The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-24
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and ESS::sars.


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NOT convict for calf stealing.
The citizens Of Dillon nave subscribed
$500 toward n Fourth of July celebration.
Company E, NJ. n. G., will fx up a
range at Dillon and have regular target
practice this summer.
One hundred and forty-five thousand
pounds OF wool have been received at b
Great Falls warehouse.
A fine lot of oyster shells were AIKEN
out of the Rocky Fork coal mines last
week that look as natural as though just
taken out of the ocean.
Two Montanians, Dennis Shay, a Mis-
souri, river valley ranchman, and John
Shay. a Silver Bow miner. are said to he
the two sought-for heirs Of the late John
Shay Of st. Paul. The estate to be shared
is said to be worth a quarter Of q million
of dollars.
Mrs. E.. NJ. Eeselstyn, Of Blue Earth
City, Minnesota, read of the Indian farce
in Custer county, this state, and wrote to
her son, a young man who is coal inspec-
tor at Red Lodge, to come home at once
as the Indians would murder him. II the
lady only knew what q huge joke all this
Indian scare was she would he most woe
fully humiliated.-Pickef
Birch Creek correspondence 10 the Dill
Ion Tribune. The writer is in receipt OF
apparently credible information to the
effect that n large number of Beaverhead
county horses were stolen from their
ranges i'm 1883, and cached i'm the noun
tains near Big Hole Basin, while the
thieves collected from the different herds.
1t is claimed these horses were driven into
Idaho. The matter will be thoroughly in
~vestigated.
Scout Roench Of Fort Shaw has been
there looking after the Cree Indians who
are loafing around this vicinity. He vent
from here to the head of Dupuyer creek
where complaints have come regarding
these renegades frightening the settlers
families. This may be u~nintentional ON
the part of the Indians but it's tough on
The white woman and children TO be
scared out of their wits every time the
husband and father leaves home for a few
hours.-Monfdnidn.
The Modisonian says last Sunday Judge
J. II. Davis united i'm marriage Mr.Joseph
Spray and Mrs. j. A. Marsh, both of vir-
ginia City. The magistrate cut the cere-
mony a little too short to suit the bride,
who insisted that there should he more of
to make il binding. and said that she
had gone through the operation twice be-
fore, and each time the ceremony had
been concluded with prayer. Judge Davis.
not wishing TO turn the job over in an I'M
satisfactory shape, piously closed his
eyes, bowed his head, and delivered a
short and fervent prayer, concluding " it'll
he benediction: "May God have mercy
bn your souls"
Dan Dutro's family was visited by sew
eral drunken Indians at his bench-land
ranch. near Fort Benton, a day or two
hgo, says the Press. One Of them had two
bottles of whisky, from which he fire.
luently drank, but probably owing to the
presence of a male neighbor he mad no
~riolent demonstrations. There is a Sc
vere penalty for selling whisky to Indians
Ind the first man caught in the nefarious
practice should he made to suffer for Il
10 the fullest extent. A drunken Indian
S more to be feared than the most savage
bf wild brutes, and the man who places
whisky in his hands is an accessory be-
fore the fact of any and every crime the
Indian may commit while under the influ.
fnce of the liquor.
Few of The once common incidents OF
lie in the wild and woolly west find their
Way into print now a days as curren,
lews, but the Big Horn Basin recent,
Furnished a racy item. The Billing.
~iosette says the Bonanza postoiflce has
hot been conducted with due regard to the
btrict rules and red tape observance as
Laid down i'm the book of department reg
kiations for some time and it IL now with.
but a head. Alonzo Taylor was the boss
knd William T.. Taylor his assistant. Al
knzo was lately arrested for cattle steal
hg, and being liberated on his own recog
kizance. skipped the flat. William ha,
been jailed for various irregularities, the
kriucipal charge being detention of let
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