Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-14
LOCAL BRIEFS

The city council will meet tonight in ad-
journed session.
J. w. Zeigler. wife and child of Granite
are at the Montana.
w. r. Allen and F. ". Barker of French
gulch We're at the Montana Sunday.
State Examiner John G.. Morony left
trip.
The county commissioners, sitting as a
board of equalization, are in session to-
day.
Mrs. Joseph Rourke will depart the lat
| ter part of the week on a visit with friends
at Salt Lake.
Mrs. Austin Sloan and daughter have
returned from a 60 days visit with friends
in Minneapolis.
]. E. Young spent several days in Deer
Lodge last week in the interest OF the
firm of Young & DeZell.
Robert Rantoul of St. Paul. division
freight agent of the Northern Pacific rail-
way, was a Sunday guest in the city.
The fire department was called out
Saturday evening to Quench a fire in a
burning fence at the rear of the Silver
hotel.
The preliminary hearing of William
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before Judge Frank Kennedy this after
noon.
Constable Sheffield came up from Deer
Lodge today, having in custody Mrs.
Mary Jones, formerly of this city, who is
insane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Conley of West
Fourth are enjoying a visit from Mr..
Conley's sister, Miss Alice Conley of Bay
City, Mich. She will remain several days.
The golf dance tomorrow night at A. o.
H. hall promises to be a feature of much
amusement. There is also rumors of a
hot cakewalk contest to TAX place. Good
music.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Adams have
returned from the east after an altogether
pleasant visit among the Green noun
tains, Boston and other points of interest.
Mr.. Adams spent several days in the mar
kets of New York City.
Frank V. Hurley, manager of the gro
Gerry department of the c. c. c. Co., de-
parted for the east Saturday evening on
a purchasing trip. He was accompanied
as far as Great Falls by Mrs. f1urley,
who will visit there with frieads for sew
eral days.
Contractor Pat Walsh left for Bozeman
on Saturday and will today commence
work on a large contract from that city
for the digging Of several thousand feet
of ditch n laying of pipe in the same.
About 80 laborers from Anaconda accom-
panied him.
r. j. Hayes, residing at $40 East Sixth
street, is confined to his home on ac-
count Of two sprained feet. the result of
a fall at the lower works Saturday fore
noon. He was walking on a plank across
an ore bin, and was putting on his coat
~, oc1-c ~ tba co ~. tipon yv-bar bn 1acf
his balance and fell a distance Of 10 feet
or more.
Mrs. Murray Miles has departed for
Alaska, where she will join her husband
at Skagway, which will be her future
home. Mr.. Miles is well connected with
the Skagway-Lake Bennett railway,
which is being operated for a distance Of
40 miles or more. He met Mrs. Miles at
Seattle and accompanied her to their
northern home.
Mrs. M. Murphy. whose husband is a
we'll known plumber of this city, died in
st. Paul Saturday evening from the eff
fects OF an operation for appendicitis. Mr..
Murphy left for St. Paul last night to at
tend her funeral. Sickness had prevented
her and her children from aking up their
residence here. Mrs. Murphy is a sister
of Mrs. Andrew flaming.
1t is reported today on what appears to
be good authority that the Amalgamated
Copper company has purchased the Nc
Cune-Hoge Mill Creek water right, or a
large part thereof, for a sum not less than
$40, 900. 1t embraces several undred
inches of the waters on Mill creek, lying
south of Anaconda, and is looked upon
as one of the most valuable water rights
in these parts.
Hugh McConville of Helena, who has
HraO the pl1ESt of &c DannlSOn fOr saw
eral days, has returned home. Mr.. Nc
Conville went to the Buffalo Hump coun-
TRIP early last spring, and is now on his
way out, having packed all the way and
spent fou weeks making the distance.
He speaks d%iscoura gingly of the place,
and says it is overrated in many ways.
Mr.. McCOnville was sent out by Helena
parties. He disposed Of his pack horses
in Anaconda.