Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-08-13
ITEMS FROM The NORTHWEST
THE NEWS OF THREE STATES.
Happenings Here and There in
Washington, Idaho and Montana
Wheat. Fruit and Wool Promise
Well This Season.


Threshing of fall-sown grain has be-
gun near Pullamn, and the grain is turn
ING out better than was expected. j.
r. Rupley threshed seven acres OF red
Russian wheat which averaged ~ bush
jels per acre. He has 50 acres of this
variety, the seven acres threshed yester-
day being the poorest OF the field, and
is certain the 81 acres will average Is
bushels per acre. The grain is of excel
lent quality.
Theodore Rixon has been appointed by
the secretary OF the interior to make 4
geological survey of the Olympic forest
reserve. He will be accompanied in his
travels by Arthur Dodwell, a Northern
cruising Northern Pacific timber lands
for the last two years and is county sur
yeyor of Pacific county.
Fruit Inspector w. II, Brown of Seattle
has condemned as utterly unfit for use
nearly 400 boxes of pears and apples,
mostly the former, which reached the
steamer dock from San Francisco. The
pests in and on the fruit are the codling
meth and San Jose scale. The pears are
OF the Bartlett and Alexander varieties
and aside from the worms i'll them looked
| fine.
! County Treasurer A. B. Dorsey of Port
| Angeles has completed his financial state
ment for the year ending June 30, 1898.
| \ comparison of the financial statement
for the year ending June 30, 1898, with
the previous year shows Il gratifying in
crease in receipts and a marked decrease
i'll liabilities. The figures are as follows:
Colcctions, 1898, s3,2ss Oh: 1897, $o2,-
5l1 81; total debt, 1898, $4O5 ,G24 ,O3;
1897, 1925 ,O2o IS; net debt, 1898, Sl2l,
lSo 30: 1891, $3.50, lo3 6S.
/ The Hypotheekbank of Spokane, which
owns about $50 acres Of land on WILDLY
Iisland north of La Connor, has ust com
ipleted the construction of IA $4,000 dam
on its property, which reclaims from the
tides over 200 acres of valuable tide land
which has been of no account for the
past two years, owing to the washing
away of the old dam. The new one is
200 feet long, "a feet deep, with 9o-foot
base, and its construction used up over
300 cords OF brush fascines, 25O tons Of
rock, $500 sacks filled with dirt and some
! 10000 cubic yards of loose dirt.
| Three OF Seattles society women have
Iouttitted and sailed for two years So
/ journ OH the Yukon, and they are Mrs.
and Miss McGraw, wife and daughter of
ext Governor John II. McGraw, and Mrs.
Carr, wife of General Z. NJ. Carr, formerly
brigader general of the state militia.
| Governor McGraw is now awaiting The
party at st. Michaels. lie and General
Carr nave valuable mines on Little Mi
/. nook. The ladies will be accompanied
on their voyage by General Carr, who
returned from the district some weeks
ago.
Engineers Strrud and Nasten of Sc
attic have two large parties in the field
under the supervision of Mr.. Nasten,
working on government surveys. They
have recently made corrections on town
ship 3s, range 25, which includes the
town of Loomis, which was surveyed last
season, but found slightly defective, They
|
40, range 25, which was also surveyed
at the same time. These townships are
very populous and have been in abey-
ance since 1890 for various causes. and
their completion and acceptance will be
a boon much appreciated by the settlers,
The county Jail at Boise has its first
female prisoner, a girl whose downfall
is attributed to the morphine habit.
The county commissioners at Blackfoot
Ito be elected in November) at 5000 pei
year.
Huckleberry pckers report a fairly
good crop well up the mountain sides
near Wallace, the berries on the lower
ground. having been killed by the late
frosts.
For the first time in years Lewiston is
being visited by a gang of hoboes. The
building of the railroad in this vicinity
is bringing them. Several arrests have
been made and a chain gang organized,
which is engaged in improving the
streets.
Superintendent McBee has issued an
announcement to the teachers of koot-
enay county of a Joint institute of the
teachers of kootenay and Shoshone coun
| ties to be held in the school house at
Wallace, beginning August 10 and ending
August 10.
The last legislature of Idaho changed
the date of holding annual examinations
from the first to the last week in August
in order to enable teachers from other
states to take the examination without
so great loss of time from the date of
the examination to the time Of opening
school on the first Monday in September.
A comparative statement prepared by
Postmaster kress of Lewiston shows the
increased business of the local office over
last year. The receipts for stamps, en-
velopes, etc, for the quarter ending July
80, 1897, were 81, ,063 81 The receipts
for the same months this year were
81 ,397 40
The first carload of 1898 wheat was re
ceived at the mill at Genesee, and was
graded No. l. 1t weighed 63 pounds to
the bushel, and was considered excellent
in quality, being hard and plump, Some
rust is appearing, and it is feared that it
will lessen the average of number OF
fields Much of the wheat is ready TO
cut with binders, and some heading will
be done this week.
Threshing is fairly inaugunted in the
| Tammany district near lewiston There
is no longer conjecture about the yield
The real returns in the sacks demonstrate
the yield to be even greater than the
expectations of the most sanguine of the
farmers The first fields threshed have
yielded 40 bushels to the acre and the
best crops are yet to be harvested.
A large number OF nimrods from Spo-
kane were at Rathdrum bright and early
Monday morning, expecting to bag big
supply of chickens from the Rathdrum
prairie as it was the first day Of the