Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-16
NOTES Of The NORTHWEST
IDAHO, WASHINGTON, MONTANA

on Ditch on the Asotin-Re
Helena-Survey of the Birch
Creek Canal.
Judge Rudolph Guichard Of Wala Wal
: la is dead.
; Cowlitz county has IA shingle and sin
| saw mills.
Eastern families are settling in Puyal
: lup at the rate of one and more per day
: More are coming, largely from Michigan
| and Wisconsin.
The money order business of the Che
halls postotice is growing. 1t is nearly
twice as heavy now as when Mr., lillpoI
took the Office 1t amounts to from Sl1OO
to $4,000 !, week. Mr.. Lillpop says he
thinks it will soon average $1,000 Il week
the year around.
Word has been received at Vancouver
Of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the Fourteenth infantry. He
lied on the evening of March 10 of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, after an illness of
only three days. A letter from Dyea says
that he was strong, robust and healthy
up to the hour of being taken with the
disease.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Y. M. C. A. at New Whatcom Il
few nights ago it was decided to employ
a secretary to take complete charge of the
institution for one month and see if it
could not be put on a substantial enough
basis to pay the running expenses of the
building.
For the past two weeks, or ever since
the heavy frost passed over the country,
there has been a general cry among Ger
tain few that the fruit crop of the Inland
| Empire was ruined by the frost, and that
even the fall sown wheat was badly dam.
aged. Several of the prominent commits
sion houses of Spokane, who have CORE
spondents in all of the tributary districts,
have taken the trouble to thoroughly in
Nestigate the matter, and their finding is
that not only is the fruit crop not mate
rally damaged. but that in many sections
the frost was more of a help than hin
drance.
John p Anderson, more familiarly
''Pete@ Anderson, one of the Puget sound
pioneers, died the other day at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Rogers in Ar
lin.ton. Mr.. Anderson was an old steam
boat captain on the sound, and served a
term several years ago as surveyor of Sno-
homish county. He was one of the path
finders of that county, being familiar with
every square mile of its territory, and for
several years has followed timber cruising
and private surveying. He leaves quite a
large family of children, all grown, his
was about 6l years old.
William Jones of Walla Walla. one of
the heaviest grain operators in the Inland
Empire, was in Tacoma the other day and
in conversation with a reporter said:
There is little t. say concerning the
wheat situation except that the winter
wheat crop has come through in fine
shape We shall have an increased area
i'll wheat of about 10 or Is per cent over
last year. There is considerable grain yet
unsold, and some of the large holders who
have been very bullish since early last
season are still carrying their wheat al
though the price is now about 20 cents, as
compared with so cents last fall.
Idaho.
A racing meeting is to be held at Wcis
er beginning June |.
The O. S. l.. Railway Co. has Just paid
$4,000 delinquent taxes into the Blaine
county treasury, as the result of Il recent
court decision.
The Lewiston Light and Power Com
pany has commenced work on the CON
struction of ditch on Asotin creek The
ditch will supply power for their new
plant, which will be in operation July l. |
The site of the power plant is 10 miles
from Lewiston, in the state of Washing
ton.
There is great stir in business circles
anticipating the best season in a long
time. A great many buildings are being
put up and others are in contemplation
The recent influx of people into the sur
rounding country has been large and the
tide Of settlement continues unabated.
At Agatha, about eight miles above the
mouth of the Potlatch, there is market
ing place for the farmers of the Cotton
wood district, and about eight miles fur
ther up is the Big canyon. through which
entrance is made to Cold Springs prairie.
At this point, on the extension of the road /
ho e4;, 4, =
growing of wheat in that section. Already
several grain companies have had their
agents along the river, looking for loca-
tions for warehouses, and as soon as work |
is started on the road that will be built !
up the river, the work of building ware
houses will commence.
There is small band Of Indians living |
in Payette county, near the mouth of Dry /
Buck. about score in all. They have
been there II or II years. Two of them
are Snake River Indians and the rest are /
supposed to be Nez Perces. Just why /
they located at that isolated point is not
known The Indians themselves will |
explain the matter, but the supposition is .
that their settling there was a result OF /
some feud. Two of them named Charlie:
father and son, each had an eye punched F
out by the tribe, supposedly for refusing
to 60 on the warpath at the time of the
Joseph outbreak. The elder Charlie died
last winter, and the son is the head of the .
settlement. There are several families +
numbering all told about 90
A Boise butcher has Just been paid $50
to release farmer from ii contract to sell I
him all his veal calves this year. Two !,
years ago the calves We're contracted at
$5, last year at Sc and this year at s..
They are worth about Sl2.
Governor steunenbere has received of
fers of services for military duty from a
large number of men since the Spanish sit
uation became acute The men coming
forward offer to serve in any canacity in