Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-07-27
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
A 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.
G. A. Pitwood, living near Orofino,
brought in strawberry recently that
measured nine inches in circumference
and weighed three ounces.
Last week ]. B. Perkins, a mining
man, publicly horsewhipped Attorney
d. T. Whine of Lewiston in front of
the postofice 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-
gagged in re-constructing the Vineland
race track struck and refused to work.
The thermometer ranged around 100
degrees in the shade, and when placed
for few minutes in the sun ran up to
100 degrees.
The following increases are announc-
ed for Idaho postmasters: Blackfoot,
$1,000 to $500; Caldwell, $140O to
$500; Grangeville, $1,000 to $500:
Idaho Falls, $1,000 to $1,000; Lewiston,
$500 to $780, Montpelier, $1,000 to
$14O0; MountaiDhome, $1,000 to $110O;
Payette, $11OO to $1,000; Wallace, $1,000
to $500; Wardner, $1400 to $500;
Weiser, $1400 to $500.
Father Joseph Josef, the famous In
dian missionary, has expired at De-
smet Mission, amidst the sorrowing
Occur d'Alene Indians, whose spiritual
guide he had been for the past fifty
years. Calmly, peacefully, as one in a
sweet sleep, he gave up his great soul
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
result of which nearly all the business
buildings are in ashes. The people,
however, are in better shape than they
were after the eonflagration 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 a 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 1T, 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
flee 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 CHANGING, 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.