The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-09
NORTHWEST NEWS.


The Montana Smelling company have
the Great Falls TSibwsr. The difficulty of
securing lead ore h b main cause OF
this, but the completion of the railroad to
Barker will enable them to secure an ann
pie supply.
We learn from w. Gould Smith, |
says the Fort Benton Rirer Press, that S.
head Of cattle were killed by Great North
ern trains in the valley of the dry fork of
the Narias from the LIST to the 18th day OF
February last, inclusive. A few such
records ought to satisfy the railway
officials that il would he a wise proceed
ing to fence the railway track throughout
it's length i'm the dry fork.
Passenger train No. ? was delayed IL
hours Monday by the burning OF q % loot
bridge Oh Hopper's ranch situated between
Livingston and Timbcrline says the Post,
Superintendent Finn, Scho-
fled and Superintendent Livingston went
mp Sunday night at II O'Clock i'm charge
OF the bridge crew and had n new bridge
i'm by 4 O'Clock Monday evening No. 1
came in Monday one and one-half hours
late and was compelled to lay here until
Ave p. IN.
1t is with no small degree of satisfac-
ton. says the Rocky Monntain Husband
man, that We note that our Montana fair
and racing associations have concluded
to offer special encouragement to Mon
tana breeders. This Is. we think, the
proper thing to do. II is well enough to
make the majority of the purses free to
horses of other states, as this secures a
large OF horses from all quar-
tiers and is an assurance that Montana Is
not afraid to compete with any country.
But while this is the case, while no one
can find any fault with the inducement
held out to- outsiders, a amount
is offered to horses that are Montana
bred. born and raised.
The night of Feb. %, 1880, will pro badly
go OH record as the coolest of the winter
now nearing it's close. The thermometer
mt Fort KcoGh hospital which is a signal
service instrument, registered 40 degrees
below zero and another instrument con-
sidcred equally rs truthful, that occupied
a more exposed condition registered So
degrees below. We have reports of Their
moneters i'm town that showed as low as
50 degrees below but the average was in
the ne~ighborhood of 80 below. This is
truly artic weather, hut our consolation is
that IL not lasting. Yesterday as soon as
the sun got up the mercury began to climb
and at noon was only six degrees below.
Last night il fell again and indication was
that before sunrise il would approach the
minimumo of the night before Yellowstone
Journal.
In a letter to the Rising Sam, Rev.. j. H.
Little, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church ut Sun River, declines to receive
the proceeds of u supper given at u mas
querade ball, on the ground that the
N1etnoAl1st church does not cOuntenance
dancing. He adds: at may be said by
some that suppers of n similar character
have been held i'm the past which have
been attended by dancers; but these sup
pers have been gotten up entirely sepa-
rate from the dance, supper usually COM
mencing about q o'clock and lasting all
the evening, open to all who desired to
partake of the bountiful repast which the
ladies of sun River know 50 well how to
get mp. This one is especially for the
los. a.. no 1sn1l D1N,st Dtn1Dplx
in the morning when none hut the dam
GERS would he likely to participate,
hence there is no comparison between
them"
Several of the prominent stockmen of
Park county have been interviewed by a
reporter Of the Livingston Post i'm regard
to the number of stock lost by them dur
ing the recent cold spell, and not one has
been found who has had any loss to speak
of. $. b. Roberts, foreman Of the round
up for X. b. Brigg. h has between 1000
and 5000 cattle around Big Timber, was
riding OH the range during the storm and
saw but four dead cattle. He says they
expect a loss of 5 per cent. each winter.
hut this season he thinks 1T will not reach
2per cent. Tom Kent, the stock king Of
the Yellowstone, came up from his home
OH the reservation Tuesday. He says that
out Of :. 100 sheep that were out during the
blizzard he lost only I per cent. Mr.. Kent
has near 10000 sheep ranging on the
reservation. He thinks the winter Is now
over. and says he would not be away
from home IL he did not consider that his
stock is safe for the reast of the season.
Tho rush for the Sioux lands has sub
sided since the TOWNSHIP rivalry is practi-
cally out of the way, says the Great Falls
Tribune. The $1,000 Indians have re-
reserved 1000 square miles OF the best
part of the reservation. This is a large
tract for less people than occupy Butte,
hut the country is still swaycd by maudlin
sentiment for the "noblc red man." Last
year the Indians condescended to raise
$1,000 bushels of wheat and 100000 bushels
of corn OH the immense tract which they
occupied. The terms OH which the new
lands are offered are not calculated tn en-.
courage settlers who may acquire free
broad acres i'm Montana. The ortlinar,
presumption and timber culture laws dc
not apply to the ceded lands. They mus,
he acquired under the homestead act and
the settler must pay for the land 81 .25 pei
acre. This sum goes to compensate the
Indians for surrendering lands which
they did not need and never should have
been allowed To possess.
syndicate of White Sulphur Spring,
capitalists have just closed a deal with
Nfessrs. Chaplin & Lewis for n three-fourth,
interest i'm the Great Eastern mine. payinr
S37,JOO cash for the same. This mine Il
situated between the Cumberland ana