Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-18
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST
A GLANCE OVER THE NORTHWEST
FIELD.

:. Tax Levies in Several Counties o
=, ington-IrrigatEcn Enter
r prise In Nontana-EIectric Ligh
Plant ut Salmon City.
: The killing of large numbers Of sag
= hens is reported from Kittitas valley
J The way tax payments have rolled int
! Columbia county treasurer's office durin
+ the last 80 days has been remarkable
= 1t is estimated that the receipts from
taxes in Chehalis county for the last quar-
! ter will amount to between $4,000 ane
:, 100000.
i Cowlitz county's tax levy for 1897 vii
!, have to be sufficient to raise the sum o
S79,72S for state, county and school pur
! poses.
j In Snohomish county the total amount
: Of taxes levied for all purposes is s2s7,
+ OO2.90, and the average rate of taxation
is 36 mills.
The fifth annual meeting of the Wash
ington State Dairymen's Association will
be held in Seattle December 2S, 80 and 30
at the rooms Of the chamber of commerce
The butter and cheese exhibit will be
held at the same time and place
The leyee just completed in the Klam-
ath river bank, which will prevent the
escape of Klamath river water through
the slough into Lost river, will not only
reclaim thousands of acres of land in the
Tule lake valley, but will reclaim many
acres Of bottom land that has heretofore
been oyerflowed by slough waters
Montana.
| A petition for survey of lands on the
I ceded Crow reserve is being circulated
throughout Sweet Grass county.
The Shoshone Irrigation Company has
/ instructed General Manager George I.
Beck to get out the lumber and material
for the construction Of a Touring mill
at Cody early in the spring.
The buildings at Fort Buford were sold
at public auction the other day, most Of
them being knocked down to 1anchers
living in the immediate vicinity for a
mere nothing.
Two horsemen from Wisconsin are on
the Madison in search Of smooth, blockv
horses, weighing from 1850 upward. They
are paying $25 for wild horses filling
these requirements.
st. Marks parish OF Anaconda, organ
lied by j. B. Dosee, T. L. Sargent, j. H. /
Durston and others, to build church and .
maintain a Protestant Episcopal religious
society in Anaconda, has just been in
corporated.
4 dispatch from Glendale says that
while coming down Lion mountain John
Blennerhasset and Frank Weber, miners
IN the Hecla Consolidated, started a snow
slide which killed them, making 26 who
have been lost in snowslides since the
camp was established. Blennerhasset had
family at Lowell, Mass, and Webbcr
family in Slayer, Iowa.
Several mountain streams in the upper
Teton country have been choked with
small ice gorges, which are backing up
the water, and small new channels are
being made all over the district Travel ,
is reported to be extremely dangerous
Northern Montana stockmen have been
engaged in gathering up their COWS and
calves for winter care. During the past
several large stockmen have
erected sheds, etc, for this purpose, and
some have been made sufficiently large to
afford accommodations to those who are
not prepared, at a fixed price of S. per
COW and calf for the winter season.
The county coroner has submitted his
report to the Silver Bow commissioners, !
covering the three months ending with
November 80. 1t shows that the record
for violent deaths in Butte during that )
period was equaled only once before, and
that was during the three months includ-
ng January, 1895, when occurred the big !
powder explosion. The coroners report
shows that during September, October :,
md November he held 81 inquests. There !
were 10 i'll September and nine each in
October and November. :
The first report Of the Montana state
BOARD Of sheep commissioners shows that :
since March | last there were sFeared in ;,
his state 22,lG992l pounds of wool, which !
we're sold at an average price of ll.4S
ents per pound, bringing in the aggregate
2,547 JOY. In addition to their wool, Mon
ana sheep men sold since March I last :
'S7 ,267 pounds Of pelts, which, at the
lverage price of 5.74 cents per pound
rought them $33 ,7O9.3l. No estimate Of S
he value Of mutton consumed at home h
II shipped abroad was made, but the q
mount from sales was unusually large u
his year. Il
The survey Of the new canal Of the a.
Vest Gallatin Irrigation Company has II
cen completed, and it is now definitely m
ettled that it will be built next spring. l
he length Of the canal will be about 20 el
niles, and will be taken out one and al
alf miles above Shedd's bridges, follow W
round the hillsides, thence across God az
reys canyon, and empty into Camp
reek at the head of the lateral of the
pper Tor old) canal. This canal will be d
scd to rrigate over 10000 acres Of land
Idaho.
j. II. Anderson of Weiser, the state au sa
itor, has been elected president of the re
entinel Publishing Company Of Boise W
he Sentinel is the state organ of the d,
copies party. til
W. b. McCraw, sentenced at Moscow to fr
years in the penitentiary for criminal m
ssault on Florence Cartwright, has been II
'leased on $4,000 bail, pending an appeal is
} the supreme court. IL
The dam and ditch for the electric light fo
ant is about completed at Salmon City, W
he water will be taken from the Lemhi pr
bout mile above here, near the -four
ill, and the power house situated near
le Lemhi bridge The machinery and
lpplies have been ordered and the work vi
i'll be carried forward with all possible be
)eed. gl
Ine Great Northern is the second rail m
'ad company to pay its takes in Koo- pr
mai county for 1897. Assessor Callahan 1e
'ceived the company's check for $22, u
al ~ a.