Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-27
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
PROGRESS IN BUSINESS CIRCLES.
1dahO's Game Law Held to Be EincOn-
Observation-Disclosures Apples to
Honolulu ON Il Sailing Vessel
Nontana's Inheritance Law.

| Montana's Inheritance Law
Puget sound is shipping salted salmon
TO Japan.
Menatchee grain buyers are complains
in9 OF a lack of cars.
+ 4 tribe of Red Men has been organized
, at Hoquiam with 60 charter members.
The city council of Seattle has elected
/. }. Humes mayor to succeed w. d.
, Woods
Three prisoners escaped from jail at
Mount Vernon by locking i'll the taller
when he brought their supper
The attendance at the public schools
OF kendrick has reached 1863
William Oxlev was killed at Delta.
falling from wagon and breal1 king his
neck.
The Banner Mining Company at Wal
lace has completed its cabins and has
two men facing up for the tunnel until
the contract for running it is let
The telephone line which is under con
stTuction between kendlicb and Pierce
City and Nez Perce will be completed as
far as Leland at once
The experiment of shipping apples to
Honolulu on a sailing vessel is being
tried at Port Townsend
The liveliest demand is reported on the
part OF eastern railroads for WASHINGTON
fir for car building
The years shipments of salmon. cod
fish, oats, lime and shingles from Ana
cortes to points outside of this state foots
up in value to S6SO,OOO
/ F]athead county, Montana, raised 40O.-
GOO bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels Of
oats and 100000 bushels of barley the
past season, valued at Il total of nearly
half million.
Warrants Oh the special school fund for
any particular year it is held by the at
toney general, must be paid in order OF
issue from any funds in the special levy
! fund i'll county treasllrers' hands to the
credit Of the district
Editor L. i. Hazeltine Of the South
Bend journal finds himself and wife
somewhat affected by the recent passage
OF Il civil marriage law in the Peruvian
congress. About three years ago Mr. Ha-
zeltlnc married a Methodist missionary
! then located in Peru, the marriage being
considered illegal there, as neither party
was a Catholic.
Eleven Hollanders and two Frenchnen
have formed a colony to file upon land %
miles from North Yakima There are 50
children i'll the settlement. The head of
each family contributed S25 towards
sinking all artesian well, work upon
which will be begun at once The land
selected is wonderfully fertile More
Holanders from Michigan are expected
Montana.
a ca1 load of horses has lust been ship
ped from Hamilton to Eastport, Kan
MissouIa S wholesale merchandise busi-
ness has been unusually heavy this fall
Work has been begun on the railroad
south of Whitehall known as the Parrot
& Ruby Valley.
1t is estimated that between 900 and
|, ,2o0 fruit trees have been delivered in
Beaverhead county this fall
The wolves and coyotes continue in
great numbers in the upper Sand Conlee
country, and are very Troublesome, to the
ranchers and stockmen
While hunting at Potato Hill lakes
near Phillipsburg the other day. Burt
Iar got within rifle range Of flock OF
10 wild swan. and succeeded in shooting
one of them, which weighed 10 pounds.
The supreme court has sustained the {
constitutionaity of the inheritance law
4 :, III.
imposes a tax of ) per cent ON bequests !
to any beneficiary not q relative, where
the estate amounts to over 500.
The report of the Lewiston land office
for the month of October shows 1851
acres entered under the desert land act /
and final proof made on ,2sO acres under
that act: % homestead entries a@greeat !
ing 1858 acres, and nine homestead I
proofs aggregating / ,440 acres; two tim
ber culture final proofs agrregating 800 T
acres and one sale OF public lands, III I
Guiding l2l acres.
Good prices for sheep and cattle have
had the effect of almost clearing the +
ranges iii eastern Montana, and both cat
tie men and wool raisers are alarmed, as
they do not know where they will get a
new supply,
Recently l03 Indians from the Fort
Peck Indian reserve went up into the
third, fourth and sixth points, on the
Missouri river and killed enough deer I
to feed the wards of the government for
the next 10 years. In one day, out of
one point they butchered something like /
200 deer,
Antelope are again reported to be leav
ing the Yellowstone park for the lower
country, where they are being slaugh
tered by the hunters The residents OF
the upper Yellowstone are desirous of af /
fording these animals every protection |
provided by the Montana game laws, and /
have petitioned the board of county com /
missioners for the appointment of spe
cial game warden for that section
Idaho. /
Probate Judge Clinton of IllmoTe coun- /
ty holds the game law invalid, declaring
that tl.e law had not been passed in con
formity with the constitution. as CON
strued in the fee bill case
Buyers have bought up about all of I
the choice apples in the vicinity of Cen T
esee and as a result the local market has
advanced sharply
The c. E. DeBow 20O-acre farm near
Genesee has been sold to Charles Grei |
ser for $500. The demand for land is /
quite brisk and the price is advancing.
The assessor of kootenai county re-
ports that tax money is coming i'll at an
encouraging rate. During the month of
October more than 5000 was paid in. as
against about 800 during the same
month last year
State Superintendent Anderson has is
sued a call to the county superintend-
ents of the state for a convention to be
held at HALEY for three days next follow
ing December 2s This will be at the
time of the regular meeting of the state
teachers association.