The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-16
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Hon. Sol Star has been elected mayor
of Deadwood for n seventh term.
An electric light plant will be in opera.
ton in Philipsburg within three months.
Fargo's new Masonic temple will be
opened with a grand ball m banquet
June 16.
Oliver Dalrymple, the North Dakota
"bonanza" farmer, il seeding $4,000 acres
Vito wheat.
Indictments have peer found against
Drs. Monahan and Weftman for practic-
ing medicine without q state certificate at
Great Falls.
The United States signal ofiice reports
the recent rainstorm general throughout
Montana. embracing an area of more
than a thousand miles in extent.
Harry Fades, comedian of the Oakes'
Comedy company, was knocked down in
Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, the other night and
robbed Of his gold watch and $40 i'm cash.
When he was struck he fell of the side
walk and broke his right ankle. 1t will
be several months before he will be able
to get around on the stage again.
For about q week the Indians have been
whooping II up at Elko, Nevada, in q big
f%andango. Arrayed i'm all the ''pomp and
Vi a nv plaNS hoNS
been patting the benign earth with their
seven by nine moccasins i'm a very diligent
manner. Such is the notion of the Piute
agriculturist Of the requirements of spring
farm work.
The boom dam Of John j. Ellis i'm Sun
river broke on Saturday and let loose
about 1,5OO cords of wood which fioated
into the Missouri river and gently glided
down the stream toward the mighty ocean,.
The Missouri waters are pretty well up
and there is little hope of Mr.. Ellis recov-
ering the wood. The total loss will foot
up about Ss,0OO.-Gfpot Falls Leader.
A. s. Dickey, reported drowned in Lake
Tahoe, Nevada, last year, was lately seen
in Rem and said that he turned the boat
upside down found floating OH the lake
after his disappearance, to create the i'm.
preston that his body was at the lake
bottom. Loss of money at gambling and
lack of courage to face his wife afterward
was given by Dickey as the reason for his
ruse.
Wooasocket, South Dakota, is talking
of a grand celebration on July 4. 1t is
thought that a large number of people
would come from abroad on that day for
the purpose of seeing the big artesian
(gushcr go through her PAGES. In event Of
a celebration being determined upon,
literary exercises, horse racing, base ball
and other amusements will be added to
the programme.
Cleophas Martin, n cattleman living in
the Marias, about II miles below Fort
Benton. has been missing since last week
Thursday and fears are entertained that
he has met with an accident or foul play.
Martin left the ranch last Thursday morn
ing between 8 and . o'clock OH horseback
with Inc avowed intention of going to
Fort Benton and returning the same
evening to help plant some corn and
beans, and has not been heard of since.
There is some talk of having a big jolli-
f~ication at Boise when Idaho is admitted
as a state. in which each and every town
may be represented by its own ~organiza-
ton and assigned a place in the process
sion that may be formed. The Boise
Statesman is heartily in favor of the
scheme. but suggests that plenty of time
be given. If it should come in time, il
might be made n feature of the Fourth Of
July celebration. 1t is likely that large
numbers would attend from The pan-han-
die, and they should have due notice of
an event so important, historic and APP
pealing to the patriotic impulses of every
citizen Of Idaho as the outward express
ion of gladness consequent upon the adj
mission of Idaho into he sisterhood Of
states.