Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-29
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington.

w hatcOm county looks forward to al
abundant fruit crop.
The long distance telephone will be ex
tended from Everett TO Arlington.
The Island County Times reports
great increase i'll the potato acreage th
year.
The annual meeting of the Washington
Pioneer Association will be held in Sc
attic on June 10.
About 1900 head of cattle, purchased il
Washington, Oregon and Idaho, were
shipped last week :Iom Opokane to The
ranges Of Montana and Wyoming.
, Asotin county stockmen complain thai
their most valuable geldings are missing
! from the ranges, and aver that a whole
! lot of stealing has been going on during
the past year.
The Beaverland Woolgrowers' Associa-
ton has decided to- pay shearers 6 cents
per head with board or cents per head
without board, the shearer to tie the
WOOL
The brickwork of the state normal
school at Dillon is finished and the roof
of the tower is being put on.
The state land commission has granted
$50 leases of school land in various parts
in eastern Washington since May l and
many applications are pending.
A Blaine man is endeavoring to interest
eastern capital in a plant for Blaine for
utilizing the refuse from the salmon can
neries and dog fish for the manufacture
of commercial fertilizer.
1t is estimated that there will be up
wards of 1900 men employed in the fishing
industry in Whatcom county this sum-
mer. There will be over so traps in oper-
alton in the vicinity of Point Roberts. 1t
is expected that several hundred gill nets
will be used in the gulf below Point Rob
erts and Lummi island.
Sixteen horses were sent from Port
Townsend last year to the Cook Inlet
country to operate a pack train and al
though they had plenty of food. eight head
died from the effects of the cold during
the winter. Another company operating
81 horses at the same place lost the entire
outfit The horses We're common cayuses
and it is said they paid for themselves and
their transportation north 10 times over
before succumbing to the cold.
Eli Hathaway. who was a merchant ii.
Whatcom in 1855, is trying to get the gov
ernment to pay him for property Destroy
ed by Indians during an insurrection in
that year. Mr.. Hathaway left his store
and went out to fight the Indians, and
while he was away the store was burned
to the ground. When congress passed a
law authorizing the court of claims to adj
judicate all Indian depreciation cases,
til after the expiration of the time limit.
Montana.
Comrades of the Grand Army, depart
ment of Montana. will go to the national
encampment at Buffalo in considerable
numbers this year.
Cincinnati capitalists have 10000 acre
tract set aside in the Big Horn basin
which they propose to cover with a ditch
that will cost about $4,000.
The supreme court holds that the anti
scapers law passed by the third Montana
legislature, in 1893, which is still on the
statute books, is constitutional.
Flockmasters from Teton county say
that the lamb crop of this season is the
greatest in the history of the sheep indus
try of northern Montana and that the in
crease in many bands will be more than
100 per cent, while the loss is practically
nothing.
The outstanding warrants of Helena
against the general fund amounts in all to
$345, 2.55. making the entire indebtedness
of the city in the form of bonds and war
rants S736, ,S1255 There are due to the city
from suspended banks 6S.5S217.
The Marias roundup has gathered most
Of the cattle that drifted south of the
Missouri during the winter, the outfit ag
gregatng some 5000 head. The cattle are
in very good condition for this season of
the year, a circumstance which leads
SlOck1n$iI 10 the conclusion 1nat they Will
have early beef shipments for 1897.
Idaho.
Hope people are catching fine trout.
Priest river valley is filling up with set
tiers.
Ranchers are becoming uneasy over the
rising waters in Pend d'OreIle lake.
The assessment rolls of Alturas county
figure up a total of $647,771.7t
There has already been received this
sea son at Mountain Home over n hall
million pounds of wool
The trustees of the Crittenden home
have negotiated a loan Of $780, with which
they expect to be able to complete the
home by the first of July.
a gambler has been fined 5000 by the
probate judge at Boise for viola ting the
gambling law The defendant immedi-
ately applied for writ of habeas corpus,
and the law will now be tested in the
courts.