Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-07-02
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES.
President of the NeZ Perez Tribe
Dead-Lnrse Check Closes Fa-
nous Mining Case-NeSv Bonds in
Demund-Scnle in Fruit Trees.


unionize all carpenter shops i'll that city.
j. w. Batcheller has named a new var
ETY. of strawberries the Admiral Dewey.
On Tuesday the Baker Boyer bank OF
Walla Walla had calls amounting to $s6,-
900 for war bonds.
/ The ordinance to prohibit COWS running
at large i'll Port Townsend was defeated
in the council by tie vote.
Rev. G. w. Morrison. pastor of the
United Presbyterian church of Oakesdale
will preach his farewell sermon Sunday
morning. He has been transferred to
Northern India.
Fruit Inspector Chew reports finding
many trees infested with the scale in
Wala Walla county
A respectable young woman of Walla
Walla was assaulted on the street at 2
o'clock Tuesday morning. Two men at
tackled her, but she managed to break
away from them. She was going to call
Il doctor for her sister. who had been
taken ill.
\ telegram received from Senator Will
son by United States Marshal Ide an
nounces that the general appropriation
| bill carries with it an allowance of $4,000
for repairs on the United States peniten
tiary on McNeil's island.
John Powell, formerly school clerk OF
Mount Vernon, has been held for trial in
$500 bail for raising school warrant
| from s. 80 to $9t 30. In default OF
bonds he went to Jail. Powell was ar
rested in Michigan.
The long -talked-of road from Grants
Pass to the Galice creek mines will prob
ably be an accomplished fact before long.
The citizens of Grants Pass have contrib
uted sufficient funds SO that, with some
assistance from the county court, the
thcrouohfare can be constructed. 1t will
prove of much advantage.
After the ball game in Seattle Sunday
while standing on a street corner talking
to a friend, Umpire McInerny was as
saulted by we'll dressed man, who had
been drinking, and was evidently angry
over the result of the game. Mr.. McIn
erny defended himself vigorously and had
shade the best of the argument. No ar
rests were made.
Phil Dresser and Ray Wheaton were
riding in a lumber wagon across the Will
son creek bridge at Willapa one day last
week, when the stringers broke, and the
wagon and horses were precipitated into
the water. One horse +aG ed. but the
other was drowned. Driss.er and Wheat
c1; No
was not loaded when the accident oc
cured.
Contracts are being made for this sea
sons hop crop around North Yakima, at
81 and 81 cents Only a few i'll the val
ley have as yet made any contracts Louis
Lachmund has recently contracted with
Periield Brothers of Puyallup for 100
bales of '9S hops, and with Swamp Miller
of the same place for $50 bales at 10
cents, it is reported.
Squirrels are bad west of Tekoa The
farmers are resorting to all kinds of meth
DDS to get rid of them Summer falow-
ing drove the little pests into the winter
wheat and they have multiplied rapidly.
\ safe way to get rid of them is to
poison some wheat i'll the early spring
and place it at the holes. All other meth
DDS appear to be unsatisfactory as we'll
as expensive.
Idaho.
One span of the railroad bridge across
the Clearwater at kendrick, has been laid
and the piers made ready for others.
G. O. Watkins and I. G. Hensel, we'll
known reservation farmers. We're in Lew
iston soliciting funds to aid in building
d new road over the reservation to Sol
dier Meadows on Craig mountain. The
proposed road will run to the Goodnight
farm. near the head of Tammany Hol-
low, across the Sweetwater creek to the
Meadows.
Henry Owens, the freighter, escaped the
destruction of his entire outfit and a load
of freight through the breaking of 20
gallon can of sulph,ric acid the other day
while en- route from Lewiston to Grange
vile. He discovered smoke issuing from
the wagon and by hard work saved the
team and wagon from destruction.
James Swensen, an old citizen of Gen
tile valley, was found dead in his wagon
near Georgetown, Bear Lake county. He
had started to mill in his usual good
health. A traveller met his team with the
driver apparently asleep, but when he
stopped to awaken him, discovered that
he was dead. Mr.. Swensen was 7S years
old.
Judge MAYHEM held court in chambers
at Murray last week, and made perma
ent the temporary injunction granted
short time ago restraining the county
-e>:surer from paying the semi-annual
interest due July / on the bonded debt of
ShoShone county. It is supposed that the
next move will be an action on the part
of the bondholders to compel the payment
of interest, which will bring up the case
on its merits in the district court.
T. C.. PAYNE with a crew of nine men.
left Sand Point on the steamer Hustler
for Priest River, taking along consider
able amount of camp equipage. Mr..
Payne and crew will spend the summer
between Pend d'Oreille river and Priest
lake in the work of appnising such por-
tions of the Northern Pacific timber lands
as are surveyed and accepted. With this
work completed the valuable timber on
these lands will be available
Charles P. Egan has been appointed to
a generalship in the army. General Egan
is the man who for some time past has
advocated the enlistment of professional
cooks as a part of the army service. Gen
eral Egan was a pioneer of the Inland
Empire. He came to Fort Lapwai in the
California volunteers in 1862, being a lieu
tenant. In the early COS he was married
to Miss Emma johnson, daughter of Cap
tain Johnson, then proprietor of the hotel
at Lewiston, Idaho. During his stay in
the northwest General Egan aided in
quelling several Indian uprisings
Hon. James Reuben, one of the most
widely known of the Nez Perce tribe