The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-15
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the Four New
States and Elsewhere.


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The ministers and rrrs of Seattle
are at present waging war IN tile, slunhs of
that city.
ganizssi AT Seattle, the State Savings bank
Of seattle and the Boston National hank.
DIR. &. f.. Case, az Tacoma. charged with
having caused the death OF Joscpiiine
Harper, has disappeared.
The Portland board of trade has lie
cidetl to do all i'm its power to aid Chicago
i'm securing the worlds fair.
Real estate transfers in seattle for the
year 1Ss9 will exceed the sum of 49,
100000.
Major Powell, of Washington. dircctor
of the geological survey. says that during
September $50 square miles were sur
veycd i'm Montana for irrigation mt the cx-
pense of the
Recently AT u point twelve. miles north
of Davenport, Washington. rich sIec'i-
mems of galcna wer,. discovered which as
sayeSl 81 per cent. al lead and eight
OUNCES i'm silver. This ledge il in lime
stone formation. and has been traced
for 3,.sss feet.
Thcr, H. "a movement ON foot i'm Helena
tn organic IA stock company for the p,r-
pose Of buying control of the Whitlack
Union property, at Unionvillc, and res,ini-
ing operations upon mine and mill. The
Whitlack Union WAS once "a wonderful
gold PRODUCER, and il IL said il sill ~ rich
mine.
The cool and calm reception Of the news
of statehood at Bozeman, shows to some
extent how our people feel over the poiiti-
cal troubles of the past month. Not sin-
gle cheer was heard. Almost everyone
who has commented upon tlc subject,
added that il WAS n shame thai Montana
should come i'm under such circumstances.
-BozrD0n Chronicle.
A Montana man has bought 10000 acres
of the ~. Paul d Duluth land W
Mile Lacs and Duluth, On which lac will
start ~ sheep ranch.
II. A. Bennett. of the Mining & Finan-
cial Trust Syndicate. of London, arrived
in this city yesterday AMI is AZ the CosIno-
poiitan. The same syndicate is repre-
scented in this country 10y Henry Bratuo-
bcr. Mr.. Bennett is one of thc most dis
tinguisliCsl mining experts OF the age, ana
well known throughout the northwest.
having formerly lived at Butte. He il now
returning to- London from u visit to the
United States of Columbia, of whose. rich
mines he gives II graphic description. He
will remain in fi,icIa several days.
Helena Herald.
Charles Bowers. who has been spending
several days with his family i'm Living
ston, returned tai his coal mines near Gin
nibar this morning. MIR. Bowers has had
"a force. uf men sinking ~ slope from the
main entry, and at "a depth of % feet a
three foot vein of excellent coal has been
struck that IL superior for fuel purposes.
IL il mined in large blocks, free from all
impurities, and MIR. Bowers il elated over
this latest discovery. A force of miners
are also at work from the old entry taking
out from thres. tai four carloads weekly for
shipment tai the Helena Gas company
Livingston Enterprise.
The receipts of the industrial exposition
held i'm Portland in October amounted to
x47 900, which il more than S2U,UOO over
expenses. The directors arr. pleased. ~
the result is much more favorable than
they had anticipated, and they are pre-
pairing tai add 10 the capacity of the build
ing and give "a still grander exhibition
next season.
The stables of Marcus Daily, which have
been making the California circuit, are
back in Montana, and are now safely
housed for winter quarters in his splcndid
ranch on the Bitter Root. The lot in
cluded Lord Byron, the great lolo Maid,
and in addition there were two carloads
of fine new stock. During the tour the
Maid met all the cracks of the coast and
none of them made her lay her ears Oh
her neck. Ina fact they did not even push
hard. At the ranch there arc now over
100 head of trotters and oughbre
ranging i'm value from S9i,OO0 tn 500, and
all are in charge of Scott Quinton, who
expects thai many will give good account
of themselves IN tine spring.
just at present the saw mills i'm The Bit
ter Root and on the Blackfoot are rushed
i'm getting out lumber for the Northern
Pacific Railroad about 10000
feet IA day being used i'm the construction
of the Gallatin and Butte and the Elkhorn
and Red Bluff brAnclies.-Missouiidm.
William j. Hunter, Carl kleinschmidt
and T.. T.. CTutcher. as trustees of the
Helena Granite company, filed articles of
incorporation of that company i'm the
Office of secretary Of state Wednesday.
The will buy and sell granite,
granite quarrics, etc. The capital il fixed
at 1OO.OOO
Edward British, n carpenter - years old.
fell from tho roof of the new Presbyterian
church at Tacoma, WASH, last Saturday,
and was fatally injured.
The Tacoma city council has repealed
II O'Clock closing ordinance. which "A week
ago il passed unanimously over the
mayors veto.
The former Mrs. &. Il. Ferry, who was
divorced from her husband a.. Tacoma,
WASH, about two weeks ago and who re-
tired from the scene with 10000 To San
Francisco, suddenly r~eappeared at Ia
coma Saturday and is topping at the
hotel where Mr.. Ferry lives. Her little
boy lis with her. Her sudden return has
created u sensation and all sorts of rumors