Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-07-20
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
There isn't locality in eastern
Washington where there is poor crop
of wheat.
Senator Turner has appointed as al
ternate to West Point Leo p. Quinn OF
Spokane, the son of Attorney P. F.
Quinn.
The celebration at Ritzville the,
Fourth was participated in by a good
crowd from the country, Lind and 9TH
er towns.
The contract for a new combination
bridge over Union Flat creek, at Leach
Vile, four miles from Cotton, for SITS,
has been let
Around Walla Walla harvest has al
ready begun, and the yield will aver
age at least 40 bushels, with many
fields going 60.
The first annual shooting tourna-
ment of the Walla Walla Gun club last
week was a great success, and prizes
amounting to $500 were paid,
There is reason to believe that the
census will show that there are 1000
inhabitants on the North half of the
reservation within the limits Of Ferry
county.
From the Palouse all reports are en-
couragfng. The fall grain is far
enough along to commence haying, and
the harvest will at least be a month
earlier than last year.
The feasibility of an electric rail
road from Spokane through the Spo-
kane and Colville Indian reservations
to connection with the Spokane Falls
& Northern has been recently pointed
out
The increasing business Of the Spo-
kane postofice has made an addition to
its force imperative, and four new men
will be put at work October 1. Three
of the men will be carriers and one will
act as clerk.
Wagons have been abandoned on the
Wilson-Kettle Falls stage line and Con-
cord coaches substituted. Travel over
the road is increasing rapidly. The
| incoming passengers more than double
the outgoing.
Jay Lynch, agent of the Yakima In
characterization, has issued orders pro-
hibiting the keeping of characters
once ordered off the reservation in the
employ of persons doing business there,
A strict enforcement of the law is to
| be made.
Perhaps the biggest outlook for the
Inland Empire in crops in comparison
| with average years is in fruit. Three
and four carloads day are already
shipped by Spokane merchants, and
| this will increase as the season ad
vances.
Barley and oats, according to the
best reports, are going to compare al
least favorably with average years
though in some localities the barley
heads are short, and consequently will
not give as good yield as was at frs
expected.
Henry Yeomans, the Spokane BIO!
who has made a record for himself IL
collegiate work at Harvard, has recent
ly returned from his alma mater t.
spend his vacation. He returns in tn
fail to take up. his duties as assistan
professor of history in that institution
. The managers of Spokane's exposi
ton have adopted scale of prices TO
admission that should prove mucl
more satisfactory to the public thai
any arrangements made in forme
years. The price for general admis
sion will be Is cents; the added charg
! of 10 cents for seats will be cheerfull
paid.
|
} Fred Brown, the stock dealer of Co
: fax, has returned from Seattle an
brings an interesting story of bunc
of Whitman county steers which h
fed at Colfax last winter and in Marc
| shipped to Seattle, where they wer
| sold. On his last trip Mr.. Brown me
| the man to whom he sold the cattle
{ The latter had just returned from Dav
son City, where he took the steers, q
) ing by boat to Skagway and theme
l across the mountains to the end of tn
: railroad, and then driven over the ic
e and lakes and rivers to Dawson. A
( Dawson the cattle we're sold at So cent
per pound, the so head being sold fo
I $500 per head, the remaining Is brini
: ing $3.50 each. 1t cost only '$175 pc
e head to take the cattle to Dawson.