The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-17
NEWS.
fepies q General interest ln ~ Fear usu
States and Elseuheea.

States and Etseuhoee.
Tacoma is 10 bald . hotel 10 eclipse
anything on hsN Northwest Pacific coast.
Victoria, b, C., coutemplases thu ERGO
don Of . sugar refinery and Touring mill.
eeattle will have an clevasor IN hold
$4,000 bushels OF grair by the LIST OF the
New Year.
some children NJ play ~ Porsland Sum
day found . man. ear ON the sidewalk.
No owner has been found for II.
Six Cinnamon b creased this line at
Tia JuAnA have been arrested. They were
well armed and inclined N b ugly.
An the public schools and churches at
Heppner, Oregon, have been ordered
closed on account Of the prevalence Of ~.
phoid fever in that town.
Sixty-two sticks OF giant powder caught
fire and exploded ut Portland Tuesday
and shook the whole city, but nobody was
seriously hurt. The building i'm which the
powder was stored was blown into fras-
ments.
Mrs.. H. w. Hunton, the wife of q we'll
TODD farmer living near Spangle. Wash.
was found dead i'm a smokehouse Monday
morning. A towel was tightly wrapped
around her throat, and the supposition II
that she committed suicide.
reward of 31O,O00 has been offered for
The recovery Of Emil Frank, the Colfax
merchant. who was last seen In Spokane
Falls nearly two months AGO.. The servi-
Cos of an experienced detective have been
secured tn wipe away the mystery.
The Oregon. Pacific railroad track 10
now laid sixty miles east OF Albany, Ore.
One Thousand men are mt work grading
the road towards the summit Only fifteen
miles of unfinished work remain be-
tween the end OF the track and the sum-
init.
The books of City Treasurer Parker, OF
Seattle, which, upon his retirement from
office August 1. were found i'm most inex-
tricable confusion, and showing an APP
parent deficit i'm the funds of $14, 136.46,
have at last been Strengthened out, with
the result that the deficit il now reduced
60 so, 3s9.A7.
The tracklayers on the Washington q
Idaho railroad are now one and a half
miles abouve Osborn, Wash. The grad
ing between Wallace and Mullan IL al
most entirely completed, but few places
remaining to he filled i'm. The bridge
men are working a short distance below
Mulian, and IL nothing happens the road
will he in Muilan ON Christmas lay.
Samuel A. L~innox, n rancher. while on
his way to Olympia, WASH, on Monday
was halted by 1--WE armed men between
that city and Tcnino, who demanded his
money. After dispossessinR him of $3.50
i'm cash and "a gold watch and chain val.
ued at $50, they compelled him to strip
OIL his clothes, which they appropriated,
leaving him To go his way entirely divest.
ed Of clothing.
J.. O'Brien, who lately came into the
valley from Anaconda to spend the win
ter on his ranch OH the east side, met
with a bad accident last Saturday. While
out attending the horses one of them
kicked him on the leg between the knee
and thigh, badly fracturingt the bone. DIR
Sande was called and set the broken
member, and now the patient is doing
6nely.-Inter Lake.
Astoria republicans elected everything
NJ sIA srr.spss,nl ,pptns ~ XVA<us1np
The city's officers for the ensuing yeaI
are: Mayor, NJ. &. Crosby; cuunci;mcn
H. b. Parker and Frederick wickman
chief Of police, w. j. Barry; auditor ana
police judge, i. >. Jewett; city attorney
e.. J. Curtis; city treasurer, j. G.. Hustler
street superintendent. n. Clinton; cit,
surveyor, n. b. Thielsen; harbor master
Phil. Johnson.
A case of second eyesiRht In reported b,
the Dayton (Wash.) Intanier: ''Grandpa
Morris accompanied his SONS, w. A. ant
J.. b. Norris, from Spokane Tuesday
The old gentleman says he will spend TIN
balance of his days i'm Dayton. He Ia d
years OF age, and, we are pleased to learn
In enjoying good health aud also his sec
ond eyesight. He has laid aside hi
glasses and now reads with the makes
eye."
Contracts have been let Tor q thir
bridge across the Willamette river i'm tn
city front at Portland: Including AZ
pTO0Cness ~ va Oc Ss<SV Icet loI1xs utt
will have six spans besides a draw spa
no feet long. The bridge is intended I
bring the Hawthorne avenue and Wood
stock motor lines into the city and viii
have n roadway for vehicles. Work wi
begin mt once, as the draw must he bull
during low water and IL is expected I'll
structure will be completed by June.
The walla Waila Union {
h. Hopkins has sold his system of tels
phone lines in Washington to u syndicat
of gentlemen from San Francisco, ths
the papers have been made out All
signed, and that the property will b
turned over to the purchasers AZ soon q
their company is fully organized and art
cles of Incorporation filed. The sale !
cludes the exchanges at Walla Walla an
Colfax, and the long line telephone froi
here to Spokane Falls, besides the variot
in Whitman county.
The local customs over i'm Prinevill'
Ore, are somewhat peculiar, az the ia
lowing from the Netrs OF that town wi
show: Stealing chickens. turkeys ar
the like, borrowing wood md cover
darkness, milking other peoples cows
the cleaning nj elsewhere, as the ca
may he, ID not according to law, but
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