Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-12
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tanA and Warrington.

! NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho. Mon
tana and Washington.
The Montesano Creamery Company is
receiving between three and four tons
of milk daily.
For the first time in years smoke is
coming out of the chimneys of the large
Ocosta sawmills.
The Aberdeen postoffice will be made
an international office after July 5
next.
December municipal salaries in Ia
coma Were paid last month, and most
Of the January salaries We're settled
If the receipts keep up the city will
soon bring it's salary roll up to date,
says the Union.
The rural mail delivery system for
Yakima is apparently success The
cost OF delivery per package is one and
half cents. the second lowest average
in the various experimental districts,
California having the lowest.
Thirty-two thousand tons of coal
were exported from Tacoma in May.
Compared with 1896, the total output of
coal during the first five months of
y
by 10000 tons.
Assistant Attorney General Vance
has advised Auditor Cheatham that he
is authorized to issue certificates of
Indebtedness against the penitentiary
revolving fund and the state grain in
spection fund. There have been no
appropriations made by the legisla-
ture to pay expenses which should be
paid out of those funds.
The board of curators of the state
historical society at a meeting in Ia
coma decided to relieve the defunct
Historical Magazine. Secretary Ho-
bart and Professor W. N. Allen will
have charge of the publica ton. Gov
ernor Rogers and Secretary of State
, own solicitation.
The members of the Thurston coun-
ty bar have organized a law school
and propose to prepare course of lee
lures upon different branches, to be
delivered at stated periods by lawyers
resident in Olympia. 1t is proposed
to arrange these lectures with a view
to preparing students for the examina-
ton to which they are subjected by
! the supreme court before admission to
! practice.
Judge Hanford's order allowing the
expenditure of s105,000 by c. j. Smith,
! receiver of the Oregon Improvement
| company, in standardizing and equip
ping the Columbia e Puget Sound rail-
! way has been filed in court at Seattle
The order says that the securities shall
| be receivers certificates on the prop
erty of the road, which shall be first
| lien. By the courts order these cert-
/ flea tes shall not be sold for less than
par.
MONTANA
The university commission have let
| the contract for 100000 brick, at 81,
! for the construction of the new build
I ings at Missoula, Mont
| The comptroller of the currency has
granted permission to H. F. Douglas,
| D. r. Mead, H. r. Porter, c. w. But
Ter and f. p. Fleming to organize the
Merchants National bank of GIendive
Capital $4,000.
7 The ranchmen have reason to rejoice
| over the recent rain. The ranges have
been so dry for the past month that
| the grass was nearly all dried up, but
is now springing up anew SO that
| there is fair prospects of good ranges
yet this year.
| The gambling houses in Centervile
are far from receiving the patronage
| of former days and as the time draws
near when the Monte Carlo of Butte
will be compelled to close it's doors in
| observance of the anti-gambling law,
which goes into effect the 1st of July,
the men who have been in the habit
of bucking King Faro are not the reg
ular frequenters of the place that they
used to be.
| 1t is said there will be more wool
shipped from this point this year than
ever before. Wool from the northern
part Of the county, which has hereto
fore been stored and shipped from other
places, will, this year, be brought to
Big Timber for shipment. Last year
over 100000 pounds of wool was ship
ped from the warehouse at this place,
and it is estma ted that there will be
100000 pounds or more of WOOL shipped
from this point this year.
Wool is already beginning to roll into
| Billings. At present the two NAM
moth warehouses are scenes of consid-
able activity and nearly 100000 pounds
Of wool have been stored awaiting the
appearance of the eastern buyers.
From so to 100 families from Indi-
ana are expected at the Burton colony
in August. 1t is the intention to estab-
| lish various Industries and already a
creamery turning out large amount OF
dairy product each week has been es-
tablished.
Judge Stewart of Boise decides that
the new fee law of Idaho is constitu-
tional, and also that it applies to coun-
ty officials now in office.
There are at present at Boise 1876
prisoners in the penitentiary, only one
short of the largest number ever con-
fined there.
Governor Stunenberg has appointed
Warren S. Truitt of Moscow regent of
the state university to fill the vacancy
that has existed since the selection of
the new board.
J. J. Coakley, deputy United States
marshal, has returned to Boise from
Detroit, Mich, where he went with 10
United States prisoners. The trip was
made without incident and also with
out sleep, as the men in charge did not
allow the slightest opportunity for any
escapade. The prisoners will not be
allowed to see or speak to each other
during their confinement in the prison.
Following is the business at the Lew
iston, Idaho, land office for the month
of May: Seventy homestead entries,
embracing 9,7719S acres; II final home
steads 1,665.61 acres; contests and "a
relinauishments filed; 8 cash entries,
1926. 6.95 acres; three soldiers declaratory
statements, and q state selections OF
16O acres each, divided between the
normal schools, scientific schools, agri-
, cultural college and insane asylum