The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-27

days past attorneys and surveyors have
been quite busy preparing papers and To-
eating claims wherewith to adverse the
company when they appear in the Helena
and Bozeman land offices with their APP
plications Tor patents. 1t is claimed-in
fact, it is known--that most of the land
which the company seeks TO segregate is
mineral land. much of il of surprising
richness. Many OF the best prospects of
gold, silver and lead that have been dis
covered in Madison county have been
found in the territory covered by these
claims of the company, and 1t has only
been because they were SO remote from
railway lines of transportation that they
have not been actively developed long be-
fore this. The Northern Pacific people
may rest assured of one thing, and that is
that they will not obtain possession OF
these lands without strenuous opposition
on tho part of the settlers of Madison
county.
The projected building of the new Par
rot smelter in the jefferson valley is
source of much qualification to the people
of the jefferson, Beaverhead and Ruby
valleys. Not only the establishment of a
mammoth smelling works, and conse-
quent market for produce causes their
elatlon, but they feel that this enterprise
will bring them what they have waited for
for many years-an outlet for the rich
ores that are known to abound in tho
mines of Silver Star, Iron Rod, Rochester.
Tidal Wave, Wisconsin, and the many
other mining districts which lie con-
tguous TO the site of the proposed works.
Not a few are already preparing to go to
the scene of action when work begins,
with the laudablo object in view of
making hay while the sun shines"
The city council of Virginia has just
completed the revision of the munl-
cipal code, and when they are published
and come in force, the dads" fondly
! hope the ancient capital will be tho best
governed city in the state. Among other
reformatory laws are the license on gaming
houses and saloonkeepers, and the pass
age of a curfew ordinance, by which
/ young Virginians will be restrained from
vicious practices after o'clock in the
evening.
| Socially Virginia City has been pretty
| quiet this winter. The weekly dancing
| parties of the Cotillion club have fur
nlshed salutary exercise for the light
footed folk and cuchre, whist and crib
bage have supplied amusement for those
who have passed the terpsichorean stage
| of life. Beyond this there has been moth
| ing in the way of amusement, mot" as
| one lady uaivcly observed to the STAND
ARD man, "even a church."
| There has boon an exodus of ministers
| from here lately, the Rev. ID. Holmes, of
tho Episcopal church, returning to his
home IN Vancouver, and the Rev. 5. L.
| Ackley, of the Methodist church, going
with his family to Boston, Mass.
James Garrison, who was recently mar
ried to Miss Elsa, tho daughter of his
partner, John Fehring. of Alder gulch,
has just finished and furnished a hand
some cottage residence at Adobetown and
the happy couple are now snugly housed
for the winter.
Curtis ID. Newberry left last week for
Fort Worth, Texas, where he will pur-
chase two or three thousand head of cattle
for :. Il. Buford q Co. They will be
shipped to the firms big ranch on the yell
! lowstone.
County Treasurer Gilbert Is holding
daily auctions of delinquent taxpayers'
property. Tho amount for sale is not
large, but much larger than any that has
been had in Madison county for more than
- years.
Ras Rochester, the Laurin merchant, is
spending few months in the Blue Grass
regions of Kentucky, enjoying much
needed recreation.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lyon and children
returned last week from two months
trip through Missouri and Iowa. Their
son. I'd. goes to school in the state agri-
cultural college 1t Bozeman.
Counors, WHO was implicated in the cut
ting and shooting afrray at Red Bluff last
! fall. s,gnaliEed his release from Jail by
stealing the bedding of Dick DAVIS, tho
well known mining expert, and now occu-
pcs his old quarters in the county bas-
! tile.
Three of the city saloons have been
closed this month and another will follow
suit on Feb. 1. There are still enough
left TO supply the trade.
The Chinese New Year festival will be-
g.n next Friday, but the Mongols are
"bclly poo this year aud the celebration
will not bc up TO the usual standard. A,
one of them seutentiously remarked
"S,iber heap dam low. Heap goddan
Clebcland"
Alder Lodge No. 80, y. o. L. w. com
, plctei its installation of officers thi.
evening. The roster is rs follows: u. NJ