The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-01
BETTER THAN EXPECTED
Grain Showing Up Well in the
Flathead District.
HARVESTING UNDER WAY
Gallatin Railroad Right OF Way Case.
Grand Avenue Citizens Object to
the Laying OF Street Car
Tracks.
Special Correspondence Of the Standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Aug. 2S.-Harvesting is
becoming universal throughout the
valley and in some districts threshing
is commencing. So far the grain APP
pears to be better than first expected.
| especially in the Flathead district,
where it was claimed some weeks ago
that there would not be enough to pay
for cutting. James Gallop, Louis Ac-
cola and Zade Morgan of West Flat
head have started new machine-that
Is, for Gallatin county, They are ex
perimenting with a header" and so
far report that the innovation is good
thing. The farmers who have spring
grain claim that a header would not
be of any use to them, as the grain
has to be perfectly dry before being
headed, and large crops in the Gal
latin are cut when only partially dry,
so there seems to be some doubt as to
headers becoming universal, except in
the winter wheat regions. One pecu-
liarity of the grain in those districts
where the crop is light, is that the
heads have an enormous number of
grains of large size, and though the
stalks are few and far between in COM
parison with last year, yet but few
winter wheat crops will be total fall
ures and many of them will give
handsome yield
The jury, accompanied by the re-
spective parties and their attorneys,
in the case of Cook &, WoldSOn Us.
the Gallatin Railroad company, took
trip up to the Trail Creek branch as
far as the Summit cut on Saturday.
The whole party went up on a special
train from Bozeman and took in the
beauties Of the route and examined the
formation of the lands around and
along the right of way of the Gallatin
Railroad company. This trip was
source of great relief to the jurors,
one of whom, Mr.. Keller. having faint
ed just before the adjournment of
court in the morning, causing quite a
commotion and some delay. The case
has been on trial for just one week.
and the jurymen have had to listen to
the various opinions of expert civil en-
gineers as to the relative hardness of
hardpan, sandstone, loose rock, solid
rock and earth, and as to the various
meanings of the terms quarry, rock in
place, blowing, blasting and grading,
the legal passages at arms of the at
tornays, and the many rulings of the
judge when he sustained or overruled
the objections raised every few min
utes. 1t is a wonder that all the jury
did not faint, and there is no doubt
but what each individual juryman
could classify any piece of the outer
crust of Mother Earth which might
be handed to him in the future, pro-
vided he listened to the experts on one
side only, This case was brought for
balance due Messrs. Cook & Void
son, railroad contractors, of Helena
by the management of the Gallatin
Railroad company for building the
Trail Creek branch of railroad and in
volved about $14 900. the defendant rail
road company claiming its indebted
ness to be about $1,000 less than the
amount claimed by the plaintiffs. The
testimony was all in by before noon
on Monday and the arguments of
counsel concluded a little before
O'Clock in the afternoon. The jury will
probably be some time coming to
conclusion and may be out a number
of hours.
A man named Sharrah was helping
around the coal sheds of the North
ern Pacific depot last Friday, and
while winding up a large bucket of
coal for an engine. managed to wind
in his fingers on the left hand, taking
off great deal of skin, but breaking
no bones. He will probably have to
lay off for several days until his fin
gers regain their normal condition.
petition from residents along Grand
avenue states in substance that the
said citizens do not desire to have the
street car line laid in the street, as it
is too narrow, and could be laid else
where with advantage to them and to
the car company, and in fact state
substantially, or otherwise, that they
would like to see the said street car
hai
will wake their babies and themselves,
and all the families. and is no good,
anyhow. The poor students who have
to trudge to the college in the middle
of the winter and those who value the
prestige of the city for enterprise and
push, probably imagine the property
holders of Grand avenue have only
their own comfort at heart. 1t is ru-
mored that the manager of the COM
pany has said his company has a no.
ton to pull up the track of the car
line and abandon the business alto
gether but it is to be hoped they have .
another that beats it.
On Sunday afternoon there was an
exciting game of baseball between
Bozeman and nine composed of five
Butte men, two Helenaites and a
couple of men from Belgrade. 1t was
supposed to be game between the
local teams of BoZeman and Belgrade
The score a the end of the game stood
to IL in favor of Belgrade. One Boze-
man man named Fleming made a run
to first base. but ran into the first
baseman and lost his breath for some
time. The home team feels very good
over its defeat, as it shows the Bel
grade people must have realized the
fact that they could never beat BoZe-
man with Belgrade men only in the
team.