Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-02
NEWS OF THREE STATES
WASHINGTON, MONTANA, Idaho
Evnporntin. CLAIMS for the l<lOndikc
Tradc-New Railroad From Port
land to notwithstanding Montana
Horses North to EdmOn tOn-Sheep
in Southern Idaho.

A Port Angeles company is evaporatine
clans for the Alaskan trade.
All the Whatcom county logging camp:
are running full blast.
Treasurer Barthoct Of Yakima county
states that about 30 per cent of the 1891
personal tax has already been collected.
There are many new families entering
the Wcnatchcc valley to settle this spring
and much new ground is being cultivated
and planted to orchards.
Notice is given that state warrants Nos
2ll56 to %, 10. inclusive, on the genera
fund, and Nos. 2l56 to 2225. inclusive, OF
the military fund. will be paid Oh presen
tation and will not draw interest after
April Z.
The Northern Pacific railroad has in
creased the working hours of all employees
at the shops in Tacoma from eight to te,
hours per day with propoltionate increast
in wages.
Spring work is progressing in the Lewis
county hop yards. The county produced
a little more than 1000 bales last year and
can be counted at about the same this
year.
Jack Leonard paid the penalty for the
murder Of Jacob Malquist with his life at
ColfaN Friday, protesting his innocence to
the last. The execution was witnessed by
fully 1000 people. the streets around the
courthouse being filled with eager throngs
and the hillside to the east was black with
people, who could look down upon the
scene and oct Il good view of the eXecl-
ton.
Ccntralia. in Lewis county. reports Il
brighter outlook than since the boom DAYS
of 1890. The business houses are enlary-
ing their stocks and making general i'm
provemcnt. New stores are also being
opened. A new brick block is to be built
in a short time. The saw mills and shingle
mills are running steadily and employ a
full force Of men. a better price is being
paid for lumber. The farmers say thev
find ready sale and get good prices for
their products.
The British Columbia. Seattle & Pacific
Railroad Company has made application
to the city council of Seattle for fran
chlse 30 feet wide over Railroad avenue 1t
was stated TO the council that it was the
purpose Of the company to construct
railroad from Portland. Orc to Seattle.
and thence to the British Columbia bound
ary. The company was willing that con
dition be imposed in the franchise that the
work of construction should begin in 80
days and the line be finished within l8
months. Two incolporators Of the com
pany are Henry j. Broker and Austin J.
Fletcher, we'll known iinanciers of New
York. The road will cost between 81 ,OOO-
600 and S4,OOO,OOO. 1t is intmated that
the proposed line has the backing Of the
Vanderbilt interests, and that it is in fur
thcrancc OF their purpose to have a con
tinuons line from New York to the Pacific
coast 1t is also stated that connection
will be made ut the boundary line with
the Canadian Pacific.
Six hundred friends of the late Henry
III. Spaldilig followed the remains OF the
dead pioneer to the grave. Nearly every
town in eastern Washington had repre-
sentative citizens as mourncrS His
brothcrs-in-Iaw, Felix Warren, Sol War
rrn and Joel Warren, supported their sis
ter, the bercavcd wife. during the ceremo-
MES, having come from long distances.
Herbert Bolster was present as rcprescn-
tativc Of the Inland Empire Fruit Fair
and as a personal friend. A large con
course came from Colfax, including lodges
Of the Improved Order of Red Men,
Knight. Of Pythias and Ancient Order Of
United Workmen. The Knights Of Pyth-
las wer given the honor of taking charge
Of the funeral ceremonies. Six WOodmen
and six Workmcn wcr pail bearers. Re
ligous services were conducted by Rev.
H. =. James and Rev. c. W. Walters, with
touching simplicity, while Oliver Hall de
lvcrcd the cmloey at the church.
The Montana State Sunday School Asso-
citation will meet at Helena May % to
June J.
Two Mormon elders who have been hold
ing services at Corvallis for few weeks
past have baptized lG converts at that
place.
NJ. n. Baker Of Livingston has received
bounty warrant for the pelt of a gray
wolf which he killed in the vicinity of the |
Crazy mountains. He reports these pests |
quite numerous in that locality, band
Of 20 or % having killed young stock for
ranchmen in that neighborhood.
About 1900 head of Montana horses |
have been sent north to Edmonton during
the past month, and 5000 more will soon !
90 to the same market for the klondike
trade. They pay duty of 20 per cent at |
the boundary line.
Messages received from Great Falls con
firm the report of the death at Augusta
of Phil A. Manix, one of the pioneers of /
northern Montana. The dead man was
one Of the best known residents Of north
crn Montana, having an extended ac-
glaintancc in Cascade. Lewis and Clarke
Teton and Chotcam counties. and wher .
ever he was known he had warm friends,
for he was loyal, generous and true.
John BlOor. secretary Of the senate of
the Fifth legislative assembly of Mon
tana, who stole the salary bill one year
ago preventing It's enactment on the last
day of the session, must serve one year
IN the penitentiary for his crime. The
supreme court, in an opinion by Justice
Hunt, has affirmed the Judgment of the
lower court and the order denying new
trial, thereby removing Bloor's last hope
Of escape. The opinion was unanimously
in by the court, which, after
carefully reviewing the evidence. says
that "thc jury was amply justified in find
ing the defendant guilty, providing the
evidence was crediblc.''
General Manager David S. Murray of
Salt Lake, of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone Company, has closed a contract
with the mill at Heron, Mont, for 1000
telephone poles to be used in the constrc-
ton OF a line from Missoula to Mullan,
Idaho, which will close a gap of 1875 miles