The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-01-22

washington wheat in considerable
quantities is to be shipped east.
The new steam evaporator at Ferndale,
Whatcom county, has a daily capacity of
two tons of fruit or one ton of potatoes.
Adams county is considering a propo-
sition from the Northern Pacific to COM
promise $3l 900 back taxes for $4,000.
Bishop Earl Cranston being present,
5000 was raised to pay off the debt on
the M. f. church at Davenport.
The treasurer of Skagit county gives
cut the information that within the past
two months he has collected 100000 due
on taxes, $27 900 of which has been out
standing as far back as 1885.
The aggregate ocean tonnage en- route
to the sound from various ports of the
world amounts to $4,000, a gratifying
showing over that of the two last years.
Many loggers and ranchers who had
logs in above tidewater in Chehalis coun-
ty are rejoicing that the big freshets
brought down their forest crop into the
booms, whence they can now be easily
marketed.
Col. j. H. McLoughlan deputy Unit
ed States marshal for the Seattle office,
has resigned the position. In letter to
Marshal Ide the deputy assigns the rea-
sons for his action in part as follows
After a fair, hard trial of five months, 1
find it impossible to make living for my
family.
Pacific county commissioners have en-
ployed w. A. Potter to expert the books
of the auditor, sheriff and clerk since 1898,
at SO per day. Mr.. Potter is one of the
heaviest taxpayers in the county and is
now engaged in the dairy business, though
he formerly was an expert bookkeeper in
California
The Whatcom county teachers associa-
ton has appointed committee who are
now corresponding with teachers and ed
ucators in the northwestern part of the
state, with view to advancing the inter
ests of the Whatcom county normal school
in the next legislature
The British ship Ditton, which has the
honor of having the largest tonnage of any
three-masted sailing vessel afoat in any
sea, has just cleared for Queenstown from
Tacoma. She carries a wheat cargo OF
73.4l5 bags, or l59,6O2 bushels, valued at
$l25,OO0.
The recent freshets did considerable
damage in the valleys of Skamokawa. The
shifting stream invaded the home of j
b. Mcdonald at the midnight hour anC
caused his family to make a hurried exit
to nearby shed. Mr.. Mcdonald, will
his oldest son, has been taking down the
house the past week, and preparing t.
build a more secure home on the benci
land.
Henry Craemer, the condemned muir
derer of Mrs. Muller and babe, who is sen
fenced to be hanged March %, has beer
removed from the north corridor of tn
King county Jail to the condemned cell
off the ;ailer's office. The death watch ha
been placed. A few weeks before the da.
on which Craemer is condemned to die tn
death watch will be increased to proven
all possibility of suicide. As things an
now there is little danger of Craemer max
ing any attempt to take his life. He doe
not believe that the order of the court wi
be carried out. although his ideas as t
Just what will prevent it are rather vague
He spends the day in making pictur
frames out of cardboard.
Montana.
The Missoula Odd Fellows have jus
celebrated the goth anniversary of tn
incorporation of their lodge.
The first dividend on the deposits of tn
First National bank of Helena is bein
distributed. 1t is a 10 per cent dividen
and amounts to $4,000.
The Montana state university buildin
commission has adopted the plans an
specifications for the university hall an
science building at Missoula. The col
tracts will be awarded in about 30 days.
In the past year Montana's mineral al
live stock product was equal to a divider
of $3.50 to every soul in the state-ma
woman and child. The total was S67 ,25C
600, and is a large increase over the figu
for 1896.
Judge Henry has made an order appC
tioning the stenographers salary betwe'
the counties comprising this judicial d
trict. Park county, with l0S cases, W
pay $4,000; Sweet Grass county, wi
Al cases, will pay $37S.46; Carbon count
with 40 cases, will contribute $42462.
The most important warrant call in t
history of Montana has Just been a
nounced in the notice given by the sta
treasurer that, as fast as presented,
general fund warrants registered up
December ! last. will be paid, the call
Guiding warrants aggregating $225,O'
When they are paid the state will be mel
er out of debt than it has been for years
The Scandinavian church of Nilsson
that has recently voted to become Cong