The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-28
NEIGHBORLY GOSSIP
News From Northern Montana Towns
of Recent Date.
SHEEP LOST IN THE STORM
Tom O'Hanlon Contemplating a
Visit to Turkey-No Touble In
the Populist Camp-Diphthe-
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Great Falls, April Pit is said that
several large sheepowners of Valley
county sustained heavy losses in their
ffocks during the recent severe snow
storm which swept over the state.
Tom O'Hanlon, the Duke of Chi
nook" has gone east and may extend
his journey to Constantinople. His
experience as post trader at Fort Bel
knap years ago enables him to give the
sultan valuable pointers as to the most
harmonious method of conducting do
nestle affairs.
DR.. Hoyt. a prominent physician of
Glasgow was taken to a st. Paul hos
pital for medical treatment He is re-
ported as dangerously i'll from pneu-
monia.
The Great Falls News, the official or
gan of the populists of Cascade county,
accuses the republican leaders of en-
deavoring to prevent the nomination OF
a fusion county ticket this fall and adds
that 1.-The populists of Cascade county
If they desire to do that which will best
conserve the interests of the party
will do just the opposite to the course
advised by the republican gang. What
the republicans wants best for them
not for the populists."
Senator Brosnan denies the report
that there is trouble in the populist
camp of Cascade county, and adds by
way of emphasis that, If a fusion tick
ct should be nominated this year, the
combination would wipe the earth with
any republican ticket that could be put
in the field. Mr.. Brosnan is not a can
didate for Office either.
The Glasgow Gazette is authority for
the statement that the schools of that
place have been closed for "a time ow-
ing to the existence of diphtheria.
Young cattle and graded bulls are
being shipped into Valley county from
points in North Dakota and Minnesota,
where stock is reported as COMPARE
lively cheap.
There is an increasing demand for
men to work on sheep ranches in al
most every part of Northern Montana
Good wages are offered and the work
will last for several weeks. There are
apparently plenty of idle men in the
country and yet fockmasters are I'M
able to secure the amount of help
needed.
Grant Graves, who became suddenly
insane at Collins about three weeks
ago and endeavored to commit suicide,
is reported as improving, mentally and
physically, and will live.
Godfrey DeMars of Augusta, was ar
rested and fined a few days ago for
selling what was termed diseased
horsemeat." DeMars is said to have
admitted that he sold horsemeat, but
denied that 1t was diseased. There is
a man now serving a term in the peni-
tertiary for selling that kind of meat
in Cascade county.
DIR. Rotwitt, secretary of state, con-
tributed $50 for 1.-The relief of the suf-
ferers injured by the explosion in the
Broadwater mine" at Neihart. This is
the only letter of the kind that has
been received from a state officer.
Editor Mitchell of the Neihart Miner.
called at the Great Falls Office Of the
Standard last evening. He gave a vivid
description of the accident at Neihart
and says work has been resumed in the
Broadwater mine to a limited extent.
Every precaution possible has been
taken by the miners of Neihart against
disasters of this nature in the future.
The Herald says that Frank Marion
president of the Gold Mining company
of Neihart, is in that city. He is en-
joying good health and is as jolly and
as busy as ever in his less prosperous
days. But he has not forgotten the
time when he sank a 35-foot shaft on
the old Massachusetts, lode, subsisting
meanwhile on three can of tomatoes
and such fish as he could catch in Belt
creek. Mr.. Marion is a good citizen
whose only politics is silver.
To-day a large delegation of Odd
Fellows from Great Falls, went out to
Belt to take part in the dedication of
the handsome new hall just completed
in that camp. The programme of exer-
cises is varied and extensive and in
cludes speeches, a grand banquet and
general jollification.
The Herald says Simon Pepin re-
turned to Havre a few days ago from
trip over the range looking after his
cattle interests and reports the loss of
many calves and cows and immigrant
steers. He states that there is about
three feet of snow on the level In the
mountains and between here and the
British line blades of grass are about
as scarce as hens teeth. When the
pasturage gets short and the snow
deep, cattle get thin and stockmen get
blue. What this section of the coun-
try needs is more hay and fewer cattle.
then there will be more money and bet
ter times
Charley Moore, the sage of Havre.
says 'There be battle royal In Valley
county this fall. as there not 20 votes
difference in the democratic and repub-
lican vote of the county. The populists
hold the balance OF power. but cannot
be depended upon TO throw b to either
side"
The republicans OF Teton county viii
meet in convention at Dupuyer on
Wednesday. May $, and elect six dele
gates t. dae Butte convention. IL is
understood an effort will be made 10
have the county convention adopt a
resolution favoring the nomination Of
Mckinley.