The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-10
FOURTH AT DEER LODGE
Preparations Being Made for an
Extensive Celebration.
EXCURSION FROM BUTTE
Mrs. 81 Mulkey Believes That the Re-
port of Her Husbands Death in
Alaska Is False-Activity in
Placer Mining.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Deer Lodge, June 9.-It is now reas
onably certain that Deer Lodge will
have a celebration on the Fourth, as
a number of the prominent citizens are
taking an interest in the matter.
Horse races, foot races, bicycle races
and sports Of the kind that go to make
up a genuine, good old fashioned
Fourth of July celebration will be ar
ranged, besides a parade, Grafton and
dancing at the pavilion. Efforts are
being made to have an excursion from
Butte on that day, and if successful
quite number of people from the
great mining camp are expected to be
here to take part in the exercises.
James Beaton, sr, yesterday receiv
ed letter from Mrs. 81 Mulkey, who
lives at Napa, Cal, in which she gives
1t as her belief that the stories pub
llshed some weeks ago giving ac-
counts of the alleged drowning of her
husband and little Davey Beaton while
crossing an Alaskan river in small
boat are without foundation. She
thinks If anything serious had happen
ed to Mr.. Mulkey she would have
key has not heard from her husband in
some months. but is not anxious on
that account, as she does not expect
to hear from him before the last of
this month or the first of July. In
the meantime she feels quite certain
that he and his party are safe.
Sheriff T. H Regain and Police Of
ficer James Leyden of Butte came
down on the noon train yesterday,
bringing four candidates for the pen.
They were Frank Murray, Jack Led
ford and the two Cuello brothers. The
former are sentenced to four years
each and the last two got seven years.
The number of gentlemen who will
spend their summer vacation behind
the stone walls is fast approaching the
400 mark.
Railroad ties rails and all the nee
essary material for building 1000 feet
of sidetrack is being unloaded as fast
as possible by the railroad company
at the yards in this city. BY the num-
Der and magnitude of the improve
ments being made on the Butte-Gar
rison branch it is the evident inten-
ton of the Northern Pacific to do the
principal part of its hauling over this
line in the near future.
Tomorrow, Sunday, evening will be-
gin the commencement exercises of
the College of Montana, with the
preaching of the baccalaureate sermon
by the Rev. j. r. Coleman at the
Presbyterian church.
DR.. William II. Vaughn returned
from a professional visit to Pioneer
and vicinity Tuesday and replrts that
all the placer mines in that section are
actively at work and as a conseq aunca
money is getting in circulation, and
times looking up. He visited the big
mines of KOhrs & Bieenberg and says
they are operating very extensively
this season. The placer miners are ia
vored with a Plentiful supply of wa
ter this season and the yield of gold
Is expected to be large.
William Dilts. who conducts a pri-
vate fish hatchery over near Avon,
came to Deer Lodge Tuesday with a
large lot of trout spawn, part of which
will be placed in Irvine lake, near this
city, and the remainder will he plant
ed in the pond on N. j. Bielenberg's
Dempsey creek ranch.
Quite number of SheepshearerS
have recently arrived from oregon and
other coast points, with view to har-
vesting the wool clip in this section,
but the backwardness of the season
will delay operations for a while.