The Anaconda standard., 1890-06-04
NORTHWEST NEWS.


New States and Elsewhere.
Tacoma will tolerate no more public
prize fights.
Over S15,0OO worth of real estate changed
hands at Livingston last week.
Colonel Woodford Ii holding successful
temperance meetings ut Dillon.
The Northern Pacific will soon build an
immense water tank ut Garrison.
The job printers Of Spokane Falls are
on strike. They demand $3.50 per day
for nine hours work.
The Leader says the Fourth OF July will
be celebrated at Wciser in manner
never before attempted in Idaho.
Spokane Falls burglars entered the res
idence Of Stella Geer and carried of S275
in cash and other articles to the value of
5000, Sunday night.
Florence, this county, certainly takes
the cake for female heavyweights, seven
of the heaviest women Of that town
weighing an aggregate of 1870 pounds
Snohonish Sun.
Married men who have no children are
to run a race Mt Glendive on the Fourth of
July. The prize is TO be baby carriage.
There are five entries but IL is believed
there will be 10 starters.
In the counting room of the Boise City
Statesman office is placard reading;
"Fighting editor next door," with hand
pointing into the editorial room. Mr..
Cobb, the business manager, says the edi-
tors must do their own fighting.
An alteration occurred Sunday between
three postal clerks and Special Timber
Agent Mccormick, at Spokane Falls. The
latter claims tina. the post Office being
closed he went to the rear door to get his
mail, when the clerks assaulted him.
An effort is being made TO secure par
don for Nicholas Cary, who is serving a
five years. sentence in the Deer Lodge
penitentiary for holding up man near
Billings. Cary is about fifty years old and
is said TO be dying with consumption.
George Bacon, who carried the mail to
Banner and Silver Mountain all winter.
says the snow has not melted sufficiently
to form a crust, and believes that the high
water is yet to come. Some of the slides
between Banner and Silver are 100 feet
deep.-Iddho Democrat.
John NJ. Hobson, n saloon keeper at
Belt, committed suicide at Great Falls,
Monday, by cutting his throat with one
of the glasses of his spectacles. He had
been drinking heavily and was placed in
confinement to sober off. He was found
dead a few hours after his incarceration.
Hobson was cripple, having both legs
oil above the knee.
A Iantic correspondent of the Rirer
Press says About 10000 sheep from the
valleys of Clear creek and Milk river will
be shorn here this season, and negotia-
tions are now pending with the railroad
company for the erection of a wool ware
house. The sheep men have good luck
with lambing, having had very little loss,
and the ewes are I'm good condition.
A ST. Paul dispatch says the Northern
Pacific passenger department formally
announced that the company will, on
June Is, establish double daily passen-
ger train service between St. Paul and
Minneapolis and Helena. Tacoma and
Portland. In order to have this service
first class in every respect, II new dining
cars of the latest and most improved pat
tern have been added to the company's
already large equipment of dining cars.
A very singular accident occurred to
George w. Rouse to-day. He was coming
in from the Big Sag leading behind a
wagon two horses. At Nine Mile coulee
he had hold of n rope attached TO one Of
the horses when the animal suddenly
pulled back. The rope caught M Rouse
around the thumb of the left hand and
cut il completely of at the first joint.
Had the amputation been performed with
a surgeons knife il could not have been
more complete.-Rirer Press.
The authorities at Fort Keogh, on tele-
graphic advices from the commander at
Fort Custer, arrested Cheyenne, Black
Medicine, as implicated i'm the murder of
Ferguson. and turned him over to the
sheriff of Custer county. Stock Detective
Smith is on his way TO Miles City from
Fort Custer with Little Eyes, whom he ar
rested there. The third one of the muir
derers, White Buffalo, left Fort Keogh
"Wednesday TO return to the agency, aud
the Indian scouts from Fort Keogh, by or.
der of the commanding officer, have been
sent TO arrest him and bring him 10 the
civil authorities. White Buffalo and
Black Medicine came to the post OH the
18th and applied to be enlisted as scouts.
!, The Cheyennes at the post are said TO be
anxious to assist in the capture of White
Buffalo, SO as to show that the tribe has
no sympathy with the act.
Added TO the local celebration of Me-
mortal day at Snohomish, WASH, occur.
red feature which caused sensation
and the loss of life. McMabon's circus
was playing there and among its attrac.
tions was n balloon ascension by n man
named Redmond. Redmond made the
ascent amid the cheers OF the assembled
crowd, but the wind was blowing hard
and il was evident he had some difficulty
i'm managing his aerial ship. He at.
tempted to descend and a shudder passed
through the people as il was noticed tina,
he was being carried over amongst some
tall trees. Quickly he was carried along