The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-09
NORTHWEST NEWS.


Two ,wo-story hotels are being built at
Pony. .
The assessed valuation OF Livingston is {
81, 100000. Z
Port Townsend is laying the track Tor a
street railway.
The Grand Lodge, knights Of Pythias,
Montana. will convene at Livingston )
on May 70.
The E%llensburg Locdiiser has thrown
down its glove in the capital contest Tor
Washington.
Freight Is shipped from Milwaukee to
Port Townsend over the anacian Pacihc
in II days.
The water supply of Meagher county
has never in the history OF the country
been so short as now.
Contracts nave been let for the building
of three school houses at Seattle TO ne
completed August ID.
State Senator Beck of Glendive has ac-
cepted a position as passenger conductor
in Washington, and his office Is now va
rant.
New rails are being put in on the North-
ern Pacific between Bozeman and Living
ston 10 stand the weight of the consoli-
dated engines which run over the noun
tains.
The most disastrous fires ever expert
enced in Minnesota are now sweeping over
Wright and adjacent counties. Dozens OF
farm houses, barns and other outbuildings
nave been consumed.
Levi Scott, who died at the Malheur
agency. Oregon, recently, was a little over
93 wears of age at the time of his decease.
ae crossed the plains to Oregon in lsi4
from Des Moines, Iowa.
inst a mile and a half east of Edmunds,
Washington. says the Chronicle, stands
probably the largest fir tree in the world.
n measures "A feet i'm width in circumfer-
ence and its hight is over 325 feet.
The high water at Wallace, Idaho, is
subsidinp, and trains are again running.
The county loses many bridges, and roads
are badly damaged. There is not a bridge
between Kingston and Wallace.
walla walla is to have three days rae
ing next month, commencing the 18th.
Purses for racing events have beer OF
fered a%pgregating $3.50, which, consider
ing that mine races are To he run, seems
very little.
Thirteen new national banks were or.
panized i'm Washington during the last
fiscal year, making 81 of these banks III
the state, with a combined capital OF
S3,5li. 300, an increase of S2,OOO,OOO during
the year.
Senate Squire has presented n me
mortal 10 the senate asking for an appro
p~riatiou to improve navigation In Puge
sound in the vicinity Of Port Townsend
II is claimed that there are serious oh
structions to navigation
The big Bellingham mil NJ fairhaVeh
Washington, erected SIX years ago o
--l .... thnf linn
eastern capitalists and since that YIN
never put in operation' Is o running
the Fairhaven Land company having %.
tanned a controlling ihterest III H. III
capacity is 100000 feet per day.
Hon. Henry Doyle is at the Rainier ht
tel, Seattle, hating IN MS long search ~
a missing brother, of whom not a wor
has been heard for two years. A corone
and a comfortable fortune await hlin' d,
he has completely disappeared since U
stepped aboard the Premier al ahcouV
in November. 1887.
west-bound passenger train n Ola
last week contained a private horse CT
belonging TO j. b. Haggin, filled with tho
oughbred race horses, bound or.aiio
MIA. A number OF people tnoueh' inc g
was occupied by Haggin, as II was hitch'
to the rear sleeper. haRgi trot'e
travel in style.-Bozemdn Chronicle.
The Canadian Pacific will push the co
struction of the Kootenai d Column
railway as rapidly as possible, and It W
mo i'm operation before the close of
present year. Besides new work the co
nauy will continue the renewals and ]
provements on the main line in which
has been engaged for several months.
To give something of an idea what
costs TO land a special log. We will st'
that the big 125 foot stick recently cut
williamson camp for he Tacoma n
cost about $50 to put in the water.