The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-10-26
CITY hNO COUNTY
AN UNFORTUNATE ACCI-
DENT.
Young Wiles' Right Hand Blown If
Wednesday Evenings Fntertain-
Other Local Matter.

A very unfortunate accident occurred
at Sylvester Wiles ranch on Wigwam
last Saturday, by which Morris Wiles.
the l6 year old son of Solomon Wiles
OF this city, will lose the index and Sec
ond fingers of his right hand, and pos
sibly the two remaining fingers.
Young Wiles was hunting on Wig
wan Greek. He stopped to help turn
some horses in a field and in order to
do $50 leaned his shot gun against
the fence Thinking it was not secure
he placed it over the fence in another
position and in the action both barrels
OF the gun was discharged, the boy re-
celvlng the contents Of the gun in the
palm of his hand.
The W fingers and the palm of the
hand up to within an inch and one half
OF the wrist were blown away. The
boy stood the shock heroically. The
wound was tied up, and he was brought
to Virginia City as quickly as possible
and Drs. Raglan and S%outhmayd per-
formed an operation on the injured
member. The physicians are of the
opinion that they a save the thumb
and third and fourth fingers, although
the boys hand was horribly mutilated.
The institute entertainment Wednes.
day evening was one of the most eniov-
able occasions of it's kind occurring in
Virginia for a long time. In a musical
way the event was very recherche.
having brought together such well
known vocalists as Miss Gertrude Kirby
OF Silver Star, Miss Grace Herndon of
Sheridan and Mr.. Matthew Nelson of
this city, and others. Nature has en-
lowed these three young people with
wonderful powers to please. The duets
by Leila Scott and Joe Marshal, Marie
Scott and Nellie Marshal, little folks
OF Sheridan and students of Miss Grace
Herndon, were rare musical novelties.
The versatile William Stevenson as
usual, bobbed up serenely in a highly
sensational costume, borrowed presum-
ably from some of his bicycling lady |
friends, and sang a SONG in harmony !
with his awful makeup. However the |
Maccabee goat got aver with him last
night and
HE wanted me to take his place
And do the best l could"
but the goat couldn't be induced to
acquiesce in the proposition.
REGULATIONS by Miss Josephine Nc
Cloud, Miss Jeanette Davis, Prof. Fred
Gibson, Mrs. Chiefly and Miss Fannie
McGreogory, elected much applause
and numerous encores, and did also
the violin solo by DR.. Schafstad. The
MADISONIAN regrets that,this splendid
entertainment cannot be written of in
detail, but the fact that out of IS num-
bers there were II encores speaks VOL
umes.
Hon. VIM. Morris and his wife re
turned from Butte Monday evening.
Mr.. Morris represented Virginia lodge.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at
the annual session of the grand lodge
OF that order, which was met in
Butte last week. He informed a MAD
lsONIAN man that the session was a
particularly busy n and very gener-
ally attended. The Butte members of
the order did everything in their power
make the stay of the visiting dele
gates pleasant and they succeeded hand
Wednesday the following grand lodge
officers were elected:
Grand master, Thomas Stees, Butte;
deputy grand master, J. L. Kemp, Mis-
soula; grand warden, J. NJ. Rhodes,
Easy to