Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-07
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
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The Seattle ost-Intelligencer has beer
sold to George U. Piper and his brother
Edward B. flper, for 100000. The Pip
ers have for several years been connected
with the Oregonian:
Representatives of eastern hop buying
firms have been in Chehalis displaying a
great deal of eagerness to make contracts
for the 1897 crop.
Tacoma reports. that sockeye salmon
have started to run unusually early this
season and the run promises to be extra
ordinarily large
| The new school directors of district
No. l, in Thurston county, have made a
horizontal cut of $40 in the salaries of
teachers in the public schools.
The contractors for the government
| lighthouse at Westport have the foun-
dation for the keepers house about COM
pleted.
The lumber yards of Ritzville are un-
able to fill their orders, owing to the fact
that nearly all the farmers are doing
! more or less building.
Several parties are making arrange
ments to erect a dry house near Sterling
| in which to take care of the surplus
amount of fruit raised in Skagit county.
The penitentiary at McNeill's island
will be condemned and the federal gov
ernmcnt will make arrangements with
the state to keep its prisoners at Walll
Walla
There is in Spokane county S22, 2,229, 1884
worth of real estate and improvements,
according to the assessment just COM
pleted by County Assessor Daniels. Of
this $20,96l 1913 will be taxed and 81 $685.
OIL will be exempt, being government
land, school land, church property, etc
The value of real estate and improve
ments of Spokane city are $l7,0l4,9Os.
Judge Carroll of the superior court at
Tacoma has issued an order denying the
legality of the collection of delinquent
taxes prior to June 80, 1895, the court
holding that the debt came under the
statute of limitations and could not be
collected. The loss to the county is
about 100000. The supreme court will
pass on the matter.
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ty superior court has filed an opinion
on the new mortgage law, passed by
the last legislature, which would imply
that the law was unconstitutional and
without effect. By this ruling the court
has ordered the sheriff to act under the
old sale law in the foreclosure of mort
gagged property where the contract was
made prior to June g. 1897. The opinion
is much the same as that rendered by
Judges Prather and Richardson of Spo-
kane county and Judge Mcdonald of
Whitman county, sitting en- banc.
Idaho.
A Joint teachers institute of Kootenai
and Shoshone counties will be held at
Rathdrum beginning August l6 and end
ing August 20 inclusive.
Harry L. Smith, brakeman, lost his
life at Nampa while switching. He caught
his foot in frog and fell under the cars,
one leg being terribly crushed. He died
about two hours after.
L. S. Pond of Gentle valley, Ban
mock county, and Thomas Preston of
Weston, Oneida county, have been
spending few days in Boise The gen.
tlemen are elders of the Mormon church
and their mission is to establish Nor
mon church in that city.
The Sunday school convention at
Boise elected the following officers: Presi
dent, H. E. Neal, Boise; secretary, E. c.
Cook, Boise; treasurer, Mrs. Burton,
Boise; corresponding secretary, Junius
Wright, Boise; first vice president, Mrs.
j. II. Barton, Caldwell; second vice presi
dent, T. F. Kirkland, Pocatello; third
vice president, j. j. Schwartz, Moscow
The incorporators of the Snake River
Valley Telephone Company held meet
ing at Rexbrrg and elected officers The
old telephone poles which were set in the
ground three years ago have been p'lr-
chased and the system will be in opera
ton inside of 60 days. The following
points will be reached on the line: Me
man, Rexburg, Salem, MILFORD, Teton and
st. Anthony. Other connections will be
made as fast as possible.
Montana.
Attorney General Nolan holds that bet
ting on horse racing is not gambling in
the eyes of the Montana law.
The Helena Independent has passed
into the hands of John S. NJ Neill, the
former surveyor general of the state. =
P. j. Moore of the Little Elk, on the
is better than it has been for % years.
About 300 men are at work in the
mines at Aldridge and about the coke
works at Horr. Everything is running
full blast
At Great Falls the brewers license is
raised for those of the first class to SIS
per quarter. The license of the wholesale
liquor men is raised to the same as that
of the retail saloons, $50 per quarter.
| Superintendent of Public Instruction l..
A. Carleton holds that the school districts
that have adopted free text books are not
obliged, under the law, to purchase high
school books. '
The contract for grading eight miles
of roadbed between the Rocky Fork
branch and the Globe coal mines has been.
let. The coal company will build the
grade and turn it over to the Northern
| Pacific, the consideration being that the
latter company shall lay the track and
operate the road.
At the state university grounds at
Missoula the work of exeavating. for une
main building and the science hall is pro-
crossing rapidly and the contractors for
the stone work will begin to haul their
material this week. The excavation viii
be finished by August 6, so that the stone.
work may be begun at that time: u hes
sewer work for the university buildings.
is nearly completed and the water mains
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