Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12


delinquent taxes amounted 10. $l3.624, SO,
or about Is per. cent. Last years collec-
tions amounted to $64,9S0.94, while the
delinquent taxes were about $1,000.
Though the collections this year We're
81 600 less than last over $50 more re-
eeipts were Issued, This is due to d lower
valuation and levy. Since the delinquent
season began 300 receipts have. been issued
agregating about $4,000.
In the case of @. Scott Anderson appeal
ing from the action of the county com
missioners in employing w. b, Hepburn
os special counsel to defend Shoshone
county in case testing the validity of
the county's bonded indebtedness, District
Judge Mayhem sustains the appellants,
holding that the commissioners can not
employ a special counsel unless the dis
trict attorney fails or refuses to act, he
being the attorney for the county under
the state law.
The work of tearing up the old narrow.
gauge track has begun at Old Mission,
work train with crew of IL or Is men
coming; down from Wallace to dc the
work 1t is officially announced that the
track will be taken up to Wardner, the
rails from there to Wallace being left in
place. Outside talk is that it is not UNI
likely that the gauge between Wardner
and Wallace will be widened to a stand
ard gauge, 80 that if at any time it may
be desired to resume business there it can
be done without any trouble. Atspresent
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com
pany takes all the ore at Wardner. turn
ing the Last Chance oyer 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, of
whom II were present, and 90 on Febru-
airy 2S, of whom 81 were present 1t has
been necessary to postpone receiving two
applicants entitled to admission because
the beds are all occupied. The average
attendance during February was rs. The
$974.04, of which the United States gov
eminent contributed $3.50 and the state
$324.04. The cost of support of members
of the home during February was $l2.39
: each, against 1888 in February, 1897,
and $234l in February, 1896. The cost
for. maintaining each for the first two
months of the year was 1884, against
$2G97 in 1897 and $4682 in 1896.
--aU Montana. IS 3s.
/
Thomas Dunn, engineer on the Montana
railroad, shot and killed a large lynx
> from his seat in the cab as his train was
passing through Box canyon the other
morning. .s..ss
:, The friends of Henry f. Clark. as he
is known in the state penitentiary, where
he is serving a 40year sentence for the
. crime of highway robbery in Lewis and
g q Clarke county in 1891. are continuing
= their efforts to secure pardon for him.
I The Foster Sheep Company has purchas'
: ed the fine ranch of Robert +. Couts OF
j Sixteen Mile creek, paying $4,000 there
9 for, This property embraces 800 acres
and yields several hundred tons of hay
= annually.
g JohnvD Losecamp of Billings has re.
nese pheasants and will place them in
= pairs with ranchers in the valley. They
are very handsome birds, and if they are
only allowed a fair show they will soon
stock the valley with choice game birds.
Mr. Losecamp turned out a few some
, years ago, and never heard of them after
wards until this winter, when some were
reported as having been seen about 40
. miles northwest of this place.
, Eugene 7. Wilson, receiver of the Mer-
/, chants National bank at Helena, has
been authorized by the comptroller of the
treasury to declare dividend of 5 per
, cent, following that of 25 per centqhereto-
fore declared and distributed. Since au
thorizing the second dividend Receiver
Wilson has collected and RENTED enough
> money to Washington for "a third dividend
of 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. II.
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 ears, which received the
seed in, passing through the state east OF
this one. The commissioner devotes q
valuable chapter to the Russian thistles
which he finds to have been seen this year
in Is counties in the state, whereas at