The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-02-15

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Mullinnix were up from Sheridan Sat-
urday, as final proof witnesses in the
Mckay land matter.
Friday evening Feb. 18th, literary
and musical entertainment will be Civ
en- BY the Junior League. Refresh
ments will be served and social eve-
ming spent by all. Place of entertain-
ment NJ. +. Church.
| }. f. Woods, of Silver Star, was in
the city yesterday. Mr.. Woods ex-
poets to leave with his family for Ohio
in few days. The trip is made in the
hope that it will prove beneficial to
Mrs. Woods, who is an invalid
Ben Pickens is circulating petition
| for removal of the Ennis postoffice
from its present location to the old
Ennis Hall, one and one-half miles
from the present location. Mr. Pick
ems petition also prays for his appoinc-
ment as postmaster The present in-
cumbent is VIM. Ennis, who has held
the position for fifteen years or more.
The residents of Wigwam also desire
a postof!ice. Their petition prays for
the appointment of T. L. Wilkins as
postmaster They ask for semi
weekly mail service,
In response to call from the state
board of equalization number of the
county assessors met in Helena last
Monday. Those present were: Rob-
ert Nelson, of Ravalli county; j. NJ.
Rhodes, of Dawson: J. f. Woods Of
Jefferson; w. j. Foreman, of Madison;
c. D. Elliott, of Cascade; r. T. Bar
nett: of Gallatin; o. D. Policy, of VAL
ley; J. B. Gibson, of Flathead; j. H.
Schwend, of Deer Lodge; II. G. Pl ov-
ince, of Carbon; w. A. Harrison, Of
Sweetgrass; Jas. Hotchkiss, of Teton;
and Jake Fisher, of Lewis and Clarke;
Jake Fisher of Lewis and Clarke, was
elected chairman and C. D. Elliott of
Cascade, secretary.
An effort will be made in the near
future to organize local tent of the
Ladies of the Macabees. The deputy
supreme commander Of this order is in
Butte. She will visit Pony in few days.
and then probably proceed to Virginia
City. The order is based on the same
plan as the Knights of the Macabees,
but is entirely independent of the male
order, 1t offers to all women, socially
acceptable, between the ages of 16 and
81, of sound bodily health, life, total
disability and old age benefits at cost,
for $500, 81 900 or $1,000 on the assess
ment plan and at ratings as low as are
offered to men by similar societies.
The l.. O. 7. NJ. already number ST.
500 in membership, and are growing in
a greater ratio than any other benefit
order in existence, showing that women
appreciate and are ready to avail them
selves of this opportunity for protec-
tion for home and loved ones.
G A. Shufeldt has associated him
self with Mr.. George Farnsworth, Il
capitalist of Chicago and has secured
the control of the Fortune group of
mines situated in Williams gulch.
These mines were discovered some
years ago BY r. 7. Cook and have been
worked and owned by him ever since.
Considerable development has been
done and the vein shows up 80 we'll
that Messrs Farnsworth & Shufeldt
have decided to sink the shaft hun
dred and fifty or two hundred feet and
extend the levels the same amount. II
the mine maintains its present show
ing they will in the early summer put
in ten stamp concentrating plant with
all OF the modern appliances, with the
capacity to work about 80 tons of ore
per day. At present they will put ON
q force of ten or twelve men and when
the mill is completed this force will be
increased to twenty-five or thirty men.
Mr.. Farnsw0rth, who was here this
week, has returned to Chicago and
will at once ship the hosting and
pumping machinery and by the first of
March the work will be we'll under
way. The Fortune has we'll defined
vein OF mineral three feet wide show
ing an average value of about S25 to
$50 per ton, three-ifths of which is
gold. 1t is considered by mining men,
one of the most promising prospects in
this part Of the state. Several years