The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-27

visit her parents. She had been afiict-
ed some with an affection Of the throat,
but II was not supposed to be anything
OF a serious nature. Along in the
afternoon she began TO find difficulty
in breathing and continued to grow
worse so rapidly that i'm an hour she
was dead. all the horrors Of y death
by strangulation being her sad fate.
Capillary bronchitis and enlargement of
the tonsils was the promoting cause.
The funeral was held at Fridley to-
day.
The raise made by the state board
OF equalization i'm the assessment of
Park county makes the total S3.3l9. 146.
an increase of 81. S55 over the figures Of
the county board. This result comes
from raising the assessment on work
horses TO SIG per head n listing year
ling lambs as sheep at $3.50 per
head.
A ranch on Upper Mission creek and
several head of stock belonging To the
Baker estate were sold at administa-
tors sale to-day TO George r.. Strick-
land q Son for the sum of $3.50.
Lyle Brown, an incorrigible youth Of
10 years, was committed to the reform
school by Judge Henry Tuesday on
application Of the mother of the lad.
The boy had a highly developed pen
chant for appropriating other peoples
property.
Systematic operations are soon TO he
begun for prospecting the coaI fields
adjacent to this city. II. l.. Frank Of
Butte. together with q. T.. Newton Of
this city. who. by the way, are the
owners and operators of the Butte 81
Yellowstone coking plant near Horn,
have just completed arrangements to
employ a force of men in prospecting
with a diamond drill a section of coal
land three miles west OF Livingston.
Five thousand dollars will be expended
in this work. and 1t is expected To sink
to "A depth of ! 200 to 1900 feet. unless "A
good quality of coal is struck without
going so deep. There is but little ques-
ton in the minds of the parties inter
ested that an ~ineXhaustible supply of
coa will be found, and having demon
strated this to a certainty. Messrs.
Frank and Newton will begin running
a chute. which they expect to cost $l5,-
600. in order to tap the coal. If their
expectations are realized they propose
to ave 300 men at work upon the mine
by he LIST of January. The section i'm
question is railroad land, of which they
have a lease from the Northern Paci-
fic. All Livingston Will be greatly in
terested in the operations, for If a large
body of marketable coal shall be found,
it will be of almost inestimable benefit
to this city. giving employment as it
will 10 hundreds of men. who will di-
rectly contribute i'm all legitimate chan
nels of trade to the prosperity of the
Gateway City.
Several tons of hay i'm stack were de-
stroyed by fire at the ranch of Joseph
Biscoe on the Upper Yellowstone "A few
ago. The fire did considerable
damage 10 the fine trees i'm his grove. /
1t originated from children playing
with matches.
A coal miner at Aldridge. name as
yet unlearned, committed suicide at
camp last night by shooting him
self through the head. In mining par
lance. his partner" was Charles Gar
rick. The latter left the morning of
the suicide for Helena, but has been
telegraphed of the death of his colaborer
and is expected bach
Rev. T.. Dewitt Talmage, who has
been making a tou of the National
park, was a passenger from Mammoth
Hot Springs on the park train tonight. |