The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-04
NORTHWEST NEWS.
fepies Of General Interest in the -Four neH
States and Elsewhere.

Portland, Oregon, 10 suffering from q
famine in postage stamps. Because ut
the snew blockades over eastern roads
entering hat city. no stamps have
reached the Portland postoffice I'm 10 days.
We learn that Recorier Howard Crosby
has four extra men employed In his office
working night and day recording deeds
which the people Of Cascade county are
sending i'm. Over three-fourths OF h
deeds to realty i'm The county were unre-
corded prior to January I, 1850. Realty
owners should attend to this matter, as
good abstracts OF titles are requisite tn the
profitable transfer of property.-S.n Rirer
Rising San.
on his placer claim On the East Fork, says
the Emigrant 4ulch correspondent OF the
Livingstone Enterprise, as soon rs the sea-
son opens, with a crew OF men. His
claim extends up the bed OF the creek n
distance of 1900 feet. A tunnel was
drifted OH the ground last season GO feet,
when the workmen were compelled to
stop on account of foul air. The proprie-
tor will either put i'm n pump to supply the
mine with fresh air or sink a shaft from
the surface to the tunnel. This ground is
very rich, paying from 10 to Is cents to
the pan.
Monday VIM. Divine was mp before
Judge Benton at Great Falls for selling
liquor on election day, and was fined $s5
and costs. Because of Divine's arrest and
conviction, friends of his reported others
to the grand jury as having sold liquor on
said day. One Of these parties went scott
free. but the third, and by the way. a judge
of election, was indicted and will he tried
Tomorrow. On this trial nearly. half the
town has been s-ubpeonaed as witnesses
for the state. None have been called for
by the defense the state witnesses being
sufficient to quiet the testimony of the
complaining witnesses.|Sun RireF Rising
Sun.
Gus Senieur has returned from n busi-
ness trip to the PieGan agency and the
Teton country, says the Fort Benton
Rirer Press. He reports that the people
of those parts have fully recovered from
the ravages of La grippe and are now all
agog with the railroad fever. II was his
first trip through that region and he ex-
pressed his surprise at the large number
of well improved ranches, the thriving
towns, the vast herds of cattle and sheep
and the many evidences of wealth and
civilization. The town Of Choteau espec-
tally, with it's energetic and enterprisina
citizens, was a revelation to him.. The
and satisfied with their new agent, Major
Catlin.
The In grippe has finally found il.
way into the Crow tribe of Indians, ana
the treatment the disease Is receiving al
the hands of the afflicted is not out of the
usual run which all ills are treated upon q
visitation to Indian camps. The heating
rock process i'm a tepee. followed by q
sweat by the afflicted, and then n bath in
some stream near by il invariably the
custom in this case of illness. 1t la,
come to the Gal ette's notice that severa
deaths nave occurred by following on
this treatment to cure the Russian malady
and unless the Indians heed the advice
given them by white Interpreters to omi
the swim part of the programme in an ic
cold stream there will he many NOR
crows pass on To the happy huntin,
grounds by the L Grippe route" Par
ties accustomed to being among the In
dams every day OH their reserve state tina
it il almost impossible to convince the In
dians that the bath when afflicted with tn
disease Is dangerous and liable to lead I
death.
The following table,, compiled from tn
report of Superintendent of Public II
struction Cannon, will he of interest a
showing the population of Montana TX
tween the ages of 4 and p years, divide
br 1olluties as Follows: