Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-28
SOM NORThW 81 FACTS
FIGURES AND HAIR
VEST DEVELOPMENTS.
Items of Interest Gathered From the
States of Washington, Idaho
and Montana.

The total amount Of property assessed
in Whatcom county is $lO,23S, ,57S OF this
s74S,ooo is personal property.
The ruling price for pack horses at
Ellensburg has been $50 during the past
week, and still the tendency is upward
Work on the Notifications at Adni-
ralty head will begin about the lst Of Sep
tember. About 100 men will be employ
Cd
The Island County Horticultural So
clety has met and decided to hold fair
at Coupeville about the middle Of Septem-
ber.
Eli Bolic of Asotin Prairie has headed
and threshed 400 acres of his crop which
yielded 1000 bushels Of wheat and 2OOO
bushels of barley. A portion Of this was
volunteer. He has 200 acres Of little club
wheat yet to harvest.
The Whitman Memorial Association
has appointed Hon. W. G. Painter, the
veteran Indian fighter, as solicitor for the
Whitman monument fund.
The death is announced at Montesano
of Mrs Washington French, pioneer of
Olympia, and one of the few original
pioneers who crossed the plains as early
as 81.
There has been a large crop of currants
throughout Whatcom county and as the
demand is not large, great many farm
ers have converted what they raised into
wine.
The Northern Pacific Railway Company
has been notified by the Pierce county
board Of equalization that its assessment
valuation will be raised to $4,000 mile
on its tracks in Pierce county, and it has
also been notified to be present at the Of
flee Of the board to file its protest if it hos
any to make.
For the year 1886 the valuation upon
which taxation for Thurston county
were based We're: Real estate, S4,S05,
O0O: personal, S5o6,000, a total of S.,
4Ol 600 The increase this year raises the
realty valuation more than 100000, plac
ing the figures CT the assessor at S4 4,930
coo, and personal property valuations
have been advanced to 100000, making
the total valuations for this years assess
ment 5,G39 900
Idaho.
Three carloads Of cattle were shipped
from Genesee to the klondil1e country
and four carloads to Omaha last week.
Peter Thompson, a Potlatch farmer,
will harvest 1900 acres Of wheat this sea-
son, which he estimates will yield $1,000
bushels. He contracted 10000 bushels at
60 cents.
Jacob Hoover, the old settler on the
South Fork of the Judith, has sold his
ranch, lGO acres, and homestead right and
40 head Of cattle for $4,000 and will leave
in a few days for Alaska.
The state has received the seventh divi-
dend on its claim against the Columbia
bank of Chicago, in which Sl543.59 of
state funds was tied up at the time Of
the worlds fair. The total paid to date
is Is per cent.
The Spaulding company leased their
mill and water rights on the Lapwai to
outside parties, who will erect a large
warehouse to buy and store the grain
of the reservation. The crop to be de-
livered at that point is estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000 bushels.
Superintendent Davis says the railroad
bridge across the Snake at Gutfey is about
completed. The men are now putting on
l,o Co. no holI
trains can be run across inside of 10 days
and possibly sooner. AS soon as the road
is extended a piece beyond the bridge
passengers will be landed by the railroad
on the other side of the river. In fact,
the plan is understood to be to move Gut
fey to the south side.
Two of the soldiers at the post, Ser
geant McLain and Corporal Sutton of
Troop +, Fourth cavalry, are in jail in
Nampa. They were dispatched to that
place on horseback after two deserters.
When they found they had failed to in
tercept the escapes, the man hunters pro-
ceeded to load up on Nampa red eye. They
tinged the town a bright, bright hue and
ing in sadly demoralized condition. The
same day two officers came over from
Nampa and arrested the men. The sol
dicrs are still in charge Of the civil au-
thorities at Nampa.
The commissioners of Lincoln county
have retained counsel to test the con-
stitrtionality of the stock assessment law
of the last session. Lincoln county loses
a large amount of revenue, as its sheep
range in Blaine some eight months of the
year. Moreover, the rate in Blaine Is
81 40, while in Lincoln it is only S2.6c.
This works a hardship on the Lincoln
sheep owners. The law will be fought
under the recent decision of the supreme
court in the fee law case, if that decision
stands If it is reversed some other
ground of attack will be relied upon.
The work of putting up the wire for
the Fort Steele telegraph line is being
pushed as rapidly as possible.
The comptroller Of the currency has de
clared dividend of 5 per cent in favor of
the creditors of the Stockgrowers' Nation
al bank of Miles City.
Indian Agent Mclaughlin has issued
an order revoking all permits to camp on
the Blackfoot reservation.
The total assessed valuation of Car
bon county for the year 1897 is 81 ,36s,o99.
For 1896 the assessment was 81 ,369,272.
The Murphy Cattle Company are said
to have sold all of their three and four
year olds for $50 per hundred f. 0. b. at
Miles City, but to be weighed at Aurora,
III.
There have been about 4s departures
for Klondike from Helena and the sur
rnln1inn cnlntru since the first word