The Anaconda standard., 1890-02-14
NORTHWEST NEWS.


Glasgow needs n banking institute, says
the Herald. Al present the nearest hank
ID 30 miles distant.
The mail service in at last To he extended
over the entire route of the Great North
ern railroad. This IL great news 10 the
people OF Northern Montana who have
suffered too long already from the defect
i've mail service.
the special election Tuesday to vote for
or against the bonding OF Park county
for $4,000 for the purpose Of building a
court house at Livingston. says the Red
Lodge Picket. There was only 61 votes
polled at this precinct. Forty-nine were
polied against the bonding of Park county
for the purpose of building court house
at tile county seat and Ia i'm favor.
We learn from reliable authority. says
the Bozcman C.sOaicie, that Belgrade is to
he plated as soon as possible. bank Is
tn be established with n capitalization OF
$4,000 by st. Paul parties. A Touring
mill is to he built by Minneapolis parties
and T. {. Power is about to establish an
agricultural implement business there.
II Belgrade gets all these institutions a
tin county's taxable wealth.
Great Falls Leader: Col. James Shields,
ex-internal revenue collector of Montana.
returned to his nome i'm Anaconda yester-
day. The colonel said that on all his
former visits to our city he always left
with bad impression tn our future
growth. hut this visit had turned him all
upside down and that he never was more
surprised at anything in his life than at
the changes that had taken place within
going 10 have u rousing city within two
years-nothing can down you now. The
new railroads coming i'm, the new snielter,
the dam and the many manufacturing es-
adjustments that will locate i'm your inn
mediate vicinity. will certainly make
Great Falls one of the leading cities of the
great west. 1 am glad to see IL; for the
prosperity Of Great Falls will add millions
tn the wealth of Montana and her people,"
The Wallace, Washington, Free Press,
says that without warming "a terrific gale,
verging on to a hurricane, swept i'm from
the West on Monday afternoon between
5 and o'clock. IL struck the timber on
the mountain south of Wallace "a minute
80 before il was felt i'm the valley. and
il made the pineries sing as if IA myriad of
Scotchmen had been turned loose with
bagpipes. We have seen storms before
i'm the Occur d'Alenc, but they were baby
cries compared with this one, which
fairly moved down the timber. minute
or so after il burst on the mountain il
came flying down Placer creek canyon,
and about half mile above the western
end of Wallace started snowslide
among the timber the divide. From
the streets of Wallace the starting point
may I've seen, but its path down the hill
side for three-tltiarters of mile is hid
from view. so also is the SHOW dump in
the creek bottom from hill tn hill. Ii
came down with terrific force, and the
noise could be distinctly heard above the
, storm "a. il crashed through the struggling
timber i'm its course. 1t was like the
crack of doom, which only the elements
have power enough to- produce.
A few days ago the cattle inspectors at
South Omaha found twenty-eight head of
cattle in one small shipment of coru-feti
steers from western Kansas. In the lot
taken were seventeen different Colorado
Brands. The shipper, of course. claims
that he had bought the steers and had "a
right to sell them. As he could show no
bills of sale. and as the circumstances all
round looked very suspicious, the cattle
were taken by the inspectors, sold and the
proceeds sent to the Colorado Cattle
Growers association i'm Denver. Mean
time the case is bcing investigated and
the presumption is that Mr.. Shipper will
land in jail. There IL line OF thieves
from Montana to Texas located along the
border land between the farming and
range country and the number of animal.
stolen annually is fearfully larRc-way an
i'm the thousands. Conviction by the
courts is out of the question, because ths
jurics generally made up of thieves
The only hope of Justice along that line j,
i'm the findings of Judge Lynch's court
and there should he u session called "a
every convenient tree covering the dis
tancc of more than thousand miles,
Ex.
T.. l.. Mills. a student at the Bozcnat
= academy, i'm an essay OH the state of Mon
tana, published in the Bozeman Chronicle
gives this historical sketch: What is nov
the state OF Montana was first visited b.
white men i'm the year 1875, when some
Spaniartis from the City of Mexico cx
plored up through Montana and fla
north as the Saskatchewan river. Th
next time that this section of country wa
explored was i'm 1743, when the Chevalie
yerandry, IN Frenchman, came westwar
from the Mississippi river and explores
Dakota and Montana, going far Yves
as the Rocky mountains, W hich he ascend
ed somewhere near the present site q
Helena. Verantlrye returned east with
out leaving any settlements or forts. Thi
country was then abandoned to the will
Is animals and Indians, with perhaps n fe,
\ yoyageurs and trappers. After Verant
rye's expedition this state forme
part of Louisiana, which passed from tn
French to- the Spanish, and from tn
Spanish hack to- the French, who sold il I
the United States for S15.OOO.OOO. whe
the United States secured control of th
vast territory Thomas jefferson. the
president, resolved to know something {
this wonderful country. and to this end
dispatched Captains Merriwether Lew
and William Clarke, with thirty men. q
an exploring expedition. The party le