The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-02
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

About $4,000 has been raised at Olym-
pia for the Northern Pacific subsidy.
The antlers of 80 elk were shipped
from the Columbia river to England last
year.
W. F. Sheard, of Livingston, has re-
ceived from Victoria parties q mammoth
polar bear kin measuring 13E feet from
tip to tip. This Is said to be the largest
bear skin In this section of the country.
The Glendive artesian well Is down s35
feet with the drill in soapstone. At 10
feet water was struck that rose to within
20 feet OF the surface. Contractor Brock
expects to strike the artesian flow as soon
as the present stratum of soapstone is
penetrated.
Over at Olympia a man car be a Meth
odista and join the militia, belong TO the
Odd Fellows. the Masons and the knights
of Pythias, or even run for Office, says
the Spokane Falls Rerieic. But he can
not remain in that good old churc and
march with the Salvation Army band,
The church drawsth the line at that.
The aO-round glove contest between
Frank Shepley, champion lightweight of
Montana, and Paddy Welsh, of Chicago,
took place at Livingston Saturday night
and was won by Shepley in the seventh
round. The fight was for the gate re-
ceipts, which amounted to $3.50. Welsh
entered the ring weighing 151 II Shep-
ley 49,.
A Port Townsend man named Morri-
son, inspired by the morbid fear of the
vengeance of the Masons, swallowed a
poison which he had distilled from to-
bacco leaves and died about ten minutes
later. A few days age he told some that
he had betrayed just N word of a Ma
sonic secret and had ever since been in
mortal dread Of vengeance. The coro-
ner's jury found that he was temporarily
insane.
One day last week, Nathan Hart, a plas-
terer, who has been working about Day
ton, WASH, for some time, eloped with
Eta May Blackmer, daughter of G. w.
Blackmer of Payne Hollow. The couple
took the Union Pacific midnight train for
Persal, /. L. Young Hart worked for
Blackmer all last summer, and il was
then he made the acquaintance of Miss
Eta. The girl was Is years old on the
first day of last month.
The half mile race between Black Tad,
owned by II. o.. kellogg, and Gold Dust,
owned by Bliss and Roberts, both Big
Timber horses, was run at Livingston
Saturday, and for the third time Black
Tad won the laurels. A great deal of
money changed hands and some heavy
bets were made. The stake money was
$1,000, $500 a side. w. NJ. Thompson
backed Black TAD and Dave Kennedy,
both Livingston gentleman, put up the
money for Gold Dust.
] n 1S5s. during the Frazer river excite
meut. the Skagit river was called the Scat
Scat river, and Milton i. Mounts says that
as he assembled it i'm a canoe 20 miles
Mount Baker presented one of the most
sublime sp~ectacles he ever beheld. Its
crater was belching forth fire and smoke,
and the eternal snow extended down from
its summit almost to the foothills which
surrounded it. The adjoining canyons
were rent into chasms and whole forests
swept away by the descent of its rivers of
burning lava.-Gibroifer tWash.D Farmer.
The buffalo bone gathering industry is
assuming large proportions. At Minot,
n. d., was recently organized a company
containing over one hundred families,
mostly breeds, and representing several
hundred wagons for the purpose of gath
ering the bones from that point west as
far as Malta, at which place there are at
present 30 cars side tracked waiting to be
loaded with O upon tons of bones al
ready there. The profit is enormous.
The ruling price is * at Minot, and one
breed with his retinue can maui from one
TO four tons a day.
The Pendleton o, egoHiaR says a W
full, finely-formed Indian. caparisoned in
"A gaudy blanket, beaded belt and mecca
sins. was seen on the streets of that city
recently. He was Chief Wolf, who counts
his ponies by the thousand. and is per-
haps the richest Indian in the United
States to-day. His herds are ranging on
Snake river, where his lodge is located.
He recently visited the White Father nj
Washington tn obtain redress against the
county authorities, who were taxing his
property, and succeeded in his mission.
He is now on his way to visit Chief Ska
milo. nj Cello. Wolf is a remarkable
character and a power among his fellows.
One day last week the constable at Red
Lodge started for Livingston with a horse
thief who had been bound over to await
the action of the grand jury. The Living.
ston Post says on the way over the horse
thief worked into the confidence OF the
constable and was soon on intimate
terms with the official. When the train
was between Big Timber and S~pringdale
the constable, worn out by n long days
ride on the freight train, prepared a bed
on one of the benches and was soor
wrapped in the embrace of Morpheus
As soon as the official was sound ASLEEP
the thief became very communicative,
with the other passengers, got up and
walked around the car, and finally said
~ believe I'll go out and get a drink
He entered the back apartment of the cal
just before the train pulled into Spring
dale. n hen the constable woke uI
fifteen minutes later, the prisoner hat
made his escape. The officer left tho
train at ~Springdale and started out in
search of his man. Tn thief will nroh,