The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-01
TOWNS In THE NORTH
Some of the Most Important Happen
ingS of Recent Date.
COMMENT AND PURE FACTS
There is Some Item of Interest
From Nearly Every Settle
ment. City. Ranch or Cou-
lee In That Section.

Great Falls, April 30.-The currenr
lumor that John X. Cashier had de
serted from the ranks of the repub
lean party and Joined the populists 1:
cileved to be without foundation OF
!-et. John will take a seat in the Cas-
c,ie county republican convention
next Saturday as a delegate from Belt
he founder of Belt-and that's Johns
title, and one that he is naturally
proud of-has all the essential qualif-
cations of a good democrat He has
HJIe use for Apaism, is a pronounced
advocate of silver and would make a
Sood democrat if he wasn't a repub-
lican.
Alex Bannon, the colored man who
was arrested in Great Falls on suspi-
clon of having burglarized Quesnelie's
saloon, has confessed to the crime and
requested to be arraigned in district
court for sentence as early as con-
Venient. He will be sent to the peni-
tertiary for two or three years and his
punishment win be a warning to petty
thieves of his ilk. Some rather clever
work was done by Marshal Guerin in
tracing the crime to its source.
Joseph Reahl, an Assyrian peddler,
has instituted suit against five of his
countrymen at Great Falls, alleging
personal damages of $780, The suit
grows out of a general row i'm Mac
caroni flats, in which the PLAINTIFF was
roughly handled and submitted to
great indignity and Inundated beyond
endurance. Lawyers have been RETAIN
ed on both sides and the trial, which
has been set for Monday, promises to
be interesting.
Populist leaders claim to have some
thing 600 Of al y,A
half THAT number at Sand Coulee. In
aSmuch as it required several hours to
pol the vote at the republican prima-
RES held in that camp Tuesday night
there is growing suspicion that a few
hundred of the populists invaded the
enemy's camp and took an active part
in the balloting.
Louis Belanger is reported to have
committed suicide at Gilt Edge a few
days ago, after losing heavily at the
gambling table. His family reside at
Maiden and were former residents of
Deer Lodge valley.
In retaining Judge Tattan as their
legal adviser for the next year, the
members of the Northern Montana
Roundup association have paid that
gentleman a merited compliment He
has been untiring in his efforts to
prosecute cattle thieves and numerous
inmates of the Deer Lodge peniten-
tiary are in evidence as to his ability
as a prosecuting officer. The Judge has |
a fine record-and besides he is an old |
time resident of Benton who deserves
success.
An apparently inoffensive country |
clod victimized two secondhand furni- |
ture dealers of Great Falls a few DAYS |
hNr fr,cr
them and then selling the goods to the /
other, after which he vanished from
sight and again sought the country
district to resume his labors as a shep-
nerd. "A warrant was issued for his
arrest and Constable Morgan, the COL
pred peace officer is in search of the
horny-handed son of toll.
The A. P. A. faction of the republi-
AN party of the city of Great Falls
viii be in evidence at the county con-
'ention, which assemblies in the Elec-
.ric City next Saturday morning.
1t will be gratifying news to the
many old friends in Northern Montana
If A. NJ. Henry to learn that ne is re-
'eiVing large returns from his invest
nents of years ago at Neihart His
dividend from the Florence mine a few
weeks ago amounted to the handsome
um OF $4,000 and the property is be-
ng worked TO advantage at this time |
tenry came to Montana as an army
nicer in 1878 and was stationed at
'ort Benton, then a military post He !
'OSSesSed some means and invested IL |
real estate there and in mining pro-
oSltlonS at Barker and at Neihart |
lis fafth in the resources of Montana |
ven at that early day was unbounded.
M he resigned from the army, be-
anne a citizen of the territory and Is ;
ow engaged in business at White
ulphur Springs.
The Glasgow Record saws that John
aylor of Saco, who went east a month
go to purchase young cattle for a
lumber of different ranchers in Valley I
ounty, returned the latter part of the
eek. Taylor says that cattle are
cry scarce this spring and in conse-
ence prices are pretty high. He gath
ned up several carloads, however. in I
orthern Minnesota and North Dako- {
= One carload was unloaded at Glas-
ow for Senator Hurd and the balance
Lken to Saco. {
w. w. Maybe. formerly a resident I
Glendive, but now located in Val
y county, has shipped a carload of
rass seed in from the East and win
after ii across his plantation near
berry creek. This is the first expert
ent of this character made in that n
otion and the results will be awaited :
it'll much interest. :
DR.. Edward Crutcher left hurrfedly
r the East this morning and will be
'sent several weeks. The doctor had
triumphant expression on his face.
Oked wise and is believed to be on
e inside on some proposition of more $
an ordinary interest TO residents Of I
eat Falls. q
Joe Sullivan, the urbane and really G.
ndsOme postmaster at Fort Ben
n, Is reported to be tired |
official life-and disguised at
ling stamps at a penny each. p,
seph is an old timer, doesn't =
lieve in small change and expresses 10
e belief that nothing less than a sill u