The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-11

bly, on the applications of eight mem
bers of the Edna lodge of Big Timber
who have decided to relinauish their
charter and join the Livingston
branch Of the order in the interest Of
economy.
John Harris, who has been i'll and in
poor circumstances for some time, was
taken to the poor farm Saturday to be
| cared for at the expense of the county
He is a man about 40 years of age and
| has been an inmate of the county insti-
tuition before.
Saturday James f. and Samuel D.
| Stuart of this county filed on 20 acres
of placer ground each in Bear gulcn.
The claims are located on Pine creek,
| a tributary of Bear creek from the
| eastward.
| Alexander C. Jardne made declara-
| ton of his intentions Friday at the Of
| flee of the clerk of the district court
! and took out his first papers, renounc-
| ing allegiance to the queen Of Great
| Britain Ireland and empress of India.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Billie removed the
| first of the week to the Thompson resi-
dence, on Second street, where they
will make their home in the future.
They had resided at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Bailey.
James J. Case and George T. Case
made final proof of their homestead
entry on the Upper Yellowstone, near
Fridley, Friday. Their witnesses were
James Barden and E. H. Bradley, both
| Of Fridley.
| There will be special meeting of the
board of county commissioners next
Saturday The board will meet to take
| up the matter of roads and bridges and
| get through some Of the more press
| ing work of this nature before the next
| regular session.
S. Roland Robinson is the name CT
| the new Baptist minister who comes to
take the place of Rev. Hickman, who
has moved to BoZeman. He has been
engaged in church work for about five
| years and Is a graduate Of the Chica go
university in the theological depart
| ment
There was a washout on the division
of the Northern Pacific east of Billings
to-day. and the westbound passenger
trains We're both late reaching this sta
ton. No. 8, due before daylight, got
in at 4 in the afternoon, and the
o'clock train came al 10 at night. The
| trains from the west ran on schedule
time, but got no farther east than Bill
| lings, when they We're delayed from
| the same cause.
Charles Connop of this city has pur-
chased one-third interest in the Nc
Cauley mine at Crevasse gulch from
John F. Work. the consideration named
| in the bond of transfer filed last week
at the office Of the county clerk and re-
corder in this city being $2,S22.
Mrs. w. A. Bonnie is in receipt Of a
| telegram from Duluth. Mimi. announc-
ing the birth of a girl baby in the
household of Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Bau-
pre- of that place. Mrs Baupre is a
sister of Mrs. Bonnie. and visited in
this city last summer with her mother,
i. &c. r,,tt To tlo
| people here.
Friday and Saturday of next week
there will be an examination of teach
ers at the Office of County Superintena-
ent Alma Evans at the court house in
! this city.
/ Walter Lesser of this city is the faith
er of a baby girl born at Bozeman Fri
day of last week.
Miss Florence Ballinger of Bozeman
is visiting friends in this city. She ar
rived Friday and will return the first
| of next week.
The Springdale school closed last Fri
day, Miss Mabel Stevens having fin
! ished a successful term in that district
The school at Muir opened Monday
under the tutelage of Miss Marie john
Son of this city.
A marriage license was issued Sat,lr-
day to Harry H. sasor Of this city and
| Miss Ida Marlean of Helena.
a. P. Stark will leave for Townsend
| Sunday to try a lawsuit before Judge
Armstrong of that circuit the following
| day.
]. Jervis came down from Bear gulcn
the latter part of the week on a bust.
ness trip.
Robert Edgar or "Geyser Bob as he
is Familiarity called, went up to Gard
| ner Saturday morning on the Park
train, en- route home from Helena.
c. A. Smith of Fridley is in the city
from his home on the Upper Yellow
| stone.