The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-24
MISSOULA NEWS.
HAMILTON HAPPENINGS.

Hamilton, June 23.-The Bitter Root
strawberry is here at last. Oliver
Blood, a gardener living between Ham
ilton and Grantsdale, brought the first
Strawberries of the season to Hamil-
ton yesterday. They were just as de-
licious as usual, and it is said that the
Bitter Root will produce greater crop
this year than ever before, although
they are a. little later in the season
than is usually the case.
James Mooney, the man arrested for
assaulting Haddock, was up for trial in
Justice Morris court yesterday but
owing to the non-appearance of the
complaining witness Mooney was dis
charged
Milton Hammond was down from
Derby yesterday. He said that his son
Albert was mixed up in a runaway last
Sunday and had his shoulder thrown
out. Albert has been unfortunate with
his shoulder this year, this being the
second time it has been disLocated.
Miss Nora Hunt and Ben Lancaster
drove up from Stevensville yesterday
morning, returning home the same eve
ming. Miss Hunt was the guest of
friends while here, of which she has
many.
j. T. Wood and his family were inter-
viewing the merchants yesterday, driv-
ing up from Stevensville.
The town is being billed for an illus
trated lecture on men and events of the
late Spanish war, which will be given
at the M. E. church next Tuesday
night
Some little excitement prevailed
about town last night by it leaking out
that the three Union Pacific train rob-
bers were thought to be in the lower
valley on their way to the Clearwater
country. The sheriff's office was tele-
phoned from Florence that three men
answering the description of the three
robbers for whose capture, dead or
alive, a reward of SIS, 600 is offered, had
passed through that place. When the
facts got out everybody was on the
lookout and three suspicious looking
hoboes were closely scrutinized, proba-
bly, the three referred to by the Flor
ence telephone message. They had
come in from the west. side and from
the lower valley. The hoboes in general
makeup have slight resemblance to
the noted train robbers, but that is all,
and none of the Individual marks of the
outlaws were there. The excitement
died down about as fast as it had come
up
D. V. Bean came in from his mill on
the Skalkaho yesterday, bringing with
him a little bear cub. The boys at the
mill had been out hunting and ran
across a she bear with two cubs. They
shot the bear and in trying to persuade
one of the little fellows to come down
from a tree by poking him with gun
barrel, the gun went off, and Bean says,
put a hole three feet big in him. That
cub is dead. The boys secured the
other youngster alive and unframed,
and Bean has presented him to Sam
Lucas.
Tom Burns is wearing a new hat. He
won ii from Joe Rea. who had the nerve
to pick Ben Halliday to win the Su-
burban against the field.
The Hamilton band boys are practic-
ing very steadily for the Fourth and
promise to give us some fine music on
that day.
Alex Mitchell and wife have been up
to Hamilton this week visiting relatives
and friends and incidentally looking at
the broken dam.
The down mail at night now has to
be in by p. M and no letters can be
mailed on the cars which do not reach
here. Postmaster Roberts has to get
up at 8 a. m. to deliver the mail to the