The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-19
NORTHWEST NEWS.
'opicS Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

II is reported that the recen ain did
10000 worth Of damage to h running
bad bed Of the Yellowstone division.
II is reported that the fruit crop of the
Boise valley will be rather light this sea-
}on, about a half yield being expected.
Campbell and Records of Fort Benton
Beport an increase of 1O5 per cen. Of
lambs from their band Of yves this year.
LA work train and crew of men have
Seen at work putting i'm ties and rails OH
he Park branch preparatory to the open
BIZ of the tourist season.
Steps are being taken at Pocatello for
be purchase OF another outfit of fire
ghting apparatus and the organization
a second fire company.
Carpenters have commenced work on
ne stables and stock yards at Miles City.
they are being built by the Northern Pa
fc road and will cost $4,000.
The horse sales association of Eastern
kfontana, recently organized at Miles
Iity, have decided to hold their first sale
that place during the week beginning
keptember Is. 1880.
Art Thompson was arrested at Weiser
Wednesday, charged with having
tolen a horse from Bill Lewis of Lower
toise valley, He was taken to Boise and
bdged in the county jail to await examin-
Mon.
Reports from the ranges around Fort
Nenton are to the effect that grass is grow
g rapidly from the effects of the recent
Aims. Down on the reservation and in
ilk river valley grass is from six to ten
Sches high.
A lot Of Mormons, with 100 head of cat
r. five covered wagons and a umb OF
omen and children, passed Choteau for
ee's Creek, Northwest Territory, on
tuesday last. There is quite n colony OF
tormons on Lees creek.
The total moun of lands taken up
bid and patented i'm Idaho, outside of
|~ineral land. during the twelve fiscal
bars ending June 30, 1889, is given at
5s7, 1899 acres, of which total over l.
fO.OOO have been disposed of in the last
llf of the period.
THE Livingston Athletic club has ef-
Ncted a permanent organization. At a
Letting Monday evening the club de-
kded to offer a purse of 800 for a twenty
kund glove contest between Kid John son
Bozeman and John Mcclure, the "Not-
hgham Pet" of England, to take place
the evening of July 4.
William Pratt Of Helena attempted sui
de by taking morphine Monday e
liz. He had been drinking heavily and
Id taken the dose with the object of
bering up with a long sleep, but had
ken too much of a dose. After hard
brk the doctor pronounced him out of
snger and he was taken to police head
h~arters.
while passing through h Bozeman
nnel Thursday a woman raised a car
ndow and ~accidently dropped her purse,
lich she held in her hand, in the tunnel.
ne conductor stopped the train and
cked up, when the pocket book vas
kind. Ii contained a good sum of money
Id valuable diamonds. A diamond ring
all that was missing, and she has offered
'eward for its return.
Irhe Haley Ne,cs-Miner says the grass
ppers are Matching out in great mum
rs on the hills circling Camas prairie,
, Il the ranchers are consequently delay
sowing their grain. IL the pests in
Ease in number sufficient to warrant the
m belief that crops will he devastated
eding will be almost suspended. There
Dut little time now left to wait on the
ksshoppers il farmers expect to mature
fir crops.
NJ. Gillespie, a resident of Spokane
lis. died Monday after ten days illness.
e cause of death was given as acute
%ktritis. Upon applying to DIR. Webb,
10 had attended Gillespie, for a death
~tificate he refused to give n This
Il leaking out led to investigation, and
how transpires that about two weeks
Gillespie had engaged in a fight with
ne man, at present unknown, during
Itch he received injuries that it is
bught led to his death. An autopsy will
HELD by the coroner and the case inves-
hted.
On Monday morning a man was oh
wed standing on the outside and lean
against the fence fronting Joe Kim
Is residence, on Idaho street. his head
ttially hanging over and with neck
igly fitted between the pickets, says the
se City Democrat. Passers-by supposed
stupefied with liquor he had staggered
against the fence and thus resting was
! Xeping Oft his stupor, n so gave him
further attention. Finally a stranger
ne along who thought hat something
wrong by the appearance and manner
breathing OF the man, and investigating
discovered him to be unconscious and
OK in the face. The man was choking
would have beer dead in n few mo-
nts. He was released from his perilous
kition, and Marshal Nicholson placed
in the city Jail where he could receive
ention and become sober. His name
Id not be ascertained.
Eovernor Toole has granted a commu-
on of sentence to Albert jackson. In
err to give the board Of pardons time TO
bsider the case the governor granted
prisoner a respite until Saturday, June
The board Immediately held a ses-
b, and named July 5 as The day for a
yring in the case. jackson received the
Us coolly, and said he expected TO re-
be a Communication from the board. He
lines TO talk with people, and told the
vriff that he did not care TO see anyone.
talks freely with the attaches of the