The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-19
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Topics Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
The Jail at Bozeman is without an occu-
pant.
The German Lutheran synsd Of the two
Dakotas convenes at Aberdeen April q.
White Caps, or self-styhd ~vieilantes,
are threatening the la~w-aoidinR citizens
Of Bozeman.
General Land Commissions Croft in
structs Dakota land officers TO see to II
that the indians are not cheated.
The Higgins brothers, of Missoula, q
a pack Of Is greyhound, the fnes pack
in the state, and Of the purest blood.
Engineers are soon to be sent to the
artesian basins of the Dakotas to make
experiments for irrigation purposes.
A letter has been received by q North
Dakota loan company from Cairo, Egypt,
in regard TO the purchase of state securi-
ties.
The Pioneer Press says: A company In
Incorporated to build 5000 miles of rail-
way in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
After boring thirteen wells ON his farm
near Arlington, s. D., without success,
some of them to q depth of 100 feet, Fred
Bolt last week struck q flow Of water at a
depth of 90 feet.
Last year Bozeman did not have the
semblance of q boom and yet over xS15,OOO
were expended within its corporate limits
i'm permanent improvements, says the
Courier.
II is reported that the Northern Pacific
has ordered 100 new locomotives, 200 stock
cars, 300 fiat cars and 1,500 box cars, to
meet the requirements of their increased
business.
The trial OF Omar Hoskins, who was re-
Gently acquitted on a charge OF cattle
stealing, cost Park county more than
5000, and the taxpayers are wondering
how they are going to get even.
1t is generally understood that the sur
vey of the Neihart branch is to be con-
tinued to White Sulphqr Springs and Cas-
tie as soon as the snow Is out OF the
mountains sufficient for the surveyors to
work.
The report of the Black Hills presby-
terry shows that the number of churches
has increased % per cent. n the amount
of money contributed to foreign missions
and other charitable objects has more
than doubled during the past year.
Maurice O'Hair, now serving q life sem
tence in the Bismarck penitentiary for the
murder of Peter Casey at Hillsboro In
1886, has been granted a new trial by the
North Dakota supreme court on the
ground Of illegality Of the judges instruc-
tons to the jury.
The body of an infant was picked up on
the street in Fargo the other day. II had
been buried i'm O snow bank, and had the
appearance Of having been dead for more
than a month, although in n perfect state
of preservation. No clue to the parents
could be found.
The wheat acreage of South Dakota last
year was 2,013,7 Ss acres. Estimates Of the
acreage for this year vary, some grain and
elevator men holding that II will he fully
equal 10 that Of last year, while Commits
sioner Hagerty Of the bureau of immigra-
ton and statistics expresses the opinion
that not to exceed 20 per cent OF last years
acreage will be cropped.
While working In the Alabama last
week Frank Bates put of n blast which
opened up n nice little cav large enough
for him to crawl into, says the White
Sulphur Springs Husbdndman. Strange to
say on entering this cavern, which was
beautifully studded with crystals and
ate formations, he picked up an ami
mails tooth four or five inches in length
and two or three inches broad. This
tooth was lying loose OH he fioor OF the
crystal chamber as IL il dropped there
yesterday, though II is no doubt a pre-his-
toric relic.
At the session of the S~tockgrowers' as
sociation Thursday the bylaws were
amended so as to permanently reduce the
dues of the association to IS a year. The
executive committee was instructed to ex-
anime the list of members and drop there
from such as they believed, from n failure
to pay their dues, did not wish to con-
tinue as members of the association. A
brand boob was authorized to be printed
this year under the direction and super
vision of the executive committee. The
secretary was instructed to notify the
members of the association residing in
the Dakotas, who had not paid their as
sessment for the stock inspectors fund
for the past ear that they must pay three
fourths of a mill on each dollar of the
assessed valuation of their stock for the
inspection Of their cattle, N IL they ne.
elected to comply with u noti-
~fication the secretary was instructed
to drop their names from the roll,
and notify the inspectors hat their cattle
a.e not TO be inspected, nor shall they
send them any information whatever.
The committee appointed to nominate
officers Of the association for the ensuing
year submitted the following report: For
president, Joseph Scott; for first vice
president. Conrad Kohrs; for second vice
president, John NJ. Holt; Fo secretary
and Il. B. Harrison; for mem.