Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-18
NEWS OF THREE STATES
WASHINGTON, MONTANA IDAHO
Tacoma Colorcd Men Organizing Il
Company OF VOIunteers-MonsO
ian PheaSants for MOntana-En-
courasin. Crop Prospects From
All Around.

There is deep water iii Lewis river and
| loo driving is i'll progress
Seattle women have taken steps to or
eanize a rescue home.
A Catholic church is being built at
RitWille.
New Whatcom has passed an ordinance
prohibiting horses running at large,
Tacoma wheemen may soon have bl-
cycle path to Puyallup. The county com
missioners have ordered the route sur
veyed.
Tacoma colored men will organize
company of volnteers At least 80 will
Join. John Gonna, a prominent colored
republican, and a veteran of the rebellion,
| heads the movement.
H. w. Castleman. a well-knoWn busi-
ness man, has been elected Il member of
the Tacoma city council to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of R. j. Dodds
There has never been a more favorable
season for crops in Stevens county. The
farmers are all ubilant. and predict a
great yield, not only of cereals, but OF
| fruit
Four new companies of the Fourteenth
infantry are soon to be organized at VAN
couver, and recruits are now being en-
listed for the same.
L. Fl. Northey, we'll known in western
Washington during boom days as a real
estate speculator, and who operated eN
tenSively in Centralia, died in Victoria
recently. He laid out several additions
to this city, and secured Il large immigra-
ton by extensive advertising.
George Stevenson. the Seattle man, who
is accused of swindlng various people
out of sums of money a@9regating over
5000, and whose case has excited con
| siderable comment, has decided to sue
three local gambling houses for a return
of $500, which he eambled away in their
places of business.
''Dakota Slim Mcdonald will not have
to stand trial on the charge of murder.
On motion of Prosecuting Attorney Mat
thews of Whitman county, the superior
court of Garfield county has made an Or
der dischareing the prisoner, who at once
took his departure from Pomeroy
The 4-year old girl of S P. Vanderford,
of ArLansaw creek, Cowlitz county, re
ceived a very ugly cut on the forehead
bv an axe in the hands of her little
brother. 1t is presumed the boy was
choppng with the axe and his sister
stepped in the way and was cut acci
dentally.
The Pullman volunteers have great
| hopes of being called into active service,
now that d second call for volunteers has
been made and are drilling hard and get
ting into good trim in case they are called.
The statement of Adjutant- General Cam
| ton that Whitman county will be allowed
but one company, the officers declare, will
not affect them, as they do not claim to
be a Whitman county company at all.
The comfort cases made by Boise ladies
| for the Idaho volunteers have been
shipped by express to San Francisco.
| Crop prospects never looked better on
Coeur d,Alene reservation than at the
present time. The late rain just came
| in time and all the late sown grain has
taken hold There is no reported dam
age to any of the fall wheat that has been
soWn.
Lieutenant Walsh says he believes the
men of Idaho are much above the average
size. A large majority of those who have
applied for enlistment in Tropp + since
recruiting began have been rejected be
cause of size. The maNimums for the
cavalry service are 5 feet 10 inches in
height and l65 pounds i'll weight.
The work of grading still continues
on the Lewiston extension being directed
along the south side of the river, which
includes some high precipices of rock,
besides a tough dirt. The men are di-
vided in gangs, and even at the present
rate of building it is said that it will be
the latter part of July before the road
will be in condition for running trains
over. Between .Jullaetta and Lewiston
only two miles of the track has been sur
the Clearwater as far as Big canyon, and
the work indicates the immediate build
ing of the road up the river.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company is extending its Occur d,Alene
system. At present its lines run from
Spokane via Coeur d Aene City and
through the Fourth of July canyon to /
Wallace. With branches from Wallace to .
Burke, Murray and Mulan. Work is .
now in progress to connect us with Mis-
soula. For 10 days or two weeks a gang
of men have been setting the poles for
the new line, having commenced at Mis- .
soula, and working towards Idaho, so as
not to get into the mountains until the
snow is off.
Boise, Idaho, June Judge Beattie of .
the United States court has rendered a
scorching decision in the case of the First .
National bank of HALEY against the c.
Y. Is. Mining Company to collect $1,000 .
due the bank and secured by a mortgage
on the Red Elephant mine near Haley
Payment was refused on the ground that /
G. Y. Bryan, who incurred the debt. had
no authority to bind the company. The .
case is complicated one. THE trans
actions OF the defendant. the Judge says,
and those associated with it, present a
peculiar history. To conclude that there
has been no bad faith in the management
of the defendants S interest, would require
the exercise of more charity than often
obtains in our judgment of human af-
fairs The mortgage is held to be valid
under the general rule ''that when there
is authority in a corporation to give its
notes the authority to secure them by the
mortgage OF the property is implied
Judge Beattie holds also that failure to
attach the corporate seal in no wise af-
fects the validity of the mortgage.
Montana.
State land agents are appraisng and
classifying school lands in Teton county.
Lieutenant Crosby of the Eighth cav
airy has succeeded Chaplain Anderson as
commander of the post at Fort Assinni-
bnf,