The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-18
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Ellensburg will have a grand celebra-
ton to commemorate last years big fire.
The Northern Pacific will put up a sign
board TO designate the state line between
North Dakota and Montana.
A man by the name Of Martin Huntw was
found lead near Bliss, Idaho. Hunt was
30 years old, a miner n single.
w. w. Thackeray. a cousin twice re-
! moved from the great novelist, is running
a restaurant at Yautic, this state.
Glendive contributed seven registered
packages to the knights of the road who
made the late raid on the postal car.
A correspondent Of the Montana Stool;
Journal from Alzada, Montana, writes
that he has n mare that is the mother OF
two colts, foaled this spring 25 days apart,
and both stout and healthy.
Saturday George Baker, mail agent on
the Bitter Root road, brought into the
office of the Missouiida a small box con-
tanning. as he said, three young locusts.
Mr.. Baker surmises that the seven-year
locust pest is now to be visited upon the
wicked people of Missoula county.
j. E. Lewis, engineer of construction on
the Central Washington branch of the
Northerp Pacific railroad, says track-lay-
ing will be commenced on Monday next
from Almira to Grand Coulee City, and
they expect to run the Fourth of July ex-
cursion from Spokane Falls to Coulee
4 City on time as promised.-Reriep.
j.. q. Lennard, who has just arrived in
/ Spokane Falls from the Okanogan coun-
\ try, states that the store OF Pard Cum
1 mings, as he is Familiarity known. was
h robbed of a large amount OF goods and
/ about SIS in cash Thursday last by In
4 dians. They afterward stampeded a band
| Of horses belonging to a man living ut the
mouth of Salmon river, and terrorized
. him so by drawing the back of a dirk
. across his throat that he has concluded to
| quit the country. The Indian agent with
a posse has started in pursuit.
Last fall Thomas Fallon and Sam
Hutchinson stole several read of cattle
near this city and drove them above Cho-
teau and sold them. They we're arrested
and lodged in Jail and a few weeks after
ward managed to make their escape. The
officers tracked them to the Canadian
border but could go no further. A few
days ago they were arrested at Mcleod,
and Sheriff Hamilton was notified Of the
fact. Application was made to Governor
Toole for the necessary documents to
bring them back but the governor refused
10 Rrdut u Tttutst vi the kTouhu tIdt
the men had taken refuge on Canadian
soil before the late extradition treaty was
signed and consequently they could not
be delivered over to the United States.
The sheriff has notified the Canadian
authorities and the thieves will 10 doubt
he released.-Gsedt Falls Leader.
Pend d'Oreille lake is gaining a reputa-
ton for picturesque scenery unequalled
by any other body Of water on the Ameri-
can continent. Mountains rise abruptly
from every side, covered with evergreens
and wild fruits. In the deep gorge below
are the blue waters of the lake. fathomless
i'm depth. On the north edge is the loca-
ton of Hope. The town is built on the
side of n lofty, rugged mountain, with
one house above the other, overlooking
the lake forty miles to the south and
fifteen miles westward. The most vivid
imagination cannot picture a grander
scene. Nature has done for the place all
that is required to make a perfect summer
resort. Attractions are soon to be added,
however. Colonel S. NJ. Davis, recently
from Mandan, North Dakota, who is in
charge of the railroad hotel, is fitting up a
two-acre park with all kinds of wild ami
mails. He has seventeen elk at Henry's
lake, which will be forwarded soon. He
1 also has lDuT IlpoSt, unu ID IekbtlatitlR
for a like number of buiraloes. When the
park is completed il will be a great feat
IRE.
The Glendvie artesian well is 500 feet
deep and no flow of water. The Indepen-
dent says two courses are now open to this
enterprise, procure stronger machinery
and continue boring or go back and tap
the1 10 vein n pump. The enterprise
has now assumed such a magnitude as re-
CARDS the probable cost, that it is but fair
that citizens possessed Of means should
come forward and contribute literally.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
is about the largest real estate owner in
the town and county, n il is but fair to
presume that this corporation will act in
the premises with more than their usual
liberality in such matters. The following
from the record kept by Col. Ray shows
the different strata passed through. At
sixteen feet gravel was struck which con-
tinued eight feet; twelve feet OF soft sand
rock soft tale or so~ap-stone, fifty-three
feet; fine blush sandstone, III feet; soft
tale. forty-two feet; hard sandstone, one
foot, and then tale, 25l feet. Total, 500
feet. At the 10 foot mark, in the blue
sandstone, n strong vein of water was
struck that raised within twenty feet Of