Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-23
MILES CITY NEWS.
Charles Boucher, Representative Inter
Branch Office.
SEASON
An Alderman Spades Several
Acres.
TOWN SOWS SEEDS
Arb0r Day Comes Late To Build Wool
WarehOuse-N0tes Of the
City.
Miles City. April 70. 1900.

Miles City, April 10, 1900.
Agricultural matters are on the boom,
and prominent citizens can be seen at all
hours of the day, from the earliest peep
of dawn until the last beam fadeth to
shine no more till tomorrow. packing
spades and clubs and battle axes and
garden hose and moving machines and
horse-rakes and the other ingredients
that go to make a garden, down side
streets and back alleys, any way to get
them home without te%lescoping a $50
plate-glass window or the p%rotruding
bay-window of some other prominent cit
izen coming in an opposite direction. The
fish liar has now given way to the imam
with the hoe" and when he gets through
with his tale of sods overturned, empires
uprooted and set on end you stand aghast
and wonder indeed if this can be "the
thing which God created" Verify, of all
the seeds which shall be sown thiss spring.
lovers of truth should hustle to plant a
good installment of the seeds of early
piety. To illustrate that this is not an
idle or unnecessary warning, one of our
aldermen gave it out cold in solemn con-
clave to your correspondent and other
reliable witnesses, that he had spaded
and seeded two n One-half acres in as
many hours this morning.
At present it ook as though Arbor
day in this locality will be observed
principally in a pickwickian sense, as the
trees have already budded and it will
soon be too late for transplanting. Crab
apple trees are in full bloom, and with
the experienced tree planter in this Sec
ton Arbor day is generally found to be
too remote. The day set by his excel
lency may be all right. for the Rocky
mountains hut IT ia mt So horo
Ben TOOle of Billings returned to his
home last evening. Mr.. Toole does not
think Colonel Gordon was adhering alto
gether to the truth when he told State
Treasurer Hays that he was the only de-
cent democrat in Montana. This, of
course, was only one Of the colonel's
jokes. f~ r
! Charlie Kelly has a Filipino flag of fine
silk hanging in the window of his place
of business. Underneath is the legend,
"a specimen Of the needlework of Aguin-
aldo's wife," The flag ooks gravely sus-
piciOus of the 'ready-made'' order, and
would indicate that Mrs. A~guinaldo''
runs a pretty good grade of machine.
Hon. J. r. Mckay, who has heretofore
been known only as a horseman, has de-
cided to enlarge the scope of his opera
lions by including cattle. sheep, etc. He
already has five %"dougies,' which he is
ready to swap for money, marbles or
chalk.
Duncan Clark's notorious female min
strels gave a performance last night, and
although considerable of a crowd attend
ed, scarcely a man in town can be found
who was there.
William Rearin, who has been at a
| SohoO1 nf nStnOnqfhv in Missouri Is aY-
pected home this evening, having grad
uated from the institution.
]. B. Wood Of the firm of Derby &
Wood, will leave tonight for Helena, and
expects to bring his better half with him
on his return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Barringer of Bar
ringer, Mont, have had their family
circle augmented by the arrival of a baby
boy.
Mrs. Henry Tusler recently arrived
from St. Paul with her brother-in-law
and is at present at her ranch at Tusler.
Matt Illgin has moved to his house in
the vicinity of the convent. Newt Gill;
land will occupy the vacated premises.
Miss Margaret Hurley, stenographer
for the division superintendent at Glen
dive, is in the city visiting her parents.
Ray Reese left this evening for Bill
lings. where he will assist his father, Joe
Reese, foreman for ohm Mcfarland.
Five cars of lumber have arrived for
the wool warehouse, and work has al
ready commenced thereon.
Mrs. T. J. Vance, whose husband is now
on his way to Cape Nome, gave birth to
a boy last evening.
Captain A. C. Neate has returned from
a visit to London, looking much Inn
proved in health.
L.. w. Stacy started on q trip on the
north sid today to look over the range.
Miss Joubert and Miss Casper of Terry
| are stopping at the Miles City hotel.
Treasurer Schwartz has q new story.
He is having it put on his house,
ALDRIDCE NEWS.
Aldridge, April 20.
The death Of John Barrett last Sunday
afternoon. was quite a shock to q number
OF citi3ens of Aldridge and vacinity. Mr..
Barrett was taken sick while at the p0-
litical meeting on Wednesday and after
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