The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-19
NORTHWEST NEWS.
fsIes Il General Interest In The Fear Nee
SGatss and Elsewhere.

A movement II being vigorously pushed
in SeRstls for the establishment Of "a puh-
lie library.
Over 5000 was spent during 1ss9 AZ
Port Townscnd in street improvements,
be expended for that purpose during 1ssO.
William Langston arrived from the
Golden King group OF minea Monday,
says Vie Red Dodge Picket. He IL Of the
opinion that this group will with sufficient
development work prove tO be veritablc
These claims are situated ON
the summit this side of Cook City about
IL miles and when you are standing on
any of this group of mines you can sec
Index Peak and Pilot Peak which arc
eight miles beyond Cook City.
A 2year-oid son of MIR. Joseph bull of
Drcas island, WASH, was scalded tn death
in n barrel of hot water recently. The
farm hands were bttchering, and lad
placed n barrel i'm n hole for - scaldci
hog. Two young sisters wheeled the
child up near the barrel when no one else
was ns,ar. He looked down into the bar
rel, apparently blinded Ivy the steam and
fell in. His mother rushed to the child's
assistance Immediately, but before he
could he drawn out he was scaldcti so bad
that his kin came OF with his clothes.
He diesi in about two hours.
The famous 10000 Stacey mansion at
seattle, SO long vacant, will soon have AN
lsVhh S'phS h"ss W cAss
i'm connection with the building is that
Mr.. Stacey put il up with the intention of
living in il with his family. Al that time
he had u large amount OF stock in the
Northern pac flc railway. Stocks went
down and Mr.. Stacey's fortune suddenly
dropped nearly tn the zero mark. A heavy
mortgage was put Oh the beautiful resi-
dcncc and MIR. Stacey went tai work to re-
gain his fortune. declaring that IL he
coultln't live i'm the house he had built at
so great u cost, no one else should, and
the sos,sc has gone t~ntenanted to this
day.
County Clerk ID. w. Cameron is i'm the
habit of visiting his family mt Centralia,
WASH, every Saturday night, remaining
until Monday morning when lie walks ON
the railroad to Chehalis i'm time to resume
his otfacial duties for the week. Monday
morning says the Osegonian Mr.. Cameron
had an experience that hut few men ever
have tine privilege of enjoying. Half way
between Chehalis and Centralia there is ~
trcstlc fully n quarter of n mile long. Mr..
Cameron was making his way cautiously
over this trcstlc when he met "a huge black
bcar. One gave an of sur
prise and the other ~ deep Growl, when
both proceeded. one each side of the
t~restlc. as fast as they could.
A movement is on foot among Tho 'old
tiImers,' says the Yellow stone Journal, to
rganise q s.Pioneer Association of Gus
ter county, tn the membership in which
all shall he eligible who came here in
advance of the railroad. Arrivals by
steamboat, stage coach, horse hack or
foot back prior To the time that the snort
~ the iron horse Was first heard with N
the county, will enable IA man to read his
title clear tn being "a "Pioneer," while,
those who Rlided i'm luxuriously reclining
in n palace car must forever bear the
title of "tcndcrfcct." The idea of form
ing such an association is q; good one and
we hope to ace II succeed.
1t is fair to estimate that 1900 expended
on n farm i'm the planting of trees along
the principal irrigation bitches will ii
onc-third to the value of the land. says
tho Rocky MOUatdin Husbandman. 1t is
not necessary to spend this i'm cash. hut II
may all be done i'm labor. and n good
point about il il that the farm on account
Of this improvement cannot he assessed
for any more than an adjoining farm hav-
ing no trees upon it. This was the territorial
law, and IL has been enacted into the
state constitution. This fact should he
sufficient to encourage tree planting, and
we hope the armer will enter into the
work in earnest as soon as the frost is out
~ the ground in he spring.
The mother of HoInily, the famous In
tcr's home on the Umatilia Indian rcscr-
~vation, say the East OFeyOHidn. She Is
believed to have been the oldest woman
i'm Oregon. Holnily who is the youngest
of her offspring. il 53 years old, and il is
said first saw the light of day when his
mother had arrived at the mature age OF
~. If this no true the woman had at
tanned the surprising age OF 113 years at
the time of her death, She was bent and
withcred with her weight of years, and
may undoubtedly be accounted a centen-
arian. with several years above the five
score point to her credit. The deceased
was u relative of the celebrated chief, Pu-
pu-mox-mox. When in her prime, she IL
to have been n hardy and
vigorous specimen of Indian womanhood
Writing to the Bozeman Chronicle i'm re
gard to the cost of farming i'm Montana.
G. Francisco gives the following as his ex'
~pcriencc in raising wheat:
per
acre
cost of blowing 49, 81 q
Cost Oh narIoWln -
COs& Of uruilnS- -
Cost OF irrfKsltlOn. =
Cost of cutting. ! u
Cost Of shocking -. n
Or equal to ~ bushels.
II u man does his own work he has =
per acre for his and his teams services
including seed, feed and board. and IL m