The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
IN BOULDER.
Court in Session A Little Smallpox

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Scare.
Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
Boulder, Oct. THE October term OF
the district court opens here to-day with
Judge Henry Smith of Helena presiding
in the absence of Judge Parker, who is
visiting with relatives in Kentucky and
other portions of the East. A few mat
tiers will come up this week. The jury
will be drawn but will not report for duty
until the latter part of the month. Among
outside attorneys here are ]. A. Walsh of
Helena, Charles R. Leonard and John M.
Dixon of Butte. They are here In con-
nection with the Airport will case, which
comes up in one form or another at each
term of court.
There is just little smallpox talk in
this county at present, but it is not ex-
pected to develop into anything serious.
1t seems that the school teacher who
recently began his work at Wickes re-
turned only short time ago from a trip
to Helmville, in Deer Lodge county.
Within the past few days it has been
learned through the Standard that the
family where he visited while down there
is down with the smallpox and Is now
quarantined. While it is probably true
that If he was exposed at all to the dis
ease it was before 1t really manifested
itself, he considered it best to inform the
trustees of the school in Wickes regard
ing the matter. and they, as a means of
precaution, although the danger seemed
quite remote, concluded that it would
be best to close the school for a shor.
time, which has been done, and they
have made arrangements with the county
physician for a wholesale vaccination OF
the school children, something like so Of
them. 1t Is not considered at all likely
that the disease will break out, but it is
no doubt well to take prompt precaution-
airy measures.
In Wickes recently there died of inflam-
nation of the bowels, Laurence Reilly al
the age of 70 years. He had been a pio-
neer in the West, having been with the
pony express service over the plains in
the early SOS, and has lived in Wickes for
the past 10 years. He leaves a wife and
several grown children. A number of his
old time friends in Boulder attended the
funeral
George Benjamin has crosscut to his
lead at depth of g. feet and finds the ore
body strong and of better quality than
above and has demonstrated that he has
a mine. 1t is situated in Boomerang
gulch, three miles northwest of Boulder,
and will do much to stimulate the devel-
opment of other properties in that local
ity.
The party of Great Northern surveyors
that has been at work near here for the
past 10 days has nearly finished the pre-
lminary for a line connecting the Bould-
er tunnel six miles north of here with
the line between here and Basin at
point known as Tunnel No. Z. Their work
is to survey and estimate the cost of a
line to lessen the grade up the Boulder
hill, SO that heavier ore trains can be
handled between Butte and Great Falls.
The new line is surveyed about a mile to
the northwest of Boulder, and if con-
structed would probably not cause the
\ S>f tl,l
would be used for freight traffic. 1t is
through a somewhat rough country and
the estimates may show that it is too ex-
pensive to be, constructed for the saw
ing made, but If done it would leave no
very heavy grade to contend with in get
ting ore to Great Falls after the cars
We're once run from the mines up to
Woodyille