Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Boulder Age Items.

Miss Effie Donahue has gone to Elk
horn for a few days.
The closing of the school for the deaf
and blind will be- on June IA.
J. Otis Watson has taken a place with
the Boulder Drug Co., with the intention
Of learning the trade.
john Berkin was here Sunday and took
Intervening Great Northern train for
Chicago where he goes on mining bust
ness.
Jerry Mcmahon has returned from
Butte n will probably spend the sum-
mer with his uncle, r. Dunn, down the
valley.
Cahrles Smith, who has been in Boul-
der several months, has returned to his
home In Basin. 1t is understood that he
intends to go to a mining district in Brit
ish Columbia to engage in business.
Miss Hazel Berkin returned last week
from Madison county with Mr.. and Mrs.
Wickes and is visiting for a few days at
their home. She entertained a small
company of her young friends at dinner
Saturday evening.
T. Biener and family, after having
been away from Boulder nearly two
years, during which time they have lived
in whitehall. Basin n Butte, have now
returned to Boulder. Mr.. Biener expects
soon to take a trip to British Columbia.
There is a gratifying possibility of the
opening of a mine within sight of town
about three miles to the south. Messrs.
r. NJ. Cralle n j. H, Miller located last
year some claims on what appeared to
be a lead carrying copper and did a little
work. They have now bonded the claims
to Mr.. j. H. ay, giving a bond to run one
year at a price Of $4,000. He will go to
work at once to prospect the lead, hay-
ing obtained an assay that shows % per
cent. copper and small values in silver
and gold.
John Nottingham has gone to Missoula
to visit friends for a few days.
Mis- Peoples has gone to Clancy to take
charge of a case of pneumonia there.
d. G. Warner and family are expected
home this evening from Southern Cali
fornia.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. H.. Knowles are re-
ceiving congratulations over the arrival
Of a son, born Sunday last.
The Boulder Junior baseball club in
tend to go to Basin Saturday to retrieve
their honor lost on the field two weeks
ago.
Parties were here from Butte Sunday
to look at the Mollie McGregor mine in
the Boomerang district near the Mackey
property, now being worked with good
results by some Butte men. The Mollie
has not been operated for about twenty
years, though it is believed that there is
yet good ore in the mine, and 1t quite
likely that it will be opened up and again
placed in the list Of producers. It is
owned principally by John Curtis of
Butte, and the parties here with him
Sunday We're his son, Geo d., who lis a
mining engineer: J. Fl. Johns. an as
sayer at aWlkerville; and H. s.. Kinney,
assayer for the Alice mine. The proper
ty is about four miles northwest of town.
]. B. Reynolds. Jr land his family are
spending a few days at the Springs, hav-
ing driven over from the vicinity of Mel
rose in Beaverhead county.
w. s. RexfOrd, a cousin Of Mrs. J. III.
Murphy, is here from Weeping Water,
Neb., n will probably make Montana
his home. He is an engineer by trade.
The spring movement of people driving
through to the north has begun. Most
Of those passing through here are Nor
mon families from Utah going to q settle
ment of their people in Alberta, canada.
Charles Hopkins, who Is in the butcher
business in ElkhOrn, was before Justice
Sweet Tuesday on complaint OF the stock