Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-08-17
NORTHWEST NEWSANDNOTES
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES.
Various Bits of News From WASH
ingtOn, Idaho and MOntana-The
Eject of the Hot Spell on the
Grain CrOp-Little Damage Done.

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
a 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-Intelligencer 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 So 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 Klckitat 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. T. l. 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
a wild scheme to tan leather in q single
day. He lost his money and position,
and later died at Wallula.
IDAHO.
Auditor Anderson has made a rough
estimate of the total assessed valuation
of the state of Idaho, and he places the
increase over last year at 81 100000 This
is outside of any increase in railroad
telegraph and telephone lines. Last year
the total assessed valuation was $780,
100000.
Results so far indicate that the yield
around Moscow will not be up to what
was expected by the farmers. Fields that
were expected to yield forty bushels TO
the acre are only producing little over
thirty. The entire yield, however, will
ha In Than laa This fxy, will
produce 100000 bushels or more. Grain
men figure on about 425,OOO bushels be-
ing marketed at Moscow next fall
Threshing is general in the Potlatch,
near Kendrick, as the fall-sown grain con-
stitutes about 80 per cent of the grain
acreage, which is making on the average
of 80 to 40 bushels per acre. 1t is esti-
mated by the grain men that the damage
to the late sown grain is about Is per
cent and that fully 60 per cent of this
grain has escaped injury.
The damage on the reservation in the
vicinity of Kendrick, where there is
large fax acreage will curtail the yield
by at least five bushels per acre. On the
basis of curtailment of the grain yield
of the Potlatch of 10 per cent as result
of the warm spell, the Potlatch will have
at the least 100000 bushels of export
wheat.
The Clearwater river at Lewiston has
not approached low water mark this year.
The late rains on the mountains have
afforded favorable stage of water for
the few raftsmen who have remained on
the river. Even big lumber RATS have
been run all through the summer, which
is altogether unsusual.
The first load of the 1898 crop of wheat
was marketed at Moscow on August 9,
so cents per bushel being the price paid.
Russell & Rubedew bought the wheat,
which is of the Red Russian variety, and
was raised on one of the Hypotheekbank
ranches, farmed by Mr.. Davis. The whole
field averages between IS and 40 bushels
to the acre and grades No. i. This beats
all previous records for early threshing
in this section about five days.
MONTANA.
Hobo camps by the dozens are strung
along between Missoula and Garrison.
The city council of Billings has decided
to put in sewer system on scale to
accommodate 10000 people.
The first stock shipment of the season
over the Great Northern was made from
Malta last week by the Miller Live Stock
Company, and consisted of IL carloads of
prime stock.