The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-22
NORTHWEST NEWS.


should the republicans and Democrat:
fail to nominate n thoroughly clean set at
municipal officers.
Mr.. Hunt places the amount Of wheat
and along the line Of his roads at from
500 600 To 100000 bushels. Including bar.
ley there are in the neighborhoOd of
900 900 bushels OF grain nm the section NJ
ferrcd 10.
Kittitas county, WASH. has made all
necessary arrangements for u fine irri-
eating ditch 40 miles i'm length. IL will be
built by private parties, the farmers agree
ing To take so many inches Of water each
wear instead of giving u bonus OF voting
any indebtedness upon the county.
The wolves in the Dry Fork OF the Mar
las, says the Benton Rirer Press, arc get
ting i'm their work on the cattle wounded
and killed by the cars there u few lays
ago. A passenger ON this mornings train
informs us that he saw u wounded steer
surrounded by the ravenous animals,
while q short distance away were the
lately picked carcasses OF three others.
The snow fall yesterday, says the Vel
lowstonc Journal, though light, is exceed.
ingly beneficial to the stock growing in
rerests OF his vicinity at present, as every
days and there il little or no water i'm the
greater part of the country for the cattle
and sheep, and the snow which fell. with
the bountifui supply OF feed we have, will
be just the thing for our herds.
Upon the night Of February 10, says the
Bozenan Courier, Francis Burrell, while
i'm Nh intoxicated state, started for horne,
some four miles from Three Forks, where
he arrived about 4 o'clock the following
morning, when ii was found that he had
frozen both feet, both hands. both ears
and his nose. Upon examination DIR.
Carney is a. yet undecided whether the
feet and ono Of the hands can he saved.
About the middle of January two men,
Stubbleaeld and Gray, rancllmcn living
near Coulec. went to Davenport. WASH.
10 secure family supplies. They started
home, hat snow forbid progress. and they
were compelled to return a few days later.
An additional attempt WINS made, Stubble-
held going ON alone to relieve his family
of Since then nothing has
becn heard of him. A searching party
was organized, bat no trace whatever has
been found OF the missing man.
&. II. Reed is planting 200 ycarlinR prune
trees on his place near ewau<uIu. Wash;
also n selection of other trees. The prnnc
trees will bear some mt three years old,
but a full crop is not expected until the
fourth year. MIR. Reed will plant more
prune trees as fast as he clears his land.
and expects ultima ely tn put his whole
place out to prsines. Sheriff Dcgelcr has
$500 prunc trees out OH his place near
C~entralia. Within the past few years IL
has been discovered that pruncs do wOn-
derfuily well in Washington. and in many
places large orchards have been planted.
Speaking Of hay i'm thc Milk River val
ley and along the Sandy. a gentleman
who has Just returned from that section
says there is plenty Of il for sale dow
there. says the Benton Ricer Press. Con-
sidering that last season was the driest
ever known i'm Northern Montana. this
speaks volumes for the reservation coun-
try just opened to settlement last year.
The gentleman told us that ono man, MIR.
ID (.0Wun. wnS now engaged in bnIfnR
800 tons of hay at and near box Elder sta
ton, and that he was now at Helena max
ing contracts to deliver same to buyers.
Judge Douglas remembers very we'll
Professor Dilnsdalc of Virginia City AS II
school teacher and journalist, says tise
Great Falls Tribune. He has no doubt
that tho "vigiiantes OF Montana was
written by him and no other. He was
known as n graphic writer and acquired
much local fame ny his account of the
prize fight in which Con Oren and Pa sy
Maley were principals. Judge Douglas
testimony is timely just now, as the New
York Sun has intimated that "Dinsdale'
was another name for Colonel Sanders,
for whom that journal appears To have the
admiration which boys display for noted
h~iRhwaynlen.
The law against trapping beaver. says
the sun River San, should he repealed as
soon as possible. as thousands of young
cottonwood trees along our rivers are he
ing destroyed by these bark eaters. The
~ranchinen along sun river are complains
ing of the havoc being made i'm their little
timber patches and are contemplating a
raid on the beaver, claiming that the law
is unconstitutional and that IL will NOT
stick, because while il protects the animal
the animal destroys much valuable tim
her and damages the owner thereof and
does in no way benefit tho people. They
claim that 40 law les constitutional THAI
protects wild animals in opposition to the
interests of the community. and ask for
it's repeal.
A few days ago ut Fort Benton IN SHOW
storm was seen coming up between the
bluffs of the Missouri. When il reached
n point n short distance above the bridge
says the Rirer Pycss. Il came in contac,
with a Chinook wind by which IL was held
in check for nearly two hours, and the un.
usual sight was presented To citizens al
Fort BENTON of N driving SNOW storm or
the opposite side of the river. while on the
town side the atmosphere was calm and
quiet. The Chinook struggled nobly ana
the ragged edges of the conflict wer
plainly indicated by the line Of the SNOW.
fall on the ground, which had been barr
before. but Bos,as finally and
today the ground is covered with several
inches of the beautiful.
A ~two-year-old heifer i'm shaking its
thirst at one Of the holes in the ice below