The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-03-05
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES
A GLANCE OVER THREE STATES.
Farmers Hopeful From the Ample
Moisture I'm the SoiI-Demand for
Montana Grazing Lunds-SchooI
Statistics of Idaho.

ing industries in active operation, some
OF them running day and night.
The fruit crop of Washington last year
was estimated at six million dollars, of
which one-third was composed of prunes
Two more evaporators have been put
in operation in Whatcom county, making
six in all in the county.
George Baker, an employee of the Ev-
erett smelter. went to Alaska the latter
part of December. He contracted cold
after his arrival at Dyea, which develop
ed into pneumonia, from which he died.
BY an amendment to the Indian appro-
priatiOn bill, which has been passed by
the senate. the time for the completion of
the irrigation canal through the Yakima
reservation has been extended two years.
The $4,000 damage suit at Spokane of
Charles f. Clough against w. w. ID. Tur-
ner for the alienation of the affections
of Carrie H. Clough, wife of the plaintiff,
has been dismissed by Judge Prather.
The order was made on motion of the
plaintiffs attorneys.
Never in the history of Kittitas county
has the ground been in so good a condi-
tion for crops as it is now. Heavy rains
last fall gave ample moisture. Then the
fall OF snow was such that at least lS
inches was in sight when the February
breakup came. An immense quantity of
water has gone into the ground, and the
result means much for the coming sea-
sons crops.
The daily receipt of milk at the North
Ii,
1000 pounds, from which are produced
about 300 pounds of butter. For this milk
the farmers are getting approximately So
cents to 81, so that the creamery is dis
tributing about $1,000 a month. The Gus
toners of the plant bring milk for dis
tances of eight and ten miles, but there
is station on the Upper Natchez where
skimming is done and the cream brought
to the central market at Yakima. The
largest receipts are during April and May,
at which time 10000 to 10000 pounds of
milk will be cared for.
Another oil well has been struck in
western Washington, this time in the
heart of Tacoma, just north of the expo
sition building The discovery was
made accidentally some time ago by Joe
Derringer on land belonging to the Ia
coma Land Company Derringer, it Is
said, was not on good terms with Mr.
Anderson, the manager of the company,
so he let George w. Dickinson, formerly
assistant general superintendent of the
Northern Pacific, into the secret, and n
20-acre tract on which the discovery was
made was purchased at $4,000 an acre. II
is said the few tests that have been made
of the oil are satisfactory. and that the
product compares favorably with the oil
of the Ohio and Pennsylvania fields.
Montana.
The demand for Montana grazing lands
continues to be greater than the supply.
Last week the state land department
leased 5000 acres of grazing lands and
would have had the opportunity to lease
other lands could it have supplied the
particular sections desired.
George w. Irwin, the newly appointed
postmaster for Butte, has received a for
NAL ratification of his appointment from
Washington, together with an official
bond form for $4,000, to be signed by
himself and sureties who can qualify in
double the sum of the bond. As soon as
the bond is returned to Washington and
approved, Mr.. Irwin will be ready to as
sumo his duties as postmaster.
William B. Rodgers of Deer Lodge
county, who has been appointed United
States district attorney for the district
of Montana to succeed Ex-Governor i.
H. Leslie, has been for a few months act
ing as assistant district attorney and was
in the direct line of promotion. The APP
pointee has been a resident of Montana
since 1891. He has served term as coun-
ty attorney of Deer Lodge county, and in
1894 was elected to the Montana house
of representatives.
L. II. Parker. manager of the Murphy
Cattle Company in Montana, has two
costly dogs to add to his pack of wolf
destroyers, which now number, pups and
all. about 300 strong. The latest impor-
tations are a magnificent Russian blood
hound and a Leopard staghound bitch.
They cost delivered at Billings in the
neighborhood of $780, They both possess
long and aristocratic pedigrees, and are
fine animals, and look to be well adapted
for hunting wolves on the range.
d. J. Hogan, one of the well known
cattlemen of Montana, was in Helena the
other day from his home near Augusta.
He said that the cattle in his section
are wintering well. "We are having a
peculiar winter up our way, and l suppose
it is the same in other sections of the
state The weather has been fine as a
rule and little or no stock has persisted