Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-08-24

'
to Hawaii this year, as compared with
! 1899, amounts to &c per cent
Centralia's new lawn tennis club is
prospecting under the presidency of DR..
F. G. Lewis. The club has Is members.
Wallula, on the Columbia river, ship
ped the first ripe peaches in the state,
says a correspondent of the Pasco
News-Recorder.
From all over the valley reports con-
tinue to come in saying the potato crop
will not be near up to the average, says
the Ellensburg Capital.
During all of 1899 Mexico used 7,249,-
$40 feet of lumber from this state, and
during the first half of 1900 the con-
sumption was 1851, 2O4 feet.
During the first six months of 1900
the exports of Washington lumber to
the Philippines amounted to SO per
cent of the exports during all of last
year.
Mrs. F. e. Woodwork, the wife of a
locomotive fireman, shot herself
through the heart, and Mrs. Mary Rich
ards, widow, took poison, in Portland
| recently.
Fire caused havoc among the saw
| the last month, no less than twenty
fires being noted, the total loss amount
ing to 100000.
To persons from counties not sc
densely populated, the recent institute
at Pullman would have certainlyebeen
surprise, from the fact that the en-
rollment was more than $50 for the SEES
sion.
The American District Telegraph Go
has been organized in Spokane. They
will do a general messenger business
also may engage in electrical construc
| ton, and act as agents for firms and
| individuals.
A new company is forming in Spo
kane to extend the telephone lines thai
center in Spokane. Are going into
the Okanogan and will string wires
to the new mining towns of that prom
Using district.
Thursday, August %, is the date
| fixed for the annual outing and picnic
OF the Spokane Retail Grocers' Asso
citation, and as previously announced
Occur d'Alene City is the place where
the festivities will be held.
Republic has the prospect of having
a good water system by the close of the
year. The Republic company has
been granted a franchise for 50 years
to supply water to the people OF the
town and for fire purposes.
The interior department is making
efforts to give the widest publicity tt
the laws against forest fires to the enc
that campers and hunters and other;
will be careful to start no blaze tina
will destroy valuable standing timber
The body of Joseph M. Olsen wa
found in the hold of the ship Isaat
Reed, anchored in the stream near thu
coal bunkers, recently, by the watch
man of the vessel. Olsen's neck wal
broken and he had sustained other in
juries which indicated death by a fall
| The state board of land commission
ers has approved the sale of timber oil
| school land in section SO, township q
north range east, 800 acres to thu
Snohomish Logging company for $500
and lao acres in Spokane county to H
B. Wadsworth for $500, in section &c
township 29 north, range 43 east.
Last fall new wheat known as thu
Arcadian was introduced into thii
country and a considerable acreage
sown. This is now being harvested
and threshed and the results have beer
disappointing to nearly all who have
1
good as other varieties of wheat ant
the grain skaters so badly that it IL
Improbable. From all districts where
the wheat has been tried the same re
ports are heard.