Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-04
CHANCES OVER NORTHWEST
! BIG OUTPUT Of APPLES IN IDAHO.
Washington Shippers Complaining
of Lack OF Cars-Freshets Help
ing the Log Drivers-AntelOpe
Plenty in Teton County. Mont.

of cars.
The Catholic church fair at Colfax net
ted 1882
The trial of Alfred J. Symes for the
murder of Lew Conlee has been set for
December l3 at Colfax.
The public library Of Walla Walla has
been enlarged by the addition of about
400 new books.
The state law making it compulsory
for children above a certain age to attend
school is to be enforced in Pierce county.
Sunset lodge No. 4 of New Whatcom,
one of Washington's pioneer X. of 2.
lodges, has consolidated with Sehome
lodge No. 81, under the name of What
com No. 100. Sunset was organized in
1888.
The freshets will result in big drives of
About 100000 feet will come out on
the Stilla guamish and II 100000 feet on
the Snohomish.
The Port Angeles Tribune-Times has
been sold by Charles Ulmer to M. j.
Corrigan, Mary A. Corrigan and Will A.
Sparks. Mr.. Corrigan is the newly ap-
poinated deputy collector Of customs at
Port Angeles.
A mortgage foreclosure suit has been
filed in Pierce county against the Tacoma
Land company for $45O,O00, the amount
alleged to be due on a $l,00O,OOO loan
made by the Provident Life and Trust
company Of Philadelphia in September,
1898, to the Tacoma Land company.
While attempting to cross the Skyko-
mish river from the mines east Of Index
in a small canoe Adolph McRea was
drowned His brother, Budd McRea, was
killed in a rockslide in these mines about
a wear ago. Alex Jones had narrow
escape. He was taken out of the river
unconscious, but except for a few bruises
he is all right.
A Gray's Harbor fisherman says that
the falling off of the catch in silverside
salmon there this season is fully so per
cent. The pack of the cannery at Aber-
deem is only 10000 cases, against 81 900
last year. The new hatchery on the Che
halls river will, it is expected, check this
diminution in supply and restore the in
dustry.
The assistant superintendent of con
struction of the Crows Nest Pass railway
stluct a branch of the line into and be-
yond Fort Steele, leaving the main line
at the nearest practicable point and go
ing bevond the town to the North Sta1
and Sullivan mines
The Thurston County Horticultural So
ciety has appointed committee to con
| fer with the board Of trade, with view
to providing market for Thurston coun
| ty fruit and to advertise this county as d
horticultural section. The output O
/ fruit is greatly increasing here from yea1
to year, and the people are confronted
with necessity for either getting a mar
\ ket abroad or working for the establish
ment of canneries and driers at home.
Montana.
The next meeting of the Montana Stat
Teachers Association will be held i'll Hell
ena between Christmas and New Year
: day.
Rev. J. a. Jennings of Livingston
Mont, has accepted the call extended t
him by the First Baptist Church of Ana
cond;,, and will be located there by Dc
cember /.
Tracklaying on the Gaylord and Rub
Valley railroad vii begin in a few day
The road will be completed to Iron Ro
this season, and if the weather permit
will be completed up to Twin Bridges
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephor
company has determined to extend il
line to Teton county, and it is learne
that the line will start from Cascade rul
ming thence, via Flowerree's ranch,
e tance Of 10 miles from the main line
the company
: Dr. Knowles, the Montana state vete1
marian, reports very little lumpy jaw
the state and scarcely any tuberculos
among range cattle. He expresses Il
: opinion that tuberculosis will never
prevalent as diseased animal cannot Ii
on the range through Montana winter
= According to the official records Of t
Chicago stock yards, Montana furnish
: the market with 2l6O cars of cattle al
- = 232 cars Of sheep during the month of c
tober The same authority states tn
: up to November 6 western range cat1
y y receipts this season We're 22l,7OO hea
I" compared with 25S,3OO head in 1896.
= The Willard Cattle company, which ]
% Gently made an assignment, has filed Wi
: : the county clerk at Billings an invento
- of the companys property. The total
:. bilities are $lOs,273.35, of which all b
~ $5lS.SS is in notes. The assets, consi
- - ing of real estate and personal proper
:, :, aggregate 500, $4,000.
y, ~ The equalized assessment of Monta
= announced by the state board Of equali
ton the other day shows an increase o'
1896 of $lO,O59,564. Decreased yah
tions were reported from only three co,
ties. The total assessment of the st;
is Sl3O,757,OOO. The railroad assessm'
ne was increased 100000 this year.
he The Cruise wool clips of 1895 and Il
he we're stored ut the ranch on Flat Will
on until this season. and actually gained
$ weight during storage. The clips of tn
OF years, amounting to about 400,
d. pounds, were sold at Billings recently
ht Is cents straight. The Cruise ranch a
'st had big mutton output this year, SC
as IL 900 lambs, selling at Sl.75 per head.
to j. B. Long, the sheep and mutton 81
its ulator of Syracuse, ILL.,. has purchased
lot entire sheep outfit Of Frank McBrea
ny on the Teton. The purchase inclu
'er 5000 head Of stock sheep, 500 acres
nd land, with ali Improvements on the sa
to implements, stock and the like.
price said to have been paid is Sl7,
and is one of the largest deals made
this section this season. MI. 10
~ =. intention is to use the ranch for the
:. :" pose of caring for other local Purch
''p' until he is ready to ship east. :.
All parties returning from the NORTH
port large numbers Of antelope IN y
,hn county and game of similar characte
md also reported as plentiful in Valley g
- tv. It is said to be more noticeable