Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-15
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES,
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tnna and Washington.

Work has begun on the new lighthouse
at the entrance of Gray's harhor.
King county commissioners have begun
! condemnation proceedings for the land
required to complete the army post site
at Seattle.
Dr. R. f. L. Newburne superintendent
of the Puyallup Indian school, has re-
| signed.
The volume of insurance business trans
acted in the state of Washington during
| the year 1896 exceeded 81 G00OlO
| Twelve applicants for the naval cadet
| ship at Annapolis have notified Represen-
! tatives Jones and Lewis that they will at
tend the competitive examination at Ell
lensburg, May IL.
The supreme court of the state decides
that a wife who without cause has been
abandoned by her husband, who possesses
means to contribute to her support, can
maintain an action for maintenance I'M
coupled with or independent OF an action
for divorce.
The South Bend city council has decided
to enforce the ordinance against gam
bling. The marshal. at his own request.
has been instructed to proceed to break
up the practice. and, if necessary, to i'm
press men into the service as deputy mar
ShalS to assist him.
There is one school district m Chehalis
county, says the Montesano Vitiette, with
S400 TO its credit, which has rot had Il
term of school in several YEATS because
there are no pupils in the district to at
tend There seems to be no way of using
the money till the popula ton III the dis
trict increases.
Montana.
Montana Odd Fellows are collecting
money for a state orphans home.
The coal company at Red Lodge is now
taking out about SEQ tons of coal daily,
giving employment to 400 men.
The total expenses of the city govern
ment of Helena for the coming fiscal year
is estimated at $685. 600, which IS much less
than for years past.
At the meeting of the Montana state
board of medical examiners at Helena
only four out of the 10 young physicians
who appeared to take the examination
were granted certificates to practice, and
the rest will be obliged to take the exam
nation again. The requirement for sue
cess was an average of IS per cent in the
branches examined in.
The report of the chief of police of Great
Falls for the year ending April 80, 1897
shows arrests made for the year: Male Si5,
female 800 total 11i5 June, 1896, has the
largest number, $50, and March, 1897, the
smallest, &C. The number arrested for each
different offense is given in detail. Va
grancy 207, is the largest. OF the total
number. u We're sent to the penitentiary,
of whom nine pleaded guilty in the police
court. During lne year property was
stolen to the amount of $3915, and of this
amount $2374 was recovered.
The mean temperature for April was
one degree above the normal, the average
for the state being 45 degrees. The highest
monthly mean temperature was 81 degrees.
at Great Falls, and the least was 10 de
grees, at Castle. The highest temperature
for the month was 81 degrees at Glendive,
the 26th, and the lowest was seven degrees
at Monarch. the 9Th. The 25th, 26th and
9th We're the warmeSt days of the month";
and the coldest generally occurred the 5th
and 9th.
week at Pocatello.
About 800 acres of fruit trees have been
set out by the Plymouth colonists this
spring.
The state land board has drawn out 81
007.6O from the general school fund for in
veStment in state warrants.
A Boise man has received 100 pounds of
sugar-beet seed from Utah, and will eX-
pertinent win it in that vicinity.
The anti-gamblng law went into effect
al midnight Saturday. At Boise there was
a question about applicability of the act
to this city, as the special charter of Boise
confers upon the city government the
However, the games all closed, and the
propretors declared they will await de-
cision of the point involved.