The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-14
The GREAT NORTHWEST
Topics Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
An Unwilling B~rIde--The Great
Northern Surveyors Supposed to
Have Been Lost. Turn Up
Safe and Sound.
MONTANA.

The Helena Mining Rerier now issues a
daily addition.
The signal service thermometer at Glen
dive registered 103 Wednesday.
James Matkin, one of the oldest OF
Montana pioneers, is reported dying.
Great Falls has q telephone line, two
street car lines anda an electric light plant.
Helena is going to advertise her re-
sources 10 the amount OF SJOyOOO or S'5,-
600.
A New York expert engineer will arrive
in Helena next week to examine the pro-
posed dam and works of the Missouri
River Power company.
A Great Falls special to the Independent
SAYS: Ex-SheriH Dewitt of Fort Conrad
brings word that the Great Northern rail-
road surveyors, Abbott and Hamilton,
returned safely to their camp at the head
of Willow creek. They had been out S
days aud were supposed to have been lost
i'm the mountain SHOWS. They suffered
many hardships. but found a practicable
pass with easy grades on either side. II
is supposed hat Shepherds Winston and
Stems q Arlington have taken contracts
for the Pacific extension OF the Great
Northern. which will be started o
from a point north of Assinniboine.
At Boulder Saturday Maggie Devcre
was sentenced to 100 days IN b e county
Jail for contempt of court I'm attempting To
aid Thomas King, under sentence of
death, 10 commit suicide with poison. In
passing sentence the court reminded the
prisoner of the clemency shown her only
a few days before the commission OF the
act of contempt, when she was released
from a charge of aiding Josie Hopkins to
escape, by an order of the court. The
present crime, he said, was "A most fla
grant and serious instance OF contempt OF
court and the grand jury should have
found al Indictment against the defend
ant for attempt To commit murder in or
der that adequate punishment might be
inflicted.
About 25 miles west from Augusta, right
in the mountains, on the bank of the
North Fork, there are three magnificent
warm springs, each carrying about A.
inches of water. The water of these
springs is just comfortably warm for
bathin9 purposes, m is possessed of
medicinal virtues exactly similar 10 those
of the famous Arkansas Hot Springs of
Arkansas or santa Robes Of California,
the latter of which are now being visited
by invalids from all paris of Europe. The
country where the Augusta Springs are
located presents all the grandeur and va
riety known TO mountain solitudes. They
are of easy access, and in their vicinity can
be found abundance of trout, grouse and
the larger game of the mountains. Al
present the nearest ranch To the springs
is that of Mr.. J. II. Buttolph, who lives
seven miles this side on the road &c
At. I'm tim. tlnSa 1,rtnru x..lI To-
come a place of popular resort. both for
those who would ease their bodies of pain
by recourse TO the h~ealth-giving proper.
ties of the waters, and those who would
case their brows of care by communion
with atu in her most sublime FORMS
Sn Rirer Sun.
Friday a man named Spencer Robin
son, giving his residence as Elliston and
his age as q, applied for n marriage H.
cense at the Office Of the clerk of the dis
trict count, says the Helena Herald. Its
issuance commenced and ran smooth.
until he announced the age of his i'm
tended bride as IA. Here Deputy CLERK
Cassidy called a halt in the proceedings
and said hat the consent of the parent,
would have to be obtained. The man re
tired somewhat crestfallen, but persever
ingly bobbed up to-day with n written con
sent and also with the contemplated
bride. Clerk Bean was present thi,
morning and after inspecting the sigma
lures to the consent, which did not lool
quite right, put some questions to tn,
man, in the course of which the girl tool
occasion 10 remark that she did not wan
to To marry Robinson. At this Robinson
took her into the hall and after a whis
pered conversation the two returned an,
the girl said she would consent I,
the marriage but that she did not Low,
the man.. Determined to assist a
little as possible at that sort of marriag,
Mr.. Bean said he was still dissatisfie,
with the signatures and refused to issu,
the certificate. The couple retired an,
soon returned with the mother of the CIR
who said she gave her consent whereupoI
there was nothing to be done but max
out the paper. The girls name is Nor
Hunter. She is a mere child.