The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-18
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

NOV Ntal6S anQ ELSEWHERE.
AChinaman named Toy Lee committed
suicide al Helena Wednesday.
The Seattle Observer thinks that the
death Of Holt, the smuggler, was the re-
suit Of q conspiracy.
The Breeders Gazette says that cattle
are bringing from forty 70 sixty cents
more per 100 pounds than at this time last
year.
Worry over O 500 note about due
causedsa young rancher named George
Shorts TO commit suicide by cutting his
throat, on his ranch near Sundance, Wy
oming.
John Anderson. o well-known colored
man OF Bozeman Ii soon to receive O back
pension OF $500. He intends to invest II
judiciously through the advice Of careful
business man.
John Wasesha, the wool grower of Pen
d'Orielle ~coulee, reports his band of sheep
the winter 10 coyotes and has the pelts TO
show for bounty.
The transcript In the appeal of King,
the condemned murderer, to the supreme
court of Montana, covers about n hum
oISu ohAu Bo&So va
written in typewriter.
The Seattle Journal says that Of the re-
lief fund $4,000 remains u~nexpended, and
suggests that the balance be devoted to
assisting in the establishment of q home
for friendless boys and girls.
Engineer Hughes of the little steamer
Success, assaulted Captain Thomas Davis
of the Idaho ut Whatcom Thursday night,
on account of IN old grudge. Davis was
knocked from the wharf and would have
drowned had not by-standers rescued
him.
The item going the rounds of the press
to the effect that the Bozeman Cattle
company has purchased 10000 cattle In
Oregon to be placed on its Montana range
this spring is q mistake. The combany
will move its Wyoming herd of 10000 cat
tie to The Montana range this summer.
The work of clearing the timber of of
the hill Just south of ~Fairhaven, WASH
ington, is being pushed, and good pro-
gress is being made. At night the burn
ing timber shows to good advantage many
trees being 100 feet in heiRhth, and are q
mass of flame from the bottom to the top.
Ed Hill arrived in town yesterday and
brought with him q monstrous mountain
lion pelt. The animal, which was killed
about q week ago near the mouth OF
Horse creek, measured 8 feet, 81 inches
in length and weighed about three hum
bred and fifty pounds Yetio,cstone Jour-
nal.
AT the joint meeting of the commissions
ers of jefferson and Meagher counties at
Townsend last Monday, says the Boulder
Age, il was agreed that Meagher county
should build a bridge over the Missouri
river at Townsend and that jefferson
county should build a bridge at Toston,
both bridges to be built before September
l, 1892.
The special agents of the government
land office working the Dakotas, Montana,
Washington and the Northwestern states,
who were retired March 16 without pay,
have been ordered to continue work April
10. They were retired for lack Of appro-
priations with which to pay them, until
provisions were made by the passage Of
the deficiency bill.
The Catholics have purchased 100 acres
of land between North Yakima and the
Old Town and propose to build an Indian
training school, where agriculture, among
other things, will be taught. The success
of the Indian school ut this place has led
to the project of q state institution with
good and c~ommodious buildings and facil-
tiles for teaching the various industries.
-Ydkimd Herald.
One of the largest bears ever killed I'm
Wyoming wal shot a few days ago by a
well known ranchman near Laramie
peak. Bruin had been playing havoc
among the cattle. He finally killed a
COW upon which he had Toasted nee or
twice. but when he returned again to take
another meal he found serious business
ahead of him. Dressed the monste
weighed 1,0eS pounds. From the nose
to the end Of its tail il measures nine feet.
A destructive fire occurred at Big TIM
Der Tuesday night. The fire occurred In
Stockcr & Moore's drug store and was
caused by a greyhound knocking over n
lamp that had been left burning. Before
il could be checked the drug store, high
school building and the residences Of Os-
car Anderson and Roxy Kellogg were
burned to the ground. The loss was as
follows: Shanks q Lee, bankers, $500.
No insurance. Stocker & Moore, drugs,
$500. No insurance. DIR. Moore, library,
$3.50. No insurance. Oscar Anderson,
residence, $500. Insured for $500. II. O.
Kellogg, residence, 500. Insured for
Ss25. II. o.. Hickox, house, 800. Harvey
Bliss, two residences damaged to the ex-
tent of $3.50.
The other day. when Noah Mcknight
was at Hamilton, he was shown q
wheel which was ound buried high up on
the mountain side and covered with two
feet of earth. From appearances 1t had
beer there 90 years. The tire was wide,
the spokes were rotted off at the point Of
intersection with the ~felloes. The hub
and felloes were tolerably well pre- .eryed.