Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-09
NEWS OF THREE STATES
ARE PAYING OFF MORTGAGES.
Sales of RailrOaA Lands in Montana
-Fifty-Five Of the $50 Names on
the Fremont County. Idaho. Jury
List Are Those of Women.

CosmopollS reports tla the fishing bu
mess is almost failure, many iishermc
taking their nets out Of the water.
The superintendent Of the jetty work a
Gray's harbor entrance says that full
1000 feet of work will be built this yeal
Governor Rogers has appointed Profes
sor l.. ID. Goshal of Everett a member G
the board of regents of the state univel
sity for the term ending March, l9O4
vice t. f. HeustOn of Tacoma term eX
plred.
William Rice Dunbar, who has been ap
pointed register OF the land office at Van
couvcr, Wash, was born in Schuyle
county, Ill, April !, 1899. He crossed tn
plains with his parents in 1916 TO Oregon
His father, Rice Dunbar. was one Of tn
! first pioneers to file on a donation claim
in the Waldo hills, near Salem. Ore.
/ Auditor Mann of Douglas county ha
! figured up the amount of debt Cancelled
by paying off mortgages in Douglas coun
4! ty from January /, 1897 to March 5
1898, and finds it as follows: Real cstat.
mortgages, S53, Ola; chattel mortgages
S21 ,l39; total $SO.243.
During the II months ending March 81
there We're 334 deaths in Spokane and 81:
births. While all deaths are reported and
! included in this statement. large por
tinn of the births are not. On these fig
ures it will be seen that Spokane. calcu-
lating on a basis Of population Of 10000
has a death rate of S.35 and Il birth rate
OF 1882 in 1000.
The postoflice reports fer the fiscal year
ending last night show wonderful in
crease i'll business at ColfaN. and receipts
are now large enough to advance the Of
fee from third to second class. The re
celpts tor the year We're SSO25. This will
affect the change in the class and increase
the postmasters salary from $1,000 to
$4,000 per year, beside increasing the al
lowance for clerk hire. rent, etc, about
5000 PEI annum.
Pierce county has begun suit against
Sheriff Mills and 400 other defendants.
who occupy on claim some title OF inter
est in 65 acres Of land comprising part of
the Tacoma Niger tract" The county
seeks to csta blish its right TO an undivided
one-siNth interest in such IS acres by
operation Of the law of escheat. 1t al
leges that i'll 1873 one George L,lyncy
leaving no heirs; that d. 3. Hannah was
administrator Of such estate
i'll 1888. and in 1885 the probate court
decreed that Luvinev' interest eschea1ed,
from which no appeal was made.
Out Of a total Of 1888 foreign born IN
Tacoma but one first saw the light OF day
in Spain.
The Vancouver saw mills have secured
a contract for 100000 feet of lumber.
which will be used in the construction Of
a wharf at Fishers rock quarry
Wheat receipts at Tacoma for March
have amounted to $50 cars, according TO
Inspector Wright's report for the month
The total receipts TO date since Septem-
ber J, amount to 96l6 cars, or 1869 ,69S
bushels. 1t is estimated that abort .
100000 bushels will yet bes hipped before
lhe season closes.
Word has been received at Vancouver
of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the l4th infantry He died on
he evening Of March 10, OF cerebro-spinal
after an illness Of only three
lays. A letter from Dyea says that he
vas strong, robust and healthy up to the
lour Of being taken with the disease,
faI Il
las plunged the regiment into grief and
'lalm.
John p. Anderson. more Familiarity
Pete Anderson, one of the Puget sound |
pioneers, died the other day at the home |
# his daughter Mrs. Lee Rogers, after /
| few days of intense suffering with |
pneumonia. Mr.. Anderson was an old !
teamboat captain on the sound, and serv- /
d term several years ago as surveyor
II Snohomish county. He was one of /
he pathiinders of this country, being fa-
niliar with every square mile Of its terri
Dry, and for several years has followed /
lmber cruising and private surveying.
lie leaves quite large family of chill
lren, all grown, his wife having died
everal years ago. He was about Gl |
ears old
The lists Of County Assessor Daniel
how that the sales of railroad lands in
lark County during the past year amount
0 nearly 5000 acres.
The city council of Kalispell has re-
uccd salaries. That of the police Judge
as cut form $25 to SIS, and the mar
hal from sS5 TO S75.
Complaint comes from I1avre that the
olson scattered over the prairies for the
urpose of destroying wolves is playing
ayoc with the hounds used for the same
urpose.
The longest telephone communication
! the world will be established this sum
ler, when Livingston, on the extreme
ast, and Portland, on the west. will be
by wire.
A large force of men will soon be at
ork on the Big Horn tunnel from the
'ct that there are number of springs
lside the tunnel which keep the roadbed
| an unsafe condition, the interior, for it.
ntire length of l06S feet, is to be con
rctcd.
At farmers meeting held at Chinook
few days ago the proposition to raise
arey was the principal subject Of dis
lssion. 4 canvass of those present i'll
icated a demand for about 10000 pounds
seed barley this season-an amount
I'D to be sufficient for about 600 acres
At the meeting Of the stockholders and /
disorders to the Supply Ditch Company [
Stevensville the trustees We're empow :
'ed, by vote OF a majority, to mort
age the property in the sum of $500,
l order to raise funds to pay off all {
aims and complete the work at once. In
lie meantime men and teams are at work
n the ditch, and it will be finished be-
re the water is needed for this seasons ,