Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-05-13
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Bright.
IDAHO SQuIRRS.

tDA1O oQOIbbS.
One of the new laws which went
into effect in Idaho May 4, provides
for juvenile court.
From present indications at least
100000 will be spent for new build
ings or additions to old ones at Poca
tello this season.
Monday morning at 7:30 the cadets
of the University of Idaho left for
their annual encampment, which this
year will be held at Occur d'Alene.
James Wing, an employee of the
Morning mine at Mullan, was killed
Sunday by falling down an ore chute.
How the accident occurred is not
known.
Horticultural Inspector J. r. Field
says that the prospect for a good
crop of fruit in the Payette valley of
Idaho has never been better than at
this time.
More large buildings will be built
this year at Wallace than any year
since the fire of 1890, which wiped out
the business section. The volume of
the building indicates the prosperity
of the district.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine
at Wardner, Idaho, for the second
time this year has raised it's monthly
dividend to $150,000 and distributed
that huge sum last Thursday among
its stockholders. That makes total
dividends of $525,OOO paid since Jan
uary 1, and $2,796,000 to date.
Burglars entered the postoff1ce
building at Kellogg and rifed three
tills, securing between $50 and $40.
The greater part of the money be-
longed. to D. Price, who conducts a
store in the building. The exact
amount of the postoff1ce loss is not
known.
The council at Twin Falls has fixed
the license for saloons at $4,000 each
per year.
Drexel Van Arsdale, the IA year old
son of c. c. Van Arsdale, was drown
ed late Sunday afternoon two miles
below the mouth of the Clearwater
river He was caught in whirlpool.
Nearly 5000 men are now employed
in the great producing mines of the
Occur d'Alenes and in the prospects
of the various sections of the district.
1t is doubtful if ever in the history
of this silver-lead region there has at
one time been so great number of
men employed.
H. J. Rice, former treasurer of Sho-
shone county, has returned from To
nopah and Goldfeld, New, where he
and several other mining men from
the Occur d'Alenes spent three months
examining and prospecting the gold
fields Mr.. Rice was greatly disap-
pointed in the country and says that
he is satisfied to remain in the Occur
d'Alenes, which far surpasses the Ne
vada mining district.
The first bounty on cougars, under
the new law, was paid at Rathdrum
to Patrick Fox of Laclede, who
brought in a large cougar hide and
was paid SIS by warrant on the cur
rent expense fund. The animal meas
ured almost nine feet from tip to tip.
1t was accidentally caught in bear
trap, and is the first one that Mr. Fox
has seen in that neighborhood.
OF the several railroad projects in
the northwest, that which contem-
plates line from Palouse, in Whit
man county, toward the east and into
the timber belt of Idaho, is one of
notable importance. According to
present plans, it is to be only As miles
long, but it will tap an unusually rich
country, and as a result of it's con-
struction there will probably be man.
ufacturing and agricultural develop
ment fully as important as any that is
now tributary to any piece of road of
equal length.