Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-22
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tann and Washington.

! The Whatcom county salary warrants
for April were sold for SO cents.
! The long-distance telephone line will be
extended from Everett to Arlington.
Island county reports a great increase
in the potato acreage this year.
The April fees turned over to the treas
urer of Clarke county by the auditor,
clerk and sheriff amounted to $30469
Travel TO the Okanogan country va
| Coulee City is greater this year than for
some time, says the News.
klickitat farmers are taking advantage
of the good roads and spare time to naul
in their surplus wheat, and quite a guam
| tity of it Is being received daily at '.Le
| Dalles.
! The Chehais Valley creamery worked
up little more than 100000 pounds Of
milk during April and the quantity will
likely be a third larger in May.
A Blaine man is endeaVoring to interest
eastern capital in a plant for Blaine fer
utilizing the refuse from the salmon can
neries and dog fish for the manufacture
of commercial fertilizer.
Those desiring to take the examination
for the United States engineering depart
ment of the civil service can do so by lp-
plying to w. l.. Geary, secretary of the
examining board, room COZ Burke pulld
ing, Seattle for application blanks.
Townsend last year to the Cook inlet
country to operate pack train, and al
though they had plenty of food, eight
head died from the effects of cold during
the winter. Another company operating
Il horses at the same place lost the entire
outfit. The horses were common caylses
and it is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold.
State Treasurer Young has been de-
manding of the county treasurers that
they remit to the state not only the orig
inal assessment for the state taxes col
lected after delinquency. but the pen ,lty
and interest on such taxes as well. The
treasurers OF the respective counties have
been inclined to resist payment of the ad-
diton to the tax assessed, but the assist
ant attorney general has just rendered an
opinion wherein he holds the state t 'as-
urer is right in his demands
Two meetings of the Baptist people Of
Washington and Idaho which will be spe-
-cially interesting to the people of rekoa,
will take place in the near future, says the
Times The first is the annual meeting of
the Spokane association of Baptist
churches, which will be held at the church
in Tekoa June 10 to 13. The second is an
assembly under the auspices of the Rap
tist Young Peoples Union of eastern
Washington and northern Idaho, 10 lie
held al Chatcolet June 20 to July o.
Idaho.
The high water in the river near Star
destroyed about II acres of one mans
ranch.
The eastern Idaho district Epworth
League will meet in Pocatello May 2S and
continue three days.
The board of education of Boise has
made some changes in the salaries of the
take effect this coming year. The plan
in view was to recognizes the worth of
the present teachers, and if any ad-
vance was made to give Them the bene-
tit. The salaries of some of the posi-
tions have been reduced, those will be
illed by new teachers whose value has
not been demonstrated.
The Ada county assessors are having
some trouble in collecting poll taxes, some
claiming that they can not be collected
under the law. Others say that they
were not compelled to pay them last year
and they think theYtcan get off this time.
There were only about 10 collected in ali
last year out of Il total of nearly 5000
voters. The assessors say that no one
will escape and that all must observe
the law in this respect.
Montana.
The outstanding warrants against the
general fund of Helena amount in all
to about $345,OG0 and the entire indebted
ness of the city in bonds and warrants is
$736 S12.55.
Last year at Butte there were $50 per-
nits issued for structures of the esti-
mated cost of $4S3, ,264 against 306 permits
issued the preceding year for buildings
costing $344,S57.
A bunch of six antelope have located
in the river bottom about j. s. White
heads ranch near Chinook They were
seen within SO yards of the Catholic
church. Luckily for them the game law
protects them and there are enough gal
liant spOrtsmen around town to watch one
another.
Regarding the wool crop this year,
sheep men arriving in Great Falls are
of one opinion, and thai is that the clip
for 1897 will be much heavier than in 1896
They also say that owing to the mild
winter weather wool will be of far bet
ter grade.
A live stock broker at Miles City re-
ports the following sales: 1850 yearling
ewes a 81. 500 stock cattle at $23, 400 stock
cattle at $23, 1900 stock cattle at $24, 5000
Texas cattle three years. at $40, delivery
a Clayton, N. NJ; 1000 3 and 4-year-old
steers at $33, delivery at Miles City; 700
Gallatin valley steers, 2-year-olds, at $22,
on cars at Bozeman; 200 2-year-old heif-
ers at Bozeman, $l5; 1000 Idaho steers,
yearings, at SIG; 2's at $22; 5000 stock cat
tie at $780, small punches of the stock at
SO and 900