Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-04-13
settlement. There are several families,
numbering all told about 20.

| settieiheHt. iHeIe are SeNelul Iunlilles
numbering all told about 90
A Boise butcher has just been paid $50
to release a farmer from a contract to sell
him all his veal calves this year. Tw1
years ago the calves were contracted at
$5, last year at SO and this year at 81
They are worth about $l2.
Governor Steunenberg has received OF
fers of services for military duty from Il
large number of men since the Spanish sit
uation became acute. The men coming
forward offer to serve in any capacity in
which they can be useful in the event of
Idaho being called upon to furnish troops
to assist in prosecuting war with Spain.
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.
llelenn's chief of police reports that dur.
ing March the department arrested 50 for
violation of city ordinances and 10 for vi.
olating state laws. The chief collected
5000 f,r dog licenses during the same pc
riod.
The total of the saving of expenses in
the routine departments of the city gov
ernment in Helena in the calendar year
1897, as compared with the calendar year
preceding, is shown by careful examina-
tion 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
retary of State Hogan county certificates
aggregating $7l04, or $ls72 more than
were filed in March. 1907. 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 irto 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
fantry, 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.
nient which have been stationed at As.
sinnnboine 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 lie says that in
an experience Of 30 years he never left
a garris 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 drunks
and stagglers. The abandonment Of Fort
Missoula means a loss to AIissoula Of fully
$4,000 a month.