The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-15
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Calvin, Jefferson county, INTO the Oro
Elmo mining district.
Over 10000 acres Of land have been
gobbled up by land grabbers in the Boise
land district within the past two months.
The machine shops at Pocatello will
shortly be enlarged and will employ about
\ 100 men. They repair an average OF
thirty cars a day o
James Byrne, an old mt much respected
pioneer. died Monday afternoon at his
home a shor distance from Stone Station,
in the Flint creek valley. He was buried
i'm the Philipsburg cemetery Wednes-
day.
Wolf Voice, the government scout, was
i'm Rosebud recently and was questioned
as to the safety of trave along the Bud"
and he said il wa dangerous, as all of
Two Moons men had blood in their
eyes.
A reward OF $50 has been offered by
citizens Of Mayfeld, Idaho, for the body
of George Chamberlain, who disappeared
from his home in that vicinity on April 20
and is supposed to have been murdered
by horse thieves.
The survey for the wagon road between
Champion and Butte was completed We'd
nesday. 1t Is IL miles i'm length. Two
forces Of men have been put to work, one
at each end. The force put to work on
the end AT Champion is composed OF IA
men.
The Neu Northwest says: Two Eagle,
an Indian, sentenced for one year and a
half to the penitentiary from Choteau
county for grand larceny, will die In the
course of a week or so of a horrid disease.
There are six other Indians in the peni-
Tertiary afflicted with the same malady.
In Tuscarora, Nevada, they are still
paying $3.50 per cord for pine wood.
L. +. Coffin and II. NJ. Coffin, superin-
tendents of two Of the leading mining
companies there, have just let contracts
tor the delivery of their next winters sup
ply at that price. And this price was
only secured after advertising for bids in
the Tuscarora Times Rerie,c.
Girls are in demand at S~tevensville at
the present writing, says the Tribune of
tina place. and a shipment of a carload
or two would be beneficial to the hus-
bands of that village. IL a mans wife
takes sick he has to cook, wash, sew,
milk, tend the babies, scrub, go to mar
ket. talk to the neighbours wife across the
way, and do many other things to make
him old.
An accident happened at the Champion
Monday. There were seven blasts to go
off in the shaft, and just as the men gave
the signal to be hauled up one of the
blasts exploded, and one of the men had
his hand injured, but the others escaped.
From the damage to tie sid of the
bucket, however, it is a wonder that at
least some of them were not killed. They
blame no one but themselves.-Netc North
tcest.
The home of w. L. Richardson, a
y former resident of Deer Lodge, which was
about 10 miles from Avon, on Nevada
creek, was burned to the ground last Sat
urday evening. Having made a fire in
the kitchen stove and gone out to assist
his son John in caring for the stock, his
attention was called by a loud roaring
noise TO the house, which was then envel-
oped in flames. and soon went up in
smoke; i'm fact, SO fast did il burn there
was no time for action and everything
contained within was lost, together with
$3.50 in money. The total loss is about
s ,000.-Siicer Star.
Quite an accident happened at the
American Ruby mine Saturday evening,
when the change of shift was being made.
As the three men were starting down in
the shaft To work the wheel on which the
rope was wound got beyond the control Of
the engineer, and the bucket containing
the men fell to the bottom as fast as the
O could he %unwound, a distance of
about $50 feet. Strange as il may seem
not one of the men was killed. Only one
man, Edward Packard, was so badly in
jured that he had to be brought down to
the hospital. He had received a fracture
of the ankle joint, but having received
surgical treatment is now doing nicely.
The other two men received bruises and
!. flesh wounds, of them a scalp wound,
but no injury of a serious nature.-Ne,c
Northwest.
A special dispatch to the Independent
from Miles City says: "Several families
have come in from Pumpkin creek. as the
Cheyennes in that locality are in a most
sullen mood. A company of cavalry from
Fort Buford, which has been out hunting
the train robbers, received yesterday, at
Glendive, instructions to proceed and join
the forces at the agency. Colonel Curtis
of Helena left for Rosebud Friday night,
from which place he will go overland TO
the agency to make a full investigation of
the situation and its causes. II must not
be understood that IL is the big stockmen
who are in danger, hut it is the small
ranchers. men with four or five horses
and a few head OF cattle whose all is now
at the mercy OF the r~evenReful Chey-
ennes. Some people have left everything
they possess in the world, coming with
their wives and children TO his city, and
! now they ask that those who are respons-
ible for the savages take them i'm hand,
treat them justly, and put them where
they belong. Should a ranch be burned
or another white man killed 800 armed
men will be on the ~Cheyennes within AZ
hours, and they will De wiped from the
face Of the earth, and still the Indians i'm
this case are not the most to blame. The
arms brought in by Curtis hav been
turned over TO Sheriff Jones under bonds,
the understanding being that in case of