The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-20
NORTHWEST NEWS.
lopics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

The Yellowstone Journal says parties
ust in from the Porcupine report having
zen a herd of about sixty buffalo up in
hat region.
Snow fell on the Crow reservation from
Saturday night till Monday morning, and
he grass is 30 rank that II is almost black
n color and MS thick rs a mat.-fe iiosg-
tone Journal.
Men are being put to work on h Port
Townsend q Southern railroad at the rate
pf 60 a day, and by June fully 1000 men
will be employed. Track laying will be
gin in Is days.
William Coulter, who chained thel little
boy to the side of q house, in the hot sun
all one afternoon at Spokane Falls, is not
u Methodist clergyman, as first reported.
Rev. A. q. Wilson, pastor of the First NJ.
Il. church of Spokane Falls, says: 'Coul-
ter is moi and never claimed TO be a min
lister of the Methodist or any other
denomination. Blu he is n crank of a
dangerous sort, whose type Of assumed
religion is a traversity on rational Chris
kianity.r
Lieutenant O'Ncill who will have charge
of the government party to explore the
Olympic range this summer, states that
he will start about the middle of June
The p arty which he Is getting together
comprises u men. including a miner
alogist and g~eologist. An important
point in connection with the trip is the
fact that he will start from Quilcene, in
stead of Port Angeles. as has always been
lone heretofore. The expedition will
without doubt be the most valuable one
that has yet been attempted in those
parts from a scientific point of view.
William Harmon, an old pioneer, died
at The Dalles, Oregon, from paralysis,
aged 81. He was born in England, in
1sDi, joined the Masons i'm Paris in 1925.
He was probably the Oldest Mason in
Oregon. He crossed the ocean with, and
set up the first locomotive engine in
America. Father Harmon worked at
blacksmithing in Chicago when 1t was
only a village. He came to Oregon City
in 1852, and in his shop did work on The
first steamer built in the state. ID. p.
Thompson, the republican candidate for
governor, was his helper. Harmon came
to The Dalles in 1853, and was at one
time state lecturer for the Good emplars.
One of our grain dealers states that the
Chevalier barley shipped by him to the
east, during the past year, has given such
unbounded satisfaction, that the future
outlook for the sale of this grain is most
encouraging. He is i'm receipt an order of
from the concern. i'm New York, for forty
a loads, II il can be procured, and an
other New York house is ready to contract
for the entire acreage of the valley, IL the
same grade Of grain is raised this fall.
The reason for this preference, he says,
is wholly due TO the superiority of our
grain over eastern barley. He sold No. 1
Chevalier in the Milwaukee market, at 80
cents, when No. . Wisconsin stock would
only bring So cents. He further adds that
bill is before congress 10 impose a duty on
malt barley. II, as is extremely likely,
this bill becomes a law, twenty-five mil
lion t25,000,O0O) bushels of barley will be
excluded from the United States markets.
To supply this deficiency, Montana, Idaho
and Washington can turn themselves
loose. with a certainty Of remunerative
prices oten,an Chronicle.
On Sunday night last a mounted police
man by the name Of Mclean and citizen
Frank Burtraud broke into the orderly
room of III" division at Fort Mcleod
and stole an express safe containing
some 81 800 belonging to men on the
field, They carried the safe down to
the river bank and then broke 1t
open and carried of the contents. sum
day Inspector Mcpherson started in pur-
suit. Upon his arrival at the Blackfoot
agency on this side of the line he found
himself just one hour behind the fugitives
who had preceded him to Birch creek.
Procuring an Indian policeman from
Agent Catlin, Mcpherson, by a short cut,
got ahead OF them and lodged n complaint
with Justice MCGEE, who Immediately
caused their arrest for bringing stolen
property into the state, aud at a prelimin.