Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-03-12


and Wallace will be widened to stand
ard gauge, so that if at any time it may
be desired to resume business there it can
be done without any trouble. At present
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com
pany takes all the ore at Wardner. turn
ing the Last Chance over to the Northern
Pacific at Wallace and that from the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan being turned
over at Spokane, it being sent to Tacoma
at present.
Superintendent Clark Of the soldiers
home has made his report to the governor
for the month of February. 1t shows
there were 81 members on January 81. O
whom II were present, and 80 on Febru
airy 2S, of whom 81 were present. 1t ha:
been necessary to postpone receiving two
applicants entitled to admission because
the beds are all occupied. The average
attendance during February was 7s. The
$974O4, of which the United States gov
ernment contributed $3.50 and the state
S324.O4. The cost of support of member.
of the home during February was 1925
and $23.4l in February, 1896. The cost
for maintaining each for the first two
months Of the year was S23.S4. against
S26.97 in 1897 and $46S2 in 1896
Thomas Dunn, engineer Oh the Montana
railroad, shot and killed large lynS
from his seat in the cab as his train was
passing through Box canyon the Other
morning.
The friends of Henry E. Clark. as he
is known in the state penitentiary, where
he is serving a 4O-year sentence for the
crime of highway robbery in Lewis and
Clarke county in 1891, are continuing
their efforts to secure a pardon for him.
The Foster Sheep Company has purchas
ed the fine ranch of Robert +. Couts o1
Sixteen Mile creek, paying $4,000 there
for. This property embraces 800 acre:
and Yields several hundred tons Of hay
annually.
John D. Losecamp of Billings has re-
ceived from Oregon a consignment of Chi
nese pheasants and will place them in
pairs with ranchers in the valley. They
are very handsome birds, and if they arc
only allowed fair show they will soon
stock the valley with choice game birds
Mr. Losecamp turned out few some
wears ago and never heard of them after
wards until this winter, when some were
reported as having been seen about &c
miles northwest Of this place.
Eugene T. Wilson, receiver of the Mer-
chants National bank at Helena, has
been authorized by the comptroller of the
treasury to declare dividend of pei
cent, following that Of 25 per cent hereto,
fore declared and distributed. Since au-
thorizing the second dividend Receiver
Wilson has collected and RENTED enough
money to Washington for third dividend
of 5 per cent, and the probability is the
second will hardly be out of the way be-
fore the third is authorized and made
available for the creditors.
The last report of Commissioner j. H
Calderhead of the Montana state bureau
of labor, agriculture and statistics, con-
tains some observations upon the Russian
thistle, an exceedingly noxious and per
sistent weed that it is believed came into
the state from Dakota by being conveyed
by the railroad cars, which received the
seed in passing through the state east OF
this one. The commissioner devotes a
valuable chapter to the Russian thistle
which he finds to have been seen this yeal
in IS counties in the state. whereas at
the time the report for the preceding yeal
was formulated it was known in only
nine