The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-22
The GREAT NORTHWEST
Topics Of General Interest In Tho Hev
States and Elsewhere.
kanGaroos From Australia to be
Placed In the National Park
A Smugsier's Vessel Sold
at Port Townsend.
MONTANA.

The Flathead people wish to see good
mills of every kind erected as soon as
possible. There Is no doubt but hat such
improvements would prove profitable to
all concerned.
Algeria Temple of Mystic Shriners are
making great preparations TO entertain
$50 Mystic Shriners from New York city,
who are expected there about the 3Oth of
the month. A delegation from Helena
will escort the visitors through the Ma
tional Park and return with them to Hell
ena.
The girls employed at the Springs hotel
in the Park have been sen to isolated
points. The soldiers camped lei the
hotel proved to be too attractive in their
brass buttons and blu clothes, and il was
with great difficulty that the girls could
be induced to attend TO their duties.-
Bozemon Chronicle.
John Rose, a boy IL years Of age, is
missing from Big Timber. He is sup
posed to nave left in company with one
Fred Manning. The two may have gone
to Soda Springs, Idaho, or Salt Lake City,
Utah. Any n sending word to his sor-
rowing mother, whose address is Eliza
beth Little, Livingston, Montana, will
confer a great favor. Idaho and Utah pa
pers please copy.
II is said that lightning never strikes in
the same place twice. but such was the
case out on Crow creek last Monday even
ing. At the residence of Herman Stark
weather the lightning struck two or three
times within a very small circle. Mr..
Starkweather and his brother, John, were
milking at the time. Both men were
knocked senseless and one cow killed out
right.-TOtcnseRd Ners.
The New York World is authority for
the statement that "A number of sportsmen
throughout the country are seriously EN-
tertaining the idea of importing a number
of kangaroos from Australia to the Ma
tional Park. They nave been successfully
acclimated in England and France. and it
is said that there is actually no reason
why they should not. thrive here. The
idea of the promoters of this plan is to in
troduce the kangaroo at h beginning of
the warm season in the Yellowstone Park,
and give the breed government protection
for a few years SO as to bar out the pot
hunters.
The rapidly decomposing body of an
abandoned woman known as Mrs. Stone
was discovered OH Tuesday morning, par
TALLY hidden by b grass and weeds, on
the bank of the slough near the second
bridge. Thu coroner was notified and a
jury viewed the remains deciding that
death resulted from natural causes. The
body was cofiined and buried i'm the Pot.
tiers field. She was half imbecile and
has been IA county charge for the past
three years, but was allowed to wander
about without hindrance. She had not
been seen about since Thursday and
probably died on the slough during Satur-
day.-Biiiings Gazette.
One day last week some railroad labor.
ers at Pony became angry at an order
given them by Ed Gavin, their foreman,
and some hot words ensued. Finally one
of them seized q hammer and made a
rush at the foreman, striking him a vi.
cious blow over the head. Mr.. Gavin,
having no chance of escape, lodged for.
ward, so that only the handle of the ham.
mer struck him, cutting a cash i'm his
scalp TO the bone. He was brought 10
town and attended by DIR. Cooper, who
says that had he received the full force OF
the blow it would probably nave frac.
tured the skull. The fellow made his es.
cape and has not been heard of since
Pony Express.