The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-29
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Tonnes Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

i A. Church of Billings, has been ap
pointed stock inspector and detective Tor
Inc counties of Park and Yellowstone.
The Northern Pacific Is preparing to
m grading and will certainly b
completed to Moscow, Idaho, before oe'
tober 1, 1880, says the Star.
Tn the district court mt Bismarck, Will
liam Everett recovered q verdict against
the Northern Pacific for 5000. Everett
was formerly q brakeman VINO sustaiheu
injuries while coupling cars Mt Jamestown
Dakota. last summer
n. Linderman, a rancher located mid
way between Idaho City ana BOISE
mo,,rns the loss of a fine new saddle
which disappeared from his place a rev
DAYS age. A good horse and n bad hired
man turned up missing at the same ume'
George Cokefair, a young ranchmah
who has a fine claim and a considerable
bunch of cattle on Baldwin creek, near
Laramie. Wyo., has Just marrieu MS
widowed step-mother, and Is now .ne
step-father Of two half brothers a run
sister. Mrs. Colefair is eight years older
than her new husband.
The Yellowstone Journal says the deal
whereby Billings was to have a J0barrei
, Touring mill has fallen through by reason
of the eastern capitalists refusing to guar
antee the running of the mill a certain
length of time each year for three years.
whether the wheat was raised in heilow-
stone county or not. The home people
wcrc To give a 5000 bonus, but insisted
ON This guarantee, which was not FORTH
coming. hence the failure to II
Wyoming has 10 national and IL pri-
,.,o hanks and the record of her finan-
c;aI institutions is decidedly clean. No
national bank has ever suspended or gone
into liouidation in hat territory, and the
failure of only -four private banks. Inc
first institution under the national bank'
ing law was organized in 1871. AT tha'
time the entire banking capital OF tns
territory did not exceed Sloo'uU' wn,i'
now the total items of our OF the
national banks alone aggregate A.OOo,Ooo
Thursday night. as Vic Arland OF Ar
land. wyo., was sitting i'm a saloon at Ret
Lodge talking with a party of friends m
was Shot and instantly killed by an assas
sin standing on the outside OF the saloon
Immediately after the shooting, Depu''
Sheriff Frank Bellar arrested a man o.
the name of William Lendon on sus
picion. II seems that this man was al
,ested ON the grounds that he and the dt
n ceased had some trouble in Wyomin
more than a year ago, and were consit
cred as bitter enemies. The murdere
man was a stock man well known J
Montana. and was one OF the old-tinier'
The other day while a gathering OF ca
tlemen were talking of range experience
Mr.. l.. W. Stacy told the story OF the ia
and virtually closed the mouths OF all u
hearers, BY thai we don't mean TO sd
the story is perfectly true but VIII lea'
our readers to determine. MIR. stat
saws he is possessor of a small steer whit
has horns that measure IL feet from TIP
Tin and has been offered $3.50 for the a
tiers. the would-be purchaser not wantii
the steer. as he valued him less tha
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
Under contract for immediate deliver
W. w. Beasley has purchased Tor D.
Hedges of Sioux City, 10000 mutton She
from Tom Barry. purchaser to own :
WOOL. al the price of "a all round. II
sheep will be driven to Huntly and the
shorn. and shipped to the east. The she
are nearly all big fat wethers ana Is
lieyed the purchaser will realize a !
profit on the band of 5000. This Is q
Of the biggest sheep deals ever made
this country and the sheep men can aht
to smoke Havana cigars this season
they want to.-Bdlinys Gazette.
The Pony Express says that one g
last week carpenters on the Isdell irrie
ing ditch unearthed a skeleton OF ma
moth proportions. BY actual measu
mont il was Il feet and two inches
length. The circumference OF the 81
when measured, was found to be
inches. The feet were q inches
length. This is the second discover,
this kind made near Pony during the .
wear. Ed. Spared, while sinking a 81
ON his mine near Richmond Flats
June, exhumed a skeleton of even lar
proportions han the one i'm quest
From the thigh down il measured
~ feet and three inches and was IL feet
height. Ii is supposed that these SIX
tons are descendants OF the histor
tribe Of giants known as Polos.
curiosity is now on exh'bition al