Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-19
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
GENERAL BUSINESS POINTERS
Variety of Statistics for the Past
Ycar-SeEni-!tH Annual Payment to
Nez Perce Indians Will Amount
to $1SO.O0O-Has Been n Good
Winter for stock in Montana.

closed for some time, are again in opera
ton.
The total of county and state schoo
bonds in Whitman county for the cur
rent year is 1881 "A.
The treasurer Of Thurston county foi
the year 1897 collected taxes amounting
to S775GO9
A contract has been let for the i'm
mediate construction of the Goldendale
Lyle county wagon road.
Professor Balmcr Of the agricultural
college receicd 10 dozen bob whites
from Kansas the other day by express
The quail will be turned loose on the ag
ricultural college farm, and will be pro
tected and allowed to propagate i'll hopes
that this country may become the home
of this excellent game bird.
Whitman county commissioners have
made an order authorizing Sheriff Sims
to eNpend amy sum not exceeding $500 to
bring the lyncilers of '.Blaclly" and the
murderer Of Dan CaIland to justice, and
urged the sheriff to take active steps in
each case
The rates on flour from the Pacific
coast to China and Japan by all steamer
lines have been advanced 33 ,-3 per cent.
The new rate is ~, gold, per ton, the
old rate being So and became effective
February /.
The roadbed Of the railway from Aber-
deem to Hoquam has been completed.
The depot grounds at Aberdeen are pre-
pared and the big buildings on the line
where the bridge vii crcss the Wishka
river are being moved.
The shipbuilding yards at Point Hud
son and lower end of Water street, III
Port Townsend. present i busy scene
these times. About 100 men are employed
in connection with the building of tug,
steam schooner and repairing other yes
sells.
Assistant Attorney General Vance
holds that a sheriff is liable to the county
or state on his official bond for failure
to perform his official duties. the right of
action being limited to six years but that
i'll a collateral proceeding by some indi-
vid,lal to punish the sheriff CT to recover
damages for an injury, the three years
statute of limitation applies.
Salmon are running freely in the Spo-
kane river and the streams which afford
them spawning grounds, and the king of
food fishes is being taken in good guam
titles This news will be hailed with de
light by the ambitious fishermen OF Spo-
kane. In previous years fish as large as
45 pounds have been brought to town, vic
TINS Of fight with rod and tackle which
lasted frequently over an hour. The best
catches this year have been made in the
big pool in the Little Spokane. The sal
mon take Il spoon readily. They are fat
and in the best condition both for food
and fighting qualities. As the close sea
son begins March 10, the anglers have
little time to waste if they expect to have
sport this year.
Fremont county warrants are at par.
The Lewiston city council has passed
an ordinance granting to Z. II. Libby,
president of the Nineand company,
street railway franchise for the period Of
25 years. Mr.. Libby appeared before the
council and stated that the purpose of
the company WAS to connect Lewiston
and Nineland by the line over the pro
posed Snake river bridge. Speaking of
the plans. he said the company expected
to soon commence work on the construc-
ton OF the bridge. as the bill authorizing
the construction had passed the senate
and house.
In the religious census of Boise, Idaho.
taken by the Sunday School Union Of
that city the religious preferences Of 97S
persons are given. The list by denomina
lions is as follows: Methodist 2l7 Epis
copal l42. Baptist 1873, Presbyterian Ill.
Catholic rs, Christian 80. Congregational
50. Hebrew 30, Adventist 49, Lutheran
13. Salvation Army I. Unitarian 2, Nor
mon 2, Quaker /, Free Thinker ], no pref
crence 10; total 07S. There are S6S re-
porting church membership. OF these in
the city One-quartcr are MethOdists.
ice Kaufman lost his life in the snow
on the summit on the Idaho City road the
other night, his body being found the
following morning. Though he was still
living. he was so far gone that he died
soon after being taken to a place of shell
ter He was well known miner. Re
Gently. it seems, he has been Of unsound
mind. At Idaho City he was lately held
in Jail several days, the doctor stating
that he had softcning of the brain. When
he was released he walked to Boise. Here
he acted queerly. Early i'll the week
he disappeared, and the next heard of
him was the news of his being found on
the summit
Patrick Markcy is dead. aged IS years.
About one month ago Mr.. Markey was
taken sick in his cabin on Atlanta hill.
and through the instrumentality of G. Y.
Smith, who was his mining partner was
brought to Atlanta IN hand sled, where
Mr.. Smith ari the other friends did every
thing in thcr power to relieve his suf-
fering. Nh. Mnrkey was born in Dublin,
Ireland December 25, 1922, and came to
America at the age of 23. served with
General Scott during the Mexican war,
was mustered out Of the service at Fort
Vancouver in 1851: was engaged in
placer mining in California until 1859,
when he engaged in the mercantile bust
ness in Portland, Ore. He removed to
lewiston idaho, in 1868, where he opened
and successfully conducted general store.
He came to Rocky Bar in 1865, and to
Atlanta two years later. Mr.. Markey
served as county commissioner Of old Al
turas county for the years 1872 and 1873,
and had as his associates the late Hon.
ID. B. Ethel and Hon. William Alalally.
Mr.. Markey was universally respected
wherever known.
Montana.
Work has begun on the Methodist
church building at Liberty, Mont.
A plan is on foot to secure the exten-
sion of the railroad from Dorsey to White
Sulphur Springs. /
The total amount of warrants, principal
and interest, redeemed by the state treas
urer Of Idaho during January, was $751;