Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-05
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho. Mon
tana and Washington.

/ Over 1000 bicycle licenses have been is
sued at Tacoma.
Washington state university at Seattle
has graduated class of IS members.
A shipment of 200 head Of cattle has
Just been made from Montesano to Butte
Mont.
| OF the 49 applicants for teachers certif-
| cates in Pierce county, % successfully
passed the examination
The doctors have discovered that bad
water in the cstern from which the
school is supplied has been the cause OF
a large amount of sickness among the pu-
pills at Port Townsend.
| Goldendale reports that one band OF
4C0O sheep, just sheared at Indian Springs,
averaged u pounds Of good marketable
! WOOL
| Governor Rogers appointed ex-Mayor
Belt of Spokane, Paul D Heirry Of Seattle
and Colonel C. P. Ferry of Tacoma as
members of a commission to represent
this state at the Paris international expo
sition of 1900.
Norman B. Colt, one Of the earliest and
oldest Of the city's real estate brokers.
is one of two claimants for $1.000,000 OF
the estate Of the late Samuel Colt, fire
arms manufacturer of Hartford, Conn.
The other claimant is James B. Colt of
Washington City, a brother of Norman
B. Colt The two are nephews of the dead
millionaire and were by a codocil omitted
from the will of the deceased arms manu-
facturer. through, they claim, undue
influence of the wife, now widow, Of their
uncle.
Idaho.
The total assessment of Alturas county
amounts to $647,771.
The supreme court of the state has de-
cided that a board of county commits
SonerS cannot employ counsel to assist
the district attorney in criminal cases.
The Metzel herd of cattle, numbering
between $500 and 5000 head, are about to
be driven from the winter range in the
upper Ruby to the summer range in the
Centennial valley.
John Long has been convicted at Silver
City of murder in the second degree for
killing Thomas Fennel near Oreana April
49, 1896. Two previous trials resulted in
hung juries.
A party of tourists in special car ar
rived in Boise the other day. The people
composing the party are from Genoa and
Fullerton, Neb. There are six families,
20 people in all. They left Genoa last
Saturday and made their first stop at
Mountain Home. They are west with the
intention of locating and when they find
a place that suits them they will be the
means of bringing out about 20 families
more.
The five counterfeiters convicted at
James Eddy, 16 years at hard labor in the
house of correction at Detroit, Mich, and
a fine Of 5000; John Eddy, Is years at hard
labor in the Detroit house of correction
and 5000 fine; Emmett Taylor. Is years at
hard labor in the Detroit house of correc-
'tion and 5000 fine; ]. w. Splaugh, eight
years al hard labor in the Detroit house
of correction ard 500 fine; Frank FIRE.
leigh, six years at hard labor in the De-
troit house of correction and $10O fine;
Stan Splaugh, two years without hard Ia
Dor in the Detroit house of correction and
$1,000 fine; Newton Eddy, 20 months with
out hard labor at the Detroit house of
correction and $1,000 fine.
Montana.
About $50 horses are already on the Ana
conda race track.
The creamery at Burton is running full
blast and ordinary milch cows are report
ed to bring in to the farmers s. month
per head.
Rapid progress is reported on the re-
pairs on the West Gallatin Irrigation
Companys canal, and that 25 miles are
finished with water in ready for irriga-
ton.
Two bands Of Teton county sheep re-
Gently passed through Fort Benton on
the way to a point farther east for shear
ing and shipment One band numbered
10000 head, and the other 5000 head.
The county attorney of Cascade county
holds that a police magistrate is entitled
to no compensation in cases tried before
him when trial is violation Of the
state law.
The county attorneys office at Butte
has recently received a communication
from the attorney general calling atten-
ton. at the request of the governor, to
the inheritance tax law, and arguing the
necessity of seeing that it's provisions are
observed in the administration of estates
in Silver Bow county.
The president of the West Gallatin 1r-
rgation Company has been visiting Mon
tana with a view to establishing a beet
sugar refinery, provided he could obtain
the necessary capital The estimated
cost of the machinery and buildings will
be about $500, 900, the whole of which can
readily be secured in the east, but 1t is
thought best to have as much of the
stock as possible owned by Montana peo-
pie, and 1t was with this end in view
| that he came to this state