The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-28
NORTHWEST NEWS.


glasgow IL situated will he included i'm
the Milk river survey. the contract Tor
which has hccn let To Deputies Rodney w.
Page and Newton Orr. The survey will
hc commenced as soon ~ the frost is out
Of tho ground i'm the spring.
Conductor Dowd, who came i'm ycstcr-
day, says the Great Falls Lauder, informs
us that the SNOW storm which eached is
sunday morning extends eastward h-
yond GlasRow-that there was every pros
pect, when he left Glasgow, for il good
old-fashioned snow fall.
Al Cecil arrived from Harlem yesterday
says the Benton Rirer Press with 20 wolf
and coycts skins upon which he expected
the usual S2 bounty. He had. however, tn
submit to "a severe ssskinning" before he
could dispose of his bounty certificate. MIR.
Cecil says il is an all around 'skin game"
The fast train to In put ON over the
Northern Pacific i'm March will stop only
at important points and will shorten tho
time six hours from 81. Paul tn BozcIn.in,
says the Bohemian Chronicle. The local
train will run faster than the present one.
This will do away with two sections each
day.
Charles Doggctt found "a leather sack
containing IL ounces of gold dust under
the foundation of "a store at Diamond
City once owned by Jonas Higgins. The
gold is not "a straight lot, but mixed, alr
~parentiy trade dust, having been taken
from the different parts of the Confetier-
ate mines. Tho sack was nearly rotten.
AN evidence that il had been hidden there,
II number of years.
The heavy fall of SHOW. says the Soze-
man Chronicle. which now covers the
mountains and fills up the gorges of the
mountain range SUI rounding this valley,
= assures our farmers of plenty of water
with which tn irrigatc and rcplenish their
land. Other mountain ranges in Montana
have not been SO well covered with SNOW
and i'm other parts of the. state farmers are
4, little dubious about their prospects.
Captain Jensen has informed Adjutant
General Douglas that compan A OF Great
Falls. says the Tribune, is prepared to
compete in drill with any company i'm the
territory. Captain Jensen says the prize
should b. about 500, So as to cover eN-
penses. The challenge has been given in
view of Inc approaching completion of the
Helena ARSENAL, which may h oifiheu
with military ceremony.
William Harmon. jefferson Ryan, L..
Schcctz. George w. Allcrton, Charles f..
Brown and others have Incorporated the
Caster County Horse Sales and Fair asso-
citation with "a capital stock of $4,000, i'm
l.OOD shares of so each, with principal
place of business at Miles City. The Obj
iects of the association will bc the holding
of fairs annually and the conducting OF
sales of all kinds of live stock. especially.
of the 10 vestibulcd Pullman slccpers
ordered by the Northern Pacific, four have
been received. These are Duluth. Helena,
Spokane, and Ethiopia. Two others arc
nearly ready for shipment and will h,
nNtI1Nl Ill stLIu va
sicepcrs are after the pattern of the last
ones built for the Northern Pacific COM
pany. thc only changes of Importance be-
ing that these have :6 inch wheels i'm
place of the AZ inch ones formerly used
and that the upholstery Is finished i'm old
gold instead of blue.
sheriff O'Ncal last Saturday night. says
the Fort Benton RreT Press, arrested JOS
sph kubou ut AiIc depot when he was
about starting OIL the train for Great
Falls 'rht. arrest was made OH Il tGIc-
gram from John Mashuga of Teton sta
lion, stating that Kuban had made inn
proper advances to- his fMashuga's) wife.
Kubou il a German. about ID years OF
age. and is a; section man on the Great
Northern. He has been boarding with
the Masliugas for the past month, ana
also slept in one corner OF the box car
which constitutes the "boarSling house"
AT Teton. Mnshuga works for the rail
road as coal header. and his work takes
him ont at different hours of the day and
night. KuboN denies that he said or did
anything out of the way To the woman,
and says that the charge is trumpcd up.
lie has IL family i'm Minnesota. The
Mashugas are Polandcrs, and an inter
prefer will he needed at the hearing. Ii
seems To he IL much mixed affair.
The present snowfall is of inestimablc
value tn the stockmcn and farmers OF
northern MONTANA, says the Fort Benton
Rirsy Press. To the former it guarantees
a good growth of range grasses and to th',
IL SbI >s>P
other portions of the state the land OF
northern Montana rctains0nearly all the
moistnrs. that falls upon it. Their clay
s,ibsoil is absolutely impcrvious tn water
and holds il subject Ia the drafts made
upon il during the heated months by the
growing grasses or cereals above. This Il
the reason why tho vast plains and broad
piateals of this section of Montana have
kcomc famous as the finest grazing
grounds in the world, and why they were
for ages the home OF tho buffalo. Will
fair snow falls or spring rains, long con
tinuctl summer drouRlts have no appar
ent effect upon the growth OF grass. Many
have expressed surprise at the greer
appearance of the luxurious crop o
native grasses seen upon the grca
reaches of lands in northern Montan;
when the stuntcd grasses i'm the valley,
and upon the foot hills near or mt tin
main range of the Rockies were litcrall,
burned mp. They couldn't understand 1t
A few minutes work with a shovel wouls
havc explained the mystery. Instead q
the sand and gravel which lie beneath thu
hin layer of soil found upon lands i'm thu
immediate vicinity of the great divide
and through which soils water runs as !