The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-06
DEATH OF MRS. BLACK
An HOnOred Old Lady Passes Away
at Her Daughters Home.
INTERESTING LAND CONTEST
Prospecting for Minerals on BIZ
cycle in Six inches of Snow
Good Roads In the VAL
ley-N otes.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Nov. AIRS. Mary a.
Black died at the home of Hon. T. j.
Lynde of Salesville Sunday evening at
six O'Clock with almost no warning, as
she had only been complaining the day
before of a pain lin her bowels and was
seemingly we'll from that when the END
came. A doctor was called Saturday |
morning and gave her some medicine. |
but that evening, while seated in a
rocking chair in the room with Mr.. |
Lynde's family she fell asleep and 1t
was found could not be Weakened. Mrs. |
Black was born in Laurel county. Ken |
lucky, March %, $685. making her 81
years old al the time of her death. She |
was married to Col. l.. NJ. Black in 1854 |
Col Black dying at Helena in August
1881. The children are Madison NJ
Black, of Bozeman; Mrs. Ella b. Lynde
of Salesvifle; Mrs. Sallie Beattie OF
Quitman,. Mo-, and Mrs. Laura Arment
OF Denver, Colo, formerly "a resident or
BoZeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Black left Kentucky in
1865, moving to St. Joseph, Mo-, and
came from there to Bozeman in 1871
where they both lived until their death.
Mrs. Black was a most estimable lady,
prominent in all good work. member
of the Christian church of this place
and beloved by every one of her MANY
many friends made during residence
of "a years in this valley. The funeral
will be Tuesday afternoon at O'Clock
from the Christian church here.
There is a contest now before tae
Bozemnn iandofiice which will prob oiy
consume the entire week, the case be-
ing one of prior settlement and espec-
ialMy interesting as part OF the pro-
ceedings will be those of Mrs. Mary
Kennedy against her own son. Tne
other case is VIM. Dickie against young
Kennedy, both cases being over the
same homestead of $50 acres, claimed
10y young Kennedy. The parties are az
from Billings, there being six or eight
witnesses present besides the primer
lpsls in the suit. Young Kennedy Is be-
ing championed by J. V. Bogent, the
Bozeman land attorney, and Mrs. Ken
1 ned and Dicl1ie are represented by Luce
* Luce.
/ From summers sun to winters snow
! in two days, or hunting minerals in the
Rockies on bicycle. Paul Mllburn
and w. T. Shaw, two college students
went up Rocky canyon, nine miles, on
, their wheels Friday evening to spend
Saturday geclogi7ng. They enjoyed
their outing to the fun, but when they
found six inches of snow on the ground
Sunday morning IL was a mineral they
had not been looking for. They ANAL
wed the soft, white deposit pretty thor
oughly, however, before they reached
| home as about every two rods their
wheels would glide from under them
with a creased lightning movement,
| and the studies of these two boys on
the resistance of six inches of snow TO
a falling object are very interesting 10
ID. J. Walvoord has returned from
| Rig Timber where he has been WORKING
| FOR the Holland Irrigation company,
and Will make his home at Manhattan
| this winter.
John NJ. Poets, formerly with Jonn
w. Elton, the progressive Bozeman
grocer, is in Bozeman this week lie
is now canvassing for the new sian
dard dictionary.
Geo L. Morgan, of Morse. Idaho, who
is to wed Miss Anna Hillix of this
place on Wednesday, evening came IN
on Saturday morning.
VIM ID. Mcdonald, formerly with the
Benepe-Owenhouse Co, here, ana
Charles Odlow, the Bozeman Splinter
have gone to Pueblo. Colo. and Will
remain there. -,
visiting his son. J. It. Stevenson. went
west on No. / Tuesday morning. He
win visit friends at Portland, Or, after
which he goes to Sacramento, CAL
where he will spend the winter with
his son. Rev. II. NJ. Stevenson, formerly
pastor of the Presbyterian church oil
this place. ,,.
| r.. MIfOn tllio AtAN n.y.
| FOR visit TO the mines of Idaho, In
; which he is interested.
Mrs. Charles +. Fransham is visitina
relatives in SIT. Paul, and viii be gone
some weeks.
| visitor this week going over on lihpoF
tant business.
sam w Lag,horne. the eHlena lane
/. | artorney came over on Friday to as
sist the Masons in their installation
Friday evening. He then visited hi
many friends here returning on Mon
day mornings Erain.
Ferd Zs4chael and wife were in from
! their Elk Creek ranch near Red Bluf
. the last OF the week
There was a basket social given b.
the Baptists in the Brown block OF
: | Main street Saturday evening for tn
| purpose of getting funds toward payinl
| expenses of remOdeling the church
| The Free Silver band got out and par
. | AIDED the street and furnished music
{ the social during the evening. prlz
was given for the neatest basket. arte
| which the baskets were auctioned on
I and over $50 realized from the sal
q toward the church debt.
y The roads in Gallatin valley nav
e been like paved thoroughfares 70
$ over a month. hard. smooth and De
4 light TO spin over them either on
{ wheel or in a buggy. Saturday ever
v ing. however. II began 10 snow. an'
s although every one expected a clea
sky sunday morning. IL was not $
e II showed All Of Sunday. and all 9
Monday there being over foot Z
: snow on the level then, and The sleigh
ing. remarkably fine for the iirst SNOW
Il 81 the season. And for once there va
II | no one TO kick. Anyone who would q
- afser the weeks OF clOudless *
whica has been October's gift 70 MOI
tana would show contempt for divir
laws and blessings which would nm
no mercy before even a state board Z
pardOns. and they ought 10 be oan4she
!. | TO a life in Kansas.Or Nebraska