The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-23
GREAT FALLS NOTES.

Fl. D. Evans is in from Truly.
Jacob Seiben, the cattle man, is visit
ing the city.
Charles e. Heisy made a trip to
Choteau Tuesday.
Mrs, James Dickinson and son left
this morning for Scotland for an eX-
tended visit in the city of GLASGOW
Judge Smith of Kalispell arrived in
Choteau Tuesday and opened the fall
term Of court. The session will be an
unusually short one.
The Choteau merchants are laying
in an unusually heavy stock of goods
this fall In anticipation of good trade
and the bad roads coming.
Marriage licenses were to-day grant
ed to Peter Matson and Maria Katrin
Olson of Utica and Joseph W. Coffy
and Dora E. Bradley of Chinook.
Charles Stafford of this city was mar
ried to Miss Eva Conley, formerly Of
this city, in Seattle, yesterday, They
will return in few weeks and make
this city their home
A. T. Seligman and A. M. Essler
passed through Great Falls yesterday,
on their way to the Swift Currents
country on the coded strip, where Mr..
Essler is heavily engaged in mining.
Charles Swartz and G. A. Dibble of ST.
Paul, representatives of the tax de-
partment of the Northern Pacific rail-
way system, have been in the city this
week interviewing treasurer Gels
thorpe
Grant Nash, a small boy, was before
his honor Judge Hawkins in the police
court this morning charged with run
ming away from home. His honor gave
him some good advice and 10 cents to
go home on.
A mistake in this mornings Great
Falls news Of the Standard made 1t ap-
pear that the Northern Pacific railroad
in, the settlement OF taxes was opposed
to the payment of special school tax,
whereas the exact opposite was the
case.
Canary, the paving contractor, is
still unhearG from, and while the ma
jority OF the people of the city, knowing
the circumstances. simply believe he
has skipped, few of his friends are
still of the opinion that he may have
had some mishap.
Bert Roycroft and Charles Cunning
ham were up for fighting each either
in rude and boisterous manner. Both
are cooks and besides the battle had
another in the Jail after arrest. Gun
ningham was turned loose and Roy
croft was assessed $3.50, which he paid,
George E. Lowell was brought down
from Monarch to-day and placed in
| the county Jail on a charge of grand
larceny, it being alleged he stole a
large, amount Of cordwood belonging
| to A. e. Pippen. Cockerill and Hunton
| represent Lowell, who will furnish
| bonds tomorrow.
Miss Maud Jaid and Miss Helen Size
| love have arrived in the city from Chi
| cago and will serve as nurses in the
| Deaconess hospital. Both ladies have
| had long experience in the work to
1 f,1, 1,o1 O
their presence here will greatly aid in
| the work of the hospital.
The seasons receipts of western
| range cattle at Chicago have been 206,
| 900 head, against $1,000 head in 1888
| and 2G4,0D0 head in 1897. Inspector
Landers believes that the seasons ship
merits from Montana have been hot
| over SIS, 900 head. Last week John STIR
| wants steers from Malta, Is head, aver
aging 1896 pounds, sold at $3.50, this
| being the highest for rangers sinc<
1891, and with that exception, the high
| est since 1884.
Further reports from the ranges are
somewhat discouraging. In consider
able portions Of Teton county the grass
is laid fiat and has become sour and i:
| rotting. Three or four feet of damn
snow fell upon unfrozen ground ant
from the warmth of the ground bega1
thawing at once from the bottom
Pressed to the earth by SO great {
weight and thoroughly soaked by thu
water from the melting snow, the gras:
soon lost it's vitality, even if stool
could reach it, which Is not possible
IL there is any covering. The hope o
| stock men is In mild winter.-Choteal
| Montanian.
THE Tragedy" given by local talen
at the opera house Monday evening
was the most successful thing of it.
| 1T INI ir Tyn31 ,,,t
| the receipts of over $500 was mos
gratifying and will aid very MATERIAL!
In replenishing the book fund of TIL
Valera public library. All the anateu
actors engaged acquitted then1selve
| quite creditably, and it would be hardl,
fair to single out any one for specia
mention. The entire cast was publish
ed in Sundays Standard. The musfca
numbers were a selection by Races OF
chestra, a piano solo by Kurt Warnescl
and a vocal solo by Miss Eva O'Con
nor, aud all were excellent.