Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-17
Butte Miners Union Will Pic
mic at Anaconda.
WILL BE A GREAT EVENT
Preparations Being Made For the En-
tertainment of a Big Crowd
The Programme.

View park, the new resort on
the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway.
Sunday. The picnic will be the twenty
first annual outing of the organization,
which contains on it's rolls of membership
the names of all the miners working in
this part of Montana, reaching up into the
thousands. The committee in charge have
made preparations for entertaining the
largest crowd Of pleasure-seekers that has
left Butte thisy year.
The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific has
made a round-trip rate Of 81, which in
Guides the price of admission to the
grounds, and the train schedule will
comprise four trains, leaving Butte at s
and 10 a. M, 1:05 and 4:45 p. M, and
leaving Anaconda at 12:40, 8, 6 and 1920
p. m. and II o'clock midnight.
The music will be furnished by the Bos-
ton & Montana band. The list of COM
petitive events is a long one and will con-
slst of the following entertaining feat
ures:
A football game between the United
Rovers of Centerville and the Irish
Americans of Butte, for a purse of $50;
$25 donated by Con Hayes of Gregson
ern hotel, Butte, and a SIDE bet Of 5000 for
the championship of Montana. Gaelic
rules to govern.
Baseball game between Butte and Ana
conda teams, for a purse of $40, donated
as follows: Anaconda Standard, 500:
Clark Bros bank of Butte, $40.
Guessing contest, of who shall guess the
nearest amount of tickets sold on the goth
to Anaconda on picnic trains. The VIM
ner will receive $40 in cash, donated by
the following business men: First Ma
tiOnal bank of Butte, $40; Centennial
Brewing company, $40.
Hundred-yard foot race. free for all.
First prize, $40, donated by Hugh DAILY of
Anaconda; second, IS, by Mulligan &
Dooley of Anaconda.
Hundred-yard foot race for members of
Butte Miners union. First prize, $40. do
mated by Larry Duggan Of Butte; second,
IS, donated by Broiler restaurant of Ana
conda.
Tug of war between Butte and Anacon-
da, for a purse Of $25, donated by Ana
conda Brewing mpany
Gents boat race. First prize, $40, donat-
ed by Whatley's restaurant of Anaconda;
second, a pipe valued at So, by J. NJ. God
dard of Anaconda.
Hundred-yard fat mems race. First
prize, $40, donated by Leinemann &
Schmidt of Butte; second, SO cigars, by
Pfster Bros. Of Anaconda.
Hundred-yard race for boys under 16.
First prize, suit Of clothes, donated by
Siegel Clothing of Butte; sec
ond, statuary, by Hight & Fairfield Of
Butte. s
Married aides race, rs yards-First
prize, lady's rocking chair, value IS, do
mated by Theo. Ehret of Anaconda; sec
ond, celluloid stand mirror, by Kennedy
Drug company, Anaconda.
Young ladies' race, so y~ards-First
prize, bottle of perfume, value 500, do
mated by Smith Drug company, Ana
conda; second, album, by Bee Hive,
Butte.
Fat woman's race, confined to ladies' of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS prize, a spring lamb,
value 81, donated by Montan Meat COM
pany, Anaconda.
Old ladies' race, so yards-First prize,
100 pounds Electric Light flour, donated
by Mcdonald & Lynch, Butte.
Potato race-First prize, $40, donated by
Harrington & Larkin, Anaconda; second,
100 cigars, by Butte Hotel, Butte.
Boys hurdle race, 100 yards, for boys
under 18-First prize, pair of tan shoes,
donated by MacCallum & Cloutier, Ana
conda; second, $3.50, by Mrs. A. Burnett,
Anaconda.
Three-leggcd race, 100 yards-First
prize, IS, donated by P. ]. Sugrue, Ana
conda; second, SO cigars, by Charles
Bertsch, Anaconda.
Sack race, Is yards-First prize, SIS, do
mated by Mat LAWN, Anaconda; second,
100 cigars. by O'Connor & Doyle, Butte.
Old mems race, 100 yards, for men over
30, citizens of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS prize. case
of Milwaukee beer, donated by Hallahan
& MacCallum, Anaconda.
Putting 50-pound ~shot-First prize, $40,
donated by Hon. p. G. Sullivan of Butte;
second, 100 cigars, by D. Dorais, Butte.
Throwing the hammer-First prize, $40,
donated by +. FosRett, Anaconda; second,