The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-08
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the Four New
States and Elsewhere.

Of bullion, containing Ss.67s ounces fine
silver and 49, ounces fine gold.
Roscsialc reef. on which the Idaho was
wrecked, received it's name from the loss
of the e%nigrant ship Roscdalc, which was
coming In from England when she struck
there la 1S62.
ur. A. w. Burg, sentenced from UUa-
tilla county, was released from the pcni-
Tertiary Tuesday, his two-ycar term for
blackmail having expired. He was in
prison over twenty months.
About 100 acres of coal lands have
been filed ON within the last ninety days
on the Cow litz river, i'm the eastern end of
Lewis and the western part of Yakima
counties. says the Ccntralia N'rs.
d. Cook county exchanges deny the re-
port that eastern Oregon sheep rs.isers are
dispensing of their fiocks i'm large numbers.
The Rerienr ss.ys 10 few sheep have bs.en
sold that were. driven out Of the country.
The Seattle Press is organizing an effort
to explore the region enclosed
10y the Olympic mountains, north OF
Gray's harbor, and roposes That the gov
IN give each member of the cx-
piorinH party IA section Of the land discov-
cred.
A town has been plated on tho west
side of the Willamette river from Salem.
to- he known as West Salem. and u
strong effort will In made tn make il Polk
county's capital. There will he big i'm
s~ius..ncuts offered aud sonlc stout rust
ling done tn accomplish that end.
Harper, h killed Ed. Jones at Lexing-
ton, Ore, is now in Jail at Heppncr. He
will probably die. He is suffering greatly
from the wounds received i'm his heating
by the Jones brothers., and il hardly able
To talk. Public opinion IL favorable tn
Harper. and the general verdict appears
to bc that lc committed the deed in self
defense.
The Oclioco. Ore, Reriec is responsible
for the following: "A few weeks ago Mrs.
Phillips gave birth to "a girl baby with five
fingers on each hand. An extra finger
was attached to- each OF the little or last
fingers, and they were perfect i'm form.
Last week DIR. Belknap removed the extra
fingers and line little girl is getting along
nicely
Three large rooms at No. 1:ssi + street,
Washington, n block from the treasury
building, have been elegantly fitted up
aud are tn la kept open for the entertain
nent of visitors from the Northwest from
this time on. The delegations from Nortl,
and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon are backing the
enterprise.
Louis Tarplcy Of Salem, who was re-
Gently appointed United States commits
sioncr for Ounalaska, received his conn
mission Sunday, and is ordered to report
at Ounalaska as soon as he can get there.
He will leave for the North about March
I, going 10y the way of san Francisco,
from which port vessels start for the Aleu-
tian islands about that time.
Thomas h. Mills. gcd 30, an old pio-
neer of Grant county. Or, WAS killed near
his home IN that county by Andrews Han
son. IA sheep her,lcr. Mills had been tn
Prairie City. where he got drunk, and go
ing home fell into IA ditch. Hanson, conn
ing along. thought him ~ wild animal and
shot him several times with u Wincllcstcr
rifle before discovering his mistake.
Train men ON the Spokane branch tell
IN ~. tSsx nm IN naxn IA tusisafl fstapalsa
mailing from Colfax. They were OH their
bridal tour, and at Garfield the bride
groom left the train and went down town.
When he returned the train had gone and
with il his sweetheart. She was carried
tn Spokane Falls, and ut last accounts
the young usban WAS chasing after his
lost wife.
The present session OF the Washington
legislature promises to be an unusually
long one. and will certainly prove tai be n
great expense tai the new state. The
Aberdeen Herald says: "No disposition
is ma Infested by either of the parties to
shut down ON the amount of gahblc
usually INDUCED in by lawmakers, at the
expense. of their constituency and for very
little value received"
Tho brownsville Times has great hopes
for the future and says: "Let Lebanon
have her paper mill and Albany her ma
chine shops. III our mines above here are
Developed. which seems very ~probablc,
we will Ia no longer u little hamlet in tho
foothills, hut "a great city of wealth and
influence. MIR. Harnctt says Brownsville
has good prospects tn bc a city of 1000 in
habitants inside of five years"
Senator Pierce of North Dakota. had no
more than got settled i'm his seat after be-
ing sworn in before he began introducing
bills. One provides ror the appropriation
of $l5,ODo tn reimburse the state of North
Dakota for expenses i'm holding n consti.
tutionai convention. This amount is in