The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-26
NORTHWEST NEWS.


rates, 10 In UNDERWOOD, are not SO innex-
ible an they were n few weeks aeo.-Spo-
hane ReuSsV.
Mr.. Charles Anceney drove up from his
home near Central Park, and spent part
Of two days In Bozeman this week. He
says that his range cattle in the vicinity
are doing well so far. and bid fair to go
through the winter i'm excellent condition.
-B0sesn0ss Courier.
Two Harvard college men have estab-
1ished winter quarters and are hunting
deer i'm the vicinity Of D~uckabus. They
were in town yesterday and stated deer
were plentiful i'm that section and were he
ing killed by the wholesale by wolves, the
deer, because of the deep snow, being nm
able to get away from these ferocious an
mals.-Seatu Journal.
The strike of the union b~ricklayers for
eight hours work and s. pay still contin-
ues. Nearly every union man i'm town is
idle. Not one in at work on buildings GO
ing up under direction of builders who
stand out against the men. The strike
gives every indication of being a protract-
ed one, IL the statements of the opposing
f~actiOns-the employers and the employed
go for anything.-Seatle Journal.
A German employed in cutting ice be-
low the bridge yesterday took an epileptic
fit and made rush for the water. Bob
Bennett seized him and tried to hold him
back, but the man and fought
like u maniac and would doubtless have
dragged Bennett i'm If Jack Lee had not
come to the rescue. Between them they
ubdued tho unfortunate man and coI-
Quoted him to dry land. He said he only
wanted a drink of water. 1t is needless to
say he got his walking papers as an ice
harvester.-F0rt Benton Rirer Press.
1t is not generally known that the re-
mains of an ancient Aztec city are to he
found within "a few miles of this city, but
IL is true, nevertheless. The remains of IA
city that existed about 200 years ago, are
to nc found near Willard. A part of the
ground occupied Is covered 10y the waters
of the lake. A gentleman i'm this city has
several specimens of pottery which he
found there, and he says they are super
ior to anything found i'm Old Mexico
Salt Lake Tribune
Owing to tine severe cold weather. and a
great deal of sickness among the resi-
dents of RuInscy, the school was closed
last week until the sickness abated some
what. The rooms that were used for the
school are now occupied for hospital pur-
poses. There seems to- be more sickness
i'm Rumscy at present than anywhere else
in the county. according to the population,
which is partially attributed to the poison.
Gus smoke from the mill that sometimes
settles i'm the gulch among the buildings,
and tho prevalence of the Influenza
Phitipsburg Mail.
One twelvc-horse team and one four
teen horse team passed through Lewiston
on Saturday loaded with heavy machinery
for the Spotted Horse mill, at Maiden.
The new mill is being pushed along as
rapidly as possible, and will be ready to
drop stamps early i'm February, it is
Thought. We are informed that during
the last run of fourteen days with the old
mill $4,000 in gold was cleaned up. not
%countin the value of the concentrates,
which amount to- considerable. A large
percentage of gold was carried away in
the tailings.. The new mill will he perfect
i'm construction, with latest improvements
for treating ores.-Le,ciston Argus.
1t will be seen by n letter from Score
tary of Interior Noble to u. :. Marshal Ir
vim and by reference forwarded to Mayor
Bogert, published IN this weeks
Courier, that the u. =. government, with
its annual income reaching up to the hun.
dreds OF millions and n big surplus i'm the
treasury, is either to impecunious or pc
nurioas to pay n small salary to "a proper
custodian of the old Fort Ellis propert
Secretary Noble doesn't, i'm SO many
words, recommend the taking up of u col
lection for the purpose. but he leaves il tc
be inferred that there il no other way by
which the property can he looked after
and protected from theft and destruction
-BoSenidn Courier.
We arc informed that about the tim,
the grave was being dug for the late Mr.
Sherman, at East Gallatin, some mis-
creants entered the house of Jordan
Bros. during the temporary absence q
the and taking n tobacco pip'
from a shelf, loaded IL with blasting pow
der, and placed a small amount of tobac
co on top as a blind. they also PARTIAL.
filled the holes i'm the stovelids with pow
der and then vacated the premises. Tn
mean trick would probably have cost TIN
owner his eyesight but for the fact that oil
lighting his pipe a grain of powder. whicl
had been accidentally dropped on the toI
of the obacco, exploded, which arouse'
his suspicious and led to the discovery
Bosensan Courier.
1t is reported that about 3 O'Clock thi
morning an intoxicated Individual, whil
walking down Main street, was attacke
by two men, one of whom carried n clut
and severely beaten over the head, at tn
same time being relieved of about $50 !
money. The injured man IL said to be
resident of the lower end of town. but W
are unable to learn his name. The frs
quency of late with which people are a
lacked on the principal streets of this cit
by footpads and sandbaegers and relieve
of their money is a matter of the grave,
import To all law abiding c%itisens, and
determined effort should he made to brea
up the gang, as il is evidently the work
a confederation of the thugs who infe
the city.-Liringsfon Enterprise.
The Indian agent at the Shoshor
agency, i'm northern Wyoming, has issue
ORDER 10 the of that vicini
that all sfock fnrnd frSpsnnssinu ON III