The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-17
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In The Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Contracts have been let for the sinking
OF six artesian wells In Sphinx county,
South Dakota, Mt an average OF $1,600, on
a basis of 1000 feet to each well.
A bad boy in the Pinkerton, Dakota, re-
form school is 16 years old, weighs 200
pounds and shoots up into the air six feet
and three inches.
The Pierre-Stanley pontoon bridge WINS
finished Wednesday and formally opened
to the public, the first wagon crossing at
10:30 a. m. II is pronounced the best pom
Q on the Missouri, its entire length
costing $4,000.
Lieut.. j. G.. Galbraith, u. S. A.. a son
of Judge G~ailbraith, of Dillon, and who Is
now stationed at Fort Custer, this State,
has received official notice of his promo
ton to captain. He will be sent to Cincin-
natl, Ohio, where he will take charge Of
the recruiting Office.
Probably no preacher on this coast has
SO large q field to look after, without min
isterial assistance from his church, as
Rev. George Buzzelle, says the Mountain
Home, Idaho, Mail. His missions extend
from Atlanta to Jourdan valley, a distance
of nearly 300 miles from north TO south,
and from Shoshone to Welser, a distance
of over 200 miles from east to west. To
visit his people at the extremes of these
routes twice a month would require him
to travel each year a greater distance than
to go around the globe. Over half the
travel is by stage. Think of travelling
half way around the world by stage. The
life of a Western preacher is not so bliss
full as il might be.
Cornelius Hedges, secretary of the Pho
neer association of Montana, earnestly
requests all pioneers who came to Mon
tan during the year 1864, or earlier, to
send their names to II. 5. Kelley, vice
president OF the association for Deer
Lodge county, at Deer Lodge, and give
the following information: Date of ar
rival in the territory. route travelled, birth
place and time of birth, present residence
and postofiice address. All pioneers send
ing in this information before June l will
have their names registered in the pio-
neer register. Any information respect
ing deceased pioneers, such as place Of
birth. time of arrival in territory, and
lime If death, with any other interesting
facts concerning such deceased pioneers,
will be gladly received and is asked. II is
Ia object of the association to collect as
accurate a biography as possible of all the
pioneers; this being necessary for a COM
plete history Of the early times of Mon
tana.
The Helena Herald has this to say in
regard to the proposed monumen i'm
memory of John y. Beidler: The people
of California have performed an act Of
tardy justice in erecting a to
the memory of Marshall. the discoverer
of gold in January, 1s4s. The man whose
discovery added fame and fortune to so
many others lived in poverty and died
neglected; like SO many other unappre-
ciated benefactors of our race. This re-
minds us that the friends of \. Beidler
have not discharged a duty that they I'M
dertook to perform, and that is to erect a
suitable over his grave. Mr..
Prescott has been to the pains of getting
up a granite monument with this object
i'm view, which he would furnish for
actual cost, and the expense of setting
the whole would not much exceed $3.50.
We believe a few hours effort on the
part of the committee would easily secure
most OF, the necessary sum-, ard the bal
ance could be made up when the Pho
neers meet during fair week. The sooner
this is one the easier as well as more
creditable to us all.
About two years q Detective Walters
received a letter from a man named Falk-
visit. proprietor of a big tailoring house i'm
New York city, asking for the whereabouts
of his brother, whose name the New York
man said was valstedt, says the Helena
Independent. The letter stated that there
was a sum Of money coming to the miss
ing brother from an estate. The New
York man said he had not seen his brother
since 1863. Mr.. Walters could find no
trace of Mr.. Valstedt; but kept the letter
Of inquiry. A few nights g he happened
in the Eldorado beer hall and was intro
duced TO a man named valstedt by the
proprietor. 1t occurred to the detective
that he had heard hat name before. He
ascertained from Mr.. valstedt that he had
come to the United States in 1861 and left
New York in 1863. Further inquiry dcvel-
oped the identity of valstedt as the brother
of the New York tailor, Falkvist, and he
said he changed his name when he came
to this county. Walters says that valstedt
is a brewer of Fort Benton and that tele-
graphic communication has already
passed between the two brothers. The
new found brother left yesterday for Ia
coma on business but will soo return.
Yesterday from the East there arrived
in this city a car known as the Westing-
house instruction car. II is from exterior
appearances, the same as any ordinary
emigrant coach, but a look inside will
convince the inspector hat il is a very
c~uriously arranged machine, composed
entirely of Westinghouse air brakes and
represents a train of 80 cars with all air
brake appliances. This car is in charge
of an expert from the Westinghouse
works, and whose business it is to instruct
engineers, brakemen and other train
hands I'm the use of the Westinghouse
brake. Engineer George Fairchild, one
of the oldest drivers of the Northern Pa
cific company, has been appointed as as
sistant instructor and will remain with
the car Oh the Rocky Mountain division.