The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-22
GREAT FALLS GOSSIP.

GREAT FALLS, Feb. 21.-Mrs. L. +. Sor-
rick is confined to her home with a broken
wrist, the result of fall on the icy walk
while returning from church last Sunday.
Major and Mrs. Morton of the Saliva
ton army, who came here from Spokane
10 hold special services, are meeting with
great success at the barracks on First
avenue south. AT to-night's meeting the
now recruits were sworn in.
U. N. Hartley of Missoula has COM
pleted the arrangements for taking charge
OF the Great Falls opera house the first
of next month. 1t is understood that he
has number of first class attractions
booked for early dates.
The funeral of John Wauns, the man
killed in mine No. 1, at Belt, was held
Sunday afternoon from the new Metho-
dist church. The funeral was one of the
largest ever held in this country. Four
hundred miners formed in line after the
service and marched with the remains to
the cemetery. 1t was the first fatality in
the history of the Belt coal mines.g
The funeral of the late Mrs. Hattie Has.
brook was held at Choteau Sunday, Rev.
Mr.. Logan officiating. 1t was largely at
tended. She died in child birth. She was
very popular, being loved and respected
by all who knew her. She was the
daughter of Jacob Schmidt, an old-time
resident of Choteau. who came to Mon.
tana in 1854 in the employ of the Ameri-
can fur company. The deceased had
lived in Choteau since childhood.
Charlie Carr, aged 10, who died at Cho-
teau last Saturday, after an illness of
about two months, was buried Monday
afternoon. Rev. Mr.. Logan conducted
MI
presslve. Six schoolmates of the dead
hoy acted as pail bearers. The services
were held in the school house. About 80
pupils of the Choteau school formed in
limo at the house and marched to the
school house behind the remains and then
TO the cemetery, where all that was NOR
tai of their beloved schoolmate was con-
signed to mother earth.
The good people of Choteau are consid-
erlng the project of building Sisters
hospital at the county seat of Teton
county. Mrs. Wamsley and Miss Ella
j. Hamilton have started the enterprise
by securing a site, and they hope to raise
enough money in the near future to COM
mence work on the foundations.
The city council met in special session
yesterday to consider some bills before
the legislature which are considered det-
rimental to this city. One bill in particu-
lar is house bill No. "a. legalizing city or
dinances which may possess technical de-
fects, and another, number not known,
which has for its special object the legal
izing of all franchises heretofore entered
into between corporations and cities or
towns. 1t was the sentiment of the coun-
ell that these bills are detrimental to this
city. The following was adopted:
BE IL Resoired. By the city council Of Great
Falls that we do hereby protest against the
passage OF house bill No. "A and house bill No
-, because said bills are detrimental to the
interests of all cities Of the state of Montana.
The clerk was instructed to write a
copy of these resolutions to the Cascade
delegation in Helena and to the mayors
of Butte, Missoula, Anaconda, Livings-
ton and Billings, and also ask the latter
officers if they could send a delegation to
Helena Friday, to act in conjunction with
a committee from this council in fighting
the proposed bills.
The pupils of the schools paid tribute
to the memory of Washington this after
noon in recitation and songs of a patri-
otto nature. Many patrons were present
to hear the pupils raise their voices in
of the great patriot. The
schools will be closed tomorrow.