The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-11
NORTHWEST NEWS.
fepies Il General Interest IN Tie Fear New
States aDd Elsewhere.

ID. J. Plume has hsen appointed post
master mt Ashley, Missoula county. vice
w. z. Daglest. weighed.
The name of David p. Richardson of
White sulphur Springs. Montana. has
been restored 20 the pension roll with an
increase Of amOun
An officer high i'm army Circles u
hat an u solution OF the Indian question,
the rcd man be enlisted ian the regular
army. He says that they make good
soldiers. hut very poor armers The
American army has found the former IN
be . serious fact. while the interior de-
partment has made almost an utter fail
ure at converting thesn into farsners.-
O~y~0oaiam.
A CAUCUS committee of the senate has
dlscides upon assignments for the Dakota
senators ns follows: MIR. Moody IL made
chairman of the committee IN Indian
depreciation claims and IL assigned tn a
place ON the COMMITTEES on mines and
mining. Mr.. Pettigrew gets n place ON
the committee ON dial affairs and rail-
roads. Mr.. Pierce on territories aud Mr..
Casey on railroads.. The latter senators
will also have places an several minor
committees.
n. windeu. of Miner county, =. d.. ~ i'm
southern Oregon, representing n large
colony OF farmers who ARE contemplating
u removal from the blizzard belt To ~ bet
ter climate. The gentleman has been on
an Investigating tour for some time, bat
has thus far failed to find the Gland he
loved by heaven DER all the world heside,"
until coming to this %ountry He will
make his report tn tine farmers composing
the colony, and will settle i'm this section
himself, regardless of their movements.
Ii il highly probable they will I've tempted
to follow his example.
Last week the Silverton Appeal made
mention that G.. A.. Webb had shipped "a
forty-tllree pound cabbage to the lmnli-
grafton board at Portland.i i'm which he was
too fast for ON the night previous tai it's
intended departure. u town cow twho
knows u good article of vegetable when
she sees i) broke into the crate and ate
up the big cabbage, all but the core. much
to the chaGrin of the owner. IL was locally
supposed To he the largest cabbage ever
grown in ancient or modern times, Gin
cinnatus truck patch not excepted. Now
not even q photograph of IL remains.
by direction OF the secretary of war,
FIRST Lieutenant Daniel n. Boughton of
the Third cavalry will start from Fort
Keogh tn Fort supply. Indian Territory,
under special Instructions given i'm con-
nection with the establishment of cam
teens. inbred viko of the hospital corps
now mt Fort Yates. n. d.. is transferred
to Fort Shaw and will he sent To that post.
reporting upon his arrival to- the conn
handing officer for duty. Eugene ID.
Hatch of the hospital corps, now on duty
at Fort Missoula, is detailed AS acting
hospital steward and will Inc sent tai Fort
Meade, South Dakota.
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of wcevil i'm grain. Recent discoveries Of
the pest have set warehouse men i'm "a
furry. and all are examining, and in
most cases find the insects at home. The
Oregon Milling company is at work night
and day running wheat through the
cleaner. and calculate that il will take
them Is days To complete the job. wecvil
is communicated 10y damp which heats
the dry grain and matches the weevil,
which il supposed to have been stuna
into the grain before il is harvested. Al
least, the above il the theory of an ex-
pericnced warehouse man at Silverton.
The Sand Coulcc Coal In now
finding the demand ON its output much
greater than ever before. and although
they produce from 1000 to LOO toms dali,
they cannot keep fully up with the orders
Besides furnishing coal for the Montana
Central railroad and nearly the entire sys
tenn of the Manitoba, the local dlemans
has Increased many fold. They suppl.
the Montana smelling works, the Boston
and Montana and Parrot at Butte, ant
now comes The Anaconda with N standin,
! order for 25O tons Of lump coal every day
The result will he an Increased force ant
, output at Sand Corlee. Superintendent
{ BurriIl says that IL the will Civ
hin the mcn and cars he stands ready &
MI all the orders that can pour in an him
-Grruf Fails Louder.
. A Washington dispatch says: Montan
il coming into the Union handicapped a
the capital. The nuldle there, whic
= leaves tbat uew stnte WIFI 10 retresf'ntt
tivcs ON the floor Of the senate. and In
only one which Is unrepresented, KEEP
her from "a part of her just deserts, whic
she would get IL her senators were here
This, at any rate, IL the experience of ~,
. merous senators. The subject is discusse
!, at the meetings of the special committe
which il re~arranging the makeup of I'll
v new senate committees SO that the ne
i states may bc given places. In maxim
up the committee s the desires of the ne
y men themselves are taken into account q
y much as possible. Senatorial courtes
calls for this. and i'm the selection for tf
places, the senators who are here to loo
after their own interests naturally get IL
}. preference. Further than this. Montan
x is losing N certain prominence that come
2 to the new states from the appearance l.
~ Rether of the representatives from
many new states.
n Judge Heath, an old pioneer of Idah
" who has passed his years Of three scod
and ten, left Rocky Bar for Atlanta a
SHOW shoes, Notwithstanding tile prote
tations Of his friends. who feared that h
strength might fail him. The SNOW W,
deep and the Judge made poor headwa
- Failing tn reach the Summit hous. M
!, losing he trail, he wandered all mig
through the heavy timber, finding the trs