Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-26
NORTHWEST BREv|T|ES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters Of Gem
eral Interest in IdnhO. Montana
and Washington.
Real estate transfers in Seattle since
January | amount to 81 .33l 90O96.

Real estate transfers in Seattle since
January | amount to 81 ,33l ,90O.96.
Two new shingle mills are under con
struction at Porter, Just over the Thurs
ton county border, in Chehalis county.
Work on grading the state road be
tween Buckley, Pierce county, and the
Matches river, in Yakima county, will
be begun soon after July |.
On recommendation of the State Dent
al Society Governor Rogers has appointed
Drs. C. A. Darling of New Whatcom, ID.
NJ. Thurston of Spokane, and F. W. Rees
of Walla Walla on the state board OF
dental examiners.
The Grand Army encampment at Van
couver elected John NJ. Mclean, Walla
Walla, department commander; III. Z.
Funk, Vancouver, senior vice; I'll. II.
Wolfe, Dayton, junior vice; c. ID. Spencer,
Hoquiam, chaplain.
The citizens of Port Townsend have on
foot plan to complete the wagon road
from Port Townsend to Port Discovery.
to connect with the Clallam county road
that has already been built to the JeiTer-
son county line.
An application for a writ of habeas cor
p,s has been filed in the federal court in
Seattle on behalf of Henry Craemer, the
condemned murderer The respite of
death sentence granted Craemer by Gov
ernor Rogers will not expire until July
23
A party Of Columbia college scientists,
including Professors Calkins, Harrington
and Griffin, has arrived at Port Town
send to prosecute the research OF the
marine life of Puget sound, begun last
wear and continued several months un-
der the able direction of Professor Bash
ford Dean.
Inc six pairs of Mongolian pheasants
purchased by the gun club arrived Sun
day and were taken to Shoups ranch
and turned loose.
Agent Irwin of the Fort Hall agency
has gathered in 6G0 horses belonging to
Marsh valley ranchers and is holding
them for payment for grazing privileges.
j. O. Nixon of Lewiston, Idaho, has
been appointed surveyor Of lands on the
Nez Perez Indian reservation, Idaho, at
$1,000, vice James Stewart, resigned.
The Boise land office has received an
important decision relating to proving
up on arid land entries. The department
has decided that anyone getting water
upon his land whether by a perpetual
water right or by annual rental Of water
from a ditch company can prove up on
his claim Heretofore it was necessary
for one to have Il perpetual water right
before patent would be issued to him.
Montana.
G.. @. Johnson, the absconding Silver
Bow county treasurer, has finally been
located. He is in Johannesburg, South
Africa, or was just a month ago.
When the next school term begins lO7
pupils who have finished their time in
the grammar grades of the Butte public
schools will enter the new high school
building.
The law requiring mine owners and
managers to enclose the cages used IN
vertical shafts Of more than 300 feet
depth is being enforced III Butte. It
went into effect June |, and already some
Of the largest mining companies in the
state have complied with its provisions
Major McLaughlin's bonds as agent OF
the Blackfeet Indians have been prop
erly filled out and returned to Washing
ton, where they will be approved at once
and commission issued. The new agent
will probably relieve Major Steele about
the first of July, as the work OF checking
up and turning over government prop
erty will occupy a week or 10 days.
The Helena land office has received in
structions from Commissioner Bingcr
Hermann of the general land office that
hereafter no permits for timber cutting
on public lands will be allowed to in
clude more than $50 acres. Formerly
the limit is four sections, on 23GO acres
and the ruling is of great Importance to
the large concerns that have been cutting
timber heretofore by virtue OF permits
State Auditor Poindexters report
shows that the fire insurance companies
authorized to do business in Montana col
lected in premiums last year from Mon
tana patrons SGGG,9Sl, while the losses
were only $24O,OS5. During the year
there were policies written or renewed
acgregating $50, ,S57 ,OO5. There were re-
ceived in premiums $425,S96 more than
were paid out as fire losses. The
amount of loss, however, does not include
the cost of doing business in the state.