The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-09
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

work has commenced on tne new ma
tional bank building at Dillon.
Over 300 signed the pledge Of total
abstinence during q series of meetings
held at Miles City.
Matsada Sorakichi, the noted wrestler,
was robbed of q gold watch and $45 by q
sneak thief who entered his oom.at the
Russ house, Seattle, n night last week.
large number Of the coke ovens ut
Cokedale have been closed for the pres
ent, as the demand for coke has fallen of,
owing to the limited supply of fiuxing
ores at the smelters.
Birch creek cattlemen were not heavy
losers the past winter, the highest esti-
mate OF any one individuals loss will not
exceed II per cent. In most cases the loss
will not reach 5 per cent
John Carter, foreman for the Mabrey &
Carter Cattle company, has arrived ut
Glendive and will make preparations for
the reception Of 5000 head of cattle, in
three herds, which are now on the trail
and expected to arrive i'm Dawson county
July Is. The cattle will range on the Red
Water.
Nine carloads of Mennonite immigrants,
about 40 families, arrived at Chinook a
few days ago from Kansas, says the Rirer
Press. 1t will be remembered that a rep
resentative Of these people was here last
summer looking for a location Tor the
colony. They will locate near Harlem, IN
the Milk river valley east OF Chinook, and
north Of the Little Rocky mountains.
A. NJ. Simmons, deputy United States
fish commissioner, has consented to
make a favorable report to United States
Fish Commissioner Mcdonald i'm regard
..ul,,. sha bic Hole river with black
bass. fla favorable reply is received a
carload of black bass spawn will be for
warled to the Big Hole river and turned
loose in its limpid waters.
A corporation is on foot in Port Towns
end, under the title of the Port Townsend
Bay.Oyster company, the purposc.of which
is to develop in the bay OF Port Towns
end the propagation Of oysters. lndivid-
ual members of the company have filed
oyster claims on about no acres OF the
bay for this purpose, as prescribed by
state laws, and they are going ahead WIN
the planting and development OF these
claims.
An estimate of the exports OF Montana
for the past year is as follows: Gold, sill
yer, copper, lead ores, cattle, sheep, hides
and wool, $63. 0OO, 900. Washington during
the same year exported, wheat, lumber,
fish, hops, cattle, sheep, ETC., S23,5OO,OOO.
This may be valuable information to the
crowds going to the latter state, and the
figures might be food for reflection for
the Northern Pacific railroad company i'm
dispensing stop over privileges.-Gtendfre
Independent.
On the body of Sanders, who killed Miss
Eddington, at walla Walla last week.-Mrs.
found a letter dated Sunday, evidently
written at different periods, saying the
girl and he agreed to die together because
they could not marry. They asked the
parents not to mourn. The girls name
was signed with the boys in three places.
II was all i'm Sanders writing. The par
ents were not aware of any affection or
privacy between the deceased. IL is not
believed the girl loved the boy. II was
thought his mind was affected for some
cause. and the act was a deliberate muir
der and suicide. From the nature OF the
wound he must ave stepped up behind
the girl when he shot. The girl evidently
was not a party 10 the tragedy.
The Spokane Falls Rrrieic says word
has been received in that city from the
officials of the Great Northern railroad to
the effect that surveyors would be sent
there as soon as possible to lay out two or
InTtt ulltItIlt llttSo NV tnS ivy ~
Great Northern management, realizing
the future importance that Spokane Falls
will assume as n great smelling point,
have decided to come west from Great
Falls by the Northern route, by the way of
Flathead lake, and will thus side-track
Missoula and not come through the Bitter
Root and Blackfoot country. The reason
the Northern route has been taken is be-
cause the Great Northern people own ex-
tensive coal fields near Flathead lake,
which as yet are ~undeveloped. This coal
is of very fine quality and Is known as
coking coal, and exists in vast quantities.
One vein is fourteen feet through. The
, road will bring this coal to the Spokane
smelters, and il is claimed that il can be
laid down i'm this city at So and 81 per ton.
An event of much Importance to Mon
tana and one which will form an interest
ing page in its history happened Monday
I'm the organization of the United States
circuit court of the district of Montana,
says the Helena Independent. A number
of persons of note had been invited to
witness the ceremony, which was con-
Quoted in a simple and informal manner
Eleven o'clock was the time set for the
opening of court, but before the appointed
hour United States Marshal George w.
Irwin III. invited the state and county off,
Gals TO the supreme court DON In the
court house. He escorted Governor Toole
to a chair and next TO him sat Judge l.. A..
Luce of Bozeman. Promptly at II O'Clock
William +. Wheeler, the crier, appeared
at the cour room and said: "Hear ye,
hear ye. The honorable district court of
the United States for the district of Mon
tana approaches" Then Judge Hiram
Epovlos iudpe of the United States cir
cult court for this district. walked in, es-
corted by Chief Justice of Montana II. n.
Blake. Judge Hunt, Judge of the First
Judicial district of the state, who were
guests Of honor and they took seats be-
side Judge Knowles. Next came Clerk
George w. Sproule. followed by
Marshal Irwin and E. ID.
Weed. United States district attorney.
Tho first thing dong was the reading of