The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-14
NORTHWEST NEWS.


Dayton, Washington, has closed . Rom
supplied with an electric light plant
with an eight-horse power en9ipe.
The Southern Pacific has 1,A0O toms OF
steel rails en- route 10 Astoria from Al
lantlc posts. These will replace the re-
manning twenty-five miles OF iron be
tween Portland and Ashland.
The Livingston county commissiouers
hAve selected . site for thu new court
house on the north side Of the railroad
track At Livingston and instructed tbs
county attorney 70 secure the transfe
and report NJ the ne1s meeting OF the
hoard.
Several idle men Of Livingston have re-
ceived letters signed 3-7-77, notifying
them. by the authority of the executive
committe to leave the town within -
bound to act according 10 the laws OF the
order. Nobody seems to be very much
frightened, however, and no attention will
probably be paid to the threats.
There is JOY i'm Yakima valley. The
Herald says: The hills are covered with
snow and the valleys soaked with rain.
Already the Yakima country has received
more moisture than during the whole OF
last winter. The farmers are jubilant,
and putting I'm every at the pillow,
much new ground being broken. The
coming year promises much prosperity for
Yakima.
:: Three tramps confined in the city Jail
At Albany, made an unsuccessful att empt
10 escape Sunday evening. They cut n
hole i'm the door near the lock. but were
unable to get the door open. They were
not up with the times, says the Herald, or
they would have kicked the gable end out
of the shanty and crawled out, as several
have done before. II might he added
that Albany needs n new city Jail.
News reaches ms from a reliable source
A. NE b. III -
built by the present proprietors of the
Dora, which will lay in the shade the ele-
Rantly fitted Tom Carter. The building
site. we understand, has already been Sc
lected, the lumber contracted for, and the
boat To he ready for business by the time
navigation opens up i'm he spring. We
are glad to see that our country Ia coming
60 the front. This will make four steam
ers on our lake.-Infer Lake.
Tacoma has an extra lot OF Jail cells on
it's hands. Some time ago the county
commissioner gave a contract to Moler,
Bukman & Co., Of Cincinnati, for extra
cells for the Jail. They were TO he de
livered at Tacoma i'm q certain time, hut
they did not arrive and u duplicate order
was given to the Pauly Jail works, OF st.
Louis. The cells ordered from the Gin
cinnati house have at last turned up, and
the city will likely have n surplus of Jail
cells and a law suit.
NJ. M. Russell, who sojourned i'm this
city several months during the past sea-
son, was arrested Mt Boxeman Sunday on
q charge Of grand larceny and brought to
Livingston. On Monday evening he was
arraiRned before Justice Hosford, waived
examination and was held i'm $4,000 bonds
for his appearance at the next term OF the
district court. I'm default OF bail he was
taken to Jail. His alleged offense is the
taking of goods from the basement OF the
Albemarle drug store, belonging to &. w.
Savage and &. T. Peterson.-Lirin0ston
Enterprise.
Mrs. Emma Palsky, who has . milk
ranch just outside Stockton. CAL, and her
son Allie, aged IS, Tuesday morning ia
tally shot Robert Kennedy. from whom
the premises were leased. Kennedy has
made a statement hat he had an alterca-
ton with Mrs. Palsky when the latter
drew n revolver and commenced shoot
ing. He threw q pitchfork Mt her but
missed her. Her first shot took effect i'm
the groin, passing into the intestines.
When she had emptied the revolver she
gave il to her son telling him to reload il
and shoot Kennedy. Kannedy walked tn
his own house, not far away, and wa fol-
lowed by the boy, who shot him in the ear.
The man cannot recover. Both mother
and son are under arrest. Mrs. Palsky
says Kenndy attack her first with a pitch
fork, when she drew the revolver in self
defense and It went of accidentally.