The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-19
NORTHWEST NEWS.
topics Of General Interest In The Four
Hev States and Elsewhere.

new STATES ana ELSEWHERE.
Helena has orgauized a society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
There has been an alarming number of
eaths among the Indians on the Simcoe
eservation the past winter.
The dispatch sent out from Cokedale
announcing the shooting OF Detective
Tony Kurtz proves to have been without
foundation.
The N~orwegians of Helena celebrated
he s~eventy-sixth anniversary Of the indie
Pendence of Norway by a meeting and a
Pall Saturday evening.
Senator j. NJ. Snow, of Douglas county,
Washington, has been arrested, charged
sith the cmbezzlement of county money,
ind placed under 5000 bonds.
F~airhaven, Washington, is one of the
most ambitious little towns in the world.
With a population, according to its own
lgures, of l,sOO, II polled Monday n vote
Z LAOS.
Two human thigh bones,wc G preserved,
9ere ploughed up by the workmen en-
Jagged in ~excavating for Mr.. Story's brick
block on Friday last. The bones
LOuDtlesS nave u IllStOTy TIA cdh IEODtt-
ply be unfolded by some Of the pioneers
4 the city or county.-Missouta Gazette.
The secretary of the interior, is In favor
Z uniting the Indians OF the Pine Ridge
agency. South Dakota, and those of the
Tongue River agency, Montana, and 10
|ating them upon the Crow or some other
observation. The president believes such
n arrangement would promote the best
interests of both bands.
Au Lee and Nee Yuk, two celestials
living in highbinders' quarters, on First
treet. Spokane Falls, became involved
n a quarrel Saturday evening over a Chi
aese girl. The fracas ended in the or
ner shooting the latter through the neck
vith a pistol, fatally wounding him. Lee
vas arrested and locked up, pending the
esult Of Yuk's injuries.
A Salt Lake paper announces the sui
Eide of Lieut.. +. Ii. Weeks, OF the 9Th in
antry, recently, the u assigned being
lespondency. Lieutenant Weeks was
we'll known here, having been stationed
or some years at Fort Keogh, where he
married Miss Ovenshine, daughter Of
captain Ovenshine OF the Yeilotc-
tone Journal.
The Spokane Spokesman says the Great
Northern will be in that city il the present
plans are carried out, i'm a little over a
rear. Work will be pushed west from
Montana and east from this city, and nei-
her time nor money will be spared to
complete the road as rapidly as possible.
The company has all the money il needs
md an unimpaired credit, and the stories
bf IL being in financial difficulties are not
~Forrect.
Jack stone, Of Helena, defeated Tally
Owens in an eleven-round contest for 500
side and the gate receipts Saturday
hight AT wickes. Stone weighed about
ZEN pounds heavier than his opponent
md had things pretty much his own way
rom the first round, although Owens in
iicted some terrible punishment on
stones nose and eyes in the early part of
he fight.
A Fraser River fisherman has found
some specimens of the lamprey eel on
Balnon caught by him i'm the river. The
amprey Is a denizen of salt water, but
bften ascends streams i'm the spring for
he purpose of spawning. They live by
Sucking the blood OF other fishes, and one
,f the lampreys when found had bored
quite a distance in the salmon on which
I was feeding.
A strange suicide occurred at Townsend
recently. The victim was one James
French. He had been a resident of Mon.
lana for many years and at n time lived
ht Sheridan, Madison county. He was
also well known i'm Glendale about Is
,ears ago. The deed was committed
with a razor by cutting the main artery OF
he leg below the knee. II is thought that
he was i'm a temporary fit Of insanity, as
ais actions were very peculiar. Those
present who knew him say he was a mu-
Bician of more than ordinary ability, and
B well-worn flute and claronet were found
nca.. his body.
A fearful crime, consisting of suicide
hnd attempted murder, look place at
Moscow, Idaho, recently. Joshua Tear,
bf that place, drew a revolver and aiming
hit his wifc's read fired two shots, hen
placing the weapon against his own
kemple. sent a ball crashing through his
brain. Death Of course was instantan-
eous. Mrs. Tears escape from death is
truly remarkable. The aim was true, the
bullet entering her mead just above the
left eyebrow, but took a course DOWN
ward. obliquely, through the tissues Of the
head and imbedded itself In the right
check the second hot went through her
little finger as she threw up her hands,
land grazed the bridge of her lose. Mrs.
kTear had supported her husband for
nearly two years; n n few days before
the shooting had given him to understand
that she was getting tired of IL and that
he must at least support himself. He was
very angry and on Friday attempted her
murder, as stated. The crime was com
mitted nj the residence of T.. {. Fisher,