The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-04-16
NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST
IDAHO, WASHINGTON, MONTANA
Slight Injury to Fruit and Grain in
the Inland Empire-Work Begun.
Ditch on the Asotin-Re-
trencbmcnt of City Expenses at
Helena-Survey of the Birch
Creek Canal.

Creek Canal
Judge Rudolph Guichard of Walla Wal
la is dead.
Cowlitz county has IA single and six
saw mills.
Eastern families are settling in Puyal-
lup at the rate of one and more per day.
More are coming, largely from Michigan
and Wisconsin.
The money order business of the Che
halls postofiice is growing. 1t is nearly
twice as heavy now as when MIR. Lillpop
took the office. 1t amounts to from $l700
to $4,000 a week. Mr. Lillpop says he
thinks it will soon average $1,000 a week
the year around.
Word has been received at Vancouver
of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the Fourteenth infantry. He
lied on the evening of March 10 of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, after an illness of
only three days. A letter from Dyea says
that he was strong, robust and healthy
up to the hour of being taken with the
disease.
AT meeting of the board of directors
of the Y. NJ G. A. at New Whatcom a
few nights ago it was decided to employ
a secretary to take complete charge of the
institution for one month and see if it
could not be put on a substantial enough
basis to pay the running expenses of the
building
For the past two weeks, or ever since
the heavy frost passed over the country,
there has been a general cry among a GER
tain few that the fruit crop of the Inland
Empire was ruined by the frost, and that
even the fall sown wheat was badly dam.
aged. Several of the prominent commits
sion houses of Spokane, who have CORE
spondents in all of the tributary districts,
have taken the trouble to thoroughly in
vestigate the matter, and their finding is
that not only is the fruit crop not mate
rally damaged, but that in many sections
the frost was more of help than him
drance.
John p. Anderson, more Familiarity
'Pete" Anderson, one of the Puget sound
pioneers, died the other day at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Rogers in Ar
lington. Mr.. Anderson was an old steam
boat captain OH the sound, and served a
term several years ago as surveyor of Sno-
homish county. He was one of the path
finders of that county, being familiar with
every square mile of its territory, and for
several years has followed timber cruising
and private surveying. He leaves quite a
large family of children, all grown, his
wife having died several years ago. He
was about 81 years old.
William Jones of Walla Walla, one of
the heaviest grain operators in the Inland
Empire, was in Tacoma the other day and
in conversation with a reporter said:
"There is little to say concerning the
wheat situation except that the winter
wheat crop has come through in fine
shape. We shall have an increased area
in wheat of about 10 or 10 per cent over
last year. There is considerable grain yet
unsold, and some of the large holders who
have been very bullish since early last
season are still carrying their wheat al
though the price is now about 20 cents, as
compared with so cents last fall"
Idaho.
A racing meeting is to be held at Weis-
er beginning June l.
The o. S. /. Railway Co. has just paid
$4,000 delinquent taxes into the Blaine
county treasury, as the result of a recent
court decision.
The Lewiston Light and Power Com
pany has commenced work on the con-
struction of ditch on Asotin creek. The
ditch will supply power for their new
plant, which will be in operation July /.
The site of the power plant is 10 miles
from Lewiston, in the state of Washing
ton.
A Boise butcher has just been paid $50
to release a farmer from a contract to sell
him all his veal calves this year. Two
years ago the calves were contracted at
So, last year at So and this year at 81.
They are worth about Sl2.
Governor Steunenberg has received Of
fers of services for military duty from a
large number of men since the Spanish sit
uation became acute. The men coming
forward offer to serve in any capacity in
which they can be useful in the event OF
Idaho being called upon to furnish troops
to assist in prosecuting a var with Spain.
There is a great stir in business circles
at Idaho Falls, and the people there are
anticipating the best season in a long
time. A great many buildings are being
put up and others are in contemplation.
The recent influx of people into the sur
rounding country has been large and the
tide Of settlement continues undated.
At Agatha, about eight miles above the
month of tho potIatch there i q market