Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-11
THE NEWS Tn BRIEF


Ex-senator Alex Metzel died at his
home at Fuller Springs at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. He was one Of the
pioneers of Madison county and promi-
nent in a political way, having represent
ed Madison county twice in the lower
house and n term in the senate In
1896 he was elected delegate to the repub-
lican convention at st. Louis, and was
one OF the silver men who left the conven-
ton on account of the financial plank
adopted. He leaves an estate worth
about a quarter of a million dollars.
Mrs. John Carney, mother of Hon. Pat
Carney, was buried yesterday at Fish
creek. She died or Sunday night, after
a lingering illness caused by internal
ANGER ~
John A. Berry, a we'll known mining
man operating the Bluebird mine in Bone
Basin district, died yesterday at White
hall, after an illness of less than three
days. Two hours later, Jacob c.. Crisis
mann, pioneer and prominent citizen of
Madison county, died at the same town.
He was taken with the grippe on Satur-
day morning, which rapidly developed
into pneumonia. He will be buried ait
Pony on Thursday.
The state capitol building commission
left Helena last night for Billings to in
spect the sandstone quarry there. On its
return it will probably go to Uulm and
look over the sandstone quarries at that
place, and may then proceed to another
quarry in the northern part of the state.
JarnS Elin n yyn11 - -, 80
Beaverhead county, died at New York
last week. He was about to sail to his
old home in Scotland. He had been a
resident of Montana for IS years and
made Dillon his home for many years.
The annual convention of the steam
shovel and dredge engineers has just
been held at Chicago. Montana is MAX
ing such Advancement in the line of
dredge placer mining that the state was
represented at this convention and Mr..
o. w. Vandergrift Of Bannack elected a
member of the board of directors. Dur
ing the present year dredging operations
viii be conducted on an extensive scale
in this state, and the center of operations
WITH be on the Missouri river, near Hell
ena.
Helena independents: Day after tomor-
row was the day set by the court for the
of Joe Allen, the half-breed,
for the murder of his partner, but an APP
peal has been taken to the supreme court.
and consequently the execution has been
stayed. 1t was not until Sunday that
Allen was made aware of his respite.
however,, and as far as he had any posi-
tive assurance, the day on which his life
would be surrendered in expiation of his
crime might have been drawing uncom-
fortably close. But if Allen felt any deep
concern he showed NO trana of IL in I;.
speech manner or actions. He simply
went along day after day with the same
air of indifference that characterized his
conduct during his trial.
Word has been received from Red Lodge
that the famous health resort known by
the euphonious title, "Stinking-water
SPRINGS is 10 more. BY the operations
OF nature the springs nave been destroyed
and there is no prospect that they win
ever now again. In blasting out the cav
ern from which they once flowed, work.
men iscovered a subterranean river, a
third the size of the StinkingWater river.
The underground stream is supposed to
nave encroached upon the springs until
1t undermined them, and they have prob
ably been merged in with the river itself.
The springs ave been in existence ever
since the earliest time within the memory
OF the inhabitants of that locality. They
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southwest of Red Lodge, Mont.
Ravalli Republican: w. B. THOMPSON
of Butte and Helena, who is interested in
the lumber business, came over Friday
night and returned the next day.
Ravalli Republican: DR.. Hayward and
John O'Neil left early Tuesday morning
for J. B. Haggin's breeding farm in Cali
fornia with three thoroughbred mares,
which they are taking to that place in
one of Marcus Days palace horse cars,
for breeding urpos there. They will
bring back nine head from the Hagg.n
for breeding here. A special en-
CINE came up from Missoula at 4 O'Clock
in the morning and reached Missoula on
it's return in time to couple the horse car
to the westbound express. The doctor
expects to be gone a little over two
weeks.