The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-02-15
CITY and COUNTY
BRIEF BITS OF LOCAL IN
TELllGENGE,
Shufeldt- Cook Mining DeaI-Other
and General.

James H. Gordon of Meadow Creek
was in town yesterday.
Hon. H. D. Rossi,er made hurried
visit to the comfy seat this week.
Public Administrator Julian A.
Knight is in Bozeman on business con-
nected with his Office.
Hon. Alex Metzel and his son
William, were in the city yesterday
Mr.. Metzel left for Twin Bridges this
morning.
c. w. Pendarvis was in town yester-
day. He informed the MADIsoNIAN
man that Mrs. Pendarvis, who has
been i'll so long, is improving.
DR.. Southmayd amputated the little
finger of the left hand of Charles Cock
Tuesday. The amputation was made
necessary by supperatlve asteitis or
inflammation of the bone.
The county board of appraisers, con-
sisting of VIM. Ennis, Solomon Wiles
and Joseph 0. Moulton, appointed by
Judge Showers recently, will meet
Monday, and fix the valuation on real
estate.
Hon. Sam Page bought one of Mr..
Metzel's imported bulls, "Clayton, "
got by Imperial I12411, dam Lady
Halstead II; also native bred short
ho1n, "Corbett H." got by "Corbett, "
one of the Metzel,shorthorn herd. Mr..
Page believes in improving his stock
and is going about it in the right man
ner.
George Gohn, pater, won the suit of
clothes at the rattle Wednesday even
ing. AS Mr.. Powell, the draper
young gentleman who was Jack of the
scheme is suspected by many Of being a
la Mcdonald, the Irish Jew, it is prob
able that Mr.. Gohn will sell his inter-
est in this suit of clothes at a reason
able figure.
Messrs Pankey & O'Donnell are
| compelled to abandon their operations
on Blake's hole for the present, at
least. They sank about 20 feet, tim
bered up the shaft we'll and put in two
pumps, but the water was too much for
them, or rather. the pumps were not of
sufficient capacity te keep the shaft
clear. This is to be regretted, and we
hope that at some future time the
young men may prove more successful.
All the placer experts of the locality
agree that there is gold in this pot
hole in abundance.
Chas Mcclure, the multi-millionaire
mine owner of St. Louis, and Paul
Fusz, president of the Bi-metallic and
Granite Mountain Companies, were in
the city this week, looking over min
ing interests here. 1t is understood
that these gentlemen were very much
pleased with this section of Montana.
Their Philipsburg properties, since
they came into possession of them,
have produced nearly $50, 900, 900 worth
of mineral They left for Philipsburg
Wednesday, and may return shortly.
Mr.. Mcclure found an Old-time ac-
quaintance here in unfortunate circum-
stances to whom he made q present of
fifty dollars.
In our report of the mock trial of
j. B. How, we did q wrong which we
propose to right forthwith. The re-
port contained paragraph rejecting
on the war record of Mr.. How. Now
We know nothing derogatory of Mr..
How's record as q soldier. We do
know that he has an honorable dis
charge from the service, paper which
veterans should prize above all others,
and that he wears the bronze button of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, q
badge of honor for which none have
greater respect than the writer.
Among those who were acquainted
with the facts no harm could result
from the misleading paragraph, but
on the outside those who knew nothing
about the pleasantly leading up to the
report Of the trial, might construe the
paragraph - . malicious statement
We make this statement 70 ease tho
wounded feelings Of A-vstersa, and for
the sake Of our svn coaaclsaoas ,.~'