The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20
state Of Montana.

day evening. Preparations for this
have been going on for the last six
weeks. and elaborate invitations, ia
vors and programmes have been got
ten out for the occasion. Whether the
ladies are proverbially unable 10 make
up their minds or are mischievously
holding back. can't be said. but at this
writing the young gentlemen are still
sitting on the barbed wire fence of sus-
pense concerning their expected in
vites."
Virginia City will also spread herself
on the some evening, the occasion being
a Washington's birthday ball to be CIV
en- by Company D., n. G.. NJ, for the
benefit of the new armory fund.
Twin Bridge Lodge No. II, A. o. u.
W., is going to celebrate the eleventh
anniversary of its institution on the
Goth prox. Details will be announced as
soon as completed.
Liberty Lodge No. z, I. o. G. T., has
installed officers as follows: Chief tenn
plar, Burr Gould; vice templar. Elsie
Leland; secretary, Pearl Drehmer; fin
ancial secretary, p. p. Gould; treasurer,
j. r. Comfort; chaplain, Rev. S. A.
Oliver; marshal, Gil. Wheat; guard,
John Seyler; sentinel. Ed Mueller; lodge
deputy, Gardner A. Pease.
State Senator Metzel was in attend
rectors of the Southern Montana Fair
association, of which he is president,
to-day. The meeting was called to
make arrangements to settle up the af-
fairs of the association. The regular
annual meeting of the stockholders will
be held March rs.
Judge Showers went up to Virginia
City Saturday. The spring term of the
district court was convened there this
morning. The docket contains about so
cases, all civil. The term will be a
short one.
A decision from the supreme court
remands for new trial the case of f. j.
Gainan ct al. VS.. Hugh O'Donnell ct al,
with instructions to overrule demurrers
formerly sustained by the lower court
The case involves title to one of the
richest mines in Browns gulch, which
defendant jumped from plaintiffs while
the latter were working it under lease
from the original owner, and will be one
of the most interesting causes on trial
at this term.
Colonel Charles Mcclure. the we'll
known mining capitalist, with Paul
f'usz and ]. H. Dunshee. OF Granite
Mountain, were in Virginia City this
week. Their business was to negotiate
for the redemption of the Easton mine,
now owned by Henry Filing. under
foreclosure of mortgage from Fine &
Il ahhCyB dDOul one year ago. AS near
as can be learned they were successful,
and have till March / to pay the in
deptedness, now amounting to $40, 600.
Besides this Messrs. Fine and Pankey
ere to receive 40 per cent. of stock in
the new company and bonus of $10,-
900 in cash. There is much satisfaction
at this outcome, as it's contamination
means the working OF the Easton mine,
which, by the way. has so far proven
to be one of the best in Madison county,
on larger scale than ever before
The big pot hole" near Virginia City
upon which Messrs. Pankey and O'Don-
nell have been operating for several
weeks past and which is supposed to be
fabulously rich on bed rock, has been
abandoned by them for the time being,
on account of inability to handle the
water with the present means at COM
mand. Some tall stories have been told
of prospects obtained here and il is not
uncommon to hear people tell of other
people who have seen as much as SIS
or 800 to the pan taken out of the
ground on this claim. All of which may
be true, or it may not; but Pankey and
O'Donnell will resume operations as
soon as they can handle the water.
They are now down about 20 feet.
The Dillon company which will work
the new mines on Wisconsin creek are
perfecting their arrangements to begin
ldyllB nuIleS anu dnOtner month Will
see them actively at work
At the recent municipal election,
Banker A. J. Bennett was elected may
or of Virginia City. For aldermen:
James Mitchell First ward: w. ]. Free
man, Second ward; w. ]. Donaldson,
Third ward. w. A. Clark, city clerk and
attorney, and Arch. McGown, police
magistrate, were reelected without OPP
position; but in the race for city mar
shall there was a tie between Eugene
Stark, the present incumbent, and ex-
Alderman Nelson Cole. The tie was
not broken after about a dozen ballots,
and the matter was postponed till the
next meeting of the council.
Editor w. w. Chiefly, of the Madi-
sonian, was a visitor to Butte the first
of the week.
Frank p. Bowman, the Sheridan
agent of the Dillon Tribune, has gone
to scare up some old Whitehall deln-
quents to his paper.
Mrs. b. Phelps. of Sturgis, South Da-
kota, arrived last week to visit her son.
George z. Scales, who is seriously I'll
with diabetis at Twin Bridges.
Mrs. John Welhart, president OF the
Twin Bridges branch of the Ladies' Aid
society, says that the work of the So
ciety this winter. has been more sue
cessful and satisfactory than ever be-
fore since its organization.
TRAGEDY AT EVERETT.