The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-03
NO LACK Of CANDIDATES
Local Politics in Livingston Are
Looking Up.
IMPORTANT COAL STRIKE
An Foot Vein Discovered in the Byam
Mine-Death of Mrs. Reed-Un-
usual Activity in Railroad
Circles.


pot is beginning to slowly simmer in
this city and the usual crop of candi-
dates have put in an appearance for
the offices to be filled at the municipal
election held the first Monday In April.
Candidates for the office of mayor are
not lacking in either the democratic or
republican parties and for the minor Of
fees host of aspirants are at hand.
The democrats will undoubtedly put up
William O. Mallahan, foreman of the
Northern Pacific shops, for mayor, and
the republicans will probably select
either Charles GARNER, the present city
treasurer, or NJ. H. Lashorn, foreman
of the car shops for the Northern Pa
cific. For the office of city treasurer,
Edward Sybert will be the nominee of
the democrats and the choice of the re-
publicans will probably fall on Alder
man Leonard Goughner who will re-
sign from the council to make the race.
For police magistrate. Frank Bender
will be put up by the democrats, and
S. T. Wilson by the republicans. Five
aldermen will be elected, two from the
the third ward. The nominees for these
offices are not by any means certain
and a prediction would be merely con-
lecture.
Sunday afternoon an 11-fnot vein of
coal was struck in the Byam mine on
Trail creek, about 20 miles up the Vel
lowstone from this city. A gang of
men We're engaged in drifting through a
wall of rock and eight feet from the
vein previously discovered, coal was
found. Another crew was put on and
the work continued all night and by
morning the owners of the mine We're
satisfied that one Of the most impor-
tant finds in the history of Yellow
stone coal mining had been made. The
vein is too wide to timber with safety
and only eight feet of the coal will be
taken out until additional timberng
facilities can be provided. The veins
of coal at Trail creek stand edgewise
in the mountain at an angle of As de-
grees. About 40 men are now employed
at the mine, and the force will be
doubled in a months time. The pro-
perty belongs to a firm in Butte in
which A. B. Cook is interested.
Friday evening at 1870 o'clock occurr-
ed the death Of Mrs, Maggie Reed. wife
of G. A. Reed of Columbus and daugh-
ter of Mrs. Martha Lamartine of this
city. Death was the result of COM
plication of diseases, the primary cause
being an accident which resulted in
severe injury to the spine. Shortly after
this occurred Mrs. Reed visited her
mother In this city and growing rapidly
worse was unable, to return home and
grew rapidly worse until death came to
relieve her pain. She was "a years of
age and leaves husband and three
children to mourn the loss of dutiful
wife and devoted mother. She was
h11r lad frn
in this city Sunday afternoon.
Rev. l.. H. Mickle departed the first
of the week on trip to Omaha. He
will attend the M. E. district conference
at Billings next week while en- route
home.
c. J. Westfall of Sprngdale was in
the city Sunday. He reports the loss
OF seven head of cattle by drowning,
while the animals were attempting to
cross the river on the ice near his ranch
one day last week
Unusual activity is manifested in rail-
road circles this week Beginning with
the 12th inst. this city will have two
daylight passenger trains and the other
departments of railroading on this d.
vision will make a corresponding i'm
provement. Men are being hired daily
for the train and motive power serv-
ice, ana all Who want employment will
be accommodated from this time on
About a dozen work trains will be in
service on this division during the sum
mer, and to provide for the safe and
convenient handling of trains the office
OF tralnmaster has been created and
Roadmaster Dan Boyle promoted to
that position. He will be stationed at
Livingston with jurisdiction over the
road from Billings to Butte. Accord
ing to the new time card, the west
bound passenger trains will be number
ed | and and will pass this station at
2:15 p. m. and 430 a. m., respectively
The eastbound trains will be numbered
and and pass here at 2:40 a. M and
6:55 p. m. Conductors Glass, Scott and
Mcbride will be the men in charge of
the passenger trains during the sum-
mer.
Undersheriff Frank Bellar arrested a
hobo Saturday night on a telephone
message from Bozeman. The man was
wanted for the alleged larceny of a coat
vest and hat from the residence OF Will
liam Adams of Chestnut. He gave the
officer an exciting chase before being
oVertaken. Sheriff Fransham of Boze-
man came on Sundays train and took
the culprit hack to Bozeman
Engineer Milton MeLees, who was in,
jured in the wreck of freight train No
"a at Mission a couple of weeks ago
has recovered from his injuries and is
now running out of Logan.
saturday Attorneys A. P. Stark and
II. j. Miller went to Frdley and tried
lawsuit before Judge NJ M. Black of
that place. Thomas Cope was the plain
tiff in an action on account against Mike
Langjord of Bear Guloh, the suit nvolv-
ing the sum of s45.75. The case was
tried before jury and Won by the de-
PENDANT, who proved a set-off and was
given judgment in the amount of 45
cents and costs to the tune of $2S taxed
against the plaintiff.
Daily Brothers, on the Upper Yellow
stone, lost 125 head of cattle while part
of their herd was attempting to cross
the river on the ice. The animals were
attempting to join bunch of stock on
the opposite side of the stream which
was feeding on hay and were drowned
by the ice giving away beneath them.
o. r. Collier has been employed by
w. P Multlolland in the Postoffice jew
elfy store.
Saturday night the residence of Chris
Nicholson, who lives on the Bender