The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-14
NEWS OF THE COUNTY
The New Passenger Service Will Be
in Full Force Tonight.
MINING AT THE WEST END
Wreck of a Road Outfit and the
Intense heat of the Travellers
Collars-Personal Men,
ton and Brevisies.

Missoula, April 13.-By tomorrow
night the new passenger service will
be in full operation on this division.
The time card, as IL affects this city,
has already been given in the Stand
ard. AS also announced in this paper,
Conductors Bradley and Cleary will
have the Bitter Root and Occur
d'Alene passenger run. On Nos. / and
2, between Hope and Butte, the con-
ductors will be Messrs. Jenkins, Rey-
nolds and Mcdonald. Conductor
Houston will have the run from Car
rison to Logan, to connect with Nos.
and 3
State Bank Examiner Bogart and
Smith Davis have returned from the
Upper Blackfoot, where they went on
some mining business. They reached
town last night and at once hunted up
the Bonner stage man that they might
send back by him a set of whifiletrees,
they having had a smashup in the up
per country. Pat Hayes helped them
oft. and they came in with patched
up outfit.
Mining matters in the west end of
the county are getting lively. The in
dications are that there will be lot
of work done there this summer. In
the Vermillion and other districts In
that neighborhood the mines that were
opened up last season will be worked
for profit this year.
There is no abatement in the tramp
nuisance and the wanderers are COM
ing in from both ways. They are max
ing themselves especially obnoxious by
their bold begging methods. Some of
them will not do any work to pay for
a meal. but demand il outright The
police are keeping them on the move
as well as possible. but there seems to
be no end to the supply.
The measles have become so preva-
lent that the school board has ordered
the city schools closed for a week and
the pupils and teachers are taking an
enforced vacation.
Sam Silverman and James Boone
left this morning for Martina, where
they will start the mill of the Missoula
Gold Mining company at once. The
water supply is now sufficient to run
the mill and there will be no necessary
delay in getting the company's prop
critics into a paying basis
Robert Gay, one of the best-known
old-time miners and prospectors in this
section, is preparing to go to Trail
creek. He will be Joined i'm a short
time by his brother and they will seek
fortune In the new camps up north.
Candy Morrison and Frank Hill
went up the Bitter Root yesterday to
the Mountain View ranch and spent
the day there On the way home in the
evening their horse fell down on the
Lou Lou grade and broke the buggy.
The travellers sat in the darkness at a
loss to know how to proceed when a
ranchman came along with a rope
which they confiscated and with which
they proceeded to repair the breaks in
their wagon. This was not an easy
job. but they made IL go and came
Il. l..
do the work over before they reached
this city. and when they finally got
here their dispositions were not in con-
diton for dress parade.
Western Montana has enjoyed a
genuine spring rain storm to-day and
the farmers are happy.
Train No. / of the old schedule came
in to-day for the last time and was
two hours late. Ii was not a good end
ing for a service that has been in the
main a very satisfactory one. on the
contrary the eastbound train No. was
on the dot last night.
Judge Francis came in from Spo-
kane last night and today went to Hell
ena on another business trip.
Frank Weaver left to-day for Spo-
kane. where he has a position waiting
for him at the bar of the Spokane ho-
tel
The funeral of f. o. Houtchins of
Carlton was held to-day. The burial
was in the cemetery here.
ID. c. Bass of Stevensville, was in to-
day on business. To a Standard re-
porter Mr.. Bass said that the season
was an excellent one for the fruit
growers and they expect a good crop
this summer
G.. A. Kahn Of Stevensville. was one
of the passengers on the early Bitter
Root train this evening.
There will be a general exodus of
placer miners this week In the morn
ing Gid. Proper will start his mines at
the head of Bear. The operators of the !
mines in the lower country will all go |
down this week.
Frank Groesbeck is in town to-day |
from Quartz creek and reports that |
the water is beginning to flow there.
ID. p. Lamoreux, son of the commits |
sioner Of the general land office, Is In |
town to-day and will go TO Butte this |
evening to meet the mineral land COM |
plissioners of this district.
The new Bitter Root train service, |
while its hours are rather unseason-
able. makes close connections with the |
main line trains. and passengers from /
the valley do not have to spend any |
time here waiting for connections.