The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-14

town wood piles are strangely dimtn-
ished. Thursday q lady left her house
for few minutes and when she re
turned $50 was missing. Citizens are
aroused and vigilant, and several loads
of buckshot have been prepared for the
miscreants.
Rev. Fir. ]. J. Dobs of Great Falls
win hold services In Neihart May H.
George Dwyer. the representative OF
the Neihart Miners union at the con-
vention OF the Western Federation OF
Miners. which begins its session at
Denver tomorrow. will visit In Chica-
go for about a month after the conven-
ton.
In the police court this morning Tim
Sullivan, drunk who was arrested
on Third street south by Marshal Fou-
tet, was fined $3.50 and committed for
three days in default Of payment
A bouncing girl baby appeared at
the home of Mr.. and AIRS, Ed Canary
yesterday.
A gentleman in Great Falls from Ed
dyville. Wapello county. Iowa. states
that w. r. Nelson. formerly an asfor.
ney-at-law In Fort Benton nnd Great
Falls. Is now engaged in the praytice OF
his profession at that town. Ne'son
came to Fort Benton In the summer u
1890, and soon had a good practices.
numbering the leading firms among bis
clients. He had been a democratic
ward worker in Iowa. but changed MS
politics with his residence. and was
q prominent republican In Choteeu
county. He was successful In practice
and was freely mentioned as . can
didate for district Judge. But his OLD
enemy, rum, got the best OF him. ana
he came to Great Falls. He could
obtain no legal business and invested
in a grocery store, but failed. He was
a populist in Great Falls. He then
returned to Iowa, and his wife secured
a divorce and the custody OF their TWO
children on the ground of drunkenness.
He then Strengthened UP and was very
SUCCESSFUL in criminal practice. He was
q candidate for the democratic nomi-
nation for county attorney OF Wapel-
10 county last fall, and was nearly
successful. He has married again. and
has one child. He has prospered. and
he and his wife rank with the elite OF
the town of Eddyville.
p. A. Moir has been elected prin-
cipal Of the public schools Of Glas-
cow.
Great Falls is affiicted with a female
styling herself the Worlds Greatest
Spiritualistic Medium of the Church OF
the New Dispensation." She camps
in a tent near the city and has caught
many suckers.
Bower Bros, well-known sheepmen
of Stanford. are en- route overland to
Malta with 1000 wethers, which they
will shear at the Malta pens.
Although the passing of the agfta-
ton for a mail route from Great Falls
to Augusta into what Grover Cleveland
might term innocuous desuetude oc-
CURED with the demise of the Great
Falls chamber of commerce, II may
soon be revived IL the people OF Cho-
teau are successful in their object to
secure a mail route from Choteau to
Augusta. These two postof1ces are
only 25 miles apart, Joined by a natural
road, yet ii takes three days for mail
to go between them, passing over a
route $50 miles in length. petition
is being circulated for the establish
ment of better service, and will be for
warded to Washington. The service
between Choteau and Sun river is
neary as bad. The distace is only 30
miles, yet two days are required from
the transmission of mail. This is worse
than 1t was years ago, when letters
Benton. En-
Word has been received that Maj.
]. w. Patrick and party, whose secret
| departure from Great Falls was chron-
icled recently by Standard reporter,
are now prospecting on Beaver creek.
a tributary of the North fork of Sun
river.
| ID. ]. Hogan is Oregon, where he has
purchased bunch of young cattle.
which will be placed on the range near
Cut Bank, Teton county. Beach, Kohrs
and Hogan will place 1900 head of
young steers near the Sweet Grass
hills after the round-ups.
| Simon Jacobs, the late city treasurer
of Butte, was a brother Of Mrs. Julius
Hirshberg of Choteau.
The fire department received word at
9 O'Clock last night that a prairie fire
was raging along he river bank. be-
low Black Eagle falls. 1t was spread
| ing rapidly. and the street railway
company's car house, the pavilion and
stairway leading to the suspension
bridge were in danger. Several hundred
! feet of hose were sent out and en-
ployes of the street railway company
succeeded in extinguishing the fire be-
| fore much damage was done. The ORR
gin of the fire is unknown.