The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-06
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the Four New
States and Elsewhere.

All the Northern Pacific surveying par
ties, which started towards tine Montana
side. have returncd to Wallace for the
winter. Some of them will probably be
ordered up Nine-Nlile. as IL In the inten-
ton to complete this line as far as pos
sible this NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
About two years ago the city council of
Tacoma passed nm ordinance that shade
trees SHOULD bc planted by the city at not
to exceed an expense Of $40 per year.
While Taroma has forests mt her doors,
she has no trees i'm her streets.
Shosionc. Idaho, is i'm the center of the
Snake valley. and IL surrounded with a
million acres of fertile lands. valuable IL
irrigated. There il now a large area of
excellent winter range for stock. and the
future growth of this valley will bc rapid
when the Snake river canals are once
begun.
The Yaquina Repubiicaa says: A subsidy
of from $1OO,OOO Ia $l5O,OOO can he raised
along the proposed line of railroad from
Newport tn Salem without much trouble.
We believe that the Southern Pacific con-
pany could be induced tn tax hold at this
project for tho above subsidy. IL would
give them u valuable outlet to the coast.
The Hood River Glacier says: The
Dalies IN threatened with ~ wood famine,
owing Ia tire inipossibility tai get boats To
haul the supply. Soft wool is selling at
$3.50 per cord. and ID mot plentiful at that.
1t might he a good plan for some of our
wOfu ue0lefS I'd WISH tine Daii'S us
arrange for supplying the local dealers
there.
Last week the rains raised many Of the
streams tributary to tho Rogue river tai n
higher level than they attained all last
winter, and the river itself enjoyed much
of u boom. The rise did considerable
damage tai the mill enterprise of +. ii.
Rowe. of Tolo, carrying out n large por-
ton of the dam and causing the loss OF
many logs.
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man h works at the business of looking
for timber claims for purchasers, while
out cruising last Tuesday. found the skelc-
ton of ~ man lying beside u log near
the hank of the north fork of the Stella
| guanlish river, where IL runs through
township 81. range q east, about d5 miles
east of Tacoma. Two other men were
with Jones at the time. Ii In believed that
the skeleton WAS that OF one OF
the three men who were lost in
the woods last summer or who went ont
to look for claims and were never heard
of after.
The Elmore idaho, Bulletin says that
owing to the small expense attached t.
the holding of the district court last sum
mcr and the economic manner in whici
the s'county dads" have conducted Elmors
affairs. she will. during the next January
not only pay every outstanding warrant
but will have u surplus of $1,000 ar niors
remaining i'm the hands OF the county
treasurer. Owing to this fact and i'm ac
cordance with law. the county commits
sioiiers raised the county treasurcr's bono
to $25,OOO. whcreupon he, thinking the ac
n personal drive at him, resigned.
Samuel Sterling. an old and well-kssow,
miner i'm Southern Fregon, has str,cl
rich placer mines OH the headquarters q
the Coquille. He reports having alss
found a. very rich quartz ledge i'm TIN
same vicinity. The new discoveries late
ly made by Mr.. Sterling are near tine ole
.Johnson Digxings." at one time famOu
i'm u political squabble in Oregon, and 10
Gated near the adjoining corners of Coos
Curry, Douglas and Josephine counties
Mr.. Sterling will he r~emcmbered as TIN
tiscovercr of the Sterling mines i'm Jack
son county. away back i'm the '6Os. Tn
new mines can he reached by wago
road Ia Myrtle Point, from which plac
there is only a trail.
4 = The Jacksonville Democratic Times say
) that District Attorney Hamilton OF tn
Second district writes Governor ennoy
l that il is his purpose to prosecute In
; fractions of the law against ~preventin
: the free ascent of salmon up the stream
: of this state. At Rogue river the law
most conspicuously and d~eiiantly set /,
naught by one, too, who sets up the ins'
lent claim that he owns Rogue river AN
the fishes that inhabit il. An c~xcl,anr
says that II. ID. Hume, the party I'm que.
ton, clears S5O.OOO annually from his fisl
ing operations at the mouth of Rogt
1 river, and invests all his surplus accuIn'
n lattOts III permanent improvements
California.
q 1t is said that the w~oodchoppers alor
a Milk river have been forbidden to cut Il
v fire-killed and dead timber on COVER
mcnt land. IL this is SO il is AN outras
e OH settlers and others needing fus
q What use can this dead timber be put
! unless il il cut and consumed now? In
q short time il will be worthless for fuel
n anything else. The rulinQlf OF some
.. these eastern officials make an ordina
II western man tired-vcry tired. One M
urally comes to the conclusion, after .
viewing the action of some of these oi
cial upstairs, that they have not enoui
good common horse sense to last the
~ over niRht.-Rirer Press.
Real estate i'm Great Falls In movin
Many thousand dollars worth of proper
" has changed hands within the last Il
weeks. Among the recent sales In that
Z. q block of land i'm the Black Eagle Fla
- addition. One half of this was sold
~ Julius Horst for $4,000. The other hi
was sold to y Minneapolis gentleman
n nearly the same figures. The block
finely situated, overlooking tbs, town, a
pr i'm point OF view IL cannot bs surpassed
III Great Falls Leader.
A Regular Course.
Prom Judge.