The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-02
STATE NEWSPAPER TALK
Topics That Find Places in the
Journals of Montana.
FROM BRITISH HONDURAS
w. l.. Avery Tells of His Woes in the
Tropics h Klondike Is Lost
in the shufis-Danger OF a
G~rasshopper Invasion.

flVN iHItfu Gidt'S biISu d' DfffN's
British Honduras. \. A.. has been heard
from. He writes under date of May 10.
and after registering "A kick against the
postal authorities for failure tn deliver
TO him regularly every week his Vel
lowstone Journal-without whicn no
one habituated to it's use ear exist he
tells the following doleful tale of life in
tine tropics:
WAR or no war, we get oniy one mail
a week. every Sunday evening, 80 in
that respect we are served as wei as
Sadie anyway. but far worse h
Knowlton. I am homesick for news
from Miles city. and in spite OF my very
uncertain life there the last three years.
I am homesick for the town and tie
people in il. You have electric lights.
railway and telegraph service. a wat"r
system and milk. All of .he last men
toned we ever see here is in he con-
densed form. and my children sigh vain
ly for Weaver. Our water suppl comes
from a high altitude. All the water
used here liz rain water, and every one
is careful not to waste 1t. In case of n
fire a hose Is run from the river or from
the canal flowing through the city. but
fortunately there are very few hres.
Everything here Is So entirely offer
ent from what IL is In the states mat
IL is hard to believe that we are on the
same continent. The great need II the
colony is a railway for the nearer for
ests of mahogany and log wood are ex-
hausted. and to get at the present
growth they have to use the streams,
and the stage Of water ! snot always
high enough. With "A railroad the
rich soil would be developed and the
country settled up. Why they have
not already built one is charged first To
one cause and then another. but there
is no railway just the same. with IT
would come farms and cattle. and with
the latter a supply of milk. ! cannot
talk or write much without reverting TO
that fluid
A contemplation of the woes of "A
milkless community appears 10 nave
overcome the consul at this time. for his
screed abruptly breaks of at this point.
To some there are worse privations
than being without milk and being on
short rations of water, but Consul Az
cry Is not of his kind. and II is unfor-
tunate that he should he billeted at Be
lie when there are, no doubt, stations
where cows stand around waiting TO ne
MIXED and the purest of water tumbles
continuously down the mountain sides.
Such is the way of the world, wev
Townsend Star: We don't hear much
from Klondike these days nor from the
r~econcentrados OF the Yukon. The sole
and absorbing topic being of war with
It's attendant side lines and rumors. FER
haps IL is as well that the klondlke
should take a back seat, together with
the many fake schemes originating
there. There Is no doubt but that
Alaska Is and will he a large and
steady producer of gold. There is, also,
no doubt but that many a poor sucker
has met his Manila there. The klon-
dixie boom collapsing. where VIII the
next one be? Perhaps in the Philip
pines. perhaps in China, no mar KNOWS
but the promoter.
Towensend Star: In looking over the
proceedings in congress on Thursday we
notice the subject Of improvements 10
the harbor at Arkansas Pass. Texas, came
IN for debate Like the ghost of old
the name. ransa Pass, must in the
minds of Montanans galore bring back
to memory the dreams of greatness n
castles in the air built AT the greatest
deep-water harbor of the United states,
into which all m of the world
must come" The Bear Paw pass, the
Dyea pass and now and again, alack
and alas. Aransas Pass.
Plains Newsletter: Measures should
be taken by the farmers of the valley
now To get rid Of the g~rasshoppers be-
fore they destroying the
grain. Some Of the farmers have been
| actively engaged during the week haul
ing loads of straw where the grasshop-
pers are. and during the evening the
pests crawl in the straw. which Is then
set on fire and they are thus destroyed
before they have done any damage. AS
a rule. these pests have not been much
of a nuisance in this locality, but at
the same time what few there are in the
valley injured a certain amount of grain
each year, and by concerted action on
, the part of the farmers they could easily
he exterminated. What Is meant by
concerted action Is for all the farmets in
the valley to take a hand in the matter,
and not leave II to a half dozen. Get
together. appoint some day and all
turn out to haul straw and place II
where the g~rasshoppers are. then in the
evening set Il on fire and thus destroy
thousands of them. 1t would be an
easy matter 10 get rid Of them this way.
hut where the work rests with only a
few the good done will not amount "a
anything. a days work now In this line
by all the farmers I'm the valley viii.
perhaps. be the means of putting nun
dreds Of dollars In their pockets his
fall. and It to be hoped some decisive
dctioh WIN o' 'a"'" -" :" 1890
Of this evil.
From the sheridan Paper:
II. :. Mcintyre made the round NJ
the county during the week. He says
hat Pony is enjoying a small size
boom. there having been over a dozen
new buildings erected within the past
few months. SiXty-five stamps are
cropping and every leaser In camp Is
making money. Some trouble Is beinS
experienced at Richmond Flat over the
close proximity Of the workings o.. th'
Monitor and Revenue mines. II Is
feared that both mines will he shut
down pending a legal settlement OF ths
difficulties. NJ the Mayfiower. origina
location. II men are employed. and arr
taking out ore. At MayfioNer No. 5
Is men are at work. Ii Is said mat this
mine has the best showing of any min
in the state. there being IL feet OF $40
ore n sight.
From the Townsend Messenger: