Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-05-28
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND.

Prospect of Large Fruit Crop
Surveyors Locating an Extension
of the Vancouver, klickitnt &
Yakima Railroad-Work on the
Extension of the Palouse Branch
Walla Walla merchants are shipping
large quantities of potatoes to Kansas and
other states.
Threshing is progressing nicely north
of Hartline in Lincoln county, and con,
siderable of the grain proves to be but
slightly damaged or not damaged at all
The members of company B, First regi-
ment, n. G. W., at Seattle, have organized
by electing c. II. Crane captain; John
f. Carroll, first lieutenant; Thomas H.
Gamble, second lieutenant.
Whatcom county reports that pros
poets for large fruit crop could not be
better, and Judging from the appearance
of the grass the yield of hay will surp,ss
in quantity all expectations.
Fruit prospects were never better than
in this portion of the Yakima valley, is
the report from North Yakima. Pros
poets are that growers will have to thin
down the crop by at least one half Spray
ing for the coddling moth is now going
on.
Lumber shipments by water from Grays
Harbor points during the month of April
amounted to S,9lO,0O0 feet, divided as fol-
lows: Hoquiam, ten cargoes, 1852 900
feet: Aberdeen, eleven cargoes, 1888 900
feet; Cosmopolis, six cargoes, 100000
| feet.
Notice has been given by Mayor Nick
eus of Tacoma to the commissioner of
public works, the chief of police and the
chief of the fire department to notify all
men in any of their departments that any
of them who enlist may have the assur-
ance that their places will be reserved
for them and restored if the war should
| close within the life of the present city
administration.
Thomas Lynch. an old soldier, and for
a number of years Il resident OF Golden
dale, is reported to be with Admiral Dew
ey on the flagship Olympia. 1t is gen
orally believed he is serving as a barber.
Lynch served as drum ma ior and bugler.
Edward Lynch, his son, is said to be a
sailor on the hattleship Oregon, having
enlisted while the Oregon was on Puget
Sound.
At the annual meeing of the State Den
tai Society at Tacoma, the following of
fcers were elected: President, P. II. Car
lyon of Olympia; first vice president, w.
l.. Bukhart Of Tacoma second vice pres
ident, J. n. Prather Of Seattle; treasurer.
j. L. Banks of Yakima. The following
were elected delegates to the National
Dental Associa tion of North America to
convene at Omaha in August: B. +.
Eshelman, W. Z. Burkhart of Tacoma;
B. S. Scott of Ellensburg; G. A. Holmes,
+. d. Andrus of Seattle; p. IL. Carlyon
of Olympia.
a party of Is surveyors, connected with
the Vancouver, Klickatat & Yakima rail
road, are in the vicinity of Trout Lake,
at work locating an extension Of the road
They are on three weeks survey over
the proposed line Of the road. The prin-
cipal object of the trip is to mark out
a practicable route through klickatat
pass it being the announced intention of
the company to make a considerable eN-
tension the present year. A portion of
the crew are working toward thus city
along the line of the old Hunt survey.
The war with Spain has made two va
cances in the family circle of the Rev.
Myron Eells, the well known missionary
at the Skykomish Indian reservation, and
a writer of consideraule prominence espec
tally on early life in the Northwest, In
dian customs and languages. His son,
Arthur H., who was in Ellensburg when
the call for volunteers was issued, was
one of the first to respond and informs
his parents by ma1I that he will 60 to the
front when his company gets orders. An
other son. Chester at school in Coupe
vile, has also joined company there and
is drilling daily, hoping to be called.
Reports received from different parts
of Clark county show there are most ia
vorable prospects for an enormous crop
of prunes and all varieties of fruit the
coming season. The climatic conditions
50 far this spring have been all that could
be desired and contrary to the general
rule, no discouraging reports whatever
have up to this time been received from
any section. In the orchards near the
Columbia and in the lower latitudcs the
prunes are said to be already advanced
beyond all danger of damage by frost
OF cold rains, and those on the higher
lands, remote from the river, where the
fruit season is from one to two weeks
later, the damage is past.
The sixth annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union OF
North Idaho district, will convene at Lew
iston on the first, second and third of
June.
Two Indians accomplished perilous
undertaking the other day on the Clear
water at Lapwai. They were anxious to
cross, and not wishing to take the time
to go down the river five miles to the
ferry, they drove their horses into the
river, which is a raging torrent, and hang
ing to their tails, reached the other side
safely. A large crowd witnessed the
foolhardy trick.
Work on the extension of the Palouse |
branch of the n. P railroad is being
pushed ahead, about l50 men being EN-
ployed on the grading work. The track
has been laid to the Clearwater, and is |
there is any delay in running trains into
Lewiston by July l it will be because
of the failure to complete the bridge
across the Clearwater. The warm weather
of the past few days has caused the river
to rise rapidly, which makes more diff
ficult and dangerous the work of building
the bridge. The only grading that re-
mains to be done is on the south side of
the river, which will take about one
months work.
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