Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-02-18
NORTHWEST POINTERS.
STATISTICS OF THE PAST YEAR.
Cut I'm Salaries at Colfax Court
HOuse-Big Horn Stock Owners
Report Great Loss of Their AMI
mails From Wolves-PaIouse Ex-
tension of Northern Pacific.


stored at Cotton, Whitman county, has
been sold and shipped.
Stock raisers ON the Wenas have been
feeding large bands of stock for the win
ter city markets.
Whitman county commissioners have
made cut in the salaries at the court
house, effecting saving of $500 year
There is more cash on hand in County
Treasurer Silverthorn's office than there
ever has been in the history of Douglas
county.
Garfield and Columbia counties have
about concluded an agreement whereby
the division lines between the two will
be re-established The old marks are
about obliterated
The last floor of the Gray's harbor light
house has been put in place on top of the
brick tower, and it commands fine view
of the whole harbor country.
Stock in Kittitas valley have been fed
for the past month and the present pros
poets are that feeding will continue for
some time yet, says the Ellensburg Lo
caller.
G. E. Lind, contractor of the Blaine
Ferndale road, reports the work progress
ing well. He has large force of men at
work at each end of the road. At the
Ferndale end the grading is all done and
about two miles planked. At the Blaine
end grading and grubbing is the order.
Henry Craemer has been sentenced to
be hanged March 25 for the murder of
Mrs. Phillipena Mueller and child. This
is the third time that sentence of death
has been passed on Craemer. Craemer's
only hope now lies in Governor Rogers.
Tacoma's December exports We're val
ued, according to the collector of GUS
toms, at s., 1864 ,299s6 Nearly all, if not
all, of the commodities exported were of
American production. The imports for
the year of 1897 were $S,l25,95S.6l. Ex-
ports for the year We're So, 1919, l77.22. Re
ceipts of the port from all sources were
S., 26664.
The action of the Whitman county COM
missioners in settling with the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company for so per cent
has resulted in others, who own railroad
lands, demanding the same rebate. AZ
the meeting of the county commissioners
which closed yesterday an order was made
authorizing County Treasurer Manning
to accept so cents on the dollar for the
taxes on unpatented railroad lands owned
by the Vermont Loan and Trust Com
pany for the years 1898, 1894 and 1895.
The same order was made regarding the
lands of the Bunnell & Emo Investment
Company. w. Hampton was refunded
$3.50 taxes which he had paid on i'm
provements on government lands.
Montana.
The apportionment of the state school
moneys gives the Choteau county school
fund some $49l Fergus county, 1920;
Teton county, $2l9, and Valley county
| sos.
The mineral land commission has adj
/ journed till January 20. Commissioner
Tomkins has gone to Arkansas and Com
missioner Hathaway will spend the va
cation on the coast.
Carbon county has been apportioned
the sum of $39564 from the state school
income fund. This is on a basis of AZ
cents for each of the 942 children of the
county according to the August census.
L. HI. Brigham, government freighter
died at Mammoth Hot Springs from the
effects of injuries sustained by a fall from
a wagon on December 20 while hauling
freight from Cinnabar to Fort Yellow.
stone. Mr.. Brigham was an old timer il
the service and about 20 years of age al
the time of his death.
Governor Smith has appointed the fol
lowing delegates to the Nicaragua cana
convention, Which will meet in Kansas
City January II: John B. Losekamp O
Billings, j. HI. Durston of Anaconda, J
H. Monteath and F. E. Corbett of Butte
and R. R. Purcell of Helena.
The announcement is made that only
$4,000 can be expended in the running
expenses of the Great Falls schools. Thu
taxpayers of school district No. l, which
includes all of this city, pays two-third
of the taxes to be used for school pur
poses in the county, but the city schools
get back but little less than two-fifth
of the entire tax.
Fergus county this year has delin
quent tax list amounting to $9527.2S, o
which amount $443448 is due from tn
Northern Pacific railway, that corpora
} ton refusing to pay taxes to the count.
: on its government land grants until I
pending suit in the United States court i
settled. The delinquency from taxpayer
other than the railway is $500 less thai
that of last wear.
The stock owners of the Big Horn ba
: sin report great destruction of their ami
mails from wolves and are raising genei
Gus bounty by private subscription 70
the destruction of the pests. 1t is est
mated that there are 600 of these ami
mails in the basin at present and tina
. the killing of stock in consequence is un
: usually large.
S The state board of pardons has az
proved the action of Acting Governo
!, Spriggs in granting unconditional pal
dons to Henry Kingery and William Wi
cox, who were sent to the penitentiar
from Madison county November %, 1884,
> for five years for highway robbery. Tn
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