The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
MISSOULA NOTES.

III. johnson and wife of Nine Mile are
in the city.
w. J. Clark of the White Cloud mine
is IN the city to-day on business.
w. ]. Kendall has been in town to-
day from his sawmill at Bonita
Nj. j. Mcnamara IS in town to-day
from the Upper Blackfoot valley.
Only one plain drunk occupied the
attention of the police department to-
day.
Candy Morrison and family left to-day
for Arlee, where they will spend several
days.
Miss Cyr has returned from a vacation
OF several weeks and is now at the Bee
Hive store again.
Captain Loughborough Of the Twenty
fifth infantry has been granted leave of
absence and will spend the next three
months on the coast.
Conductor Jack Ward, who has been
assigned to one of the new Garrison To-
cal runs. Is planning to remove to Mis-
soua with his family.
Morris Schlossberg will spend the
next few weeks in the East, where he
VIII purchase his spring and summer
goods before returning.
a. 5. Blair, formerly of Anaconda, has
succeeded Louis Odell as bookkeeper for
the Mentrum- Briggs company. and has
S. H. Greenwood. the well-known
hardware salesman. is a guest at the
Florence to-day, having been up the
Filter Root ON business trip.
Mrs. Lizzie Adams has been quite i'll
Tor some weeks and to-day was taken to
the Sisters hospital. where she will re-
main till her health is improved.
Harry Stewart expects to leave for
Mullan, Idaho. in short time. He will
fer no
and expects to remain there perma-
nently
Assessors Hamilton of Missoula coun-
ty and Smart of Ravali, returned to-
day from Helena, where they have been
in attendance at the recent convention
of assessors.
The Northern Pacific did a good piece
of work to-day and brought both flyers
IN on time this afternoon. The change
from the record of the past week was a
most agreeable one.
All flags in the city will float at half
mast tomorrow. Lou Lyon and ST Tay-
Tor will leave on the noon train for
Seattle to embark for the Klondike by
way of Fort Wrangel.
The Chinese took new hold to-day
and burned all sorts Of gunpowder to-
night in connection with their new
years celebration. They have been
very quiet for two or three days.
Reports from the Backfoot are that
the logging operations are nearly COM
pleted there for the winter. the early fall
of snow having enabled the loggers to
get their logs to the rivers earlier than
usual.
Doc Greenhood is making one of his
regular visits to Missoula. Since Doc"
took to the road he has made Il good
record and his Missoula friends who
knew him as boy, are pleased with his
success.
The north side school, which has been
closed on account of the presence of
diphtheria in that part of the city, will
be opened Monday, the board of health
considering it safe for the children to
attend again.
The ladies of the blaek-faced minstrels
held their last rehearsal this afternoon,
and those who were present speak we'll
Of the performance. The music of the
first part is all new and is rendered by
the best local talent.
The Standard was most welcome ar
rival in Missoula to-day, the news of the
action of the senate regarding the Teller
resolution being very pleasant reading
To the people over here. The supply Of
papers at the Western Montana office
of the Standard was soon exhausted.
Wood choppers have almost complete
ly cleared the island of the accumula-
ton of drift wood that had collected
there. Several hundred cords of this
wood have been split and hauled into
town this winter. This industry has
made great difference to the wood
haulers who operate in the mountains
I. L. Greenough is showing his friends
2 picture Of the new steamer that he
and p. Larson have purchased for the /
Alaska trade. The boat Is one of the
finest on the Pacific coast and is a sister /
vessel 70 the City of Seattle that has +
been on the Alaska run for some I
months. Mr.. Greenough SAYS that the I
bookings for the boat are already well /
filled. although she will not sail before /
the middle OF February.