The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-11
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
MONTANA.

IL JAIL AZ ~ o>B - W ~"
extent that prisoners are compelled to
sleep in the corridors and on top of cages.
The collections Of the United States in
tana amounted to $500 on the last day Of
April, the end OF the fiscal year.
The First National bank at Great Falls
was entered by burglars N night last
week. They stole n rifle, revolver, buffalo
coat and clothing, but got no money.
A rattle snake was killed Thursday in
front of T. C.. Power & Bros store by
John Mcclellan, one OF the clerks. 1t
measured three feet six inches i'm length
and had five ~rattles. Major DUNES lit
tie daughter, while passing the store, was
the first TO see il, N heard II rattle. The
reptile vas brought i'm OH a load OF hay.
Fort Benton Press.
Through the carelessness of a half-breed
boy q fire started in the timber about ten
miles from Big Sandy station last week
and spread to the prairies along German
creek. The wind Is high and the fire Is
still fiercely raging. A tract OF country
10 miles square has already been burned
over. Senator Mcnamara arrived al Big
Sandy and hustled out all his employees,
and everybody i'm the neighborhood is out
fighting the fire. A telegram was sent
from Big Sandy to Fort As~sinniboine this
morning asking that the troops be sent
to the assistance of the citizens.-fOrf
Benton Press.
Humane Officer Mitchell is having
trouble with George Miller, the horseman.
Several days ago Miller purchased n
draft horse and three wild mustangs at
the stock yards. He hitched the halter OF
one of the mustangs to the tail OF the
draft horse and the halters of the other
two mustangs to the tail of the first mus
tang. The mustangs, being wild, COM
menced to buck and a wild time ensued.
The draft horse struggled along, dragging
the three mustangs attached to his tail
until finally the first mustang broke his
halter. and Miller concluded TO abandon
that style of leading them. Miller was
very indignant when Mitchell arrested
him. He says they always lead horses
that way i'm England and that he will
spend a million to fight the case.-BH-
iings Gazette.
The proposition of the government es-
tablishing a breeding farm for the pro-
duction of cavalry horses is discussed at
some length in n recent issue OF the Chi
cago Horsemdn by Henry w. Cavrill. OF
Fort Custer. Montana, and commented
upon most favorably by General Brisbin;
but we are glad to know that our contem-
porary, the Horsemdn, does not supple
ment its editorial endorsement. Ger
tainly there never was a proposition more
absurd. If the government is to enter
into horse growing il had as well enter
into the manufacture of arms, clothing,
the production of food and, I'm fact, every
industry of the land. In fact, IL we are to
ave a government engaging in all these
industries, we might as well embrace the
socialistic theories of Mr.. Bethany at
once. the people owning everything in
common and all work for the govern
ment. But we do not believe hat there
is any necessity of the free men who COM
pose the government of these United
States s~urrendering their individual
ity, and certainly think that every
tendency towards the Capitalization
of power i'm the government hould
he nipped in the bud. The pretext for the
government going into the horse business
is about the fiimsiest we have ever heard
advanced. In the first place, judging
from the many experiments We have seen
made by the government, il is not capable
of establishing and running n first-class
horse ranch, and even IL II were there is
no necessity for such a project, since the
country is producing just as good cavalry
horses as the government could raise,
and private enterprise Is expanding thou
sands and thousands of dollars i'm inn
proving the equine race, n h~undred-fold
more han the government could afford
to put into the business, and with much
better results than has thus far attended
any government experiment. OF course,
the discussion is well enough. as IL would