The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-21
NORTHWEST NEWS.
, Topics Of General interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

A barrel Of Laramie's natural soda has
been sent to New York for test purposes.
An immense saw mill will be built al
Post Falls, Idaho. Its capacity will be
100000 feet per day.
The Hotel Helena, near the Northern
Pacific depot at Missoula, has been
thrown open to the public.
The residence Of A. y. Jones on Iron
mountain, near Cheyenne. was burned
recently. The loss vas $1,000.
Converse county, Wyoming. has organ.
lied a fair and stock association. The
first annual exhibit occurs in September.
Three Angoria goats owned by Mr..
Hickathier Of Drain, Ore, were sheared
recently whose iieeces weighed 1876
pounds.
The Boise City p~ostofiice will be raised
to second-class rank. During the past
year 5000 worth of postage stamps were
sold there.
There are now four military companies
in Idaho mustered into service. They are
located AT Albion. Grangeville, weiser and
Boise City.
Captain George, the leading chief Of Pr
utes, is dead. He has ever been the 'tn-
fiinching friend of the whites n was
quiet and peaceable.
w. A. Brown, deputy sheriff, arrested a
man at Grantsdale last Tuesday named
Tabor for horse stealing. The prisoner
was taken to Missoula.
Iii tated that the stockmen on the
Maiad. Idaho, are almost out of feed, and
the loss among their cattle and horses will
be very heavy before n grass comes to
relieve their wants.
Tla G-.sh SnastIa a,..l fnpnnnnv has
Just purchased 800 acres of land near
Seattle. the consideration being 100000.
1t is rumored that the purchase was
made in the interest Of the Union Pacific
Company.
Private McManus. of Company A, end
infantry, Fort Kcogh, who was recently
court-martialed for desertion, left Miles
City last week in charge of an escort for
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he will
serve a three years sentence.
Work on the Northern Pacinc's new
freight sheds and yards Mt Spokane Falls
will be commenced Mt once. The new
depot will cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000, and the total amount to be ex-
pended will exceed $4,000.
Governor Warren of Wyoming has par
doned Charles ID. Cameron, who was sent
to Joliet from Uinta county, In September,
1887. for three years for selling an estray
horse, and John Gehm, who was sent to
Joliet from Cheyenne, in May, 1888, to
serve three years for saddle stealing.
Three companies of cavalry left Fort
Custer last week for the Cheyenne Indian
reservation in response to a call of the
agent. What the trouble is no one seems
to really know, but IL is generally under
stood that the Indians are attempting to
have their annual sun dance contrary to
the orders of the agent.
The Rocky Bar, Idaho, Bulletin says:
Usher Chase and Lew Fergeson last week
went up to Trinity lakes, II miles from
that town, and brought back with then:
over 100 pounds of fine mountain trout,
which they readily sold at 80 cents per
pound. After shoveling 10 or II feet of
snow and cutting through several feet of
ice, they were kept busy hooking the
spcckled beauties until they had secured
all they wished to pack ON their backs.
Civil service examinations will be held
at Miles City, Mont, Monday, May Ii,
and at Helena Monday, May 10, for the
department and railway mail service,
and persons desiring appointment in that
service are invited to compete. Male
citizens of the United States between the
ages of Is and 35 are eligible. The maxi
mum limitation of age does not apply to
old soldiers who were discharged on ac-
count Of disability. Persons wishing to
take the examination should write at
once to the civil service commission,
Washington, ID. c., for application blanks
and instructions.
Quite an interesting phase in the mat
ter of insurance on buildings has devel-
oped in connection with the total loss of
the Park stables i'm this city, says the
Fort Benton Press. Ii appears hat while
the stables were insured for $1,000, and
William Rowe had paid on that O
for several years ut the rate of AZ per
cent. premium, when il came to n settle
ment of the loss on the part of the insur-
ance companies, through their adjusters,
Messrs. X. A. Luke of Helena and +. O.S.
Buck of Denver, Mr.. Rowe was asked to
settle for 5000, and rather than enter
into litigation settled for that amount.
As we understand the situation, Mr..
Rowe is not satisfied with the settlement,
and accepted il rather Than enter into liti-
CATION. There were six companies inter
ested in this loss, and the Rirer Press is of
the opinion that they would have found it
decidedly to their advantage to have paid
the loss in full. The question in this con-
nection arises: What right has an insur-
ance company, or n combination of in
surance companies TO insure a building
at more than they are willing TO pay for 1t
when a total loss?
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