The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-21
The GREAT NORTHWEST
a Child Burned to q Crlsp-A Spo-
kane Falls PugllIst Perforates
Two Members OF the
Same Profession.
MONTANA.

A Great Falls dispatch to the Helena
Journal relates a horrible affair which &C.
Cured at Sand Ceulee Saturday evening.
At about 5 o'clock Mrs. Robert Laister at
tempted TO kindle q fire for the prepare
ton of supper with kerosene; there was n
little fire in the stove which caused it to
ignite and an explosion resulted. She
was holding a child about a year old in
her arms. In an instant both were en-
veloped in flames, and before relief came
the child was burned to a crisp, dying al
most instantly. The burned flesh falls
away from the bone at q touch. The
mother is terribly burned about the hips
but Is still alive. Her clothing in a
measure protected the upper part OF her
body. More horror attaches to the calam-
ity because the mother was abou TO give
birth to a child. The house caught fire
but the blaze was quickly extinguished,
only burning a part of the floor. Laister
Isl carpenter In the employ of the Sand
Coulee Coa company and had not come
in from his work at the time.
The wool received at Glendive now
foots up $4,000 pounds, with continual
arrivals, all being of good quality N i'm
good condition.
Lake Farley feel down the shaft of the
Iron Mountain Mining company's min
at Ravalli, Saturday, sustaining injuries
from which he shortly afterward died.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Boze-
man was held Saturday evening, at the
city hall, TO further consider the Power
bill, which provides that the Fort Ellis
reservation he sold to the highest bidder.
The committee which had been appointed
on the 18th inst. reported and resolutions
were adopted that a petition be circulated
in Yellowstone, Park, Meagher, Silver
Bow n Gallatin counties protesting
against the passage of this bill by con-
gress. The citizens want the reservation
opened to homestead entry or sold i'm lots
Of not over 100 acres.
Fort Maginnis has beer abandoned and
the troops will he transferred to Fort Gus
ter. Troop b, First cavalry, Capt. John
Quincy Adams commanding, arrived at
Fort Custer Saturday and will take per-
manent station. Captain Bonus, troop
A, First cavalry, will go from Maginnis to
the National park to assist IN guarding it
during the tourist season and will then go
to Fort Custer for permanent station.
Mayor Bradford has entered into a con-
tract with Messrs. Idle and Rogers to take
the census of Helena in accordance with
thG fteolutioh IdsStu at tht thtttihk VI
the city council Friday night. They are
to receive the sum of $1,000 for the work.
Monday morning the men who propose to
enumeratet the citizens of Helena have had
wide experience i'm such work, having
4 been engaged in the directory business
Helena Journal.
A wagon road from Bozeman to Castle
and White Sulphur Springs has been sur
veyed and will be built this fall.
The citizens of Bozeman will vote next
month on the proposition to bond the city
for sl2,0 o with which to furnish the new
opera house. The house has been fin
ished and seated, but needs curtains and
other paraphernalia, which will take n
large portion of the money borrowed
while the remainder will pay up the debts
incurred.
Every mechanic at Bozeman is en-
gagged and hard at work.
Harvesting the fall wheat crop has COM
menced in some localities of the Gallatin
valley, and the yield Of this grain will be
of the usual proportions, from 40 to go
bushels per acre. Those who have crops
that need water and can't get the water
are complaining. but taken as "A whole
the valley will come to the front again as
the best producer in the United States.
We learn with regret that a syndicate
Of wealthy capitalists have located the
vast timber belt at the head of Sheep
creek as placer mining ground and will
proceed at once TO denude the mountains
of their beautiful forest. No blame at
taches to the company for taking advan-
tage of the law, but certainly the placer
mining laws are very weak when they
permit of the location of vast areas at "A
nominal sum. Under the guise of placer
i, mining ground every acre of forest in
I Montana may be located and stripped of
its timber, little and big, old and young.
and the ground then abandoned. The
cost is only the recording fee to l60 acres.
We know Of no remedy, but certainly il is
a very lame place in our laws. Every stick
of timber in the Belt mountains will be
needed in Meagher county and We shall
' very much regret to see IL cut and taken
away before the home demand is fully de.
veloped.-HusJ0ndmdn.
j. NJ. ID. Marcarenas, who was shot last
spring by Sam Welch at Ford's ranch on
the Musselshell, is now recovering rap
idly. The ball from a Winchester passed
through each leg above the knee, tearing
a frightful wound. and II was feared al
} one time he would lose the use OF one OF
them at least; but il now seems probable
that he will entirely recover. He is now
about on clutches and, i'm fact. can walk
without them. He is in good spirits and
feels very glad that he is To be himself
once more.-H ~usbdndmon.
1 WASHINGTON.
AT Spokane Falls Saturday evening