The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-04-16

houses VIII commence.
There is a small band of Indians living
in Payette county, near the mouth of Dry
Buck, about score in all. They have
been there II or II years Two of them
are Snake River Indians, and the rest are
supposed to be Nez Perces. Just why
they located at that isolated point is not
known. The Indians themselves will not
explain the matter, but the supposition is
that their settling there was a result of
some feud. Two of them named Charlie
father and son, each had an eye punched
out by the tribe, supposedly TOR refusing
to 90 on the warpath at the time of the
Joseph outbreak. The elder Charlie died
last winter, and the son is the head of the
settlement. There are several families,
numbering all told about 20
Montana.
A Chinook farmer will plant an acre OF
sugar beets for the Bozeman experiment
station.
Fruit men of Hamilton say that the
fruit tree buds were not advanced far
enough to receive injury and were in good
shape to withstand the recent cold.
Helena's chief of police reports that dur
ing March the department arrested 80 for
violation of city ordinances and 10 for vi
olating state laws. The chief collected
5000 for dog licenses during the same pc
Rod.
The total of the saving of expenses in
the routine departments of the city gov
eminent in Helena in the calendar year
1897, as compared with the calendar year
preceding, is shown by a careful examina-
ton of the books of the city clerk to have
been $26,67S.46.
The death rate among the wolves and
coyotes of Montana is increasing. During
March there were filed in the office of Sec
rotary of State Hogan county certificates
aggregating $7l94, or 1882 more than
were filed in March. 1897. More claims
were filed last month from Choteau coun-
ty than any other Custer county being
second on the list and Valley county third.
Dupuyer reports that the preliminary
survey on the Birch creek canal is pro-
crossing as rapidly as could be expected,
the bad weather and deep snow being
taken into consideration. The party are
camped in Sober-up coulee, little over
eight miles from where the proposed ditch
is to be taken out of Birch creek 1t is
expected that the preliminary survey will
be completed in a few days.
Three posts of the Grand Army, at Hell
ena, Great Falls and Anaconda, together
with many confederate veterans of those
places, have Joined in requesting that they
be sent to the front, and the Montana
brigade of the Uniform Rank of the
Knights of Pythias, through Col Duane,
has asked TO be sent out for service. The
latter organization numbers $50 men.
Four companies of the Twenty fifth in
| fantIy, which have been station at Fort
Missoula for several years, left Sunday for
Chickamauga and probably from there
will be sent to Key West or Dry Tortu-
gas, Fla. Other companies of the regi-
ment which have been stationed at As
sinnaboine and Harrison will be sent over
the Great Northern to st. Paul, where the
regiment will unite before proceeding
south Colonel Burt is very proud of the
record of his regiment. He says that in
an experience of 80 years he never left
a garrison before where all men were
promptly on hand when the order to
march was given, and where he did not
have to leave a squad TO pick up DRINKS
and stragglers. The abandonment of Fort
Missoula means a loss to Missoula of fully
$4,000 a month.