Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-07-13
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
Review From the States of WASH
tngton, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gon--News of the Past Week
Boiled Down.
IDAHO.

An excellent record has been made
in the mining department at the Uni
versity of Idaho.
The ice men at Kendrick have only
about one ton of ice left to supply GUS
toners for the remainder of the sea-
son.
c. A. Pitwood, living near Orofino,
/ brought in strawberry recently that
measured nine inches in circumference
and weighed three ounces.
Last week j. B. Perkins, mining
man, publicly horsewhipped Attorney
d. T. Whine Of Lewiston in front of
the postoffice building. Winnie took
refuge in the postoffice and was let out
the back way.
The new bridge being built across
the Potlatch at Kendrick, it is thought
will be completed this week. The struc
ture is being built by Contractor Oliver
| of Spokane, and is one of the best
| bridges in this section. The other two
bridges at Juliaetta have been built
The heat was so intense last Thurs
| day in the valley that the laborers en-
1
gagged in re-constructing the Vineland
race track struck and refused to work
The thermometer ranged around 10C
degrees in the shade, and when placed
| for few minutes in the sun ran up tc
100 degrees
The following increases are announc
ed for Idaho postmasters; Blackfoot
$1,000 to $500; Caldwell, $14OO tc
$500; Grangeville, $1,000 to $500;
Idaho Falls, $1,000 to $500; Lewiston
$500 to $2100; Montpelier, $1,000 tt
$1400; Mountainhome, $1,000 to $1100;
Payette, $1100 to $1,000; Wallace, $17O(
to $1,000; Wardner, $1400 to $500;
Weiser. $1,000 to $500.
Father Joseph Josef, the famous In
dian missionary, has expired at De
smet Mission, amidst the sorrowine
Occur d'Alene Indians, whose spiritual
| guide he had been for the past fifty
years. Calmly, peacefully, as one in g
sweet sleep, he gave up his great SOU
into the hands of his maker, exhausted
by long years of faithful service.
| Placerville, in Boise basin, had an
other baptism of fire last week as a
result of which nearly all the business
buildings are in ashes. The people
however, are in better shape than they
were after the confiagration of August
II of last year, as only one dwelling
was burned. The fire broke out in the
rear of John Veesey's saloon on the
north side of the plaza.
1t is estimated that 300 people are
holding down claims in the white pine
belt east of Kendrick. This spring the
timber has been carefully looked over
by number of lumbermen and several
locations made. Some of the settlers
have been holding their places for sew
eral years with the hope that the state
would take some action toward dispos
ing of it, and open up the country
Joseph Macdonald, manager of the
Frisco mine, was shot at four times
by two men from ambush near Wallace
one morning last week. He was cross.
| ing from the company's mill to the of.
fee at 10 o'clock when the firing began
four shots coming in rapid succession.
Each struck at his feet, being fired
from the mountain side, so much above
him that they were buried in the
ground instead Of glancing, he digging
out all four bullets later. He looked
up on the mountain and saw two men
running up through the brush, but too
far away to be recognized.