The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-11
NORTHWEST NEWS.


He bring. nothing hat good news from
the ranges Cattle are In fnc condition
in this section.
II 10 said u crop record hos been kept
for the last % years at Poplar Creek,
Mont, says the Glasgow Hevoid. During
that time there has been four failures, Ave
half crops and II splendid crops.
The Montana Chuychnsaa In now seven
years old. 1t has been printed In Virginia
C<y ever since IL started. hut will soon be
removed to Deer Lodge, it's editor, Rev. E.
e.. Proct, having been transferred to that
place.
Regarding the loss of sheep i'm Eastern
Oregon, the East Oy~Ooni0n says editor
tally: I'VE do not believe IL will he over
y per cent. at the outside In Umatilla
county. though IL may he heavier I'm some
other localities"
The Indian ponies OH the reservation
near Yakima. WASH, have been dying
very fast this winter. One Indian who
entered the winter with 12S head of cay
uses, reports that he has hut - left, and
they are reduced to mere
At low tide the clam-digQers are busy OH
the Hats i'm front of Ilwaco, WASH, where
the CLAIMS are numerous and fat. A few
years ago no such thing as n clam was tn
lie found i'm Bakers bay, while now the
supply seems to he inexbaustible.
The fact of the Northern Pacific rail-
road purchasing the Rocky Fork branch
means something, says the Red Lodge
Picket. What it ~ no one knows Tor GER
tain. We are of the opinion that IL means
the extending of the road on To Cook
City.
Colonel electric railway
will be a valuablc addition to the traffic
facilities of Helena. The motors will he
10 horse power and will easily draw two
cars with 10 people,. Trains are to run
every Is minutes from Main street tn
Hotel Broadwater
The Rising Sna, of sun River, has
changed hands. MIR. Carson. the former
publisher, retires and A.. w. Dclany as
sumes proprietorship. In his salutatory
address the new owner says that he
camped on the site of the present town of
sun River % years ago.
Six more of the bodies of the Indians,
including that of the chief, who wers,
while crossing from Mud Bay To
Saanich, WASH. have been picked up on
the beach at Mud Bay. The chiefs body
was badly disfigured. but could be recog-
nized. Two of the bodies have not yet
been found.
Alder Smith, owner of so,ne promising
mines i'm the Boulder camp was i'm Livings-
ton last week. says the Post, tn try and i'm
duce the county commissioners to build n
wagon road up to that camp, as the one
now used is merely "a trail and totally inn
passable. The new road, IL built. will
cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The woman who was found on the
Nahalem mountain, Ore, with the body
of a dead hoy some time ago, and who
has been stopping at the poor farm OF
Washington county. pht on her Old
clothes, opened the door and, taking an
AK, left for parts unknown. She tried to
induce one of the inmates to go with her,
hut he preferred to stay at this time of tho
year.
The West O,pyoaiun publisher does not
find altogether smooth sailing on the sea
of journalism. Having commented upon
the high freight charges between Myrtle
Point and the bay, the transportation
company dumped his patent insides oil en-
route, which compels him to issue n half
sheet, with a wooden head. Then come
numbers of his subscribers and order
their papers stopped, informing him that
they did not subscribe for half sheets.
Very few cattle losses are reported as
the result of the recent severe storms.
says the Livingston Post. Many thous-
and head were left to rustic on the
ranges but were i'm good condition tn
withstand a storm, while all the weaker
stock was sheltered and fed. The storm
was one of tho most severe that has Wis
tied this section for years, and tire fact
that of the thousands of cattle left to
weather il only II nominal loss was ssis-
tanned. speaks volumes for the valley
of the Yellowstone as u embarrassing re-
gion.
named r. l.. Fr~othinghain. who formerly
represented Hobbs, Taft 4 Co., wool buy
ers of Boston, has been drawing checks
on the National Park bank for various
amounts in the name of the firm, and
signing the names of various parties
thereto as endOrsers. says thc
Post. A number of these have been re-
ceiveh at the National Park bank, aGRrc-
eating about $4,000. but have been pro-
tested. F~rothinghani's present wherca-
bouts are now
While i'm Boston recently OIL II business
trip, &. -. Fee. general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific. made arrange
ments with Raymond g.. Whitcomb, the
well known excursion agents, for n series
of six straight excursions to the Yellow
stone mark from eastern cities during the
corning season. Last year there were but
two such excursions. and the most of any
previous years. three. The increase
of travel is made because of the falling
off i'm the California travel and the in
creased interest being taken in the Ma
tional Park.
David Golf. a Sweet Grass miner. ar
rived i'm town last night and filed several
mining locations with the county clerk.
says the Fort Benton mrer Press. He re-
ports that Larry Embreton is down ~ feet
OH the Mountain Chief, which is ON what
is known as "tne big iron lead" and in