The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-04
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
MONTANA.

The Garrison and Elliston boards OF
trade held a joint meeting q few nights
ago, TO combine their forces in trying to
get Butte of OF the Northern Pacific side
track.
William Mattel started to make q visit
to his old home i'm southeast Pennsylvania
several weeks ago, and after arriving at
Chicago the weather was so intensely hot
that he turned westward and returned to
Montana. Gods country" as he calls IL.
.CSiirer State.
Y This years clip of wool in this section
amounts to something over 100000
pounds. By the time next years clip is
ready TO ship there will be n railroad here.
and Cho,eau will be the greatest shipping
point in Northern Montana, and don't you
forget it.-Montanian.
Hon. j. b. Clayberg. of Helena, has been
honored with the appointment TO a pro-
fessorship of mining In the law depart
ment Of Michigan University. He will de-
liver a course of lectures on mining dur
ing the coming session.
Exchanges in the state are requested to
copy this inquiry by Mrs. Johanna Rose,
Appleton, Wis.,, as to the whereabouts of
her son, Gustav Rose. He was last heard
from near Miles City, Montana, where he
worked on the railroad. His father died
recently.
Il. Tromblez, who came To Benton
~thirty-seven years ago and never Jaw n
circus in his life, went to Great Falls to
witness the antics of the elephant and to
take i'm the whole business. Great Falls
is the biggest town he has seen since he
left 81. Louis and drought the river up
with him.
A West Deer Lodge resident is the
owner of a large white hen which has
been laying an egg eac day for three
years without once Offering to set, says
the Siirer State. The eggs are very large,
and the shell is so hard that they are unfit
for Matching. A member of h household
has very iittingly named her Macduff.
The output of coal at Sand Coulee has
beer largely increased. The Great North
ern has more than doubled its daily requis-
ition and is now using Sand Coulee coal on
nearly It's entire system. Conductor Moore
of the Sand Coulee branch brought a train
of 65 loaded cars TO Great Falls Sunday,
carrying considerably more than 1000
tons Of black diamonds.
A lady friend of ours says she was teach
ing in the Helena public schools about
fourteen years ago and wishing to cx-
plain the meaning of the word h~ippoCrome
which occurred in one of the lessons, she
said TO one of the class, "Iou ha We been
to a circus, nave you not ?" but every one
of them had to shake his head and sadly
and dejectedly answer "no.r A circus
and a railroad were things to be dreamed
Of fourteen years ago in Montana. The
reality Is here now and the small boy can
make as much of il as his eastern friends.
Great Falls Leader.
The wife of Mr.. Hodge, of the Helena
electric light works, gave birth to twin
boys Wednesday night while her husband
was after a doo % II is said the husband
remained away a long time, and hat the
woman suffered terrible agony with nc
one near her at the time, and when her
husband returned she was dead. That
she had suffered terribly was evidenced
from the way she must have torn her face
about the ears. A physician says she died
of blood poisoning. The infant twins.
both boys, are being cared for by the de.
ceased's sister.
A Fort Custer dispatch to the Helena
journal says: Porcupine, the apostle of
the New Messiah, returned Wednesday
!, unexpectedly from the row agency. He
said Major Wyman, the agent of the
Crows, had fired him out, he would moi
nave any of the new religion himself and
did not want any OF il for the Crows,
Porcupine complained of the curt treat
ment he had received and said he would
go home. General Brisbin told him tina,
, was best and said Wyman wasn't much
on religion put great on farming. He
thought IL Porcupine would bring a pillow
he would find b old major all right. The
Crows are all assembled at the agency
nearly 1900 strong, where they will cele-
brate the Fourth Of July with a big feast
horse races I'M a dance i'm which $50 war
riors in full paint and feathers will par
ticipatp.