The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-31
MlSsOULA NOTES.

day.
If the president fails to visit Mis-
soula this summer he will miss a good
thing.
The effects of "The Turtles" appear
ance IN Missoula are apparent in the
weather that has followed.
Donald Bradford is over from Hell
ena on private business. He leaves
for Butte in the morning.
The young veterans marched with the
old for the first time There were va
cant places in the ranks of each.
Fitzgerald, the Missoula Mercantile
company and the Golden Rule store
had handsomely decorated windows.
]. L. Sloane, the president of the day,
deserves credit for the precision with
which all arrangements were carried
out.
A F. Bettfreund and c. H. Engle-
ken of Butte are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. F. J. Homburg in South Mis-
soula.
DR.. Hanbidge, specialist for diseases
of the eye and throat, and for fitting
glasses, will be at the Florence hotel
Friday, June 2.
According to present indications the
Mlssoula board of trade will resume
business in earnest It has been dead
card for some time.
Sheriff Curran and Deputy Sheriff
Charity are in the Flathead reserva-
ton on some very important business.
They will be gone for three or four
days.
Reports from Helena are to the effect
that King Faro has resumed full sway
in Last Chance gulch. There is not
card turned in Missoula, and still
Helena is said to be clean city.
The Higgins avenue improvement
proposition is a certainty. The street
will be transformed in appearance If
the council does its duty. and there is
every reason to believe that it will.
There We're beautiful flowers and
many of them for Memorial day. The
children of Missoula contributed large
ly to the collection that was used for
decorating the graves of the departed
soldiers.
The police force made a raid on the
| hoboes this morning and managed to
run in five of them. To-day being
| legal holiday and the courts of justice
| ings tomorrow.
Rev. j. G. B. Stivers. al his residence,
| this afternoon pronounced the words
| that made man and wife of Jesse NJ.
Porter of Florence and Mrs. Emma
| Kerln of Missoula. The bride is a
sister of Governor Smith.
| The transformation that is taking
| place at the state university grounds
| is marvellous. Contractor. Singer is
making a splendid showing and the
university park will he one of the most
attractive places in the state when it
| is completed.
| Johnnie Francis met with a mishap
this evening while crossing the bridge
| that was at least embarrassing if not
serious. One of the front wheels of
his buggy broke, letting the occupants
out into the bridge. The horse made
no attempt to run away or it would
have been serious accident
The reports that have gained circu-
lation to the effect that the grades on
| the Upper BIackfOot were in bad con-
dition and were being washed away,
is reported by County Surveyor Hughes
as being untrue. He has just arrived
from the place and says that the road
| is in first class condition and that he
has man there watching them at all
times.
Dr. Fitzgerald was called to Nine
Mile about 2 O'Clock this morning to
attend a young boy named Harris,
| who had cut his throat in period
of dementia. The boy is only II years
old and had but recently been taken
| from the insane asylum by his father,
who thought that he had recovered
| from the mental disease that had af-
fiicted him. None of the particulars
of the cutting have been received here
| yet.
County Attorney 1. G. Denny, who
went down to Superior to investigate
the cases of John Roncourt and John
Wilson, who We're arrested for petty
larceny, ordered released and rearrest-
ed, returned this evening and filed a
complaint charging them with bur-
glary. 1t appears that they broke into
| a barber shop and stole some razors,
committing the act in broad daylight.
Whether they will have their trial at
Superior or in Missoula has not been
decided as yet.
The Missoula Rod and Gun club had
its first shooting tournament of the
season to-day at its grounds across
the river. There was a very heavy
wind blowing almost all the afternoon,
notwithstanding which the scores were
excellent. The first shoot was straight
at 25 birds each with the following
score: Rogers, 81; Menard. IS; Thomp-
son, 81; Lemley, 16: Flowers, 16: Nc
Leod. 20; Stewart 16: Forbes, 20. In
the reverse angles shoot 10 birds each.
the following score was made: Forbes,
6: Mcleod, s; Rogers, S; Thompson,
8; Menard, 3; Lemley, 3.