Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-12-15
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
A Review From the States of WASH
ingtOn, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gOn-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.
WASHINGTON.

II A school teacher has light form o
, diphtheria at Pullman.
Spokane business men favor a per
manent exposition home.
The Jobbers' Association of Spokan,
will give a banquet on Jan. 4.
The Cheney liquor license is $500
and slot machines 500 year.
The council has ordered saloons shu
from IL to $50 a. m. at Spokane.
Practically the whole of the Stucl
river valley is one vast sheet of water
J. D. Murray is bound over at Walls
Walla on the charge of stealing hogs
A new postoffice has been establish
ed at Pinhook, to be known as Rice
postoffice
James B. Martin of Peola says the
farmers in that section are still busy
seeding.
Farmers around Dayton are com
planning of damage done by the recent
heavy rains.
The -four mill at Harrington has be
gun operations. The mill has a capac
ity of 200 barrels day.
Hog cholera has made its appearance
in the vicinity of Dayton, number OF
animals having died of it.
| The Pataha City mill has started
grinding again after being entirely re-
modelled with the wing system.
Work on the improvement of the Ok
anogan river has been carried from
Johnson creek to short distance below
| Alma.
Capt. James Robertson and Eli w.
Hansen, master shipbuilders, have de-
cided to locate in Anacortes and estab-
lish shipyard.
Benjamin Briggs, aged 81 years, was
drowned recently while attempting to
wade the Nooksack river near the fish
hatchery at Welcome.
Minnie, 15-year-old daughter of M.
j. Bridges, Of Ellensburg, committed
suicide last week while in fit of an
ger, taking three ounces of carbolic
acid.
Joseph Steele, pioneer of Whatcom
county, was found dead at his home
at Sumas. The cause of his death was
gunshot wound, supposed to have
been inflicted by himself.
The dead body of squaw was found
on the track near the Ellensburg de-
pot. The accident happened at night.
The victim was probably intoxicated
when it occurred.
syndicate of farmers unloaded 20
900 bushels of wheat the other day at
Uniontown, Wash, selling it to Mr..
Covert, manager of the Tacoma Grain
company, at 381A cents per bushel.
In the Walla Walla land office for the
month of November 100 homestead en-
tries were made covering 1906. 78
acres In this month more entries were
made than in any one month since the
establishment of the land Office in Wal
la Walla.
The sugar factory at Waverly has
begun work. The enterprise is ready
for business after several years of eff
fort. AS it is well equipped plant,
four hundred acres of beets were raised
and one hundred and fifty men will be
employed.
There has been shipped to the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington a
large bundle of wheat on the stalk,
which is to form the center piece of the
grain display at the Paris ex-
position. The grain was raised on the |
o. R. & N. experimental farm near Wal. |
la Walla, under the supervision of the
United States department of agricul- |
ture.
WnAHn
Sam Beck one of the old pioneers of |
Boise is dead.
l.. A. Hyde has been appointed post
master at Bruneau valley.
William L. Sipe has been appointed
at Brannan.
A postofice has been established at
Mica, Kootenai county.
A postofice has been established at
Nee Perez county.
Henry L. Wadsworth has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lapwai.
The expenses of the United States
court in Idaho for the year were $685.
s229O.
A strong effort is to be put forth
again to secure the opening of the Fort
Hall reservation.
cave-in occurred in the tunnel of
he Clear Water branch of the North
'rn Pacific near Orofino last week, kill
ing a workman.
Senator Shoup has departed for
The senator is an ar
lent expansionist and an advocate of
he building of the Nicaragua canal.
New pensions have been granted to
he following residents of the state of
daho: Charles York, Nampa, So per
month; Francis M. Mckenzie, Swan
AXE, Sc; Richard Barrett, Emmett,
IL; Isaac w. Porter, Arco, So.
d. w. Ross last week picked out
rom sluice box on the Pioneer plac-
RS, of which he is manager, a nugget
inches long. 2h inches greatest
'idth and l inch thick, being some
that egg shaped and worn perfectly
moothe.
Fifty people have dragged the bot
I'm of the Snake at Payette for the I
ody of Walter King, who was drowned v
ithout success. Wire fences have t
zen planted across the river in two I
aces in the hopes of catching the
,dy.
Tharo a. ,..,,.l J.