The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-09-29

liens of Barker, was in town yester-
day.
Miss Nellie Rice, who has been
spending a few days in the camp,
returned to her home at Riceville
Monday.
Gust Okerman stopped off in the
camp yesterday for a short period to
look over the town, before going to
his home in Barker.
Mrs. Eva Harris of Bozemap will
organize a lodge of the Ratlibone
Sisters which is a ladies' auxiliary to
the K. of P, Wednesday.
Sunday evening John A. Grove
and M. Gurley returned from a
three weeks outing in the High
wood mountains. They failed to
see any deer.
Horace Philips, of Utica, and
William Hart, of Lewistown, stop
ped over in the coal camp last night
on account of the storm. They pro
ceeded to Great Falls to-day.
Mrs. Baker, of Anaconda,
came over from he-eopper city
Monday for a few days visit with
her daughter, Miss Nettie, who IS
attending the business college there.
G. w. Haling, operator at the
Montana Central depot here, has re-
signed his position and accepted a
place with the Boston Art Compa-
ny, which travels in it's own special
car. He is succeeded here by J. H.
Hughes, of Escanaba. Mich.
Frank Lewis is getting his horses
In shape preparatory to going to
Nelhart, where he has a contract to
haul the Woolsey hay, recently pur-
chased by the Great Falls Meat
Company, from the Woolsey ranch
to Neihart, where it will be loaded
on cars for shipment.
Miss Maud Brown is the victim of
a cruel practical joke that does not
set any too we'll on the young maids
ruffied mind. She ordered an up to
date collarette, from a Chicago firm,
and was daily expecting the arrival
Of the longed for article. Yesterday
an express package arrived consigned
to the young lady. Her heart went
plt-a-rat as she tenderly undone the
precious bundle, but as she opened
it her face changed from an angelic
smile to a cyclonic vision of the Gal-
weston disaster. Some of the clerks
in the store had played "a Joke upon
their fair book-keeper, for instead of
the latest in collarettes, she received
the very oldest in old jackets, mems
jackets at that. But then the young
lady has n satisfaction, she can tell
her troubles to the real estate man,
he has lots.
Belt is infected with a gang of
sneak thieves that are doing a land
office business. That they are dead
next to their job goes without saying.
Monday night they entered the room
of W. J. Allen at the Standard
Hotel and took his cutaway coat, his
gold filled watch and $50 in n
From his partner who has been i'll
and is here for treatment, they took
S2S in cash and a confederate $40
bill. Where they intend to cash the
$40 confederate proposition remains
to be seen.
Last night while VIM. Anderson
was attending the A. o. U. w. lodge
they went to his shack and broke
open his trunk and took his pocket.
book c%ontaing SIS in money and
some valuable papers. The officers
are doing all that is in their power
to a%pprehend the sneak thieves but
so far have no clue.
They had a cracker-ajack case in
the justice court here Tuesday. 1t
would bring sadness to the eye of a
potato or cause a torrent Of tears to
flow from the weeping willow. The
carcass and hide of a beaver were
found up Otter Creek neal Tolliver's
ranch and the blame fastened upon a
mar who bears that good old turf
name, n. R. Mckay. Harry Tolli-
yer, learning the facts, rushed to Belt
and got a warrent for his arrest, and
hal the old gentleman brought to
Belt. His trial (?) came off Tuesday,
and six men who were not necessari-
ly employed at any thing else sat