Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

/ terlally relieve the mOnotony of their
long trip to Manila. The Whittier club
| has sent them donation of money for
the purchase of books.
| Deputy United States Marshal Coax
! ley went to Idaho Falls to serve papers
instituted in suit against John O'Neill.
i Hugh ONeill and the Idaho Falls Canal
& Irrigation Company. The action is
brought to secure revocation of a patent
issued for a large tract of land. which.
| it is alleged. was obtained by fraud. The
affidavit filed to secure patent stated
sufficient water had been obtained to IL
rigate the land. which the government
claims is not true. The United States
also asks that the money paid by the
defendants be forfeited.
The report of the enrolment and at
tendance of the Moscow public schools
for the past year reaches the high water
mark in the history of the schools. The
number enrolled was S91 record that
can not be approached by any city in the
| state outside of Boise. Eighty eight per
cent of the census enrolment of the dis
trict attended the city schools, and com
bined with the number attending the
university. shows that over 80 per cent
of the children of school age have at
tended school. This is an excellent show
ing and Moscow is proud of it.
The county commissioners let a con-
tract at Rathdrum to Oliver Brothers of
Spokane to erect bridge over the Spo
kane river at Fort Sherman. Idaho. Seal
ed bids had been advertised for by the
board, but Oliver Brothers were the only
bidders. They are to erect the bridge.
furnish all labor and material for $1,000,
to be paid by the county, and $40 by
the citizens of Occur d Aene City.
The matter of testing the validity of
the bonded debt of Shoshone county
seems about to come to a head. The
semi-annual interest is due in New York
on July |, and it is the practice here to
make the remittance here about the 18th
of this month, in order to have it there
on time. The county treasurer has been
enjoined from making the remittance. 1t
is anticipated that when the county re
fuses to pay the interest the bondholders
will Immediately take steps to test the
validity of the bonds. The commission
ers evidently prefer to act on the defen-
siye and force the bondholders to com
mence action. While the validity of the
whole issue of $2sO,000 is dis puted, they
having been issued by the commissioners
without submitting the matter to a vote
of the people, it is scarcely hoped that
the county will be relieved from the pay
nlcnt Of the whole amount.
Prairie schooners pass through Boulder
foot reservation and Canada. They usu
ally have plenty of horses, cattle and
babies with them.
c, Bachant of Kalispell has received
check for S2770 for wheat he has deliv
cred at the roller mills here during the
past two weeks This is undoubtedly the
largest check given to one man for grain
at one time in the history of the county.
George H. Tilly, night chief of the
Western Union office at Helena, who was
recently appointed by the president as
first lieutenant in the volunteer signal
corps has received his commission. He
expects to receive orders to report to
General Merritt at San Francisco, in
view of the fact that General Merritt is
having difficulty in the filling of the sig
nal corps that is to accompany him to
the Philippines.
Two covered wagons bearing a family
of eight people halted in Miles City the
other day. These people have been trav-
cling since the spring of 1897, having left
Kansas with their wagon train in April
of that year. The elderly grandfather of
the party said he was from Indiana orig
inally. and had emigrated to Kansas in
the early SOS, but gave up agriculture
there after finding out to a certainty that
good crops were five to seven years
apart. which he said was too long an in
terval for profitable farming. The party
wintered on the Rosebud in 1897, and
from there pursued their course west
ward to Idaho, returning to Rosebud last
fall.