Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-04
There is considerable building activ.

Inere Is considerable building act1v.
ity at Walla Walla.
Registration in Spokane is going to
be heavy this year.
There are rumors of an electric road
from Marcus to Republic.
A big lien has been filed on the Geo.
Spalding Company at Spokane.
The western Washington hardware
dealers have formed retail combine.
The steamer Selkirk struck hidden
rock and went down in Okanogan river.
A petition is soon to be presented
for the Incorporation of the town of
Reardan.
The state pharmaceutical association
will hold its annual meeting in Spo-
kane during the fair next fall.
G. ID. Barlow, express agent of Fair
haven, Is missing, and there are fears
that he may have been murdered.
October 10 is the earliest date on
which settlers can locate lands on the
north half of the Colville reservation.
A new grocery house, to engage in
the wholesale trade. and with a paid
up cash capital of $125,00O, has been
organized in Spokane.
The attempted consolidation of the
fish Gamers of the northwest that has
been reported for the last several
months, is said to have finally fallen
through.
There is movement on foot to hold
a state militia encampment at Tacoma
In July. Governor Rogers favors the
project and the Spokane companies
are enthusiastic over the outlook.
The Paul F. Mohr portage railroad
in which Spokane capital is heavily
interested, is apparently making prog
ress, and before many months will have
portion of its transportation line in
operation.
The State Grand Lodge of the A. O.
U. w. concluded three days session
at Seattle and adjourned to meet al
Spokane on the second Wednesday in
April, 1900.
Georgia McCubbins, formerly of Spo-
kane, was employed as a domestic in
the Seattle home of Charles H. Green,
and was found dead in bed. Escaping
gas was the cause.
P. d. Norton, assistant treasurer OF
the st. Paul & Tacoma Mill Company
president. of the Tacoma city council
and member of the Tacoma Land Co.
directory, is dead
A. G. Nelson of Rossland was found
dead on the railroad track near North
port. He had committed suicide by
OIacinU a PouoIuor IN Iio ,,oo,tJ, o-d
pulling the trigger.
w. p. Trimble and Fred e. Sander of
Seattle announce that they have secur-
ed full rights of way from a double
track standard gauge electric railway
connecting Seattle and Tacoma, and
will commence construction as soon as
the surveys now under way are COM
pleted. They claim to have secured
100000 to pay for the line
Since the prospects of creamery be-
ing established in Tekoa have been
looking so favorable, many of the farm
ers are directing their attention to the
pasturage and feeding of cows. Frank
English has been experimenting on
various kinds of grasses, and he states
that the white bronze grass has given
the best results on high, dry land.
Two thousand Japanese laborers, who
have arrived in Seattle from the Orient
since February have been shipped to
various points in the northwest for
work on railroad construction. The
wages paid these men are said to be
the same as paid to white workmen,
and the railroads have standing orders
with employment agencies to send all
the Japanese they can get.
William Hoare has just completed
sowing 1000 acres of wheat on the res
ervation near Tekoa and expects to seed
1000 acres more in the same vicinity.
He lets the work by contract. Mr..
Hoare will receive two-thirds of the
crop and the Indians from whom he
rents will get the balance. The acre
age of grain on the reservation this
year will be unusually large.