Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-15
NORTHWEST POINTERS.
STATISTICS OF THE PAST YEAR.
Cut in Salaries at Colfax Court
House-Big Horn Stock Owners
Report Great Loss of Their AMI
mails From WOIves-Pnlouse Elk
tension Of Northern Pacific.
Seattle police made 6l7 arrests during

Seattle police made 6l7 arrests during
December.
Not more than one third of the wheat
stored at Cotton, Whitman county, has
been sold and shipped.
Stock raisers on the Wenas have been
feeding large bands of stock for the win
ter city markets.
Whitman county commissioners have
made a cut in the salaries at the court
house, effecting saving of $500 year
There is more cash on hand in County
Treasurer Silvcrthorn's office than there
ever has been in the history of Douglas
county.
Garfield and Columbia counties have
about concluded an agreement whereby
the division lines between the two will
be re-esta blished. The old marks are
about obliterated.
The last floor Of the Gray's harbor light
house has been put in place on top of the
brick tower, and it commands fine view
Of the whole harbor country
Stock in Kittitas valley have been fed
for the past month and the present pros
poets are that feeding will continue for
some time yet, says the Ellensburg Lo-
calizer
Henry Craemer has been sentenced to
be hanged March 25 for the murder of
Mrs. Phillipena Mueller and child. This
is the third time that sentence of death
has been passed on Craemer. Craemers
only hope now lies in Governor Rogers.
G. E. Lind, contractor of the Blaine
Ferndale road, reports the work progress
ing well. He has large force Of men at
work at each end Of the road At the
Ferndale end the grading is all done and
about two miles planked. At the Blaine
end grading and grubbing is the order.
Tacoma's December exports were val
ued, according to the collector Of Gus
toms, at 81, ,3G4 ,299.SG. Nearly all. if not
all, of the commodities exported were of
American production. The imports for
the year of 1897 were $S,l25,95S.61. Ex
ports for the year We're 9,l99, ,l77.22. Re
ceipts of the port from all sources were
$5,266.64
The action Of the Whitman county com
missioners in settling with the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company for so per cent
OF its taxes on ,npatented railroad lands.
has resulted in Others who own railroad
lands, demanding the same rebate. At
the meeting of the county commissioners
which closed yesterday an order was made
authorizing County Treasurer Manring
to accept so cents on the dollar for the
taxes on unpatentcd railroad lands owned
by the Vermont Loan and Trust Com |
pany for the years 1893, 1894 and 1895. |
The same order was made regarding the
lands of the Bunnell & Emo Investment
Company. W. Hampton was refunded
$3.50 taxes which he had paid on i'm
provements OH government lands.
Montana.
The apportionment OF the state school
moneys gives the Choteau county school
fund some $49l; Fergus county, s62O; |
Teton county, S2l9, and Valley county, |
$Gs
The mineral land commission has adj |
journed till January 90 Commissioner
Tomkins has gone to Arkansas and Com
missioner Hathaway will spend the va
cation on the ccast.
Carbon county has been apportioned |
the sum Of $39:j64 from the state school |
income fund. This is on a basis Of ~ |
cents for each of the 942 children Of the |
county according to the August census.
J.. H. Brigham, government freighter, |
died at Mammoth Hot Springs from the
effects of injuries sustained by fall from
a wagon on December 20 while hauling
freight from Cinnabar to Fort Yellow
stone. Mr.. Brigham was an old timer in !
the service and about 10 years Of age at
the time of his death
Governor Smith has appointed the fol !
lowing delegates to the Nicaragua canal |
convention, which will meet i'll Kansas
City January IL: John B. Losekamp Of
Billings, J. II. Durston Of Anaconda, j. /
Fl. Monteath and f. f. Corbett of Butte, |
and r. r. Purcell Of Helena.
The announcement is made that only |
$4,000 can be expended in the running |
expenses of the Great Falls schools. The |
taxpayers of school district No. /, which |
includes all Of this city, pays two-thirds |
of the taxes to be used for school pur
poses in the county, but the city schools |
get back but a little less than tVo-ffths |
Of the entire tax.
Fergus county this year has a delin |
quent tax list amounting to S9527.2S, Of
which amount S44344S is due from the
Northern Pacific railway, that corpora
ton refusing to pay taxes to the county /
on its government land grants until a |
pending suit in the United States court is
settled The delinquency from taxpayers
other than the railway is $500 less than
that of last year.
The stock owners of the Big Horn ba |
sin report great destruction Of their ami
mails from wolves and are raising a gener !
Gus bounty by private subscription for
the destruction Of the pests. 1t is esti !
mated that there are 600 Of these ami !
mails in the basin at present and that
the killing Of stock in consequence is un /
usually large.
The state board of pardons has ap
proved the action Of Acting Governor |
Spriggs in granting unconditional par
dons to Henry Kingery and William Will |
cox, who were sent to the penitentiary /
from Madison county November %, 1894,
for five years for highway robbery. The
pardon lets them out about seven months
sooner than if they had served their time
with the usual allowance for good be
havior.
George Turner who has been working
all Of the summer on the new barracks |
at Fort Yellowstone, says that before he
left there were about five or six inches /
of snow on the ground and the game !
was coming down from the mountains
in large numbers A herd Of 500 elk
grazed on a rise above the fort, and it
was common for deer to come down into
the camp. The stage drivers said that
mountain sheep were seen sometimes in
punches of as mary as IL on the cliffs.