The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-14

river, near where the store kept bS
Thomas was located. The new enter
prise will be conducted by Frank Iaylof
and T. Davis, both enterprising young
men of that vicinity. who believe the
venture can be made to yield hand
some return.
| Engineer Walter Towne arrived this
morning from Anaconda and will accept
| a passenger run out of this city when
the extra trains are put on. the 12th
instant. He will make his headquarters
in this city and will be Joined by his
| family in short time.
Two steam shovel gangs were ordered
| to be ready to leave tonight, one to go
| to East Helena for work on the hill be-
tween that place and Helena, and the
other to go to Columbus and finish up
some work left by the surfacing crew
which was recently employed at that
place. Engineer c. N. Jones will take
| the westbound train and Mike Nee will
| pull the throttle on the eastbound en-
CINE.
The quarterly report of the county
| treasurer and collector shows balance
| of cash on hand at the first of the
| month of $37,949.42. The treasurer re-
Gently collected from the Northern Pa
citic Railroad company the amount of
| $3.50 back taxes on land located in Sweet
Grass county, which was left out
| of the settlement which was made with
the company when the bulk of it's taxes
was paid at the last meeting of the
| county board.
| Friday an order was issued by Judge
| Henry of the district court confirming
the sale of property in the estates of
Jacob Redding and Adam Gassert. The
property sold was the Clarendon hotel,
| in Butte, in which each estate held q,
one-fourth interest. The sale was made
| to Harry Bleemkin and Louis Bernheim.
| and Melted each estate $1,000 in cold
cash. The amounts go to Adam Gas
| sert and Sarah C. Gassert of this place,
I who are the heirs to the property. An
order was also issued confirming the sale
of some mining property belonging to
the estate of Antonio Drago, deceased.
| The property sold was a five-twenty-
| fourths interests in the Natural Bridge
and Standard mines and the Spring
| Fraction, Daddy and Standard EXten-
sion quartz ledes, in the Natural Bridge
district. The property was sold to c. r.
| Murdoch for $241. go by J. e. Swindle-
| hurst, administrator.
Joe Briggs and Hans Billie, painters
received the contract for painting the
county poor farm buildings at this
weeks meeting of the board of commits
sioners. The painting contract amounts
to $275. The board also took action on
the matter of appointing a game ward
| en- and gave the place to M. d. Daniels.
The salary of this office is insignificant
and it is not regarded as a sinecure.
Manager George White is in the city
to-day from the Byam mine, on Trail
Creek. Mr.. White states that the work
of opening up the new and valuable
| finds of coal is progressing rapidly and
that about so miners houses will be
erected at once. A company store and
boarding house will also be put up and
a large and increasing force of men will
find employment at the mines from now
on. The new finds of ccal and the bust
ness that must follow the development
| of these coal measures by the large
force of men that will be required to
operate the mines will be of immense
benefit to the business interests of Liv-
ingSton and the surrounding country.
George Simons returned Friday from
an extended trip to Carbonate and
Bridges and reports that he is well
pleased at the outlook at those places
and predicts a bright future for the
thriving coal camps of Carbon county.
| J. w. Love of Aldridge. who spent
last year in the Klondike and has been
| in the Upper Yellowstone country since
his return from the frozen North a
month ago, departs tonight for Alaska
by way of Seattle.
Cheering news to the friends of AL
bert Hicks, one of Livingstot's soldier
boys in the far off Philippines, comes in
the shape of telegram through the
war department announcing that Hicks
is alive and doing as well as any of
the wounded heroes of the sanguinary
conflict.
Miss Nellie Brady of Bozeman arrived
in the city the first Of the week to
take charge of the millinery department
of the Hefferlin Mercantile company's
| store.
Vernon c. Wood of Aldridge was in
the city from his home in the coal
metropolis of the Upper Yellowstone.
n hoo
| from that place the latter part of the
week on his way to Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Hickman depart
| ed Friday evening for their future
home in Bozeman, where Rev. Rick
man accepts the passionate of the Bap-
fist church.
A squad of seven soldiers came down
from the park Friday evening on their
way East. They had been discharged
from the 4th cavalry and were return
ing to their homes in different parts of
the country.
Misses DeGroat. Lyle. Gardner and
| Morris went to Billings Thursday morn
ing to take part in the exercises of the
| Epworth League convention held at
that place the following day.
Thomas Hogan Of Billings was in
town from the Magic City the latter
| part of the week.
| Roy Emery of Bozeman was among
| West.
c. f. Rector of Billings came up from
the Magic City on bushes Friday
| George Crater of Logan was among
the guests at the Albemarle Friday.
| j. Dooley, wife and daughter came to
this city from Muir Friday evening.
w. C. officer of Hunters Hot Springs
I is the proud father of boy, which
| came to his home on the Sth inst
Fred Rider, who has been spending a
couple of weeks at Hunters Hot
Springs, came up from that resort Sat
urday.
Joe Altimus came down from AID
ridge, where his father is employed,
| Saturday and will go to work in this
| city.
o. Lewis of this city is the father of
a son and heir, born on Friday, the 10th
| inst.
Paris of To-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever oftered-now ready for
| of in n.