Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-17
BOY IS DROWNED
JOHN BAIRD, INTER MOUNTAIN
NEWSBOY, Is DEAD.
WAS FISHING IN THE RIVER
Good Swimmer, but Was Loaded Down
With Fish Basket-Funeral
OF Friday.

M~issouia, August 16.
John Baird, an Inter Mountain news
boy, was drowned in the Bitter Root
river while fishing near the post yester-
day afternoon about four o'clock. He
waded out into the water to fish, as is the
custom here. but got beyond his depth
n the Swtfe current carried him out.
Being a good swimmer he would un-
doubleday have made the shore all right
but for the accident with the fishing baS-
ket he carried suspended over his Shout
der. When he was carried off his feet
and down in the water the basket
f1oated over him SO that when he came up
1t covered his head, n in trying to ex-
tricate himself from the ENHANCEMENT of
strap and basket, he became frightened
and drowned within twenty feet Of the
shore. Jack was a good boy, industrious
and honest, and has been out every
morning for the past three months SELL
ing Inter Mountains n was well liked
by the Boys he sold with. When the little
fellows got their papers this morning
they were very quiet and much cast down
over the loss of their lively competitor
who was always one of the first to arrive
for papers.
Walter Baird, the boys father, just ar
rived from Butte on the Copper City,
when he had been a delegate to the
meeting of the grand lodge of Western
Federation of Labor, held in that city
lille "OeAs IL N~~ N~
known to him and he hurried home,
where he found the family Frustrated by
the loss of the oldest son and brother.
The funeral will a k place Friday after
noon at 2 o'clock from the family resi-
dence in South Missoula.
The marriage of Miss Sadie Victoria
Best to Rev. John j.. McAllister o
place at half after four o'clock in the
parlors of the Florence hotel, in the pres
ence of $50 invited guests. Rev. Dr.
i Mills, presiding elder of the Methodist
! church of this district, OBLIGATED. A
brother of the bride DR.. J. 70. Best OF
Spokane, gave his sister away. Mr.. and
Mrs. McAllister left OF the Copper City
this afternoon for Butte and Salt Lake
for a. honeymoon trip, and ON their return
will go to Miles City, where they will
make their home, Mr.. McATister having
been appointed recently at the state con-
ference in Helena, to fill the pulpit in the
M. E. hurch there.
A large gathering of golf enthusiasts
met at the Florence Hotel last evening
soula, and decided on the South Side as
the field for practice, and the links vii
be run from the vicinity of the University
to a point neal the Bitter Root tracks, {
distance of nearly two miles. An exper
golf player from Butte, a gentleman Wn'
understands the game thoroughly will 81
here soon and will see that the links ar
properly placed, instruct novices n CIV
the club a good start. The officers cnose1
were as follows: President, Rev. Llnley
i vice-president, Thomas c. Marshall; sec
retary. Will Murphy; directors, Or
S~pottswood, Messrs, Ackerly. RANT, w
TT. Holly, A. L. Stone, Geo. Beckwlth, Dr
Putney and Major Duncan.
The San Francisco Argonaut OF tn
date of August 18th, the ma
riage of Miss Margaret Roplnsoh' Jah,
erlv Of Missoula and Bonner, to JONI
Cushing Dorm, at Trinity Chapel. Sal
Francisco, on August End. Imnedlatei
after the ceremony Mr.. and MRS. Dorl
left for Alaska for a honeymoon trip an
on their return will make their nom
in Tacoma.