The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-06
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Touics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

summer. '
s1oJmO stock company il being organ
;,ad at Rozeman for the publication ola
prohibition organ.
Fort Benton will ask Mr.. Carter to use
his influence to nave an experimental
artesian well put down Mt that place.
The Bozeman electric light plant SUI
. fered the burning OF an armature last
week, entailing q loss of $1,000 to the COM
pany.
ST. Paul parties are to build a Touring
mill nj Billings to be completed October i.
The solid men of Bozeman are agitating
the question of building a S1OO,OOO hotel,
with some prospect of success.
II is reported that parties along the fel-
lowstone have stolen one hundred head
~ cattle from Story, Dilworth and Ander-
son during the past winter. The hides
were thrown into the Yellowstone, to
avoid detection.
II is reported by late arrivals from the
Flathead lake country, that the man Mill
Ter who wal lost on last Friday, near the
foot of the lake has not yet been FOUND
II is supposed he perished.-Missout'dn.
At the ANNUAL meeting Of the Wyoming
Stock Growers association held at Chey-
enne reports show that with the exception
OF SOuIneTn "youitiks WhSsS
have been severe, this has been the mild
est winter experienced for eight years.
Losses for the entire year are placed at
DER cent. John Clay, jr., was elected pres
ident.
The Overland hotel was partially de-
stroyed by fire Thursday afternoon. The
buildinp was owned by Charles and Will
liam Rowe and the damage to building
and furniture will run between 5000 and
%. 200. The history of the Overland is a
mart of the history of Fort Benton, as 1t
has been in existence more h 20 years
and this is the first disaster that has ever
visited the popular hostelrie, known to
every old Montanian who visited Fort
Benton in earlier or later years.
Last fall Byron O'Keefe had several
horses stolen from his ranch in Missoula
county. About the same time that the
horses disappeared n Isaac Ihibedeau'
\ who had been lingering abou the neigh
borhood, was also missing. Suspicion
was at once laid on the trail Of Isaac, but
he bafied all detective ingenuity and
made good his escape for the time being.
"Wednesday last Thibedeau was arrested
at Great Falls, where he was driving q
u water wagon, and will be taken to Mis-
soula.
The Rocky Fork coal train has been
Abandoned, says the Billings Gdzette, il
having been decided that Red Lodge Goa
is unfit for use on their engines. In con
sequence the output of coal has been re
duced TO Is cars per day, these hauled oil
the regular passenger train, no additiona
train being required for the transporta
ton of the coal from the mines. Thi
will nave a depressing effect upon Ret
Lodge, as the company has given the Goa
49, ,,;,l anl haya haan sarinifSly in
convenienced.
sensational rumor is ~circulatea
through the medium of the feiio,rsfon
Journal that the Northern Pacific is maxi
ing a move to construct a cut oil fror
Dickinson, n. d., to Miles City, running i
as near an air line as possible and leavin
Glendiye out i'm the cold. However vii
ionary this may be as to present intention
the cut of would save an hours time, an
witt the competition I'm fast runs thu
other transcontinental roads are making
this saving to the Northern Pacific Is m
TO be sneezed at. Poor old Glendive wi
survive in name only should such a ron
be adopted.
Two boys, brothers, nea Big Timber,
. few days ago, were fooling with a 7
volver, which they supposed empty.
went off, shooting Horatio Gage and XII
ing him instantly. A c%oroner's jury d
cided the shooting accidental. A stranI
fatality for the last few years has follow
the Gage family. The father, a well-to-
rancbman, and a brother were drown
i'm the Yellowstone. Two daughters an
his death were sent to Helena To attel
school, and died in that city OF diphther
The mother next died, and now Horat
a fine lad just entering manhood, is 81
denly slain.
The year 1880 bids fair to be a prosp
Gus one for Montana. Stockmen a
"a woolgrowers have escaped the winter W
Y trifing losses. There are prospects
better prices for beef, owing to a red
tion of the number of cattle in the w
and South and the rapid growth OF G.
sumers. Woolgrowers look Tor n !
price for this years clip, notwithstand
the present dull market. Montana We
with the usual spring rains to cleanse
fceces and soften the fibre. will reach
former high standard. At IL or IN &c
per pound for wool and from 81 to
for mutton sheep, woolgrowers wo
have but little occasion to complain.
The old-timers who have been liv
there have had their confidence I'm
future of Spring Gulch as a great min
camp elevated to the highest pitch,
zach day miners from the CGur d'A
and other parts are arriving on
Z ground. A piece of ore taken from
16-foot vein of the q. II. q NJ, which
struck about a week z at the 30
level, has been assayed and proves to
from $50 to 500 in silver per ton, a
from a heavy percentage of lead al
little gold. The owners OF the mine
elated and will immediately commend
drive a tunnel to tap the shaft about
feet from the surface. The locatio
the mine is such that this tunnel WI
less than 600 feet in length to the pre-
shaft.
During O. +. Goddard's absence IN
East the Montana Coal and Iron COM