Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-13
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington.

lNOH n wv eOi lNEVS AMI NO rs.
Items of Interest From Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington.
The enrolment at the Ellensburg nor
mai school is now l73.
The Stevens county board has made an
estimate of the probable expenses of the
county for the fiscal year, beginning July
/, 1897. fixing the amount at S27 900, and
prepared the levy accordingly
According to State Grain Inspector
Nrights report for October. Seattle re-
celNed G66 cars OF wheat. 81 of barley. 20
of oats and 20 of corn.
Owing to an increase in business dur
ing the last few weeks. the Northern Pa
citic Railway Company has put on an
extra telegraph operator at this place to
assist the agent at Ritzville.
The Olympian has been leased to Ed
G. Suiter and George S. Hopkins The
former assumes the duties of editor and
the latter of business manager
n party OF immigrants from Nebraska
has arrived at Clallam Bay. The party is
/ composed OF about 25 men, women and
children, and are all relatives being two
families They will camp at that point
a while and look up government land for
farms.
/ Goldendale is having a building boom
| For six weeks past every carpenter has
been busy and was sorry he could not
work on two different buildings at the
same time.
/ Wheat receipts III Tacoma during the
month of October amounted to 1922 ears.
averaging 754 bushels per car, Il total of
l,499, lSS bushels, Just a little short of
a round million and half bushels. This
is Il record breaker in the history of the
wheat trade of Tacoma. Receipts for
September We're 1920 cars: for August.
400 cars new wheat. 81 cars old wheat.
For the month of October, 1896. the re-
cepts were 1919 cars. averaging 655 bush
els per car.
Teachers examination will be held at
Rathdrum Nov. % and "a
Travel between here and Mullan has
increased so much that a new stage line
has been put on.
len new sleeping apartments have been
equipped at the soldiers home in Boise.
There are now seven more veterans Ell
route to the home, which will make a
total of so III attendance. The number
Will exhaust the present accommoda-
tioDs
County Surveyor William Ashley has
completed the survey of the Harrison
ferry wagon road running from the reser-
vatlcn line to Occur d'Alene river, follow
ing the line of township 4S. and crossing
the river at Ed S. Cranes farm Work
of building will be resumed at once.
Last spring the agricultural expert
ment station sent ont samples of sugar
beet seed to over 200 farmers in different
sections of the state. At present Direc-
tor f. b. Gault is securing samples of the
crop raised from the seed, as special agent
of the department of agriculture These
samples will be analyzed by Chemist c.
W. McCurdy of the station staff.
Montana.
Hoge, Brownlee & Co. of Butte have
purchased the sawmill plant of Purtle &
Lynch, a. Lynch's Spur, on The Coeur
d dAlene branch.
Stock Inspector Collins went out to
Fielding the other day and arrested two
men who live in that vicinity for vio-
lation of the statute requiring persons
selling beef to expose the hides for in
spection.
The school trustees of Butte have made
an order that in future when a child in
the schools is taken down with a malio-
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destroyed by fire and that no effort shall
be made to save the books by fumigation.
The arching in the Muir tunnel will
be completed about December |. The
work on the tunnel has extended over IL
period of two years. at a cost of over
100000. When completed it will be
the best piece of work Of its kind on the
Northern Pacific system
Miners and ranchers from the vicinity
of Big Blacllfoot and Clearwater are com
planning because OF the destruction Of bio
game, which they say has been going on
recently in violation Of the game laws.
which restrict the hunter in the number
of animals he may slaughter in a season.
W. r. Emblcton has Just returned to
Fort Benton from trip to the st. Mary's
lake country. He brings back news of
great crop yields among the Mormon set
Elements around Cardston. He states that
they practice late fall sowing. the great
er portion of which is done i'm mud that
is ankle deep, and it invariably results
in surprisingly good crops The average
wheat yield this season was fully 81
bushels per acre
British Columbia.
There were Is deaths. "a births and
nine marriages registered in Victoria
during the month of October.
Nelson is to have an opera house The
plans are to begin construction before
December l, and finish it by January
During the season just ended only Al
schooners of the Victoria fleet have been
engaged in sealing. as compared with "a
schooners during last year. The whole
feet has given employment to 495 men
and 5s7 Indians. The total catch, in
Guiding l0lS skins taken by Indians off
the coast, was 304l0
At meeting of the board Of trade at
Victoria Hon. Clifford Sfton, minister of
the interior intimated that the govern
ment would open up all Canadian routes
to the Yukon and that everything posi-
bic would be done to turn trade into Cam
adian channels but he declined entirely to
advocate a law to prevent aliens from
holding claims. After january ! miners
viii not be allowed exemption from duty
on 100 pounds of their baggage. Customs
offices are to be established OH all routes