The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-10-03

salT papers of extradition when he
arrested the refugee. The whole affair
was conducted so quietly and cleverly
that the detective had departed with
his prisoner before the people of the
neiehborhood knew anything of it,
VIM. Stewart. of Blaine. well known
Madison county man. received the sad
news of the death Of his father. Rev. j.
H. Stewart, which occurred at Ward
station few days ago The deceased
was in his 96th year. and died in his
char of heart failure, while conversing
with his son. He was a churchman.
having Officiated as minister of Ward
station for so years. and had also served
as presiding elder number of terms.
A singular fact in connection with this
sad affair is that his father died at al
most the same place at the advanced
age of 100. The Rev. Stewart had liv-
ed most exemplary life and vas held
in high esteem in the section in which
he lived
The Populists of Gallatin county have
indorsed the following ticket: State
senator. S. c. Kenyon, Republican:
for legislature. Lyman J. Morgan.
Democrat. Thomas Reese and B. NJ.
Dawes. PopulistS: county commission
ers. J. L. Patterson. Democrat. Don
Cameron. Republican. and Geo E. Dav-
ie Populist: for sheriff. w. j. Fran
sham. Republicans: clerk Of court.
Charles Banderson. Republicans: recor-
der. Elsa Copple, Populist: assessor.
Flovd B. Austin, Populist: county at
torney. Geo. D. Pease. Republican:
county superintendent of schools. A. j.
Walrath. Republican. They also en-
dorsed the Republican nominee for dis
trict Judge, w. L. Holloway. The con-
national and state Populist platform
and pledged itself to support these.
The weather clerk seems to be
against the Twin Bridges fair. Since
the birth OF the association. ten years
ago. the weather during the progress
of the fair has uniform Y miserable.
Last year the association changed the
date in the hope of avoiding the bad
weather, but the weather clerk appar-
emily changed his rain schedule ac-
cordingly. This year the rain came as
usual. 1t was miserably cold. specta-
tors and exhibitors kept away. who
otherwise would have attended. and
the track was made too heavy for rae
ing. The exhibits of blooded live
stock. Madison county fruits and Madi
son county candidates, were, however
up to the usual standard. On the lat
ter the blue ribbons will not be award
ed until November 3 next. The base
ball games were good and the bal
Friday evening in Whites hall wa
enjoyable.
} Ed Adams. one of the fortunate own
ers of the Blackstone, the little golt
, producer which startled Madison count.
mining men about year ago by it
richness. was in the city "Wednesday
The boys have been at work now II
months, running a $50 foot crOss-cut
and bumped up against the lead a few
days ago with a suddenness that sur
prised them. And the best of the new
is that the lead is just as large ant
> we'll defined as it was in the shaft
They expect to commence shipping orr
forthwith. The ore is ''snaked" dow
Skyhigh in rawhides. about quartz
: of a mile to wagon road, but its rich
ness would justify even more expensive
methods of transportation. We ar
9 glad that the boys are on the highwa.
: of prosperity. They have worked un
: remittingly for the past 10 months
5 without much show of encouragement
. and they abundantly deserve thei
5 good fortune.
State Land Agent James Page wa
Il in the city Wednesday. Mr.. Page
mission in Madison county is to ap
/ praise the 1901 900 acres of choice stat
. lands within the confines of Madison
county. He has been engaged in thi
n work since the 22nd of last June, an
}. has been greatly handicapped by othe
,. official duties which seriously inter
O ferred with this work. However h
n expects to complete the work in abou
T. 10 days. The largest bodies of stat