Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-04-17
NORTHWEST BREV|T|ES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Gen.
eral Interest in Idailo, Montana
and Washington.
There is talk of a hosiery factory {
Ballard.

There is talk of a hosiery factory al
Two logging camps have been started
at Leland.
School directors near Tacoma have been
arrested for letting contracts to them
selves.
A lodge Of Rathbone sisters, with 40
members, has been Instituted at Blaine
~ new fruit and vegetable cannery is
the next thing on the program for i'll
dustrial Fairhaven.
The board OF state land commissioners
has Withdrawn all school lands from the
market at the present low prices. These
lands will be offered for lease, and it is
thus expected to add $4,000 a year to the
school fund.
The Washington State Federation Of
Women's clubs will hold its first meeting
at olympia, June % and %. in the clup
room OF the Woman'S club of Olympia.
Treasurer Young reports that March
q, 1897, the total amount of cash in hand
in the state treasury was $40, 4z4.ol, a
larger amount tnat at the end of any
quarter in two and one-half years.
\ large quantity of lumber IS being
shipped from Astoria, to Scarborough
head for the government buildings when
are being erected al that point.
Not since the days when the farmers
OF Washington conhned their crops To
hops and wheat has there been such d
shortage Of fat Stock OF all kinds
The grand jury at Snonomish returned
81 indictments and reported the county
affairs i'll excellent condition. but de-
cIared a new court house is needed.
A San Francisco syndicate has pur-
chased the plant for constructing the
JogSinS' RATS, which for some time has
been on the Washington size of the Co
lumbia, only a few miles up from the
mouth of that river. The lumDermen are
satisfied the cigar-shaped RATS viii rev
olutionze the lumber business of the Pa
ciiic coast.
The snow at Monte Cristo and Silver
ton is settling gradually and there are
now TO fears of Il flood. Across the di-
vide in the Silver creek and Index dis
tricts the snow, which was light, is near
ly all gone.
The fact does not seem TO be generally
understood that the new state law rela-
tive to licensing corporations is in effect.
and that every corporation doing business
in the state must pay $40 to the state be
fore July l, for the privilege of contin-
uing its business for the year.
Notice has been received that United
States Surveyor General William +. Wat
son will receive sealed proposals at his
office in Olympia until May l, for run
ming measuring and marking the stand
ard, township, section and meander lines
of 10 townships Two of the Townships
p and 26, are in the unsurVeyed strip on
the Idaho line, just east of Spokane.
Mei,t:iR::s.
An A. O.. U. W. lodge has been or
ganized at Logan.
Rev. Wiley Mountjoy has been appoint
cd superintendent Of the orphans home
at Twin Bridges.
J1I4ar r. "a
United States grand jury to meet in Hell
ena April 20.
Four hundred and fifty foreigners were
natlralized in the courts Of Lewis and
Clarke county in 1896.
County and city officers at Butte nave
succeeded in breaking up most des-
perate and successful gang of robbers
after tracking them to their hiding place
in the mountains. and have landed one
of its leading members, q bad man
known as Texas Charley in the coun-
ty jail.
The assessor has fixed the following
values for Choteau county live stock for
the current tax year: Stock cattle, $l5
per head: beef cattle and milch cows,
SO; sheep, $1.o0; common range horses,
$40: hogs. So per head. Ranch land values
were fixed by the board Of appraisers at
$l.25 to $40 per acre.
At the annual meeting of the State
Medical society at Helena, the following
officers were elected: DIR. G.. l.. Mccul-
Tough of Missoula. president; Dr. l'- +.
Sandow of Nehart first vice PRESIDENT
Dr. c. NJ Chamblss of BoZeman, second
vice president: DIR. &. c. Brooke, secfe-
tary: Dr. George H. Barbour. treasurer:
Dr. w w. Bullard, corresponding sec
retary, and the following judiciary
committee: DR.. Holmes Of Butte, Df.
G. X. Cole of Helena and DR.. Rudolph
Horsky of Helena.
The sawmills at Bonner have started
for the seasons run and the 1ndlcatloha
are that there will be plenty of business
for the lumbermen till fall. The mills
start up with a full crew and are run
ming full time. The drive on the Black
foot will not begin for some time, as the
river has hardly begun to rise Ihefe
are logs enough. however. in the dam at
Bonner at present to keep the mill run
ming till the winters cut gets down.
EsEssha
There is a growing interest in the frult
lands of Idaho.
The mines of the state are Stlmu!al1AS
railroad building this year.
The state normal school at Albion has
been closed for the remainder of the
wear, the board OF trustees alleging eX-
travagance and mismanaGement-
Governor StennenberS has issued a proc
lamation setting aside May lth as Arpof
day.
The attorney general of Idaho has de
cided that it is not necessary Tor the
ladies to register in order to have a legal
vote
The superintendent of the soldiers
home has made his quarterly report to
the board. 1t shows q saving OF S2l4.4l
per month or $G43.23 for the last quarter
out of the amounts allowed by the legs
In and the government.
D.:rrnnt Resentencad.
San Francisco, April 12-Theodore Dur