The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-15
NORTHWEST NEWS.


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are published In Benton county, five in
LINN. Ave I'm Lane and ak i'm Yamhill.
Astoria aspires TO have . 10000 build
for tire use of the chamber Of COM
merce. The papers there talk a. though
lse0 would witness the fulhllment OF this
hope.
A cave hns bcen discovered i'm Douglass
Ore, near Oak Grove station.
The Ploisdeaier says 'it presents evidence
Of having been used ASA place Of worship
By a now extinct race"
or the "A counties In Washington. Col
nmbia county stands sixth In wealth. The
avc weather. ones i'm the order OF their
wealth are Pierce, King, Spokane. Whit
man and Walla Walla.
Farmers of Whitman county, wash,
IRE memorialisinR the Legislature of that
btate TO tag mortgages. Perhaps IL they
had the experience of Oregon armer
huring the past few years they would me-
bnorialize the other way.-Oregonfan
Three brick blocks will he built i'm Pull
man. WASH, early I'm the spring, and the
city council IL now making preparations to
put i'm a system of water works and an cleo
kric light plant next summer. The town
Ia Incorporated and out Of debt and prop
erty in good demand
II is proposed by the Northern Pacific
Railroad to settle the question
bf the payment of taxes ON property ON
The Crow reservation in this manner:
That the amount due from taxes he
placed i'm the hands of the district judge
and have him decide whether Custer or
Yellowstone il entitled to the tax.
A telegram has been sent to Congress-
bnan Carter signed by twelve state sena-
fors, asking him tn use his to
lave the Fort Ellis military reservation
eeded to the state for school purposes.
telegram was sent I'm o~nsequenc of
p report gaining currency that an effort
would he made TO sell the land.
General Manager Mohler of the Great
Northern railway, who spent yesterday in
Great Falls, says that during this year
many railroad improvements will he
made In this place. Some If these ars Of
much importance, and will add largely to
>he army of workmen that will be en-
ployed here during this year.-0rsot FaIls
fribw~s.
The stock on tho ranges OF Park county
In good condition to Judge from reports
sceived from various sources and the
prospects are that IL will winter safely, rs
hood feed In still TO be found on the
Fanges. The open winter that prevailed
hp to Christmas rendered the feeding Of
bay to stock unnecessary, and ranchers
Ind stockmen consequently have full
btacks that can he fed should the balance
pr the winter prove ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Enterprise.
The mystery of tho whereabouts of
Thomas L. SkaRgs, Northern Pacific ex-
press agent, of Seattle, still rcmains UNI
folved. Mr.. Newcomb, the company's
hgent at Portland. has returned from VAN
~fouvcr, b. C., where he has been industri-
Dusly following up clues that led to
nothing. He il positive that Skaggs is
neither at Vancouver nor Victoria. He is
pr the opinion that SkagRs has been
fouily dealt with or is hiding from peril.
zeal or Imaginable. The checking of
SkaRgs accounts still continues, and so
far they are straight.
w. H. White, who il undergoing sem
enceo of IA years for forgery, but is now in
he county Jail ut Seattle awaiting pro-
bedding on u writ of supersedsas, has de-
fided to- starve himself. So far as known,
not u morsel has passed his lips since New
Years day, and he says he doesn't pro-
bose to eat this year; he says he doesn't
know anything about Tanner or his fam
bus fast. but IL he continues on i'm the way
ee is doing now he will peat that expert
nenter's record. His face is, il anything,
leshier than when he stopped taking
food. and he doctors say his system
Phows no symptoms of a lack of food.
J. w. Hamilton, the Utah horseman,
tucceeded i'm purchasing 80 acres Of land
hear G~rantsdale n short tine ago. His
and joins the DAILY ranch OIL the south
and is but q short distance from Grants
lale. Mr.. Hamilton has n large number
bf flnc Norman and Perclcron horses
md intends To carry on an extensive bus
mess here. In n Few lays he will receive
kwo car loads of work horses. and his
FLOODED stock will come later. He states
That he has seven miles of fence tn con-
btruct AZ ono of his first steps in the line
bf improvements. Mr.. Hamilton pro-
poses to on his Missoula county
ranch one of the most extensive horse
ranches in the northwest. He recognizes
he importance OF Montana, especially
Alissoula county. for the breoding of
FLOODED stock.-Aissouiian.
The Cumberland mine Of Castle ID
blocked for 100000 i'm shares Of 81 each.
Tho lately paid their first divi.
iend OF &15,OOO, being a portion of the net
EARNINGS OF $4,000, she result of fifty-four
Hays run. A contract was lately lie,
Tor sinking the shaft, then $50 feet in
fiepth, to 500 feet. and the work is now go
Rpg on 1T the rate Of three feet per day
LHrt contractors working three shifts OF
miners. The mine 10 srleIdidly equipped
With q steam hoist. capable of sinking &c
: depth sf 90 feet or more. . large steam
bump and other necessary machinery.
Offers have been made of 80 cents V.I
khare for the stock Of the bu,
hone has been purchased mt that price
knd u 10 extremely doubtful IL any could
(bs purchased for that sum-. The Cumbcr
land has . great future bcforeit il prop
brly Observation-Disclosures Enterprise.
While some OF the men employed ny the
Alps mining were engaged in
koeo9 the annual representation work or
in adioiuiuR claim 10 the one nov heinz