The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-16
NORTHWEST NEWS.


A Deer Lodge man, who goes by IN
name Of ''Stoker." sold n third interest In
a mine q abort time ago for $500 and
through with the money In the short
space Of i've days.
In Helena the other day the leader Of u
party Of ten daGos inquired the fare to
Great Ralls and he price being too high tn
city. They formed u little procession
Jackson street and started out, each
with q frying pan and a roll of blankets ON
his hack.
The ice In the Missouri rives formed
quite o gorge i'm the break up last week
Boulder Age. The water backed up
around Capt. Trotter,s hotel two feet deep
and drowned some mules i'm the stable of
Mr.. Mea9her. Other persons suffered
more or less damage, and one family mar
rowly escaped with their lives.
A letter was received from Congressman
Carter this week. says the Billings Ga
xeste, stating that the house bill providing
for q treaty for lands belonging to the
Grow Indians would he reported by the
committee asking that u commission he
appointed TO treat with the Indians for all
that portion of their reservation lying
west OF the Clarke's Fork river and Pryor
creek divide.
The condition of the river at present is
very doubtful, says the Yellowstone
ssO1s HNS& oAAs = y AZ ~ rNy
will go out with it's usual rush or simply
rot out. Many think that the latter will
probably he the way our Ice will vamoose
this year. and give for their reason the
lack of snow in the country, while others
argue that great quantities exist in the
Big Horn mountains and when the sun
strikes IL the water will come down with a
rush and crowd Tongue river ahead of it.
II. r. Clements, n well-known Fergus
county hockmaster, came in last night,
says the Billings Gazette, accompanied by
Mrs. Clements. They will remain n week
or ten days. Speaking of the winter and
condition Of fiocks i'm Fergus county Mr..
Clements said that the losses this winter
i'm his locality among the hocks would not
even mp To the average losses sustained
of 1000 head Mr.. Clements records the
death of but one animal and i'm the entire
number OF his flock, some 5000 head. the
loss thus for does not exceed 10 head.
X. c. Culver, masts r of transportation
for the Yellowstone Park association, tar.
ried in tho city several days during the
past week says the Billings Gazette. Mr..
Culver reports that Notwithstanding the
heavy i'm the Park region this
winter considerable work In being done.
Among the most noteworthy improve
mcnts going ON is the building of q $50
room hotel at Yellowstone lake, with all
the modern conveniences. Mr.. Culver
predicts that the coming season will be
the greatest I'm the history of the park i'm
the way OF number of visitors.
The Canadian papers have lately been
full OF accounts of a captive white girl
among he northern Blackfcet Indians.
says the BENTON Rirer Press. A late special
from ST. Paal says that the NV. Mounted
police deny that the girl is white. One
story says she il n half-breed, pure and
simple; another that she is the child of a
white man and Indian woman, and was
given to "WinnipeR Jack" at Benton.
Lieutenant Abern Of Fort Shaw, went as
far rs ST. Mary's river to investigate the
matter but turned back after
eating ~ith the police. Nobody i'm Benton
seems TO know anything about 'winnipca
Jack" nor does anybody that We could
learn of i'm town claim the child. II any.
body in the county has lost "a child ol
given one away, Inc Rirer Press would be
pleased to learn the particulars.
A Washington special to the st. Pau
Pioneer Press says: Hon. George X. Tin
gle, Of Glendive, Montana, is working
among the members of congress- to securt
favorable action for an irriRating ditch In
Dawson county, Montana. He represent
tho Yellowstone Irrigation and Land com
pany. which offers to hurry the worl
faster than would probably be done IL die
by the government. Mr.. TinRle's idea Il
to dig a ditch something over 10 miles In
length from Ferry Point on the Yellow
stone tn n point OH the Missouri, of u ca
pacity sufficient to irrigate 2OO,OOOa acres o
land. Al present this land is PRACTICAL,
valueless for farming II tn,
system of irrigatinR were operating, tn
claim is made that 1000 people coul,
make their homes on the land irrigated
The wants the government an,
the Northern Pacific Dad to make dons
tons OF land as compensation for it's risk
1t wants from the United States n grant q
one half of the public domain within tn
OF the proposed ditch and tn
Yellowstone river, and il asks the Nortf
ern Pacific to grant one half of it's lam
within the same boundaries.
J. NJ. Berry OF Cooke City spent severa
days i'm Billings during the week.. says tn
Gazette. Mr.. Berry made the trip fror
Cooke to Cinnabar, n distance of 65 mile,
ON SNOW shoes, and the country owe
which he travelled il that region propose
to be cut of by an act of for til
purpose OF giving a right of way to
railway corporation having as its obie<
to gain a complete monopoly of travel I
the Yellowstone National Park. The stri
of country proposed by congress to b
thus appropriated is that region lyin
along Soda Butte creek. and i'm the ever
of the passage of the bill now pending b
fore congress to change the boundal
lines OF tho park it will open the veI
locality which In now the winter resort IL
the game of the mark region. Mr.. Der,