The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-23
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the -Four
+ New States and Elsewhere.
MONTANA.

Six acres Of land adjoining Bozeman
was sold the other day for 5000.
A strike at the GOAL mines at Horr Is re-
ported at Livingston. About seventy-flve
men are out and serious trouble Is threat
ened.
The Billings Gazette states that the
wool clip Of the Barry sheep purchased
by W. W. Beasley averaged nine pounds
per head.
Mayor Pease procured a bushel of Gal
latin valley barley on Thursday and
shipped it to EmiRrant Agent Groat, OF
he Northern Pacific. This he did in an
Bwer to a request from Mr.. Groat for n
small sample. II appears that a New
York company is preparing to reclaim by
ditch a large area of land in this valley
for the purpose OF barley raising, to be
followed by the erection of a large malt
(ng establishment at this city. Samples
pf Gallatin are difficult to secure and Mr..
Groat will have q supply on hand to meet
he present inquiries at least.-Bose-
|ndn Chronicle.
Saturday morning George Reeder COM
United suicide at the ranch of George
Allen, seven miles south of Livingston,
by bowling the top of his head of with a
tio kubs lhttsNA "h' &"
single man As years OF age and an old
inner in Montana. He was n wagon
maker by trade but earned his living
mainly by hunting. He was highly re-
spected by all who knew him and his
friends are at a loss for a reason for his
self-destruction. Ii was doubtless tempo
rarv insanity, however, brought oil by
physical ailment. He will be buried by
The local camp of the Grand Army, of
which lac was a member.
We noted the fact some days g that
Mr.. NJ. $. Holderbaum had purchased
Charles 5. Gibson's fiat BOA with irrigat-
ng water wheel attached. Mr.. II. now
has the wheel in operation at his ranch
n the Missouri valley four miles below
Fort Benton. The wheel is supported by
he fiat boat, which is anchored to The
shore. The motive power which drives
he wheel is the current of the mighty
Missouri river. The water is raised i'm
buckets attached to the rim of the wheel,
md is dumped into an elevated fiume
Which carries il inland to a ditch cover
ng the ground to be irrigated. The
wheel is only about ~twenty-four or twenty
light feet in diameter, with paddles about
fixteen feet long by two feet wide. Ii
runs night and day and keeps los miners
inches of water flowing in the ditch all
he time when working. The flat boat
md wheel can be easily drawn ashore
whenever the season is over and kept
safely in winter quarters, ready for use
when again needed.-BentoH Press.
Minneapolis special: When the North
Prn Pacific train from the north pulled
nto the union depot three hour late yes
erday afternoon a bronzed and bearded
nan rushed of and wanted to see the DO
ice. He gave his name as Hugh Boswell
md is a cattleman from Missoula, Mont.
He claimed TO have been ''sharked" out
bf $40 OH the train just before coming i'm
his city. He told his story i'm a very few
words and with many gestures and seemed
half Unable to realize il himself, drawing
roll of bills from his clothes and rum
ling over them wistfully ard hurriedly,
Ind then searching his other pockets i'm
ain. Ii was simply IA case OF the 'short
|hange racket" or flim-fiamming. He
bad been approached by the two usual
mooth-looking men with a laundering for
large bills or gold in exchange for small
bills" The cattleman was easily worked
Ind did not discover how he had beer
windled until reaching here. 1t is sup
posed that the two men left the train at
Anoka. Boswell was on his way to
Dmaha, and left for st. Paul, where he
eported the matter at the Offices Of the
Spvnnany