The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.


John Luce os tho John Day valley, who
has been wintcring a hand of sheep In
the Harvey country, Ore. received news
recently tn tho effect that Out OF his hand
81 34O he had lost 2,sOOO. His n~eighbor,
Mr.. Brown, suffers the loss of 5000.
The Censralia, WASH, Nescs says that
the Puget Mill company have such i'm
mense holdings Of timber land that even
at its present rate OF cutting they will Inc
using their own timber for the next 10
years. I'm Mason county alone they own
tSs,OOO acres.
The price of shooting at IA man has been
iudicially fNcd mt Palousc City, Wash.
". II. Arthur and Albert Griggs made
targets of each other Oh the streets of
Paiouss, City Tuesday. The former
fired two shots and the latter four. all
missing. Arthur was fined S25 and
Griggs SO.
Sheep men of Whitman county. Wash..
state that during the present winter they
have had to carefully watch their sheep.
not only while they were alive. tn keep
them from starvation. but after they had
laid down and died, i'm order To secure
their pclts. Stealing pclts from dead
sheep has been carried on tn considerable
extent.
The Yakima, WASH, Herald says that
there is no question hut what the cattle
have suffered greatly this winter and that
the loss is heavy. II was not the cold nor
the snow, hut the poor condition with
s. I"sh ~ AAss.s
The grass been good during the summer
the loss would have been light, hut with
no snow during the winter of 'Ss and 80
tho range has never been known 80 poor
before.
In Lake county, Orc, a month ago a
man started with u few horses N distance
of 30 miles. expecting to go through i'm
one day, but ut the end of ID miles he WINS
showed IN and could not get away for
eight days. He killed u colt and lived
sfpnvs IL for. N N Tint tim, lint his 1nusnS
had not a bite, AMI when il got 40 he
could go on most of them were too weak
tn travel any further, so he left them
there to die. He says the winter has been
umbcrs of sheep and cattle will starve
tn death.
Salem, Ore, will Ia behind says
the Statesman. There was "a volcanic
eruption i'm Japan "a few days ago, and
now reliable persons says they have seen
smoke and flames issuing from the peace
ful and hoary old sentinel of the Cascades,
/, Mount jefferson. IL may he that the quail
ity of liquid refreshments were lowered
by the recent blockade, and hence this
smoke and fire is simply ~ Pigment of some
added we will claim
VIC have a real live volcano, until the con-
trary il proved 10y some one going up to
see.
The late flood. instead of being n dam
age, has been IA great benefit to the river
say tbI' ~ Nv - NPHNss
Hist, as il has left n heavy deposit of sctl-
imcnt on their lands which will insure an
extra heavy growth of grass for several
years tn come. As to the immense guam
tity deposited, Mr.. Charles Mucklc states
that on their ranch ON Sauvie's island the
entire 100 acres of thc place is covered
tn "a depth of from one to twelve inches of
the sediment and many other places on
their ranch which mas been soft marsh
land will, after the deposit settles. become
firm enough for STOCK IN feed over witl,O,if
LANCER of miring.
A family named Francis. living on the
Sinsiaw, Oregon, a short distance above
the mouth of the Wild Cat, had Il narrow
escape during the high water, says the
OTe9onica. They had moved out of the
house and went mp the hill a short dis
lance to "a shed full of hay. One night
while tho family was asleep i'm the shed
Mr.. Francis went down the hill u ways to
watch the rising water. Suddenly II big
landslide came down Oh the opposite side
of tho river and threw up an immense
wave. Before Mr.. Francis knew what
had happened he was washed up several
rods above the shed and the shed had
been moved from it's foundation. Mr..
Francis was bruised some, but the rest cs-
capped uniniurcd.
Chauncey Dale, an old man of 61 years
of age, says the OseDonion, was on the
in the Blue river mines when
the last of the miners left there i'm Novcm-
her, and intended to spend the winter. 1t
is feared that his supplies have become
exhausted. Mr.. Hatch, another miner,
started to climb the mountain on the last
day of December. As there wcrc:7 inches
ofsnow AZ Blue river ut the time. and il
showed hard during the day. il is sup
posed that he persisted. lie WAS an old
man and il is thought was not equal to
climbing the steep mointain. A rxscuing
party consisting of John Hixon, James
wycofr, Mr.. Finn and probably some
others, calculated to make an attcrnpt tai
reach the top of the mountain this week
and find out the condition of the men. A
subscription papcr has been circulated i'm
Eugene to partially compensate them for
the tircsomc trip. Ii is thought there. is
ID feet of SNOW on the mountain mt pres
cnt.
He Lost Both Fortune and Carl.
From the Cleveland I'lain Dealer.