Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19
NORTHWEST kEWSANDNOTES
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES
Various Bits of News From WASH
fhgton, Idaho and MOntana-The
Effect of the Hot Spell on the
Grain CrOp-LittIe Damage Done.

Harvesting is in progress around Che
ney. The yield of wheat is unusually
large, but not quite so heavy as the yield
of last year.
The canneries at Fairhaven are only
able to run half the time ON account Of
scarcity of fish.
Dewberries, of home growth, have been
more plentiful in the Ellensburg market
this season than ever before. They are
large and luscious.
II. b. Williams of Whatcom is the new
editor of the Reveille, Parker Ellis having
retired to devote his time and talents
to the Seattle Post-lntelligencer and San
Francisco Examiner agencies.
Surveyors have commenced the work
of locating the line of the Port Angeles
& Eastern railway, which it is intended
to connect with Victoria by ferry SER
vice carrying cars. The survey between
Angeles and Discovery Bay will be pushed
to completion with all possible speed, and
it is the intention to have the road in
operation next sumner. The company
is composed of New York and Chicago
capitalists.
The hot weather for the last week has
been the most intense yet experienced in
Stevens county. However, the frequency
of rain during the past two months has
rendered the crops sufficient moisture
that they could endure two weeks more
of the hot season. The hay harvest is
well advanced. The grain crop is safe
from any damage. Fruit and vegetables
are also in good shape.
The extreme hot weather prevailing in
the Big Bend for the past week came on
too late to do any material damage to
the spring wheat in that portion of the
country. Harvesting of fall wheat is now
nearly done all about Davenport, and the
average yield is placed at 80 bushels per
acre. The spring grain harvest has begun
and the yield will average 80 bushels.
In consequence of forest fires in the
interior districts the atmosphere has be-
come intensely smoky. On the south
half of the Colville reservation there is
vast tract of timbered country at the
mercy of the flames which are sweeping
over the country. Fires are also reported
in British Columbia, particularly at Ymir,
where much damage is being done to
prospectors.
The wild blackberries are so abundant
in western Klickitat that AXtel Anderson,
with three members of his family went
over there and returned with 100 gallons
of canned berries as the result of five
days picking.
Mrs. I. /. Peabody, who recently
drowned herself in Lake Washington, Sc
attic, formerly lived at Wallula, where
her husband was O. r. & n. station agent
They were ardent spiritualists, and it Is
said that spiritualist friends induced Mr.
Peabody, who had accumulated a com
, Portable sum, to put all his savings into
t a wild scheme to tan leather in single
day He lost his money and position
and later died at Wallula.
IDAHO.
) Auditor Anderson has made a rougl
il estimate of the total assessed valuation
n of the state OF Idaho, and he places thu
e increase over last year at 81 100000. Thi
is outside of any increase in railroad
telegraph and telephone lines. Last yea
II the total assessed valuation was $40
a 100000.
X Results so far indicate that the yiel
l. around Moscow will not be up to wha
i was expected by the farmers. Fields tina
II were expected to yield forty bushels t
l. the acre are only producing little owe
II thirty. The entire yield, however, WI
e. be larger than last year. This county wi
a produce 100000 bushels or more. Graz
n men figure on about 425,0OO bushels b'
ing marketed at Moscow next fall.
Threshing is general in the PotlatcI
IT near kendrick, as the fall-sown grain cor
Is stitutes about 80 per cent of the graz
ri acreage. which is making on the averaa
es of 80 to 40 bushels per acre. 1t Is est
mated by the grain men that the damae
to the late sown grain is about 10 Pc
cent and that fully 60 per cent OF tn
IN grain has escaped injury.
st The damage on the reservation IN II
k vicinity of kendrick, where there Is
Is. large flax acreage will curtail the yie
Ill by at least five bushels per acre. On Il
ia basis of curtailment of the grain yle
of the potlatch of 10 per cent as resu
of the warm spell, the Potlateh Will ha'
Nd at the least 100000 bushels OF expo
Try az N
eh, wheat.
by The Clearwater river at Lewiston II
not approached low water mark TINS yea
The late rains on the mountains ma
MS afforded favorable stage OF water l
of the few raftsmen who have remained
i21 the river. Even big lumber RATS ha
ing heen run all through the summer. WIN
i altogether unsusual.
The first load of the 1898 crop OF VINE
in was marketed at Moscow on August
Oh, 10 cents per bushel being the price pa
$50 Russell 4 Rubcdew bought the whe'
which is of the Red Russian variety, a
was raised on one of the HyPotheekoa'
mes ranches, farmed by Mr. Davis. The wh'
rial field averages between 80 and Az bush
$50 70 the acre and grades No. l. This be'
all nreyious records for early threshi
,ore in this section about five days.
bic MONTANA.
Hobo camps by the dozens are s'ru
,+,.oan AIissoula and Garrison