The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-11
NORTHWEST NEWS.


vene AT Boulder to-uay.
The Seattle Journal predicts that the
census will show q population of over
$1,000 in that city.
washington's eighth annual encamp-
ment OF the G. A. r. will be held at e.
iensburg April 30 and May 1.
A Tacoma dispatch from Na9asaski,
Japan, states that George Francis Train
will reach Brindisi May 8.
a John Rick has brought q libel suit
against Charles Bessener, publisher OF
the walla Walla Journal, claiming $500
damages.
ing regular trips on Flathead lake, her
first run from Demersville to Pied du Lac
having been made Tuesday.
State Auditor Kenney's report for 1889,
gives figures as follows: LAB mules,
S72,7s2; l,1sO,6OS sheep, $2,762,4O4; 49,
322 cattle, sl0,6s2,Oa1; 10000 horses,
1921, s54.
The county attorney Of Park county has
brought suit against seven large cattle
owners of that county who refuse to pay
taxes because their stock range on the
Crow reservation.
Frank Z. Vaughn, charged with en-
bezzling the contents OF a, registered let
ter at the Enterprise, Ore, ~postoffice in
November, 1889, has been arrested and
taken to Portland.
Rev. Mr.. Hall of Bozeman is interesting
himself in a scheme whereby he intends
to ask the citizens of Bozeman to plant a
large number of trees, say two thousand,
to be watered by the city at a nominal ex-
pense for three years by the water works
company.
The state auditors report states that
during the past year 1887 coyotes, $50
wolves, 101 bob cats, 5 mountain lions, a
bears and 81 lynxes were killed, making a
total of 1880 wild animals destroyed by
hunters. for which bounties were paid to
the amount of 8,059.
The resignation Of A. G. Postlethwaite as
general land agent of the Northern Pacific
will take place May 1. On and after that
date the office will be consolidated with
the general land department and the du-
ties of the position relinquished by Major
Postlethwaite performed by Assistant
Land Commissioner George W. Board.
Corporal John Owen Dalzell, now sta.
ton agent of the Northern Pacific at Bill
ings, wal besieged in his office day
last week by q war party Of Crows, one of
whom had suffered the loss of some stock
at the hands of the railroad company.
<hSculflIItk tlat WIG ohBoho "oo t"t
proper party to make restitution, they ad-
vanced on him in force, and ii was only
through the frantic exertions of an inter
prefer that his scalp lock was saved.
The Stockmen's National bank of Fort
Benton has received notice from Wash
ington that its currency for circulation
has lbeen shipped. says the Rfrer Press.
The officers of that institution will be
called upon to put in a day or two's time
signing about 1.sOO bills of different de-
nominations, after which the bills will be
put in circulation as fast as business may
demand. This gives Fort Benton two
banks of issue.
The G.. A. X. ~encampment at Living
ston elected the following officers We'd
nesday: Department commander, Z. c.
Ferris of Bozeman: senior vice, n. II.
Morley, of Post Is; chaplain, 5. L. Sny-
der of Post 3; delegates to the national
encampment, II. L. Fisk of Post 1, p. II.
Daleman of Post 2; ~alternates, William
Harmon of Post 4, j. j. York Of Post 2.
Anaconda was chosen as the place for the
next annual encampment.
The Horse has the following: We are in
receipt of the programme of tire Montana
circuit. This circuit gives in four towns
$4,000 i'm purses and stakes, and should
u az pNSh tAot'so ~ thh' VI
the country to its meetings. Missoula
claims July IA to 10; Deer Lodge July - to
%; Anaconda July 30 TO August 9, and
Butte August 13 to %. Last years racing
through this circuit was highly successful
and the contests were Of a very superior
order. We shall anticipate for the Mon
tana meetings this season even greater
success than those of last year.
A most exciting horse race has beer
arranged between w. /. Higgins and NJ
$. Parker, to come off on the 18th OF
April. says the Deer Lodge Neio Northwest
The bet OF Mr.. Higgins is that Deer Lodgt
Girl will beat the lark gray horse belong
, ing to Mr.. Parker, a race, starting at the
stable of Ward, Lodge 4 Co., on Main
street, In Deer Lodge, and ending at the
residence of James O'Donnell, on tho
road to Champion, a distance Of II miles
The race will, OF course, be up hill all the
way. The horses go TO buggies, eaci
buggy to contain two persons. The judgs
of Higgins sits with Mr.. Parker, and thu
Judge of Parker sits with Higgins. Tn,
race will start promptly at 10 o'clock. Mr.
Higgins bets 1900 shares of American
Ruby against the bay mare Belle, belong
ing to Mr.. Parker, and these are also tn,
forfeits i'm case either refuses to make til,
race.
The question of boring In artesian wei
at or near Fort Benton is being seriousl,
considered by many of its live business
men, says the Press. II is an enterpris,
which commends itself TO their judgmen
and may materialize in the very nea
future. II is To the interest of all that tn,
matter should be determined at the yer.
earliest day. IL flowing water can b,
found in the great basin of which For
Benton is the center, the water problem
as far as this section is concerned, viii
be settled and bench land farming shori
of its only risk. The Rirer Press hold
that a 500 foot well will settle il. A gen
tleman Of Fort Benton who has studiet
the geological formation of this portion o
Montana as shown by the deeply Gu
banks of the Missouri between this poin
and the great falls above says that tn
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