The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-09
INCREASED CAPACITY
The Elevator Company Decides to
Enlarge Its House.
TWO BOYS JUMP" THE TOWN
Farmers Are Not Realizing For
tunes on Their Spud Crop-A
Fire In Bridger Canyon
Work In the Flour Mill.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Bozeman, Nov. 1.-The directors of
the Farmers & Merchants Elevator
company met at the Commercial Ma
tional bank last evening and voted to
erect an addition to their elevator here,
work to commence at once, and the
contracts for the work were let this
morning. Alfred Leveque got the con-
tract. for the stone work and broke
ground to-day for the foundation, the
carpenter work going ito Koch G. Pr
geon. The capacity of the elevator
will be increased $4,000 pounds.
Charles Mitchell and Levi Stephens,
two young fellows who have been about
Bozeman and this valley for a number
of years, are reported to have eloped
with themselves between two days,
leaving debts amounting to about 81 900
behind them. They bought a thresh-
ing outfit last fall and, as they could
not pay cash down, young Mitchell got
L. d. Ferguson of this place to sign
note with him for about 500, and M.
Ferguson lis preparing ITO meet this
note. Mitchell had promised Mr.. Fer
guson a mortgage upon the thresher,
but when he decided it was time he
was getting his mortgage and sent for
Mitchell to come in and fix things up,
friend who, II is said, he was owing
considerable and, collecting all the
threshing bills he could, he and his
pardner skipped. 1t is claimed they
had not paid their engineer or feeder
who worked for them during threshing
this fall and that they owed a good
many small amounts about Bozeman
and the valley.
1t showed Is inches in Gallatin valley
between Saturday evening and Monday
night, cutters and bob-sleds finding 1t
very easy sliding this week. The ther-
mometer went down to zero and Ii was
quite wintry until Thursday evening,
when 1t moderated, and 1T bids fair for
a thaw and lots of mud for the next
few days. This is grippe weather and
a good many are feeling the return of
this unwelcome visitor.
p. II. Pernot of Indianapolis, Ind,
the new mineral land commissioner APP
pointed to take the place of b. b.
Blackwell, who resigned and went east
some time ago, arrived on Thursday
morning.
Potatoes are not small and few IN the
hill this year, but quite the contrary.
The price, however, is away down, and
there is no sale whatever for spuds.
Last year they were shipped East and
West, the crop East being very short
and causing a demand for potatoes in
Wisconsin and Minnesota, while this
them out to stock, holding few over
in hopes of a market next spring. The
Northern Pacific agent at Belgrade
stated yesterday that during the month
of October, 1894, he billed out over
100000 pounds of potatoes from Bel
grade, while this year during October
there was not "a pound of potatoes left
that place. This is due to the fact that
Dakota raised potatoes this year to
give away to THE sister states, pota toes
being shipped into Montana from Da-
kota this year for less than Montana
ranchmen will sell theirs for.
Hon. Charles S. Hartman left Tues
day morning to take up his duties at
Washington, d. c. Before leaving he
gave to the public, through the columns
of the Standard, an outline of the meas
ures upon which he proposed to work
during the coming session of congress
and he will undoubtedly be successful
in catching the speakers eye"
There was a slight blaze up Bridger
canyon yesterday afternoon, a small
frame building at w. ]. Alexander's
stone quarry catching on fire and burn
ing to the ground. 1t was used by the
quarrymen for a lodging house, the en-
tire loss probably being less than 5000.
The Bozeman Milling company, which
has been running day times only dur
ing the past summer, put on night
shift ON Thursday, and the mill will
now run six days and nights each week
throughout the winter months. Wheat
is not moving very rapidly just now,
as all ranchmen who are able are hold
ing their grain for higher prices. The
Touring mills are paying IS and 40
cents for wheat, which is not a price
which fills the farmers heart with joy
and causes him TO rush into the market
with his wheat.
Gus Steffins, Robert Winters and
Horace Cleaveland thought the snow
which began coming Saturday evening
looked like a deer snow and, hastily
DOMINO their hunting togs, they start
ed at O'Clock Saturday evening for
Bear canyon. They were not gone As
hours, but when they returned Mon
day they had meat. They had each
marked his game. but one deer. badly
wounded. escaped. they bringing back
two as the result of Sundays hunt.