The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19
NEWS.
fepics Of General Interest In the Feur New
States and Elsewhere.

Major J. r. Hayden, receives Of b
Seattle land office appointed ny the pre-
sent administration has resigned and h
Washington senators have q large num-
bsr of applications for the place.
Senator Squire has presented Seattle
with . handsome nag. bearing the a.
stars. II was first unfurled mt half-mass
out OF respect tn the IN ut Dr.
Minor. G. Morris Hallcr and Louis Cox.
A new land district has been proposed
In Washington, to be composed OF Slhe-
halls. Thurston, Mason, Lewis and Pierce
counties. The bill has not been drawn
hut alrx ady there are candidates galore
for the two offices.
Piutarch Lewis, the young man arrested
in California ON n charge OF holding up n
ident of Corvallis nearly all his life. and
In n barber. He strongly protests his in
nocence and declares his ability to prove IL.
The Rocky Mountai Sheep company
has been Incorporated with n capital of
$4,000. divided into ESQ shares Of 500 each.
The trustees are Charles $. Gibson and
Alexandc e. Johnson, of Choteau county.
and Joseph L. Townsend, of Lewis and
Clarke county.
The pesky little wevil is said to bc get
ting i'm it's destructive work on wheat
stored i'm various warehouses throughout
Pelk county. Ore, says the Observer. Yer
ity. the average warchouseman Is engaged
i'm n big game OF chance-a chance for
him to come out several thousands of
bushc of grain short through wcevii.
shrinkage, etc.
An old Oregon pioneer. now residing i'm
Pendleton, tells of a curious relic which
which was discovered i'm 1851, and may
still he seen. at n point near Grants Pass,
in the Rogue river valley. Ii is n cast-iron
wheel, weighing possibly $50 pounds.
which is lying underneath "a tree, enclosed
by "a dense growth of vegetation. How IL
came there is not known.
Representative Wilson has applied at
the post -ofiie department to have the
post offices of Cheney, PaioIse, Puyallup,
Snohomish and Whatcorn made prcsiden-
tial offices and expects favorable action.
Representative Wilson has also asked
the governor of Washington to take some
action looking tn the placing OF u tablet
from that state i'm the Washington monu-
ment.
The bill introduced by Senator Mitchell
OF Washington restricting immigration
compels every person visiting our shores
tn have a passport i'm English, such AS is
required OF travellers by foreign monarchs
The adoption of the certificate or passport
plan Of Senator Mitchell will exclude all
political end from the United States,
and all persons not i'm favor with the home
government.
A son was born at Providence, Rhode
Island, n few days ago to- the wife of Hon.
John II. Conrad, OF Billings. Montana.
The arrival of the little stranger delayed
the action OF the supreme court OF Rhode
Island in settling "a Will case, which the
widow OF d. h. Barnaby had agreed to set
tie with the other IlvlnR neirs. Inc set
tlernent was Deferred unti the hoy could
he named I'm the adjustment papers as
one OF the heirs.-Rarer Press.
One who claims to have been an inmate
Of the Stcilacoom. WASH, asylum writes
the Oregoniaa regarding mistreatmcnt OF
patients there. He alleges that the keep
ers are cruel, that the food given the pa
tients is often unfit tocat, that he has seen
patients pulled around by the hair of the
head and often sent to bed with no supper.
s"1f the trustees doubt this" says the
writer, ''lct them GO there and play patient
awhile" Has not Washington some
"Nelly Bly, who will investigate these
charges and let the world know the truth /?
| Levi Buchner is i'm iail at Albany, Ore,
| To await the action of TIN. grand Jury ON n
| charge of larceny by bailce. Buchucr.
| who bears an unenviablc reputation. had
| taken ~ head OF cattle To pasture. They
were owned nv J.. ID. Hyatt x Son and
| William n. HYATT of Mchnm,- R,chn.r
who sale for some time under an alias
of Frank raylor and was fined Saoo i'm the
| circui, court OF Linn county for bjuamy.
sold and butcher,d 10 of the 4, head. The
rest Of them have. b,.en rccovcrcI-AL
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