The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-23
HAMILTON HAPPENINGS.

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| Hamilton June 22.-Fourteen notices
| Of placer locations were filed in the re-
| corder'S office from one district this
| week. The new district, in which many
leading citizens of Hamilton have in
terested themselves and in which
James l.. Condor has been doing some
extensive prospecting, is situated some
| u or IA miles in a northeasterly direc-
ton from Corvallis, up in the south
west branch of the Burnt Fork, and is
| to be known as the Lost Cabin district.
| The locators have also filed a claim of
| $50 inches of water for the purpose of
| working these claims, and it is report
| ed that quite lot of work in develop
| ing will be done.
Miss Edith Lowney of Stevensville
was visiting friends in Hamilton yes
| terday. Miss Lowney is one of the
valleys foremost musicians, and will
some day make her mark in the muSi-
| cal world.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Golf, two of
1 the popular young lately married peo-
| pie of Sage Brush, We're patronizing
Hamilton merchants yesterday.
P. J. Shannon, in charge of the office
of the Bitter Root stock farm, left for
Mssoula this morning, at which point
he will meet his three daughters, the
| Misses Agnes, Glare and Monica, who
| have been attending the Academy OF
the Holy Name at Spokane, and who
! are returning home for the summer va
| cation with their parents.
| Martin Cramer and son Frank were
up from Sage Brush yesterday trading
with local merchants and incidentally
| looking at the injured dam. Martin
reports his hay crop as doing well.
Swan Johnson, in charge of the or
| chards of the Bitter Root ranch, is the
| happy father of a bouncing baby boy.
MnHnpV VpStpr-
| day afternoon, charged with assault
| and battery on the person of one Rich
| ard Haddock Haddock was in court
when the defendant was brought up
for a hearing, and his face looked as
! though he had stood too close to the
| business end of a mule. Mooney plead
ed not guilty and will have a trial this
afternoon. His bail was fixed at $50,
| which was furnished.
A deed was filed yesterday with the
| clerk and recorder conveying from Ed
c. Piquette to George Gilchrist, both Of
| Darby. lot 3 in block in the town of
Darby; consideration $500.
The Ravalli County Abstract oom-
| pany yesterday sold to w. J. Kendall
| 120 acres of timber land opposite Ste
vensville, and an interest in the George
Orr mine in the Mineral Hill district.
| The property belonged to Marsh
| Franks.
John McGrath on Tuesday evening
| gave a pleasant party at his home at
Darby in honor of his bride. 1t was
| largely attended and very much en-
| joyed by those present.
Readers of the Standard will remem-
| Der the case of Mrs. Maggie Sage, for
merly Maggie Kelly, whom her hus-
band, who had married her at Stevens
| vile, attempted to force into a life of
| shame at Missoula and afterwards at
Anaconda. For this Sage was arrested
and sentenced to do time in the Deer
Lodge county jail, while the wife Sc
cured a divorce. Well, Maggie was
| married again a few days ago at
| Grantsdale, and this time to a young
man named Murphy, who is well
thought of in this section, and it is to
be hoped that her matrimonial troubles
are over.
Copper City Limited since it left here
| last Monday morning. The railroad
bridge at Riverside is still out and the
working crew give no promise of 1t be-
| ing safe to travel over before Satur-
| day. In the meantime the mail and
passengers are taken from the train
the break, carried around on the west
side of the river up to and across the
Grantsdale bridge, and thence down to
this place.
William Copp of Stevensville, who
was afflicted with la grippe last winter
anu has 1ldu several dlldChS VI Dlceu-
ing at the lungs since. sold his house
hold goods at auction last Saturday
and will go to California overland with
Marsh Franks and family, for the ben
eft of his health.
Corvallis beat Sage Brush at baseball
| last Sunday at Corvallis by a score of
81 to 26. The Corvallis boys want to
play a picked team from Sage Brush
| and Stevensville at the latter place on
the Fourth for $50 side, and the prop
osition will probably be accepted.
Last Saturday night the Baptist
church at Stevensville gave a straw
| berry and cream social at Bucks hall,
| and the affair was a pronounced sue
cess, netting the church some $40.
| Misses Sadie ,McLaren and Olive Rem
nix of Hamilton were visiting friends
at Stevensville last week and helped to
| make the Saturday evening social there
still more pleasant with songs and reci-
| tations. Hamilton is justly proud of
| her two talented young daughters.
| The Presbyterian church at Stevens
| Vile is being treated to a couple CT
| fresh coats of paint by Ernie Wells
| and Charley Cook
Mrs. Hoover and daughter, Pearl, of
| Spokane, who formerly lived near Ste
vensville arrived at the valley village
| last week for visit of a month or
more with relatives and friends there.
| EX-Assessor Bob Nelson, who is an
old timer in the Bitter Root valley,
! says the river bids fair to be higher
! hDp tift1r. civ,