The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-05
NEWS OF THREE STATES.
POINTS IN SEASONS BUSINESS
Record of Grimes and Accidents,
Together with Summary of the
happenings i'm This Part of the
Coantry-A Look All Around.

viii lie shipped from Palouse, Whitman
county, this season.
About 100000 eggs have been put in
the troughs of the new fish hatchery on
the White Salmon in Klickitat county.
A Whatcom county man has started a
new desiccator, which is producing 5000
pounds of evaporated potatoes daily. Two
crews are employed and the plant is run
the entire "a hours
Port CANDLES total foreign cargo ship
sents in December were 1891 feet of
lumber, los ,375 lath and 100000 shingles.
The total coastwise shipments were 1896
ss4 feet of lumber, 529, 400 lath and 90
500 shingles.
The Washington state fish commission
er, A. G. Little, is making an examination
of the Des Chutes river at Tumwater with
a view to putting in a fish ladder for
which an appropriation of $500 was made
by the last legislature.
Fish Commissioner Little has been pre-
pairing his annual report of the fish and
shelllish output of the state of Washing
ton for the past year. His report will
show the salmon pack of Puget sound as
4S4, 926 cases, against 3l2,36l in 1896, an
increase of l75, 665 cases, OF over SO per
cent.
A large panther was killed the other
day near Ludlow by a farmer of that
section and taken to Port Townsend. The
animal succeeded in killing five of the
couEtryman's cows before bullet ended
his career. Heavy snow and consequent
scarcity of food in the mountains is driv-
ing the pantheIs into the valleys. But re-
-. he. rl,,trh he Of
Port Townsend.
The total Indebtedness of the city of
Montesano on December 81, 1897, was
S47, G47.4l. Since the city clerks report
was made, the county treasurer has re-
mitted to the city 81 1884, amount of
taxes collected during last quarter. This
would reduce the debt to $40, 3OS.47. De
sember 81, 1896, the debt was $45 ,079.06;
December 81, 1895, it was $45, ll9.9l.
Centralia-County Treasurer Maynard
has Just completed his annual statement
Of receipts and disbursements for 1897.
Total collections, $l4l, 1920; disburse-
aents, Sic, 426.36. Receipts, state school
fund, $ll ,47S.65; state general, $l2,-
x62. 2S county general, $23,715.36; county
bridge, 81 | ,6l7.36; county school ,sl674.75;
special school, $l6,528.36.
Superintendent Brintnall of Thurston
county is in receipt of numerous applica-
tions from country districts in Thurston
county for teachers. Quite a number of
the country districts of this county will
have eight months of school, and almost
nene of them will stop short of six months
of school for the year. The scarcity of
teachers gives wages an upward tendency.
Thurston county teachers have been
teaching for ar average of $25 TO $50 per
month in the country districts. The
wages now offered range from $50 to $40
per month says the Olympian.
Montana.
There are l22 dentists authorized to
practice in Montana.
William f. Cody, better known the
world over by the cognomen of Buffalo
Bill, with a party of friends is en- route
for his ranch in the Big Horn basin.
TIL preliminary organization of the Flat
head County Fruit Growers Association
has been effected at Kalispell, Mont.
Twcnty-three names were enrolled as
members.
United States District Attorney Leslie
has instituted in the United States court
IA suits against parties accused of illegal
ly fencing the public lands Most of the
suits brought are against parties living in
Teton, Cascade and Choteau counties.
A northern Montana wool growing firm
that shipped a clip of about $4,000
pounds to Boston last July, has Just re-
ceivcd returns on the consignment. 1t
sold for lS1 cents in the original bags,
netting the owners 1910 cents, which is
the best result yet reported in this vi
entity.
Range cattle in the Milk river country
are picking up, but need water badly.
Ranch cattle that have been fed and wa
tered are in splendid condition. Wolves
and coyotes are still numerous on the
range, and those who have hounds have
had good sport killing these pests.
In an opinion addressed to Rev. George
G.. Stull of Billings, a Methodist minister
of the gospel, Attorney General c. B. No
Ian holds that all property of churches,
except places of actual public worship,
are subject to taxation. AS such church
property as parsonages has been consid-
cred exempt in almost every county in the
state the opinion is of decided interest,
affecting as it does almost every church
in Montana. In a conversation with Rev.
Mr.. Stull some time ago the attorney gen
eral expressed the opinion that such prop
.erty as parsonages, where the pastor of a
church resided, were exempt from taxes