Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-20
DEERLoDCENEWS
THE OLD TIMERS
Have Now Formed a Local
Organization.
SOME OBJECTIONS MADE
As to the Date Fixed for the Admission
to the Order--Several of Our
T0wnspeople Are Ill.

Deer Lodge, Sept. 10. 1899.
In Anaconda the other day the Deer
Lodge Pioneers association was organ
lied by a number Of pioneers and well
known citizens Of the Copper Clty-Ana-
conda. 1t is a very commendable move,
as it brings together the early settlers
of this section and the entire county,
There is only one objection-if it can be
called an objection: that is, many of our
prominent people arrived here in 81 ana
'6S. The charter, as we understand II,
makes eligible only those who arrived IN
1856. AS long as it is a local affair the
rules should, in you correspondents
opinion. be suspended and the 81 and Us
pioneers be admitted. There would be a
larger membership and a better fellow
feeling: one or two years in a progressive
country like this-all due to the trall-
blazers from ga to 68, in our opinion
would make only a tribes dllference.
Through the kindness of Uncle Dave
Cohen and our popular townslnan, County
Assessor George S. Miller, the first meet
ing OF the new association will occur IN
Deer Lodge on Oct. q. In the opinion OF
all early residents here, the date OF ar
rival should be, and include the first ar
rivals, but in a local affair, the arrivals
who got in a few years later, ana Who
have been foremost in making things
permanent in our towns and camps.
should be included. The State Pioneers
association docs all Of the early date
business. If We are to have a local or
ganization of the heroes let us be broader.
What say you, veterans?
Rev. Thos. w. Flowers, one of the
highly honored preachers of the Bitter
Root valley, who established the first
PRESBYTERIAN church in this old town,
was here to-day, and ate chicken with
Mrs. Mary S. Kelley on the west side.
Mr.. Flowers is an old timer in Montana
and reports his wife well and Happy.
Many people here remember them well
and are glad they are in such good
health. Rev. Flowers is on his way TO
the Masonic gathering in Helena.
TIL many friends of Thomas Ford, who
has lived near Stuart in this county for
the last % years, and one OF the p'o-
neers of this state, will regret to near
that he suffered a stroke OF paralysis a
few lays ago and is now in the hospital
in Anaconda with little hopes OF recoV-
cry. Mr.. Ford is one of the wealthy
citizens of the county and many Deer
4-ouSe 1IlSlluS SiSotiS SPiOAN "'
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Peneau are home
again from the mines up on Gold Creek.
Mir. Peneau had a good season and will
spend the winter in Deer Lodge. He eX-
poets to go out and hunt for the lead that
supplies the placer gold in the Gold creek
bars. He has a fine piece of quartz which
is half pure gold, the quartz MOVING
plainly the formation.
"
Charley Dolerty, who holds a respons-
ible position at the McBurney house, re-
ceived a telegram Sunday conveying the
very sad intelligence of the death of his
mother in Oakland, California. The
young man is comparatively a stranger
here, but by his gentle,nanly demeanor,
he has won friends who deeply sympa-
thize with him in his great bereavement.
That old veteran, Thomas w. Flowers
of the Bitter Root valley, is here today.
en- route to Helena, as a delegate to the
annual meeting of the Masonic order.
Roe Fulkerson, the man of many re-
sources, is along Will him-just to see
that he gets home safe. Both have
friends here.
Thomas c. Irvine. who vent to Butte
Saturday. to attend the funeral of his
sister-in-law Mrs. e. H. Irvine, return
ed home yesterday. He says that the
condition of Attorney Will Forbis, who
is critically i'll in Portland, is not changed
all Of which is sad news for his many
friends in Deer Lodge where he once
lived.
Joe Lodge, who, after spending a for
tune r%anching, and in the stock bust
ness. is now branching out in mining
and if the signs are right he is going to
make a killing for he went up to the
IJiI1op Hand tn-daV with tho aynCacS
purpose of putting on a force of expert
enced miners.
Peter Marion one of the wealthy sheep
owners from near Pioneer, has secured
a residence in Deer Lodge and will move
his family here for the winter Dozens
of ranchers are doing the same thing. The
school facilities afforded in this city is
a big drawing card for the town.
Hal Williams, son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Williams of this city, left for Helena
this afternoon in with his
father. Hal will enter the Helena Bust
ness College and will make his home in
Helena with Mr.. and Mrs. P. H.. Miller.
John Cullerton of the First National
bank, Chicago. was here yesterday. en-
for a visit with John Mcmahon and fam
lily, who were at one time neighbors and
close friends in the lake city.
Mayor Martin and Jack Denny were
enjoying themselves with friends in town
yesterday. Mr.. Martin reports Emery
as being livelier than at any time in it's
history. -Four properties have recently
been leased by experienced mining men
and all are now active.
w. A. Walker. j. F. Allerton. st. Paul;