The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-30
NORTHWEST NEWS.
fepies Of General Interest in the -Four New
States and Elsewhere.

Dso~AS 49,
Pickss.
Cattle on Crooked river are suffering.
not only from want of food, but from want
OF water. The river h frosen over. and
there is not q single place where animals
ran get n drink.
C. N. Lounsberry, the postal clerk who
was injured i'm the railroad wreck at Crys-
tai Spring., Dakota, last May, has settled
with the Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany by $s,OOD IN mi Tor all
damages claimed.
The useful, plucky stuff of which WASH
inRton damsels are made In shown by the
item from the Aberdeen Herald: Miss
Essie Cullen OF the Herald Office who has
been out in the woods looking for a loca-
ton for a presumption claim, il hack again
setting type.
Il In not expected that work will begin
on the OREGON Pacific i'm the Cascades be-
fore the middle of April next. II it does
not, says the Ochoco Reviesc, the railroad
get across the mountain in time to haul
next season's crop of wool.
Rev. j. r.. Kirkpatrick, who preached
some time i'm Eugene about two years ago,
is building q $4,000 Cumberland Presby-
terrain church i'm Seattle. He had raised
$1,000 Of the amount needed at last ac-
counts. He il the father of the editor of
the Lebanon Erprexs.
X. G. Sanford of Five Mile creek, Was
20 county, O,e., while digging a well,
started a blast with u two-foot fuse. The
explosion took place when he was within
IL feet Of the surface, and the conclusion
raised him about six feet and let MIN fall
very suddenly. He was badly scared
when hauled out and as pale az a ghost.
II IL well to have n good length of fuse
when one is escaping from "a blast i'm u
deep hole.
Half n dozen women made "A begging
tour through the bay cities of whatcom
county, wash., last week. They were all
middle-aged and buxom looking, and
each carried 10 wheezy baby and little
hook containing their narrowing tale of
woe printed i'm four languages. The books
were well thumbed as though they had
often told their story. BeRRary is becom-
ing - prosperous enterprise on Pugc
sound.-OfegoHion.
Paul Mccormick has just returned from
his herd and reports All inch of SNOW on
his range and stock doing nicely. En-
met Mccormick, foreman of the -. was
down yesterday and says the company
won't lose n COW this winter. X. Grant,
foreman of the & A. was also i'm from his
ranch yesterday. He too brings good re-
ports of the range and stock. An inch of
SHOW up his way and cattle all fat.-iet-
iOcStOae journal.
A { a revival meeting in Ro-cburg. Ore,
"a speaker stated that "a man was dying
at Canlas valley not long since. There
was no doctor there, and no doctor al
Roseburg would go to administer to him
because the man had no money: hut God
i'm his infinite love for man t. save him
from "A burning hell. sent his only beRot.
ten son To suffer and die for man-sinful
rpbellious man." This. says the Eugene
.Jon'nct made a good showing for the LORD
hut il was 4, bad one. for the doctors al
sosebnrg.
The Judith valley correspondent of TIM
Fergus County Argus may or ma! mot he
one of the lasses alluded tn, hut at any
rate this is what appears i'm last week,
cor~respontence 1.-THE recent colo
weather and the possibility of more te
come has put our m~arriageablc men
young and old, to the thinking Of Thought.
of the same class and style. II is mos
humiliating to Montana. and especial!
TO Fergus county. that they should Civ,
the Ro-by to our bunch grass lassies ans
seek those with ills and habits they know
not of. Aid has been invoked of a Ger
tain matrimonial sheet published IL
Chicago, and "a score or more of ON
bachelors are blIsily engaged daily il
the letters of amorous maid
who are willing tn become wives to MOI
iana's cattle kings"
Lafayette Hensley of Castle, arrived il
the city yesterday from that camp. III
reports activity among the m~ine-owner
of the district, considerable development
work being done upon "a large number a
the mines, Mr.. H iisley is one of tn
members OF the firm, OF Hcnsley Bros.
Rhoads, who formerly owned the yellow
stone mine and smelter that waes tran,
ferred to "a stock company. u portion q
the stock OF which was placed upon til
market recently and has nearly all bee
readily disposed of. The Yellowstone
one of the best developed and richie.
properties at Castle, and judging 10y til
large returns from the two months ri
On the Cumberland last year the shar'
holders are assured of renunerative n
turns upon their observation-disclosures
Enterprise.
Conductor Dowd of the Manitoba m,
with an accident yesterday at this plas
by which he nearly lost his life, and h
condition is still u precarious one. VIII
assisting i'm coupling the NJ. C.. baRRas
car to his train. being between the ca
adjusting tho air connection, the engine,
backed mp. catching Dowd
head bctwesn the cars and to some xteI
crushing it. The injured man was at ons
taken to his room at the Park hotel. an
he has since been delerious. The full q
tent of his injuries is not known. but Il
attending physician thinks that his 60
dition is not alarming. Conductor Dow
has been running a passenger train {
his division for over "a year and is We
known and liked here. The wonder
that he was not instantly killed.-G'e
Fails Tribune.