Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-25
NUMBER Is.
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho. Nom
tana and Washington.

About 20 men have been set at WORK
at Aberdeen on the new schooner A. j
West. This vessel is to have a carrying
capacity of 10000 feet of lumber
The treasurer of Chehalis county saws
. that during the quarter Just closed there
, was about 100000 in taxes paid in
about one-half OF the amount being for de-
Iinquent taxes, and that nearly all of the
SlGo,00O was paid last month
The British ship City of Hankow has
finished loading and cleared at Tacoma
the 35th cargo of grain loaded on the
sound this season for foreign destination
The SO cargoes amount to 3,s75,000 bush
els, valued at S3,2Sl 200.
1t Is said that the sentence of two wears
and half given to eN-Mayor jameson.
who forged the Chehalis county war
rants, was so that Portland people who
We're swindled could take the matter up.
Had the sentence been fCr a longer time
no arrests could be made hereafter. An
other batch of forged warrants amount
ing to 1898 10 has been received bv
Treasurer Wilson.
Mrs. r. Walker of Dayton, who got Il
verdict of s400 900 in Il damage suit against
the Q. r. & n. company, and afterward
compromised the case with the company
for $4,000, has just received a check for
$26,a69 i'll payment of her claim. There
was $1,000 interest included in the check
! Prosecuting Attorney Magill, in Cowlitz
county, is holding up the settlement made
between the commissioners and the
| Northern Pacific Railway Company for
delinquent taxes. The prosecuting attor-
ney is holding out for at least $35 600,
instead of settling at $4,000, the price
agreed upon. There is some question It's
to the county's right to collect the tax.
4 The citizens of Elberton are taking
/ steps early in the season to prevent the
/ flooding OF the lower part of town, which
usually occurs when the water raises in
| the Palouse river. A large force of men
! and teams has been at work building a
/ dyke along the bank of the river next
to the town. The dyke, which is several
! feet high, was made of fallen trees and
| brush, covered with dirt It runs along
the left bank of the river entirely through
town, and is valuable Improvement.
! State Road Commissioner H. j. Ernest
returned home to Colville from Olympia.
! where he has been in attendance upon IL
meeting Of the road commission which
met there last week to wind up the bust
ness of the state roads for the year 1897
Mr.. Ernest, who has supervision over the
road leading west from Marcus to Okla
hogan county, has made a showing of u
surplus of over $500 on the portion of the
| appropriation intrusted to his charge.
The month of November witnessed the
transaction of business in the Olympia
district land office aggregating Sl474.6O.
! Four hundred and forty acres of land
We're sold, at $1,000. The fees on 10 home
steads netted SS5. Commissions on some
343.sl acres, $79.7s. Commissions on p
final homesteads, 1871 AS acres, $22l.35.
Fees for reducing testimony to writing,
$4o,93. Timber land filings, $50. Tran
script of records, etc, SS.
Walla Nalla reports that fully so per
cent Of the largest wheat crop of the
country remains unsold. Today the huge
warehouses of the railroad companies.
eially between Walla AValla and DAYTON.
are packed to the rafters with thousands
of sacks of grain. Some Of that remain
ing represents whole ctops but generally
speaking there were but Ht,T rden in the
country at the beginning of harvest who
could afford to keep intact their crop.
awaiting satisfactory price. The grim
1f,r.,r fofo1 fl,o far b,
WAS soon sold.
George ". Ball. United States inspec-
tor of surveys, has left Boise with his
sistants for Shoshone, from whence they
will go over to the Snake to inspect some
past season.
Jack Wcdel, the freight conductor who
lost his legs i'll a wreck at Green river,
has brought suit in the United States cir
cult court against the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line companies in which
he asks for damages to the amount Of
$4,000.
The will of the late James Fl. Bush has
been filed for probate at Doisc. 1t leaves
all of the real estate and personal property
to the wife of the deceased, her heirs and
assigns forever. She is also appointed
by the will as executrix. The petition
for the probate of the will cites the real
and personal property of the late Mr..
Bush and gives the probable value Of the
same as about $4,000.
The board of trustees of Kcndrick is
considering the adyisability of advertis-
ing the sale of a $ll 900 issue of water
works bonds, which were voted two years
ago but never sold, the bids not being sat
isfactory. The town has no bonded in
debtedness, and only warrant indebted
ness of about 1878, which will be paid on
receipt of the next tax money. The rev
enue of the town is about $1,000 yearly
Oh a tax levy of ! mills.
Montana.
II cost S525, ,52O to run Montana for the
late fiscal year, ending November 20.
There are y children in the Montana
state orphans home and in the last three
years there have eben only two deaths.
Rovalli county reports that taxes have
been paid with surprising promptncss,
and that the delinquent list is smaller
than ever.
1t is said that in some parts Of eastern
and northern Montana the retail meat
dealers are, thus early in the season, ship
ping in dressed beef from the eastern pack
ing houses, and it may be that local deal
els will be compelled to do the same be-
fore spring.
On application Of the American Loan
& Trust company, Judge Knowles the
United States circuit judge at Helena, en-
tered a decree for a deficiency Judgment
against the Oregon Short Line and Utah .
& Northern Railway Company for Sl,o4o.-
100, the amount still due on the bonds
after the sale under foreclosure
NIissoula county treasurer reports that
the total tax receipts to date are $l09.-
600, The total tax roll amounted to