Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-14
LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS WHICH SPEAK OF THE
PROGRESS OF THE PEOPLE,
News Gathered From the Various
Sections of Washington, Idaho
and Montana.


and Montana.
Cattle buyers from the east are here
buying up all the cattle in sight in
Douglas county.
The yield of fall grain in Adams coun-
ty is much larger than had been expected
by those who have been threshing.
he berry pickers around Lake What
com are bringing into Whatcom 100 gal
Ions Of wild blackberries every night.
united States Marshal Clarence W.
Ide has qualified before Judge Hanford
and is now actively in charge of the du-
ties of that position.
The total valuation of Lewis county
is S5,lSS,99l, of which S4 432, ,67s is real
and S756,3l3 personal. This is about
$4,000 less than the '96 valuation.
All arrangements have been made by
the Fishermen's Protective Association,
on Gray's harbor, to run the cannery at
Aberdeen this season.
Work is now well under way on the
Marrowstone point Notifications, and
within a week a large force of men will
be engaged in clearing and grading the
ground for the emplacements.
Over $1,000 worth of gold nuooets is
the result of 10 days work on a Williams
creek placer claim, in the Swauk district,
Kittitas county. One nugget was worth
$3.50
Work has been started again on the
Northport bridge. Two pile drivers are
now at work driving piles for the false
work for the two middle spans. 1t takes
piles 10 feet long to reach solid bottom.
At the special school election held at
North Yakima to authorize the directors
to spend $4,000 for interest on bonds and
current expenses, only IS votes were cast.
OF these, 81 were for the proposition and
| against it.
Seattle mills and business houses are
feeling the effect of the klondike rush
in more ways than one. \ good many
men are giving up their positions, and
this of course leads to increased wages.
says the Post-Intelligencer.
Pierce county horticuturists have OF
ganiZed at Tacoma with Frank Alling
as president. Organization was per
fected for the purpose of securing i
county inspector, which the recent act
of the legislature granted. P. W. Ton,
neson, editor of the Horticulturist, was
chosen.
The commissioner of the general land
office, Binger Hermann, has officially no
titled Governor Rogers that 36393l acres
of land have been selected and approved
in Vancouver district for the benefit of
state normal schools under section IT,.
act of February %, 1889.
The city council of South Bend has in
structed the city treasurer to pay only
the face of outstanding general fund war
rants. There is about S24,00 DIN said war
rants outstanding, and the entire issue
is illegal, as the city was over its legal
limit of Indebtedness when they We're
drawn. None of the councimen were in
favor of reputation, but considered that
lHe pay lilellt VI tlle NdlldHtS dt tiltll 1iEe
would give the present holders of said
warrants a fair rate of interest, consid
ering the discount at which they were
solu.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company is stringing the poles for the
new line between the ColW d 'Alenes and
Spokane.
Between lumber, mining timbers, ties,
telephone poles and cordwood Kingston
is keeping the narrow gauge about busy,
its daily shipments of these various ar
ticles easily averaging a train load.
Travel in the Occur d'Alenes is increas-
ing so that the stage line between Wal
lace and Mullan is making two round
trips daily and the line between Wallace
and Wardner is again running, although
there are three trains daily between the
two towns
Latah county warrants outstanding are
as follows: General county fund, Sl2,
4947S: road fund, S22, 1914; bridge
fund. Sl25.22; school fund, $972.34; hos
pital fund, SlO,949.75; current expense
fund, $3,37O.93; total outstanding, $50,
ll046.
Boise reports an interesting contest
among transportation lines over fruit
shipments. 1t not only takes the form
of indirect bidding for the business, but
also the indirect form of securing all the
ice available for use in the refrigerator
cms in which the fruit is sent east.
State Mining Inspector B. T. Hastings
has announced his intention of going to
the klondke He will take his depart
llre as soon as he can make the necessary
arrangements and hopes to get off dur
ing August. Mr.. Hastings says his father
was a California pioneer and the son
would like to be a pioneer in the kfon-
dixie.
Montana.
Dillon reports that timothy and alfalfa
will be an average crop in this valley,
but wild hay will be short.
An epidemic of cholera infantum is
sweeping over Valley county and sever
al deaths are reported as a result.
The citizens of Sand Coulee have raised
Sl7OO to be used in grand celebration
of Labor day, September 6.
An artesian flow was struck in the new
Bullard well at Miles City the other day
at depth of 406 feet. The drill having
lust entered the water bearing strata
of sand rock, it was deemed advisable to
continue the work with the expectation
of developing larger flow although that
now secured is more than sufficient fo1
Mr.. Billiards. purpose.
The Montana Railroad Company now
has the lumber in readiness for the
stations, platforms, etc, for the line at
all the stations on the road. They will
be two-story buildings with freight and
passenger rooms and all necessary CON
veniences and living rooms above. They
will cost about $4,000 each. This work
will commence as soon as contracts
L. 1o{