Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-05-07
GLANCE OVER NORTHWEST
GOSSIP OF THREE STATES
Clarke County Fruit Growers Are
Happy-Sheep Shearing in Full
Blast-OrEaniz zatiOn of Military
COmpanies-NIOnta Will Send n
Squadron of Cavalry to the Front.

Blast-Organizatio of Military
Companies-NIontan VIII Send n
Squadron of Cavalry to the Front.
The citizens of Wilbur have decided
upon a celebration Of July 4.
| Clark county fruit growers report that
prunes are now practically out of danger
and most of the other fruit.
John y. Terry. receiver of the United
! States land office at Seattle, is organizing
a military company, having already OBJ
tanned the signatures of ~ young men.
Prosser reports that sheep shearing is
now in full blast. Deputy Assessor L.
| d. Lape has enrolled l2S.0O0 sheep to
date in that district. The wool warehouse
is now finished and is being filled.
The gun carriages for the Notifications
On Marrowstone Point have arrived. Work
on both Malrowstone and Admiralty Head
is being pushed rapidly, and operations
will soon be begun on Point Wilson
The steam lighthouse tenders Manzani
ia and Columbia, which have been in the
service of the treasury department along
the north Pacific coast, are to be trans
ferred to the navy department. Both
vessels 90 on the dry dock here tomorrow
for overhauling and TO be painted lead
color.
a sad death occurred about three miles
north of Custer the other day. The year
and a half old child of Mr.. Poison was
killed by accident. Fred Knupperberg
had charge Of a team when the lines
broke and the horses ran away 1t seems
the horses got past the child when a chain
attached to the tugs swung around and
caught the little fellow. When he was
picked up life was extinct.
Pierce County Superintendent of Schools
}. l.. TAFT says that the State Teachers
Association will be held in Tacoma, begin
ming June 27 and ending June 80. Here
tofore it has been held in August. The
change will enable teachers to attend with
the least possible inconvenience. The
Pierce county institute has been set for
June IA to p, and the county convention
of district officers will be held June %
Judge Carroll has decided the tax cases
of the Pacific National bank against
Pierce county, which he has had under ad-
visement for some time, holding that the
bank must pay the tax. The bank brought
suit to restrain the collection of the tax
and to establish an offset on the tax as
sessed on 500, 900 of the stock which was
represented by stock mother corporations
in other counties of the state. which was
held by the bank, and which was subject
to tax in the counties where the corpora
thns were located.
Wallace reports that the owners of the
Morning mine do not propose to lose any
more time than necessary on account OF
the burning of their mill, having already
commenced clearing off the grounds for
rebuilding.
T. F. Nelson, who once represented Ida
no county in the territorial legislature
and senator from Latah at the last ses-
cion, has removed to California for per-
ma nent residence.
Colonel Joseph Roach of Minot. n. D.:
has purchased of Preuitt & Phelps of Hele-
years old, and paid $50 per head
The report of the quarter of the state
insane asylum shows the number of pa
tients January Is was 1856, 10 male and
81 female. April Is the number was 1855
ll5 male and 20 female. Five died dur
ing the quarter, 10 were discharged and
IL received.
Judge Stewart sentenced the three men
found guilty of burglarizing Egleston's
store in aldwell to serve the following
terms in the pe1itentiary: James Brown
two years and II months; Charles Ander
SON, three years; Frank Anderson, three
years and two months.
Montana.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has sold 1920 acres of land eight miles
southeast of Augusta. Budke Bros, sheep
men, get 1000 acres; D. J. Hogan, cattle
man, 1000 acres and w. j. Miles, ranch
er 320 acres. The tracts are contiguous
and are principally grazing lands.
Montana will send a squadron of caval
~ to the front in few days. In antici-
patton of the orders of the department
which We're detailed by Senators Mantle
and Garter in long dispatch to the COVER
nor Thursday, Governor Smith, with the
chief officers of the Montana national
guard came to an agreement yesterday as
to the best plan for raising the tro ps
which will be required by the govern
ment from this state Lieutenant Robert
Bruce Wallace, of the second cavalry, who
has been stationed at Helena on detached
service as inspector of the state guard
several years, will command the squadron
of four troops His promotion to the rank
Of major is alike pleasing to the men in
the guard and his friends in Helena, which
has been his home for many years.
Harry +. Clarke. the associate of the
woman highwayman' who terrorized
Helena six years ago and was sentenced
to 40 years in prison, has decided that if
he is permitted he will enlist in the army
and make an effort to prove that he is
worthy to be restored to citizenship. In
letter to his lawyer, Samuel 4. Ballet,
certainly enlist if allowed to as soon as
war Is declared against SPAN. / came to
this country desiring to make it my home
and though circumstances have placed ME
in position such as to exclude me from
citizenship | earnestly desire to prove by
my future actions that am not lost be-
yond redemption Clarke once signifed
his willingness to return to his former
home in Norway if he were pardoned with
that condition, and he now offers to enlist
and fight as condition of being allowed
to remain in the United States if he can
secure pardon on that condition
Attitude Toward Hawaii.
Washington, April 29.-It is understood
the Hawaiian minister has been advised
that this country will not change its pol