Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-23
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO MONTANA
Cattle Owners Giving More Attention
to the Improvement OF Their
Herds-New Telephone Line in
IdahO-MOntHna Men Who Wish
I" Go to Wnr-News of NeiEhbors
Who Are i'll the I<lOndike Coun-
try.

Asotin county cattle owners are givin.
more attention to improving their herd
than they have ever before.
Sunnyside farmers, in Yakima county
are all busy with their spring work. ant
quite Il number are preparing to SOW larg,
areas Of alfalfa.
Farming is we'll advanced in the Bick
elton country and some are about done
seeding. Sheep camps report a &C cd lamb
ing this spring.
The organization of a company of vol
un1eers has been completed in New
Whatcom by the mastering of 80 mem
bers, 36 OF whom are sons of veterans.
Cargo shipments Of lumber from
Grays Harbor during the month OF
March were: Hoquiam, II cargoes, 1858,
600 feet; Aberdeen, 6 cargoes, 2,l75, 900
feet; Cosmopolis, & cargoes, 100000
feet; total, S.74s 900 feet.
Treasurer Huntley Of Centralia has Just
issued his quarterly report. The city has
S3o,bI5.44 in warrants outstanding and
$4,000 in bonds sold for the purchase Of
the electric light plant two years since
This is the entire debt of the city,
amounting to $f3,67544.
Six healthy, husky, energetic Salvation
Army Officers will leave Spokane May
for the Klondike. They 60 on a relief
expedition, but one not like those that
have preceded it and failed. Theirs is to
carry the gospel to the people Of the Yu-
on; their mission to relieve and lessen as
far as possible the evil influences of
wild frontier life.
Fees were collected by Clarke county
officers during March and turned into the
treasury as follows: Auditor, 1924. .25;
clerk, $l3005. One hundred and ten in.
struments were recorded by the county
auditor during the month, as follows:
Deeds, patents, bonds for deeds, etc, 60;
mortgages, liens, etc, 80; mortgage salts
factions, g.; miscellaneous, H.
There We're 7S deaths in Seattle last
month, number larger than has ever
before been recorded in any one month, |
except in March. 1891, when there were
81 deaths. 1t is also important to note |
that IS people succumbed to pneumonia
alone. Seventy-one cases of infectious
diseases were reported. as follows: Dph-
iberia, 10; scarlet fever, II; measles 81;
typhoid fever, 4; whooping cough, I.
Thomas H. Cavanaugh, formerly sur
4eyor general Of Washington, now at De
troit, Mich. has written a letter which
has been filed with the president tender
ing his services in the event of war with
Spain General Cavanaugh desires an ap-
pointment as captain and assistant quar-
telnastcr AT present the president and
the war department are giving no heed
to the very numerous offers from all
over the country of those who desire to
be officers in the coming struggle, for
peace will be hoped for until the last
hour.
Jesse Kerns, being of mechincal turn
of mind, has conceived a plan to capture
the willy sea otter. In the shop OF n. S.
Sorenson, in Hoquiam, he has built
uniuqe craft 1t is in the form Of a big
log, "a feet long, with both ends tapering
down to one foot. 1t bulges out in the
middle, large enough for a man to stand
up, for the purpose of shooting the otter.
In the center is also a propelling and
steering apparatus.
The lumber industry in Tacoma is
thriving. The mills are humming filling
orders from the east and locally for car
building material, and orders from coast
wise and foreign ports for general mate
rial. The building of thousands of rail l.
road cars throughout the country has
treated a very strong demand for the fir
of this state, and the mills have in many
instances accepted contracts for heavy or I
lcrs from various roads. :
Plans have been accepted for a $4,000 ',
heater at Lewiston
A telephone line from St. Anthony to ;.
Dubois will in all proba ability become a q
fact in the near future !.
The plans and specifications for the =
Nv Episcopal church at Boise are about y Y
ompleted. !.
Elaborate preparations are being made =
t Albion for the organization of an ar ~
illcry company under the direction of .
oonel r. S. Wood and others. !
Early Friday morning fire destroyed ~
ages hotel at Wardner with its con =,
ants. A man supposed to have been John j
allagher lost his life in the flames. The u;
oss is estimated at $4,000, insurance So -,
90. y
Judge Stewart at Caldwell has SEN
enced Joseph Sprawl to two years in the
Sprawl was indicted sew
raj years ago for stealing a valise from ~,
train at Payette, but he escaped and
as not apprehended until recently. -
Very important developments are tax =.
lg place in upper Boise, where the Twin !. ~
prings Placer Company and the Upper -
Disc Hydraulic Company have been put :,
ng in large plants for working the high
ars marking the old channel of the :, -
ream. ="
Notwithstanding several thousand ab- VI
Is were destroyed in the vicinity of AL
an during the winter, the foothills
)rtheast of town seem to have few .
lonsand left, says the Times IT
Dr. j. d. Puckett has left Boise for N
unnells, Iowa, where he is organizing "
lony for settlement on the Payette riv- !,
near Emmett. All the necessary de- 30 30
lis for the reclamation Of the land un- 40
r the Carey act have been arranged and "''
ork on the proposed irrigation system
i'll begin this summer.
John X. Clark, who left kendlicl
arch II for Dawson City, is thought to a''
We perished in the avalanche on Chill lax
ot pass. The mail last night brought -.
Ickskin pouch containing old letters e. :,
pers and receipts bearing his name. No ~
ord Of explanat came with the pack, w
G, which was simply addressed to "The ~
'stmaster, Juliaetta, IDAHO" AMONG
e papers were several receipts for dues
ued by the local Knights of Pythias
lge, Of which Mr.. Clark was a charter pa
smber. The package was postmarked ~
yea, Alaska" April 4, 1898" =
a. the