Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-30
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tanu and Washington.


Wenatchee's total valuation is a tride
over Sl23.ooO.
oakesdale expects to ship about l,20O.-
o0o bushels OF grain this season.
Seattle street car lines report an aver
age Increase of 10 per cent as compared
with the travel a wear ago.
Owners of wheat warehouses at Asotin
find 1t necessary to erect additional she'd
ding.
Harvest is progressing rapidly and fully
80 per cent OF the wheat in the northern
part of Whitman county has been cut
EN-State Senator b. c. Van Houten has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal with headquarters at Seattle.
BY Il vote of 10 to 4, the Tacoma city
council has passed an ordinance making
1t imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
Mr.. Loop, living in Whatcom county,
estimates that 1900 people have passed
his ranch en- route for the Mount Baker
gold mines.
I The Nenatchee-Twitsp state road is
now open III manner to the mouth OF
/ the MethoW river. and the presumption is
that work has commenced on the upper
end.
The road that the klicSitat county
commissioners are having built from
Hartand to Lyle is to be surveyed with
grade that can be used for a railroad
bed.
A party OF surveyors has left Northport
to run permanent lines for the railroad to
! the Boundary creek country, in behalf of
the Corbln interests
From September l. 1896. to October 20,
1896, five satistactions of mortgages were
1lled with the Columbia county auditor.
During the same period for 1897 there
have been u recorded, and only IL small
percentage of the years crop sold.
The lumber business on Grav's harbor
IS in 1lourishing condition. and nearly
all the sawmills are improving their
plants with a view to increasing their out
put, and are figuring on running overtime
to supply stock ordered
Montana
Six hundred members are said to have
been added to the Butte Miners union
during the past six months.
W. B. Rodgers has been appointed
assistant United States district attorney
to succeed George T. Shelton. recently
resigned.
The United States mineral land COM
missloners are at work examining and
classifying lands Oh the Upper Yellow
stone.
Policeman Samuel Lynch, who left
Helena last spring for the north, is now
at Juneau, where he is working i'm the
company store for the winter and is Law
ing by a stake to 90 through with in the
spring.
Newt Cha11n. who lives about eight
miles south Of Stovensville. shot and kill
ed Il mountain lion measuring over six
feet to tip of tail in his front ward the
other day.
The kalispeIl Industrial Company is
the name of Il new organization which has
sent articles Of incorporation to the secre-
tary of state The company is capital
lzcd for $4,000, and its object is to build
and run a Touring mill and engage in
other enterprises if desired
The famous collection of gold nuggets
held for Il long time by the First National
bank OF Helena, has been sold by the re-
ceiver of the institution to A. j. Davis
of Butte, son of the late millionaire of the
same name, for $4,000.
Alssoula spOrt~mcn are complaining of
the scarcity of Drrds this month and they
all report Indifferent shooting all over the
county. in the Clearwater valley, which
has always been one of the best regions
for duck, there are not many this year.
Last winter the farmers of the Flat
head valley became diseustcd at the low
price then paid for pork and nearly all
of them went out of the business There
are not enough hogs in the valley this
year to come anywhere near supplying
the local market, and pork is selling for
= cents.
Sam Livingston, one of the oldest set
tiers in the northwest territory, and well
known i'll northern Montana, dropped
dead in Calgary a few days ago. He
was so years of age He went to Alberta
from Fort Benton in early days and ac-
quired a considerable fortune bv trading
with the Indians. OF late years he has
occupied a ranch on Elbow river and has
watched with interest the growth and de-
veiopment of the northwest. on both sides
of the boundary line.
Idaho.
kendrick is to have Il tannerv.
The Ward fitizap h.,
publication.
The Jullaetta tramway company is now
running its cleaner night and day
Harvesting is completed in the Pot
latch and many farmers are hauling their
grain to the warehouses.
+, A. HardWick. former Pullman
school teacher and son of W. D. Hard
wick of Nez Perce, has crossed the Skag-
uay trail and is now on his way to Daw-
son City.
For the first time in several years there
is not a vacant house in Occur dAlene,
and several families are compelled to take
rooms in the brick blocks.
Charles Halstead and two companions
have returned to Lewiston from a two
iloiiti9 u ip lHtO llt l1OultdIHS near Lne
headWaters of the Clearwater, and were
driven out by snow. They made some
good mineral discoveries and will return
next spring.
British, Columbia.
\ branch of the J. o. O. T. is to be es-
tablished in Nelson
The money for the Ashcroft waterworks
has been raised and is in the Bank of
Montreal to the credit of the company
The kaslo city council has petitioned
the provincial government to establish
sittings OF the county courts and courts
OF assizes at kasio and also to appoint
deputy register here. At present all i'm