The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-26
THE ENGLISH AFTER 1T
Reports Revived About the Sale Of his.
Soula'S Mercantile Company.
= Man who G0a sis Coat Hack Throu~h
the Agency 0f the .Ssnmtlarh'-
MR.sOala's Latest Iterns
Of News.

SiNNlnl to u StstlittTn.
MIssoULA, Jan. 2S.-Rumor was again
received on the streets to-day that the
Missoula Mercantile company had dis
posed of It's enormous business interests
i'm this county tn an English syndicate Of
capitalists. Your correspond
the rumor was well founded, Ii may be
announced upon the hest authority
that the deal has actually been
consumated. Ii tr~anspires tonight that
of the Lave been notified by the
chiefs of the outfit of the change. The
co,npany's buyer WAS to have started for
New York this week tn purchase goods
hut was notified that u change had
taken place which would necessitate
caiifornia. II. Ii. Eddy is Sere. but " viii
say nothing ign regard to the affair. One
gentleman who is high i'm the authority of
the Missoula mercantile company said to-
a STANDARD reporter ~to-night: Yes,
p.em is c .raas; 'ns deal .n has really
not probable that anything will occur to
interfere with the tranfer of the property.
the consideration. and i'm fact cannot say
anything more than that / have been i'm
formed that the sale has been made. but
lic."
81. Cronk. whose valuable fur o~vercoat
was stolen from the Florence hotel about
"a week ago, thanks the STANDARD AS be-
ing the medium by which he recovered
the stolen garment. ID. u. Twohy, Of
Iwohy Bros, Butte, notified Croiix by
mail that he had read M account of the
theft I'm the STANDARD and was sure
he had seen the coat ON a certain man i'm
Butte. Cronk went to Butte yesterday
the Northwosscrn saloon, in S"1th Butte
kept by Chris Hartman, and identified the
coat. Hartman surrendered il and ex-
s25 from a mar that purported to
come from st. Paul and was ON his was
to Portland. Cronk was salts,
At a mass meeting in GrantsdaIe a few
days ago a set of resolutions We're adop..
ted commencing the qualifications of
Major, Roman for the, position
of Indian agent and calling
endorse him. The citizens of Missoula
have aiken up. the signal, and the petition
asking that the major be reappointed is
men in shis city. Major Roman was
appointed during. Hayes, adminis-
tration u his services have
til. district. Great credit is due l. the
integrity. skill aud lorQ experience OF the
major in Indian affairs, by which he i'm
ing some of the best lands In Fiathead
Lake county, To sigh a treaty by which
they will ali move to Jocko i'm the spring,
and several thousand acres of land IA
flathead will be thrown open to settle
mcnt.
A humber OF citizens of Frenchtown
came down on q special train Tonight to
witness the performance of Frederick
Ward. Among the were Joe
Marion and daughters. Mr.. and Mrs.
KliNgberg. Messrs. Eastman, Ryan, Nc
Elroy, Dolan, Cronk, and others.
A petition il being circulated amongs
property owners i'm south Missoula to have
"a boulevard constructed four miles long
tn run parallel with the river on the south
side. Such u scheme would greatly en-
nance the beauty and value of property
An effort is being made to
induce the Northern Pacific to
allow all through passenger
stop-over privileges at Missoula. At pres
ent Spokane is the first s~top-over town on
the trip from Helena west, but IL the Sec
ond-class passengers were allowed To stoi
oil here on the trip west il would prove oi
infinite advantage to this city.
Undoubted evidence of "a coming big
boom il found i'm Missoula. Real estate
is commencing To move IN u sotnewhit
lively manner again.
Repr, sentative Dan Hunt, who has beer
here several days looking over Missoula's
many advantages, has finally decided Il
locate here permanently. He leaves t.
morrow for his home in Avoca, Iowa. t.
bring his family out.
Mr.. Law of Spokane has decided Il
make Missoula his home hereafter.
About a o'clock yesterday afternoon
surveyors outfit, enroute for camp IRON
Bonner, were buried undcr N spow-slide
fortunately for the outfit one emb re
manned behind for some purpose aud ar
The men were nearly exhausted when dun
out. but recovered sufficiently in IA shor
time tn be able tn proceed OH their jour
ney to camp.