The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
/. In Dillon.


tie company, OF which L. I. Price is
general manager, purchased last week
from T. E. Woods Of Idaho Falls,
Idaho. 1o5 head Of grade heifers which
were shipped to the ranch in the Gem
tennial valley the first of the week,
where they were branded and, in COM
mon with all horned stock on the ranch,
they We're dehorned.
The Catholic choir has been reorgan-
lied and made its first appearance in
public at high mass Sunday morning.
Its personnel is as follows. and it is
said to furnish music second to none in
the state: Professor Pasmore, organist;
Mrs. George French, Miss Mary Stottin-
ger, sopranos; Mrs. G. T. Paul. alto;
Albert Stamm, basso; r. A. Sullivan,
tenor. u@M
A marriage license was issued Tues
day afternoon to Charles L. Fisher of
Rochester, aged S3, and Miss Henrietta
Zeigler of Twin Bridges, aged %.
A number of Japanese section men
have been in this section during the
first of the week and on Wednesday
they We're passed on down the road to
Pocatello, where it is understood they
will work on the Oregon Short Line.
There are ever $50 taxpayers in Bea-
verhead county who will pay $500 or
more taxes this year, five of these pay
ing over $1,000 EACH Up to date taxes
have come in slowly. and the clerical
force in the treasurer's Office have af-
fairs nicely arranged SO as to be ready
to meet the rush of the belated ones,
which is expected to begin next week.
Quite a large quantity of grain, baled
hay and straw is being loaded at this
point for shipment to Butte, and the
railroad yards present lively appear
ance these days in consequence.
The smallnox scare has extended to
Dillon in a mild way and as a result
a number of the Normal students and
others are being vaccinated this week.
D. J.. Lindsay, travelling agent for
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
was in Dillon during the week looking
after the interests of the road.
L. d. Graeter. who for the past few
months has been experimenting the
construction of a dredge boat in Boise
basin for his father, A. F. Graeter. re-
turned to Dillon the first of the week
and has taken a house for the winter.
Born-In Dillon, Mont, on Saturday,
Nov. 4, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred john
son. an 11-pound girl.
]. B. Evans, general tax agent of the
Oregon Short Line, was in town this
week to see that the tax levy made by
this county is regular. His company's
taxes amounts to $500 this year in this
county.
Carl q. Turner. the young man who
was thrown off the train near Graylng
station and who suffered the loss of his
left leg as a consequence of the train
running over it, is getting along nicely
at the county hospital.
M Mcdonald, secretary of the Ban
mack Dredge company, on returning
from Dillon to Bannack, while his team
was climbing the Rocky HILL" stopped
behind to talk to a teamster follow
ing, let the team go off into the gulch.
The team escaped without injury, but
the new surrey was ruined.
Miss jamie V. Carter, county super
intendent of schools, has announced
that she will hold the regular quarterly
examination for teachers certificates
on Friday and Saturday, Nov. IT
and 49,
A four-horse team gave lively ex-
hibition of runaway Saturday morn
ing. They soon became detached from
the wagon, but they tore the harness to
ribbons before they were captured.
The students of the State Normal
celebrated last Friday as Halloween, as
it was the only evening during the week
they could secure the use of the build
ing and which would not interfere with
their studies. Accordingly the students
and their friends to the number of $50
assembled and spent a most pleasant
evening. The young ladies who had
charge of the affair worked most faith
fully to get the rooms decorated, and
when the guests arrived the halls and
corridors presented an appearance be-
fitting a Halloween party. Jack-o'-
lanterns hideous in their ugliness, diff
fused a dim light throughout the apart
ments, which were decorated with var
ious kinds of vegetables. Throughout
the crowd strobe white-robed figures,
peering into the faces of friends and
defying recognition, one lady in par
ticular a graduate of the normal, Who
is teaching in Butte, having more than
her share of the ghost making fun.
There was hobbing for apples and Bit
ing an apple off a string for those who
cared to essay the feat. There was
cake walk prepared for those who
wished to walk, the partner being de-
terplned by following a ball of twine
to its end which was held by some fair
damsel A witchs room had been fitted
up and in it, dressed as a gypsy, Miss
Jaquette of Butte told the future of