The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-12-14
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of n Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.

WAShlN1iONs
The large fume at Tumwater is fin
ished.
A clam canning factory will be es-
tablished at Port Townsend.
The Walla Walla council is consid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of a fire alarm
system.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
will increase its membership to 500.
Two rural mail deliveries will be es-
tablished out of Walla Walla within 70
days.
A large deposit of fire clay has been
discovered near Brennan Station,
Whatcom county.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce Is
having bill framed for promoting
economy in county offices.
The Washington mill of Walla Walla
county has transferred its property to
w. G. Cordiner for $4,000.
A sailor named Louis Larson was
dangerously wounded with razor dn
saloon row in Aberdeen last Tuesday
The latest thing in the way of sensa-
tions at Seattle is the proposed new
paper by Leigh S. 1. Hunt, former own
er of the Post-Intelligencer.
e. E. Beard of New Whatcom has in
stalled a. rug factory. He uses the
moss which grows in large quantities
on Washington timber lands.
A salmon hatchery will be built in
the near future on the Big Klichtat
river, 4 y miles from its confluence
with the Columbia, at Lyle.
The matter of the improvement Of
the Stuck and White river valleys is
still burning question among the
farmers of both of those fertile valleys.
Frank Alexander, sentenced to ten
years from Whitman county for burg
larry in 1897, has been pardoned by
Governor Rogers and has been released
from the penltentiary.
Governor Rogers has been requested
by the president of the National Live
stock association to appoint three dele
gates to attend the fourth annual con
vention which meets in Salt Lake City
January 10.
Palouse is making strenuous efforts
to secure the location of the straw
board factory which officials of the
Northern Pacific railroad are seeking
to locate in one of the towns along its
line, and has strong hopes of being the
favored town.
Lumbermen along the Palouse river
have finished cutting timber for next
seasons run, and the logging camps
along the river east of that place are
being deserted, the men having com
pleted their work and are now seeking
winter quarters in the towns.
A report comes from Olympia to the
effect that Governor Rogers is about tx
pardon Mrs. Mary Pyle, who, with hel
son, was sentenced to life imprison
ment for burning a hotel in Walls
Walla 10 years ago, when a man LOST
his life in the confiagration. Mrs. Pyle
is now over 80 years of age and is dy
ing.
Many farmers in the Tekoa vicinity
have done considerable fall blowing
The uplands have been in good condi
ton all fail. The indications are tina
next spring will witness the sowing o.
large acreage of wheat in that section
of the Palouse country. Some of the
farmers near town are preparing fol
the creamery soon to be built there by
purchasing more cows.
John j. Miller, a prominent farmer
and livestock man of the Snake rivel
district, has sold to E. M. King of Spo
kane GIT head of sheep for $40 PEI
head. The sheep are all 2-year-olC
wethers and are an exceptionally fin'
lot They go to Spokane and Seattle
This is considered one of the best sale
of the season and Mr.. Miller makes {
handsome profit from the flock o
sheep. He still has 1900 head of sheer
and many cattle on his 200 acre farm.