The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-13
COOLEST IN FIVE YEARS.
one OF the Most Severe Winters Ever
Known in Kalispe1I.

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special Correspondence of the Standard.
hahspeil, Jan. 1.-This has been one
! OF the coolest winters here we have
known Tor i've years. The thermom-
eter reached the point of 10 below
zero ana remained below zero for four
days. 1t is now warmer and showing
more. We have about IA inches of
snow on the level and sleighing is
good.
The farmers are busy hauling wood
ana gram to town. Ali the elevators
ana mills are busy receiving grain and
shlpplng 1t to outside points.
hallspell VIII soon be a weather hu-
reau station. The chief of the weather
bureau writes that George Boucher
Will be in Kalispell about the middle
OF January and he will establish a
weather bureau here, as all the neces-
sary instruments are bought and the
Appropriation for its maintenance has
passed congress some days ago. 1t
would nave been established last sum-
mer had not the war with Spain pre-
vented. When this service is estab-
lished it will give Kalspell just what
she has needed for many years. Most
people would look at the reports from
HaVre and suppose that they repre-
scented the conditions in all this part
of Montana. So cold and stormy have
many who would have come to this
valley Went elsewhere, not wanting TO
go to place where it was so cold as
shown by the Havre reports. We hope
that this Will now be overcome by cur
own office with reports exclusively of
the conditions in Flathead valley Civ
en- out to the public
we nave had several sporting events
of interest here in the past two weeks
1i,,D rpl, h.
tween O'Neil and Charles Moth. The
match was for three falls for Moth
and two for O'Neil. O'Neil got the
first fall, Moth the second fall and in
the third round Moths second step
ped into the ring and claimed that
ONeil was strangling Moth. The au-
dience went wild with excitement and
was only Gained down by officers get
ting into the ring and removing the
second. After this O'Neil obtained the
fall which was awarded him by the
referee on foul and by getting the
fall both.
The second event was a private fight
between young man by the name of
Parent and another by the name of
Pigeon from Tobacco plains. The
fight was hot one while it lasted
Pigeon knocked out Parent in the
fourth round and he was unconscious
On Friday night, this week, will be
another match between O'Neil and
Moth for $3.50 a side. This promises
to be hot one, as there is some feel
ing between the two men over the 9TH
er match they had when O'Neil worst
ed Moth
The fire that caused the loss of the
passenger depot at Kalispell is one
that we feel very much. This depot
was the pride of Kalispell, as it was
the finest structure between Grand
Forks and the coast. The officers here
claim that the walls are all good and
that the road will make the necessary
repairs as soon as winter is over At
present they are quartered in the Ford
building, having good offices, but not
as convenient as the depot was, as
they are two blocks away from the
railroad. They expect to be back in
the new quarters by July.
The new road of Sc miles from Bon
ner's Ferry to the Canadian boundary
line is being pushed and will be com
pleted early in the spring. Porter
brothers are doing the bridge and tie
work, and they expect to have all the
bridge work done before high water in
the spring.