The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-05-28
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND.
Prospect of "a Large Fruit Crop
Surveyors Locating an Extension
of the Vancouver, klicISitat n
Yakima RniIroad-Work on the
Extension of the PaIOuse Branch.

WalIa Walla merchants are shipping
large quantities of potatoes to Kansas and
other states.
Threshing is progressing nicely north
of maritime in Lincoln county, and con-
siderable of the grain proves to be but
slightly damaged or not damaged at all.
The members of company b, First regi-
ment, n. G. W., at Seattle, have organized
by electing C. II. Crane captain; John
Z. Carroll, first lieutenant; Thomas II.
Gamble, second lieutenant.
Whatcom county reports that pros
poets for a large fruit crop could not be
better, and Judging from the appearance
of the grass the yield of hay will surpass
in quantity all expectations.
Fruit prospects were never better than
in this portion of the Yakima valley, is
the report from North Yakima. Pros
poets are that growers will have to thin
down the crop by at least one-half Spray
ing for the coddling moth is now going
on.
Lumber shipments by water from Grays
Harbor points during the month of April
amounted to $4,000 feet, divided as fol-
lows Hoquiam, ten cargoes, 1852, 900
feet; Aberdeen, eleven cargoes, 3,3SS,000
feet; Cosmopolis, six cargoes, 100000
feet.
Notice has been given by Mayor Nick
Gus of Tacoma to the commissioner of
public works, the chief of police and the
chief of the fire department to notify all
men in any of their departments that any
of them who enlist may have the assur-
ance that their places will be reserved
for them and restored if the war should
close within the life of the present city
administration.
Thomas Lynch, an old soldier, and for
a number of years a resident of Golden
dale, is reported to be with Admiral Dew
ey on the flagship Olympia. 1t is gen
orally believed he is serving as a barber
Lynch served as drum major and bugler
Edward Lynch, his son, is said to be a
sailor on the battleship Oregon, having
enlisted while the Oregon was ON Puget
Sound.
At the annual meeting of the State Den
tai Society at Tacoma, the following of
ficers were elected: President, P. H. Car
lyon of Olympia; first vice president, w
+. Bukhart of Tacoma; second vice pres
ident, J. n. Prather of Seattle; treasurer
j. f. Banks of Yakima. The following
We're elected delegates to the Nationa
Dental Association of North America t.
convene at Omaha in August: B. +
Eshelman. W. L. BurShart of Tacoma
b. S. Scott of Ellensburg; c. A. Holmes
E. d. Andrus of Seattle; p. II. Carlyoi
of Olympia.
A party of 10 surveyors, connected will
the Vancouver, Klickatat & Yakima rail
road, are in the vicinity of Trout Lake
at work locating an extension of the road
They are on three weeks survey owe
the proposed line of the road. The prin
cipal object of the trip is to mark gu
practicable route through Klickata
pass it being the announced intention o
the company to make considerable eX
tension the present year. A portion o
the crew are working toward this cit,
along the line of the old Hunt survey
The war with Spain has made two va
cancies in the family circle of the Rev
Myron Eells, the we'll known missionar,
at the Skykomish Indian reservation, an,
a writer of consideraoie prominence, espec
tally on early life in the Northwest, In
dian customs and languages. His son
Arthur H., who was in Ellensburg whei
the call for volunteers was issued, wa
one of the first to respond, and inform
his parents by mall that he will go to tn
front when his company gets orders. An
other son, Chester, at school in Coupe
vile, has also joined a company there AM
is drilling daily, hoping to be called.
Reports received from different part
of Clark county show there are most ia
vorable prospects for an enormous GRO
of prunes and all varieties of fruit tn
coming season. The climatic condition
so far this spring have been all that coul
be desired and contrary to the genera
rule, no discouraging reports whateve
have up to this time been received frOr
any section. In the orchards near tn
Columbia and in the lower ATTITUDES tn
prunes are said to be already advance
beyond all danger of damage by fros
, or cold rains, and those on the highe
lands, remote from the river, where tn
fruit season is from one to two week
later, the damage is past.
Idaho.
The sixth annual convention of tn
Woman's Christian Temperance Union {
North Idaho district, will convene at Lev
iston on the first, second and third {
June.