The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-03
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
MONTANA.

1,lOO.
Thirty carloads Of coal are shipped daily
from Sand Coulee eastward over the
Great Northern.
young man named William f. L.
Railsback was struck by lightning and
instantly killed at Bozeman Tuesday.
The water works company of Miles
City put down five more drive wells Sat
urday. This leaves five more wells to be
} put down. which will be finished to-day.
when the suction pipes will be ready for
the test.
Both the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railways will cut the rates to st.
Paul and Minneapolis on the first Of Au-
gust to $40 for flrst-class and S25 for Sec
ond-class, a cut of Ss.75 and 81 80 upon the
present rates TO these points. The cut
will effect the rates to all points east OF
the Mississippi river.
The M~odisonian says: Parties who at
tempted to quarter a large band OF sheep
on the Fort Ellis reservation are said to
have lost about 400 of their flock in one
night from the eating of salt petre, which
had been sow over the ground by per-
sons who felt aggrieved at having the res
e~rvation made a sheep pasture.
For the past three days wool has been
oihi w iift ivy INV IN
that at least 10000 pounds will be shipped
from there. Robert Selway shipped
10000 pounds from there Tuesday, and A.
r. Campbell shipped about the same
amount. The wool is fine and is I'M
usually clean. The price paid was 10
cents. There is at Rosebud station 10000
pounds awaiting a good market. The
railroad company have built n large store
house. and the sheep men are jubilant.
e. William L. Furay is now United States
marshal for the district of Montana. The
Helena Journal says his bond was filed
and approved i'm the United States circuit
court at Helena Tuesday, and the oath of
office was administered by Clerk Sproule.
The newly appointed marshal is making
preparations TO make his headquarters in
Helena. and he will commence to-day
upon his duties. Several warrants for the
arrest of persons indicted by the last
United States grand jury nave been
turned over To him by ex-Marshal Irvine.
Mr.. Irvine has not made his final report,
but is expected to file the same July 3, the
United States circuit court adjourning to
that date for the purpose of receiving il.
The notorious Paul Harry is, as usual,
causing a great deal OF trouble To the Cour
d. Alene Indians. His latest is TO steal
three horses and take them To some town
near by, where he sells them for any
amount he can get. During the past
month six horses have disappeared, one
of which belonged to Chief Saltice,
branded : Il on right hip and right ear
slit. The following, of Paul, we are re-
quested to publish for the protection of
the whites who might purchase a horse
from Paul Harry, not knowing him Do
not purchase any horses of one Indian
known as Paul Harry, who is about 5 feet
10. between Is and 20 years old, rather
light for an Indian, weight about $50, ears
set well pack on his head, and speaks the
English language very well.-Nissouia
l Gdsette.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
\ JOIN Cannon says that Montana will be
very well supplied-schools will he well
supplied with excellent teachers during
the coming year. He has received hun
dreds of applications. mostly from teach
ers in Minnesota, Nebraska and the east
ern states. Some of the letters are worth
reading. Many of the applicants stipu-
late the price AT which their services can
\ be engaged, and state positively that they
will come for nothing less. The salaries
run from s15 TO Sl25 for men m rom $50
to $50 for women. Where special subjects
are taught the salaries are sometimes
larger. These figures are higher than i'm
eastern states, and as "A consequence
, bring the best teachers to the state.
Tuesday afternoon while Charlie Sad
dlemeyer. a 5-year-old stcp-son of Charles
Angus, manager of the Carver Mercantile
company, was playing on the bank of the
Yellowstone river at Livingston, he fell
into the rolling waters and was swept
away and drowned. A number of men
were fishing at the bridge at the time and
plainly saw the child as he was carried
away but a few feet from them. but they
made no effort TO save him, what little
courage they might have possessed oozing
out as they looked at the angry waters of
the river, which at that point, however,
was neither very wide nor deep, being but
one of the many channels through which
the Yellowstone flows during the season
of high water.
Thomas Jensen committed suicide 10y
hanging at Helena Tuesday afternoon,
Jensen was about 90 years of age, and ms
far as could be learned had no relatives
i'm this country. He had a wife and daugi,
ter in the old country and had been try
ing for a long time to secure enough
MONEY To go back to them. He had been
in America about nine years, and at the
time OF his death was engaged in work
ing about the Belvidere house for his
board. He had been respondent for a
long time and had often threatened to
take his own life, saying that II was inn.
possible for him TO make a success i'm life
He had spoken frequently of his family in
Sweden and had expressed himself as be
ing very anxious to return to his old home
to spend his last days among his old
friends and a~cquaintances. Jensen was
seen alive by the barkeeper of the hoteI
about l0:3O Tuesday morning, when he
came into the saloon and got n glass oI