Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-31
NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
NEWS ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON,
MONTANA AND IDAHO.
Opening of the Yakima Indian Res.
eryatiOn-Sale of All the Prunes
Around kendrick.

Opening of the Yakima Indian Res.
ervation-Sale of All the Prunes
Around Kendrick
kittitas county has decided to hold Z;
county fair this fall
The fourth large raft of piles built at
Stella, Wash, on the Columbia river, will
be completed next month and sent to San
Francisco
The Indian commissioners have com
pleted the treaty for the opening of the
Yakima Indian reservation to settlers
As soon as q majority Of the Indians have
signed the treaty it will be sent to Wash
lngton for ratification. The United
States agrees to pay 81 100000 for the
lands and give the Indians allotments in
severalty
William Rock found dead horse near
Goldendale, WASH, last week which was
saddled and bridled and had coat tied
ON in the usual manner. In the pockets
were letters addressed to Nicholas Cul-
len, Mabton, Wash.
The governor has appointed as oyster
land commissioners for Mason county
john Gosser, j. A. Gale and 4. j. Smith.
Horace Guptel of Port Angeles was APP
pointed member of the pilot commits
sion for Puget sound.
A raft of 5000 feet of logs has been
received at Port Townsend The LOGS are
to be cut into lumber and used in build
ing wharf that will be used in connec-
ton with the building of the fortifca-
tons at Marowstone point.
The state board of education has adj
Vertlsed for bids, to open August II, for
the supply of text books for use in the
high schools of the state. Those districts
voting for free text books under the new
law will be compelled to purchase under
the direction of the state board.
The approaches to the Cascade tunnel
will be finished in about two weeks. and
1t is said that work on the tunnel proper
Will be commenced the first of next
month. In a recent interview with a
Seattle paper Mr.. Hill stated that the
Great Northern would do the work with
its own men. That means close work
and big rush.
While probably temporarily insane
Major Samuel j. Candy, one of the best
known citizens of Vancouver, Wash.
jumped from the steamer Mascot and was
drowned. He was bound for Portland
with party Of friends at the time, and
no cause can be given for the rash act,
his affairs being in excellent shape.
Port Angeles has received an offer from
a mill company to remove their plant to
that city. The plant consists of saw
min, shingle mill and box factory, and is
only p years old. The mill cuts $4,000
feet OF lumber per day. 1t has double
the large size gang edger, two
planners, resaw for boxes and beveed sid
ing. The company simply asks mill
site free of cost. Two have been of
fered it.
Secretary Collyer of the Tacoma cham
Der Of commerce has just completed a
statement of the customs business for
the district of Puget sound for the fiscal
year ending June 80 last This report
makes remarkable showing for the port
Of Tacoma. During the year Tacoma :
share of the total imports Of the Puget
sound customs district was S35 per cent
Of the grand total, which was over 81
100000 In the matter of exports Tacoma
lid approximately as much business as
al the other ports of the district com
blned, being 40 per cent of total OF
over 81 100000 of exports
The acreage of hops in Lewis county
S perhaps not more than half what it was
.hree years ago Many of the growers
who worked their fields at loss became
discouraged and plowed them up. But
hose who continued to cultivate their /
lops from year to year report that all in
ications point to an unusually good /
.rop. They appear to be in first class
condition, and it is reported that the lice +
IRE not so plentiful as usual
Fire has destroyed the Gold Hunter
'onccEtrator at Mullan, causing loss OF
$50, 600 and throwing so mon out of en-
,loyment
The funds Of Bingham county, Idaho. .
re in badly tangled condition, the ra-
ult of deposits made in bank that has
ecently failed. Funds due the state
rom the county have been demanded, bat
he county treasurer has declined to ac-
ept the 10 per cent dividend offered b.
he bank
d. c. Nanburen of White Sulphur
'prings Mont, has been elected superin
endent of the Pocatello schools, vice !.
v. Farris, resigned to accept the princ
'alship of the commercial department OF
he agricultural college at Logan, Utah.
Rev. E. 3. Sutton, general agent of the
daho State Temperance Union, is spend
ng some time at Ola and Sweet organiz-
nc Good Templar lodges. He has al
eady organized one at Horse Shoe Bend
which has a membership of 20 and anoth-
Il at Pearl with similar number as
harter members.
The klondike fever seems to be affect
NO the placer miners of the North fork.
Two men have left for Seattle, where
hey will outfit. SO far the South fork
las taken little interest in the discover
es up in the frozen country, common
emark being that the Occur d'Alenes
ne good enough for any man.
There are at least 1900 acres of prunc
richards directly tributary to Kendrick,
most of which are bearing, and at the
PRESENT time indicate large yield y
representative of a Chicago commission
louse has made arrangements to handle
he entire crop of the section at figures
hat will net the growers between 60 and
o cents free on board here.
A. j. Macnab, H. B. Eastman and a. A.
Richards have left Boise for Alaska. Nj.
'1acnab states he will 90 through to