Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-20
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington.

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loads of prunes a week.
A steamship line is to be put on next
summer tbeween New Whatcom and
Dawson City. ~-.
Seattle merchants are complaining of
an increase in rents
The women of Chehalis are interesting
themselves in the cleaning of the towns
streets.
Most of the wheat tributary to Gar
field has been hauled in. not more than
one-fourth being left to be delivered.
About 25 carloads of wheat were ship
ped from Mabton, Yakima county. during
October.
Six sections of pasture land belonging
to the state have been leased by the Co
lumbia county auditor. They brought
from So to $40 per section Il year.
The receipts of the Everett customs
house for the last month were Sl62GS.2l.
which is the largest months business
that has ever been done III the history of
! the office.
An ordinance reducing the salaries.
which was passed by the Vancouver
I council, reduces the salary of the city
treasurer to $25 per month, city clerk to
So per month and city attorney to 500
/ per year, and 500 additional for each
time he appears before the superior court
/ i'll city case.
4 ". Ii. Brown, insect inspector of fruit
pests for King county. has made the
alarming discovery that the pelnicous
San Jose scale, the greatest of fruit pests,
has at last gained foothold in King
! county.
Much comment is being caused by the
report that there is a probability of work
being resumed on the proposed railroad
from Portland and Seattle and Tacoma
practically paralleling the Northern Pa
citic track The opinion at Seattle seems
to be that President Hill of the Great
Northern is back of the scheme.
Idaho.
Senator Heitfield and family have left
Lewiston for the national capital.
Boise valley has shipped rs carloads of
fruit the present season.
There are 100000 bushels of wheat
vet unthreshcd on the Nez Perce reserva-
ton.
Bonner's Ferry reports that Great
Northern officials are looking up the mat
Ter OF opening Il stone quarry at Sale
na Landing.
a Squaw Butte ra1lcher near Emmet,
had quite a crop of black walnuts, white
Walnuts. or butternuts, and Japanese wal
nuts on his farm this season.
Considerable Whiskey is being intro
duced on the Nez Perce reservation BY
white men from the towns of C;lmas prai-
RE
The report of the business transacted
i'll the Lewiston land office for the month
of October is as follows: Fifty-eight
home entries, S004.43 acres; IL final home
entries, 2503.95 acres; 6 cash entries,
lGG.02 acres: 2 state selections, $40 acres;
4 contests filed; total receipts $1lS7G5.
The following are some figures from
the last quarterly report of the asylum
for the insane at Blackfoot Number OF
patients received during quarter ending
October Is. l6; number of patients dis
charged, 40; number Of patients died, 2:
number of patients remaining, male, 10:
female, 62; total, IFS.
Governor Steunenberg has received the
resignation of John jackson. commission
er for the Third district of Washington
county. His successor will be appointed
in Il short time. The reason for the resig-
nation is not stated in the official COM
munication, but it is understood Mr.
Jackson is going to Alaska.
Montana.
Hundreds Of prospectors make their
winter quarters i'll Butte.
There are "A inmates in Nlontana's sol
diers' home at Columbia Falls and seven
applications on hand, with places for only
about four more.
Dupuyer stockmen say that the range
has not been better in this section any
fall for years than this year The grass
is remarkably thick. and from present
appearances there is little danger of stock
suffering this winter.
One of the features of this seasons
cattle transactions in Choteau county has
been the number of deals in calves The
active demand has caused a sharp rise in
prices, and heifer calves readily command
:sl2 per head with the price of steer calves
little in advance Of that figure In
some cases Sl5 per head has been offered
and refused for an extra good bunch OF
calf stock.
State Land Register Moore offered all
school lands situated in Fergus county
for sale, and afterward leased for term
of five years some 50 sections, embracing
about 10000 acres. Only two parcels OF
lands were sold, l20 acres to Andrew Fer
gus at $3.50 per acre, and 100 acres to
William Fergus at Sll per acre. As Il
general rule the lands We're leased at the
/ minimum rate Of 81 per cent per annIin
Of the appraised value.
British Columbia.
1 A customs house has been opened at
I Cascade City.
Within few days the provincial gov
ernment will begin the additions to the
/ Nelson courthouse.
The British admiralty has declined Vic
torias offer to provide a residence for the
use Of the admiral commanding on the
North Pacific station.
Over 600 feet of new hose have been
purchased for the fire department at
kaslo, including good sized list Of other
important fire department equipments,
amounting in all to $500.
The Columbia & Western railroad sur
veyors are near Christina lake on Mc1ea
creek and will shortly reach Cascade City,
where they expect to meet the surveying
party which is now on Boundary creek.
Wheat Crop in South America.
London, Nov. IA dispatch to the
Times from Buenos Ayres says that frost
has damaged the harvest in the Argentine
Republic at least 10 per cent. The cor
respondent of the Times at Valparaiso