Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-06
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
LATEST REPORTS OF THE CROPS
Parties Organizing. to Go to the
kIondike Diggins. Deep Wells
Items From Washington, Idaho.
Montana and British Columbia.

CofaX is to have two new business
buildings, to be completed by December l..
Garfield county has never had such fine
roads for grain hauling as this fall.
The Cinnamon Of Port Townsend have
formed Il pool and raised the price of
laundry work 100 per cent.
Chehalis buyers are now paying from
81 TO 4 cents for hogs, and large mum
bers OF them are being brought to market
every day
Puyallup shipped this year to Montana
and mining regions tributary to Spokane
over Sl2, ,uGO worth Of fresh berries
". j. Woods Of Lost Springs, Columbia
county, bought $40 acres of land one year
ago, paying therefor $4,000, on time lie
realized enough out OF this years crop to
pay for the place and had a balance of
5000.
The state treasurer has called for gen
eral fund warrants from No. 1921 to
No. 1860 inclusive. also military fund
warrants No. 2O24 to 2O3O. The call ma
tures November .. The amount of the
general fund call is $45 .s2l.27; military
fund. S4730.50.
Twenty-one men from Yakima, under
the charge Of j. G. Cameron, have left
this city on special freight with II cars
or horses and six flat cars Of supplies.
bound for the sound. where four steamers
will take them to the klondike. Many
OF the Yakima men are old miners and all
are strong and hardy.
The largest single cargo Of wheat to
leave Tacoma this season has Just been
taken out by the British ship Crocodile
which had stored safely away i'll her hold
l+l ,S52 bushels, valued at $4,000. This
makes the total shipments to date ,49l, :
45S bushels, with an aggregate value of
81 .2SS, 900.
A farmer residing III the Eureka Flat
district. Walla Walla county. has Just
completed the boring of a we'll 234 feet
deep, which will yield 1900 gallons of
wafer every "A hours. This quantity is
amply sufficient for his needs, and the
WELL which cost $3.50, saves the labor of
hauling water from the Touchet river, IS
miles away.
Expert c. P Dam has filed his report
on his investigation in the Pacific county
treas,lrer's office. He found eN-Treasurer
Lockwood short S4793, of which about
$4,000 was previously known. He found
the accounts, of ex-Treasurer +. \. Hazel
tine carefully and correctly kept and com
mends the work of the present incumbent,
S. Heichner.
kpndrick will have a brewery
Rev. A. II. Lyons has resigned the pas
torate Of the First Baptist church Of Po
catello accepting Il cali to North Yakima,
Wash.
The surveyor generals office at Boise.
Idaho has been crowded with applca
tionS for surveys and mining patents this
quarter more than for any quarter tor
the past 10 on Il years.
There are rllmors OF Il large saNmill to
be pui on the banks Of the Weiser near
the town of WeiSer 1t is said the par
ties are contracting for 100000 feet OF
sawlogs to be brought down the river
in the spring
An immigrant car containing several
families Of Dunkards has arrived at Jul
iaptta from Boone county, Iowa. These
people are Il part Of q colony located near
Nez Perce, and lett for their destination
soon after. They went up the grade with
what goods they couldn't get in their
wagons packed on their backs. the women
and children bearing their share.
In his last quarterly report Auditor
Woodworth shows I.atah countys war-
rant Indebtedness to be as follows: Gen
eral county fund. Sl2, ,494.7S: road fund.
S26479.49; bridge fund.- l525.l2: school
funds. $9749S hospital fund, $l0.9l913:
current expense fund, $lO,235.55; total:
S6265967. The county had issued Sol,
1920 up to the date Of the report and
reduced S4o,76l4S. County Treasurer
Cornwall's report showed S210.Gl cash on
hand
The big eddy near Agatha, on the Clear
water. will soon cease to be an obstruc-
ton to river navigation. Twenty men I'M
der an engineer from the war depart
ment are working there, and unless win
ter closes in earlier than is expected, viii
soon have enough rock out of the way to
insure a good channel. Tile O. r. & N.
Co is building a boat that IS especially
adapted to this river They expect to
make regular trips between Lewiston and
kamiah next spring.
Montana.
The telephone line from Sylvanite TO
Leona has been completed.
The Troy Yahk wagon road requires
about 5000 feet of grading to complete It,
The total value of all assessed property
in Jefferson county for the year 1897 Is
S3,25O $50, on which the total tax to be
collected amounts to GO,29G.55.
A Virginia City man expects to leave
for the Sandwich islands about the tirst
Of the year. He will 90 there to look into
the coffee raising business and:i he Is sat
isfied with the outlook may engage in the
business.
William Brodericll Cloete of London
England, has purchased at Marcus DAILY
Bitter Root stock farm imported Matt
Bylnes, by Hampton, dam Cherry, paying
$4,000 for the horse Mr. Cloete has alsc
purchased six mares The lot will be
shipped to England, when Matt Byrnes
was imported. The horse is five years old
A party OF Klondikers from Billings
camped near Fort Benton the other day
with an outfit of 20 horses. The members
of the party were on their way to Ed
monton. intending to reach the gold re
gion by the overland route. They will be
followed by another party with about 9(
horses from the same vicinity, each outfit
having with it a supply Of provisions suf
ficirnt for over a year.
The following officers. We're elected at
Butte for the grand lodge !. Q. O. !. fol
the ensuing year: Grand patriarch, Henry
A. Meyer, Helena; grand high priest
Henry c. .Klenck, Fort Custer: grand Sc
nior warden. Thomas Millington. Great