The Anaconda standard., 1899-11-22
CONVENED THEIR SITTING
Scottish Rite Magons Begin a
Four Days Convention.
'CONFERRING THE DEGREES
Thirty-One Candidates Are to Be Initi-
e. ated Into the Higher Mysteries.
Membership of Bodies in the
Valley of Butte.

The bodies of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite convened their sitting
I last night and members of the orders
from all parts Of the Orient of Mon
tana are gathered together in the val
ley of Butte and will hold forth for
four days. While the sitting is intend
Z ed for every Mason in the state, still
the attendance is and is expected to
stbe comparatively small and will he
composed largely of local Masons.
There are 81 candidates to receive de-
grees ranging from the fourth to the
32d as follows:
r William H. Bergman, DR.. T. B.
i Moore, Ad. A. Zimmerman, Wesley
Kidd, Andrew Holmes, William Edgar
y ToWnsend, Lee Cohn, Charles e. Mill
Ter, DR.. 0. Y. Warren, James e. Ben
ton, James E. seelinger, A. F. Bett-
,freund, Carl Henry Recksick, Otto W.
Miller, Charles Greiner, Joseph M. Lit
tile Louis Spanheim, J. Paulding Welch,
James Martin Hamilton, Theodore w.
Schmidt, Sturgess B. Loveridge, Will
y lam G. Bawden, William c. Chamber
4 Caleb NJ. Sawyer, DR.. Charles G.
Thompson, George NJ. Nickel, Henry
Muntzer, Charles Ed Beebe.
The candidates are not obliged to
take all the degrees at this sitting.
They may take the lodge of perfection
alone or as many of the other bodies
as they may elect, leaving the omitted
degrees to be received at some subse-
quent convention
The initial programme last night was
the comforting of the degrees four to
IA of the lodge of perfection, John T.
Backus. venerable master Tomorrow
Butte chapter of Rose CroiA will con-
fer historic and religious degrees 15 to
1S, William r. Tonkin. wise master.
Thursday night the Butte council OF
Kadosh will confer the philosophical
and chivalric degrees, 10 to 30, Gustav
Gallick, commander. The ceremonial
and official degrees, 81 to 50, will on
Friday evening be conferred, Michael
Charles Riley, master of kadosh. AT
ter the close of the session on that
night the Masons will adjourn to the
banquet hall.
The proceedings of course are secret
and the outside world will not be IA
vored with a detailed report of them.
Following is the membership in the
Scottish Rite bodies in the valley Of
Butte, with the rank of each member:
Thirty third degree--M. G. Riley, J..
H. Monteath, Ed V. Maze, George H.
Casey.
Thirty-second degree-May Wright,
Alb. Wehl Charles S. Warren, w. 3.
Thompson, William Thompson, w. r.
oAi.n1AA, =" i. ~. s2iaS uiA, A1u " AoiIlltli,
w. II. SWEET, ]. w. Shackleton, M. Sill
yerman, G. L. Robinson, S. r. Reynolds,
Henry s. Reed, John Quinn, A. E. Price,
J. B. Price, T. F. OGrady, A. o. New
ton, G. w. Newton, w. T. McGonigal
N. Macdonald, Il. Macdonald, Lee
Mantle, F. L. .Melcher, H. G. Mat
thews, r. A. Louis, Say1n r. Lisa, Fred
Lohse, Aug. Larsen, J. N. Kirk, T..
Kruger, A. j. Johnston. J. L. Illoway
Laurence Harris, Emerson Hill, z. G.
Hanscom, William T. nynes R. c.
Halliday, o. M. Hogsett, J. A. Hyde,
]. G. Hammer, Saul Ginsburg, James
Guy. Sig. Gensberger, William Gem
nell, G. Gallick, William Gallick, M. 7.
Fisher, E. f. Farnham, John A. Fraser,
J. r. Evans Maurice Eisenberg, A. III.
Elliott, Phi. Il. Davis, William H. Da-
vey, S. H. Douglass, Ignace Cohn, r.
M. Campbell, William Alex Clark, John
A. Cannon, Oliver C. Cooper, William
A. Clark, John H. Blume John T.
Backus. Thomas J. Bennettes. Louis
P. Best, Anthony H. Barret, George +.
Bartlett, John R. Bordeaux, Theodore
Adams, William J. Alexander.
Thirtieth degree-M. Hanson, John G..
Gay. Frank S. Gray, William G. Baw-
den. William w. Adams, Edward Ad-
ans.
Eighteenth degree-H. Jefferson.
Fourteenth degree-J. r. Seelinger.
c. M. Recksick, o. w. Miller, Sam J,
Mills, w. HI. Haviland, Charles Grein-
er, w H. Gehrman, George W. Con-
nick, Ad. FIR. Bettfreund.