Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-08
POINTS IN NORTHWEST NEWS
BUSINESS OUTLOOK GENERALLY
tions for the Rush to Alaska
stock Interests in Montana
Paci1ic-Facts From British CO.
lumbia.

New Whatcom has passed cuiew or
dinance
a Tacoma firm is making a portable
house l6X60 feet, to be shipped to skaguay
for railroad contractor
Councilman w. d. Lambert of Walla
Walla is dead. He was born in England
in 1928, came to California in 1852, and to
Walla Walla in 1868.
A. R. Hawk, a pioneer of Washington
died at his home, four miles south OF Roy
in Pierce county, the other day. Mr..
Hawk came overland to Washington with
his parents in 1852 and was widely known
throughout the state.
A Tacoma man has closed a contract
for three twin screw steamers for use on
Lake Teslin in connection with the Stick
cen river trade. The boats are expected
to make l6 knots an hour.
Wheat is beginning to move in a linn
tied way at Rosala, in Whitman county
but the sales are kept pretty quiet they
are in he neighborhood of IS cents for No.
| and G3 to 64 cents for good to choice
No2.
The transportation companies are eN-
periencing Il demand for freight space
which is giving them more than they can
handle by the steamers now on the route
between Seattle and Alaska ports.
Tyee salmon are running fairly we'll i'll
Quartermaster harbor. They are there in
greater numbers than any other place in
that part of Puget sound, being attracted
herring that frequent that harbor.
The mammoth tramp seamship Algoa
has Just sailed from Tacoma with the
largest cargo of grain ever loaded in a
single bottom. The cargo comprises H.
$50 short Tor American) tons of Washing
ton wheat, amounting to 377 500 bushels,
and valued at $4,000.
The state board of audit and control
has decided to raise the price of sacks
made at the penitentiary iute mill from
1926 to $5.40 per 100. It is claimed that
the mill ought to pay interest on the
money invested.
South Bend reports that during the
flood of last week the log boom in the
Willapa and North rivers broke, and the
former freed a million and half feet of
logs, most of which We're caught before
they reached the pay by parties i'll every
imaginable kind of floating craft. The
boom in Smith creek, containing 1000
feet of logs, also broke, but they Fortunate
lv iammed and few We're lost.
Commissioner Hermann of the general
land office has decided that no entries OF
disposals of any mineral lands in the
north of the Colville Indian reservation in
Washington can be effected until after
the lands are surveyed and the presidents s
proclamation is issued, opening the same
to entry. As to issuing permits to cut
timber off such lands, he holds that it
can not be done. Timber cutting is un-
lawful until after entries are allowed, eN-
cept as to timber growing on mineral
claims and for use in the ordinary work
ING of such claims.
The records in the Office of Treasurer
Alexander of Clarke county show the to-
tai collections for taxes i'll that county
during October and November amounted
to over $4,000. Of this amount about
$4,000 for for delinquent taxes for years
prior to 1896. The collections made dur
ing the first half of the year brought the
total collections of 1896 taxes up to about
$s5, 900 The levy for 1896 was Sll5,OoO
The amount of delinquent taxes for the
year is $4,000, smaller amount in pro
portion to the amount levied than for a
number of years.