Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-04-24
NORTHWEST BaEvITIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COINTRY'S RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Cen
cr:i Interest in idaho. Montana
and Washington.

The mortgage for 100000 on the union
depot at Spokane has been foreclosed.
y new paper. independent III politics,
VIII be started about May / at Ilwaco.
There is talk of an oar mandatory in
Abciueen, to give employment 10 25 men.
kiJsap county is going to have a fair.
1t wiI be held al s!!yerdale Sept. 80.
Governor Rogers has cOmmuL41 to life
Imprisonment the sentence of death inn
posed upon William Carey OF King coun-
ty. Carey Was accused OF killing his
5GuaW Wife curing 4 drunken brawl, but
ile evidence was entirely circums tantial.
The government Will begin work at
once on the Port Townsend fortiications
lof which congress has appropriated
large sums.
sNohomish county is fighting the back
salary claims of Justices of the peace and
co3lsta5les, amounting in the aggregate
to $3.50.
i, is reported that SO acres on a ranch
in Sumner. Pierce county. VIII be planted
10 slra :, berries for eastern shipment in
carloads.
The fees received by the county clerk Of
Co"Iitz county last month exceeded the
clerk $ salary by SD.
The citizens of E-atonviI1e are consider
ins the proposition of building a flume TO
i!ue water, to aid in the handling Of Ium
btr.
Ihe Kalama river salmon hatchery has
completed lis seasons work. having
turned out over 3.0U0000 fish during the
year. the loss of eggs and young iish be
ing very light.
II is unlawful for fishermen and fish
dealers TO have in their possession be-
tween March / ana November l, sturgeon
Of any size, the penalty being so for eacn
sturgeon So found.
y Seattle lumber manufacturer thinks
he sees Il good thing in making ready
made houses for Japan, as the sample
house sent 10 lHat country found quick
market.
During the last quarter there We're re-
ceiytd into The St~iIdcOOm insane asylum
80 patients, ei:,nt less than for the quarter
ending December 81, 1886. The discharged
numbered 81. The deaths, IA; on proba
ton, g. In the hospital at present, 5l9.
Hon. 3. F. Barge. and Judge Goodwin.
Indian commissioners. are expected in
North Yakima the latter part of this
month to continue negotiations with the
Indians for the opening of the resefVa-
lion.
Puyallup hop farmers are working their
fields for ali there is in them The Stim-
ulaton they have received from the ad-
vance in price the rosy prospects for
1891, has spurred them to do all they can
10 regain the neglected or abandoned
acreage.
Whatcom county has more miles Of
planked road than any other county in
the state. and proposes to continue to
nelwork the county with these useful
highways of commerce. having just
awarded a contract for seven miles to be
built for $i1. 7lG.
s;,ate Auditor Young has completed his
first quarterly showing $40, ,42l.ol on
hand in the various funds April |. The
largest lem in his amount is S15f.9+l3l
IN the tide land fund. while the current
school fund Contains $11t40.2l.
According to the report Of the comp
troller of the currency. the national banks
Of The state of Washington on March
showed: Total reserve OF $1i, l9l ,0J5; loans
and discounts. s., 731I11 reserve, s., 599;
sold holding, 81. ,5ll: deposits @7.'sb, IL.
Average reserve held. @4.o2 per cent.
III 1871 two out Of seven OF Seattles ma
tioaal banks resisted payment OF city aild
county taxes on the ground of an unjust
and eIOrbitant assessment. Through the
weary length Of city, county and state
courts the case dragged its way up TO
the Uni Ell States supreme court. Ehich
now decides that the Institutions defend
ant must forthwith come down with tAe
fa.l lew for those years, grand total q
about $500