 100000
bushels, valued at $4,200000.
Spraying fruit trees for insect pests has
begun in Yakima county, and in short
time all the orchards in the valley will
show up perfectly white from the appli
cation of the official spraying recipe Civ
en- out from the state horticultural bu-
reau.
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton holds that it is illegal to donate
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use as a dance hall OF kindred purposes
at social entertainments. There is moth
ing in the law authorizing such use
either by the vote of the electors OF by
act of the directors.
Warren Blagden, who was recently
buried at Goldendale in the Odd Fellows
cemetery, was an early and respected cit
- IL lo-
in Maine in 1924. In l84S he was mar
ried to Miss Lydia Upper at Sycamore,
Illinois.
The movement to form drainage dis
trict comprising the vast swamp west OF
Colville is meeting with some vigorous
opposition from settlers up the valley.
Those in the lower end of the proposed
district are strongly in favor of drainage,
and will push the enterprise.
One of the most important decisions
ever rendered in the state. and the first
one of the kind ever rendered, is that
handed down by Judge Neal in the case
Of the Spokane Street Railway Company
and the Inland Telephone Company
against the county commissioners. The
tOuIt iiClQ b1ldI ~ IldHCHlSC II SuOJctb
taxation the same as the property of a
corporation or an individual, OF the prop
erty owned by the company owning the
franchise.
The report of the Washington state
grain inspector for January shows that
during the month the local receipts oil
wheat amounted to 9S3 cars, as against
ll5 cars during January, 1897. Estimat
ing from the first receipts of the 1897 croT
in September last, Tacoma has been the
salt water terminal for 1918 carloads O
wheat, measuring about 100000 bushels
The inspectors report states it is esti
mated that about IS per cent of the croI
has been moved.
The business men of Great Falls are OF
ganizing to push the Edmonton route t.
the Yukon.
The Montana State College of Agricul
ture has Just received. three dynamOs
which constitute the initial equipment o
its electrical laboratory, and they viii
also be used for lighting the college build
ings.
The Billings committee to- raise tn
subscription toward the Sisters hospita
report the full amount of $4,000 subscrib
ed and the offer of several eligible site
free.
The Big Horn basin ranges are reporte'
to be in fairly good condition and tn
winter thus far has been extremely favor
able to stock interests. There are in tn
neighborhood of 100000 head of sheeI
being wintered in the basin, about hal
of which were driven in last fall from Vel
lowstone county.
The Milk River valley, in Montana, i
looking forward to a prosperous year. TIL
wool growers have the most encourag
ing prospect of years. There will not b
so many range cattle shipped in, but tn
ranchmen will increase the number O
their holdings and improve the quality O
the stock.
A new departure was made in cOur
procedure by Attorney Lyter of Grea
Falls few days ago. He was to hav
submitted an argument before the distric
court at Choteau, but being detained q
home by sickness, Mr.. Lyter addressed hi
remarks to Judge Smith, at Choteau, owe
the telephone.
Active work has begun on the extension
of the railroad to Lewiston. Thirty-tw
men are making their headquarters a
Kendrick. At present they are takin
track above town and taking it to a poin
below Juliaetta, where it is used to ripra
along the track.
Stock shipments over the Burlingto
last week We're the largest in the histor
of that road. Besides some 700 cars G
sheep and cattle transferred from tn
Northern Pacific, the Burlington handle
nearly 5000 cars of stock received for shiI
ment between Billings and Newcastle,
distance of 36l miles. The Billings yard
alone contributed l400 cars of beef cattl
and feeders and 46l double deck cars O
sheep. In addition there were about 40
cars of sheep and cattle shipped in over tn
Burlington during the year 1897.
City Physician Shultz has complete,