Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-08-17
WASHINGTON.

There are at present APO bicycle
tags issued in Spokane.
Fifty-one entries are reported for the
month at the Walla Walla land Office.
There was slight frost last week in
some localities in the Colville valley.
Alfred Lee of Rosalia will ship a
trainload of horses to st. Paul this
week.
The annual catalogue of the Wash
ington Agricultural College and School
of Science is on the press.
Wesley L. Lloyd of Walla Walla, lost
500 sacks of wheat by fire last week on
his farm near Waitsburg.
Fire at Republic (old town., last
week, destroyed three or four thousand
dollars worth of property.
The Great Northern branch to Re-
public will be built this year. The
Wenatchee route will be chosen.
Prices for canned salmon will be ad-
vanced at least 25 per cent when the
schedules are fixed on August 10.
Duke Robear, youngest son of Joseph
Robear, pioneer farmer of Addy, was
drowned in the Colville river last week.
The first carload of watermelons
shipped from Yakima county was billed
from Prosser by Warren Viles last
week.
The State Fair Commission has
sent out over $500 premium lists of
the fair to be held in North Yakima
next September.
Harvesting is about all finished in
the vicinity of Walla Walla. The
wheat crop will fall below expectations
both as to quantity and quality.
Harvest is advancing rapidly despite
the shortage of help, and fully go per
cent of the grain in the vicinity of
Palouse City is cut and in the shock.
Last week w. D. Buchanan was shot
through the heart by J. M. Simmons at
the residence of the latter, corner of
Second and Oak streets, in Walla Walla.
Colfax is threatened with water
famine The North Palouse river, from
which the city water is taken, is lower
than ever known at this season of the
year.
The cutting of the wheat crop in the
vicinity Of Cheney is about finished and
threshing is we'll under way. The sea-
son is about 80 days in advance of last
year.
At the special election held in We
natchee bonds were voted in the sum
of $500, the money to be used for the
purpose of constructing a system of
water works.
Palouse country wheat-growers, mer-
chants and business men are signing
petitions urging the Northern Pacihc,
! the Great Northern and the o. R. & N.
to give them special rates this season
! to enable them to ship their wheat to
eastern markets.
Harvesting in Lincoln county has be-
gun. Most every farmer in the county
was last week busy with the header or
thresher. The grain is small, but hard
and of good quality.
J. M. Frink. the choice of John L.
Wilson and the remnants of the old
McGraw ring, has been Endorsed by
! King county as her candidate for the
republican gubernatorial nomination.
Mr.. Harlow, located east of Farming
! ton, sowed 20 acres of his land to tim
othy The average yield this year was
two and one-half tons to the acre, and
the price obtained for The hay was SO
per ton. After all expenses of baling,
ETC., the land yielded more than SIS
per acre.
/ The scarcity of help prevailing in all
parts of the country is much felt in Pa
louse and vicinity and all industries
are affected Farmers are running
"short handed" and everv dav thev are
on the street hunting for men and find
ing none, although they are offering
higher wages than were ever paid in
the harvest fields of this country.