The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-19
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MissoULA. Feb. lS.-A dispatch re-
ccivcd here to-day says that the ''visisiug
statesmen" will leave Portland for Nom
tana ON Thursday. Governor Toole has
written tn the county commissioners of
Missotila county tn see how many state
prisoners thcy will accept and keep in
the MissOuls cofnty Jail. The STAND
ADDS correspondent Interviewed Sheriff
Houston, who says the capacity NJ the
Jail IL 81. His average Of prisoners In 81
and he lsas notified the commissioners
tiat he can take III and care for them
properly.
A splendid deposit Of building brown
stone has hecn discovered three miles
northwest of here. Experts Il
OF the best su ,lity.
the 2ith anniversary of the foundation of
the order Tomorrow night AT Castle hall.
he lodge IL still i'm mourning over the
will n9, be brilliant "a. they would under
other circumstances. The lodge in nearly
100 strong i'm this place;
The. police have We'll nigh cleaned Out
the Wages AMI idle characters which SO re-
Gently flooded the city.
The Gate City club through
It's hs.s secretary mat =, ne ne %smher ;ncrca . sss
the membership fee from SIS
to $50. Tho club rooms over
ted up. The billiard and pool tables are i'm
their places and everything Is i'm readiness
for opening night. which occurs orr Wash
inRton's birthday, ON which occasion q re-
ccption will be rendered to- the ladies'
from q tai 10 y. IN. by the members of tho
club.
Owing to the booming Of the bridge near
Eliistou, trains have been badly delayed
to-day. The train from Helena did not
weather has been mild and pleasant in
Missoula to-day.
The Conductor Knew what tn Iso.
From the New York sun.
We were humping along down tOward
the gulf ON a trunk line road less than "a
year ago. when we stopped at n small sta
ton thirteen minutes late. We had been
reported as late from the last, and cx-
pected orders here tn change the run. A
brief investigation disclosed the fact that
the station-master, who was also the op-
orator, was drunk. He had felt q chill
of rsd-eye to keep IL of. He sat i'm q heap
i'm his chair, his strength all gone and his
eyes blinking, and all the reply he could
make To the conductor was:
sShay, ole. Teller, whazzer niaxxer wiz
you
side track there was full of freight cars.
II was six miles ahead tai tho next station,
but did the northbound express have or
dcrs to- let us make il" He suddenly
grabbed the OPERATOR, hauled him out of
the Office upon. the platform, down upon
the earth, and then carried him to the
water ditch and dumped him in. There
was three feet of water and il was cold as
ice. He hauled the operator up and down
for two minutes. dragged him out and
stood him ON his pins, and then said in Al
voice as mcnacing as the point of a dag
ger:
500 i'm and telegraph for my ORDERS"
Tho man walked in all dripping, sat
down to his table sounded his call, and i'm
fifty seconds our train had orders to make
Six-Mile Siding, 'and make il like -
The engineer got the word and away We
went, and five minutes later were at the
switch. just then the old north bound
footed and our last car was in and the
switch thrown over not u second too soon.
She came past ms at the rate of 80 miles
an hour, Ringing dust and gravel clear
over every car, hut we had saved our
bacon. Two months later 1 met the oper-
ctor i'm New Orleans and asked him IL his
cold water bath left any i'll effects.
"Not the slightest" was his reply. 1.-The
only trouble was that the company OBJ
iected to- my way of taking "a bath and
fired me out"
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