The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-06

Is it not about time that the annual
statement of the financial condition OF
Cascade county for the last year was
published? The taxpayers are anxious
TO know where their money has gone to
and who were the recipients of it.
The members of the Caledonian club
or Great Falls at its last meeting ap-
pointed a committee to confer with other
Caledonian societies in northern Mon
a relative to making arrangements
for a picnic and games during the sea-
son.
This splendid spring weather affords
the good h~usbandman an opportunity to
gather up his garden tools and go to
work preparing the soil for garden sass.
Get your gardens planted early with
such vegetables as mature in early
spring.
A. ID. Vance, who has been absent for
three years. returned yesterday from the
Flathead country, and brought with him
a tine herd of horses. Mr.. Vance is a
son OF our enterprising townsman. A. j.
Vance, and he expects to make Great
Falls his future home.
The following deeds were recorded
yesterday: Townsite company to Jacob
Van Aernam, lot I. block 597, fifth ad-
%uition, Sl,50O; A. T.. Dickerman to w. ii.
H.. Dunkle, northeast quarter of the
northeast quarter Of section 30, township
81 north, range 3 east, 500.
Adolph Heidenrich, proprietor of the
National hotel at Barker, is IN the city.
he reports general business as rather
quiet, though several mines are
8 lipping ore, and considerable develop
ment is contemplated. Like other min
ing camps, Barker has felt the effects of
unjust Legislation on silver and lead.
F. ID. Shiras at the old stand of Hotch-
kiss X Hawkins, has put in a splendid
new stock OF hardware, sporting goods,
etc. MIR. Shiras makes a specially of
wagon-makers' and b~lacksmiths' supplies
both in iron and wood Of which he has
the largest stock in the northwest. Tools
OF all descriptions are always on hand,
and as the stock Ia entirely new and
bought when iron and steel were lower
than they have been for twenty years.
Mr.. Shiras can afford to give bargains
not found elsewhere in the city.
On Tuesday a surprise party was had
at the residence Of Mrs. p. A. Dan, 500
Fourth ven south on the occasion of
Mrs. Dams SEVENTEEN birthday. The
visitors we're Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Nicely, Mr.. and
Thos. Fossett, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Kyle,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Scaden, MI. and Mrs.
II. G. Craig, Mrs. Foster, Miss Low, and
NJ. C.Mitchell, who delivered a very ap-
propriate recitation. At IL o. m. re-
freshments were served and the parties
left for home at II o'clock delighted
with the occasion.
Cops Mining Code, latest edition.
gives the following as a proper manner
in which TO relocate claims: Any aban-
doned lode, vein or strata claim may be
relocated, and such relocations shall be
prospected by sinking a new discovery
shaft and fixing new boundaries in the
same manner as provided for the To-
cation of a new claim; or the locator may
sink the original discovery shaft ten feet
deeper than it was at the time of it's
abandonment, and erect new or adopt
the old boundaries, renewing the posts
if removed or destroyed. In either event
a new location stake shall be fixed. The
location certificate of an abandoned
claim may state that the whole or any
part Of the new location is located as an
abandoned claim.