The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-12
NORTHWEST NEWS.


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Eastern Washington can they remember,
says the Rockford, WASH. Esstcspsiss,
when the snow was drifted M high as IL
has this year, and that il said tn have
been 10 years q u I'm the prairie soutn
Of rockford the drifts wore from six to 10
feet deep and blown hard enough tn hear
a horse.
Secretary McCoon,bs. Of tl,c Seattle
general relief committee, has had am un-
usually busy month. During January he
slisburxed i'm charity the sum of s2.S2s.16,
which includes transportation, hospital
and burial expcnscs, relief in groceries.
dry goods. shoes, coal. etc. The largest
item of expense has been for groceries.
and nearly I'D cases of destitution Were
relieved i'm one way IN another. About
thirty persons were sent out of town to
friends i'm other places, about half of
which were, sent to California and the
Others East. Eleven patients were sent tn
the hospital and three cases were buried
by the relief committee. The number of
cases per day have averaged about seven,
and there have been few attempts at inn
position.
Col. Hoigson camc up "Wednesday from
his sheep ranch OH the lower
and reports everything i'm good shape in
that section of the country, says the
Sslendivc Independent. Stock of all kinds
doing well although the rain cri,s eel the
SHOW somewhat. The Col. says he has not
seen u dead animal on the range this win
ter, and he thinks the stock Is now per-
fcctly safe, and will come ont i'm the spring
i'm good condition.. Ii il well to remark
right here, that more SNOW fell there than
on any other portion of the Dawson
county range. and il stock i'm that neigh
borhood is in prime condition no fears
need be entertained OF other localities.
Herman Clausou. the well known stock
man, came in from his ranch on lower
Cottonwood creek Tuesday. says the
Fergus County Argus. He says there are
some poor cattle ON the range, as is usual
L. A. II a., ..an, I..f tho naaa xr.lI
he very light. Wolves have killed some
Young stock.
Lieutenant Ahcrn of Fort Shaw re-
turned from "a scouting trip to- the bound
AIRY line the first of the present month.
says the Sun River Rising Sua. The lieII-
tenant visited the several camps of the
Canadian mounted police along the slime
and was royalty entertained. He also Wis.,
tied the Mormon settlement on Lees
creek, and was for a. short time the guest
of the wife of President Card, who. 10y
the way, is now absent in Utah seeking
accessions from the parent settlement Ia
the new one. MIR. Ahern reports u settle
uierit uf 200 people on Lees creek. owning
forty square miles of good land, and the
thriftiest people he has seen for IA coon's
age. Every man. woman and child i'm the
settlement is "a Mormon. except one gen
tile. who was there before the Mormons
acquired title To thc surrounding lands
and he is now i'm the very center al
the settlement. The Mormons have
repeatedly tried to buy him out, but to ns
avail. The last time he was approaChet
ON the subject he asked S25 an acre fol
his holdings and was surprised to find hi,
offer snapped up. He, however, backed
out and now refuses tn sell at all. Presi
dent Card pa sed through sun River "a few
days ago ON his way to Salt Lake after tin
recruits: hence We expect another ''strins
of immigrants for northwestern Choteai
county f?D" To pass here as they did las
fall.
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