Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-12
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
4 GLANCE OVER THREE STATES
Single Mills in Western Washing
ton Resuning Operatfons-When
Shipments From the SOund-News
From the Ranges of Montana
Work on the Railroad to Lewis
ton. Idaho.

Nearly all OF the ZUI SllinSle lllllS Ill
western Washington have commenced cut
ting again.
There is renewed talk Of the establish
ment of a steel plant in Port Angeles by
eastern people.
Lcgeers from Olympia are cruising on
the upper reaches Of Elk river, in Che
halls county with view to opening up
q big camp.
During 1897. out of every four mar
riages in Walla Walla county, one di-
vorce has been applied for. There were
l49 marriages recorded.
General fund warrants of Chehalis coun-
" have been called up to and including
No. 23ll, dated April 6, 1894, amounting
to about $4,000. All of the warrants
drawing 10 per cent are now out of the
way.
Spraying fruit trees for insect pests has
begun in Yakima county. and in a short
time all the orchards i'll the valley will
show up perfectly white from the appli-
cation of the official spraying recipe Civ
en- out from the state horticultural b,,-
reau.
The British ship Jordanhill has cleared
from Tacoma with full cargo of wheat
the 49th cargo for the season. She car
ries 1872 .925 bushels. valued at $4,000.
Exports thus far amount to 100000
bushels, valued at $4.2OO,OOO
The superintendent of public instruc-
4 I,1J. 10 }a
rent or lease public school property for
use as Il dance hall or kindred purposes
at social entertainments. There is moth
ing i'll the law authorizing such use,
either by the vote Of the electors or by
act of the directors.
Warren Rlagden, who was recently
buried at Goldendale in the Odd Fellows
cemetery, was an early and respected cit
izen cf klicllitat county. He was born
in Maine in 1924 In 1913 he was mar
ried to Miss Lydia Tupper at Sycamore,
illinois,
The movement to form drainage dis
trict comprising the vast swamp west OF
Colville is meeting with some vigorous
tptOSlLitH IL iioiIi oClllSio up tHC FtilS
Those in the lower end of the proposed
district are strongly in favor of drainage,
and will push the enterprise.
One of the most important decisions
ever rendered i'll the state, and the first
enc of the kind ever rendered, is that
handed down by Judge Neal in the case
Of the Spokane Street Railway Company
and the Inland Telephone Company
against the county commissioners. The
court held that a franchise is subject to
taxation the same as the property Of a
or an individual or the prop
erty owned by the company owning the
franchise.
The report of the Washington state
grain inspector for January shows that
during the month the local receipts Of
wheat amounted to 9S3 cars. as against
Us cars during January, 1897. Estimat-
ing from the first receipts of the 1897 crop
in September last. Tacoma has been the
salt water terminal for S2l0 carloads of
wheat measuring about 100000 bushels.
The inspectors report states it IS estl-
mated that about - per cent of the crop
has been moved.
Montana.
The business men Of Great Falls are or
ganizing to push the Edmonton route to
the Yukon.
The Montana State College Of Agrlcul
tnre has Just received three dynamos
which constitute the initial equipment OF
its electrical laboratory, and they will
also be used for lighting the college build
ings
The Billings committee to raise the
subscription toward the Sisters hospital
report the full amount of $4,000 subscrib-
ed and the offer of several eligible sites
free.
The Big Horn basin ranges are reported
to be in fairly good condition and the
winter thus far has been extremely favor
able to stock interests. There are in the
neighborhood of 100000 head of sheep
being wintcred in the basin, about hall
Of which were driven in last fall from Vel
lowstone county
The Milk River valley, in Montana, is
looking forward to prosperous year. The
wool growers have the most encourag
ing prospect Of years. There will not be
so many range cattle shipped in, but the
ranchmen will increase the number o1
their holdings and improve the quality Of
the stock.
A new departure was made in court
procedure by Attorney Lyter of Great
Falls few days ago. He was to have
submitted an argument before the district
court at Chcteau. but being detained al
home by sickness, Mr.. Lyter addressed hi:
remarks to Judge Smith, at Choteau, ove1
the telephone.
Active work has begun on the extension
of the railroad to Lewiston. Thirty-twe
men are making their headquarters al
kendrick. At present they are taking
track above town and taking it to a point
below Juliaetta, where it is used to ripra]
along the track.
Stock shipments over the Burlington
last week were the largest in the histor!
of that road. Besides some 700 cars o
sheep and cattle transferred from th'
Northern Pacific, the Burlington handled
nearly 5000 cars of stock received for ship
ment between Billings and Newcastle, ;
distance Of 361 miles. The Billings yard
alone contributed 400 cars of beef cattl
and feeders and 4Gl double deck cars 0
sheep. In addition there were about 4O'
cars Of sheep and cattle shipped in over tn
Burlington during the year 1897.
City Physician Shultz has completed
his annual report Of the mortuary recor'
for the city of Butte for the year 1897
The report shows the total number 0
deaths during the year to have been Al
or little less than per cent of the city
population. The report further show
that out of the total number of deaths
3l3 were males and l5S females. AS class
flied among diseases or causes the repor
shows AZ have resulted from pneumonia
mining accidents, SO; other accidents, 3
consumption, 80; suicides, 90
The late w. G. Latimer was a pionee
of pioneers in King county. He built tn