Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-01
LOCAL BRIEFS

Mrs. r. s. Mentrum has returned from
a trip to Great Falls.
Mrs. G. S. E. Wisner and child have
from the coast.
Peter Sheriff, arrested, charged with
was discharged by Judge
Frank Kennedy.
About sixty persons attended a social
ipop at the pavilion at Mountain View
Park last night.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin, who has been
visiting friends at Helmville, returned
home last evening.
The Junior Epwo1'th League gave a
very enjoyable sociable at the NJ. Z.
church last evening.
Miss May McHugh, who has been
spending her vacation with her sister at
Missoula, returned home yesterday.
The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway
will make a round trip rate of s. from Ana
conda to Butte and return en- Sundays. e.
fectivs June "a. 4
The Catholic club CAV a midnight
summer card parity at their club rooms
last evening which was attended by
about $50 ladies and gentlemen.
Phil Gallagher. arrested on Monday,
charged with making q. rough house of
Hyme's boarding house on West Park
avenue, was discharged with a repri-
mand.
On Fon and Quon Cow, the two China
men charged with being unlawfully in
the United States. were yesterday dis
charged ny United States Commissioner
Charles Houck.
George Vinegar, a would-be detective,
was gathered in this morning by the po-
lice. He was arrested in Mainville. He
claimed before his arrest that he was
working on an important plot.
William Johnson, the eight month old
son of Mr.. AND Mrs. Leo lie Selle, residing
at 521 Locust street, died this morning
after a short illness, presumed to have
been caused from poison from condensed
milk.
! The children of St. Marks Sunday
school picnicked at Mountain View Park
yesterday afternoon. The affair was in
| charge of the rector, Rev. Alfred Brown,
Mrs. George P. Welcome. superintendent
of the Sunday school, and Misses Hill,
Nupton and Sigh. Mrs. F. Kennedy, Mrs.
Remington, Mr.. and Mrs. Brown, the
teachers.
The board of equalization was in ses-
sion again yesterday, the only business
transacted was the addition of $4,000 to
the value of tn 49, sSable property OF
the county. Not a single complaint about
unjust anpraisement was received ana
not a single application for a reduction
was 4 lluSu H..
Uncle 81 Baker. the trouble man for the
electric light company during the night
time, pullsa box "a last night at the cor
ner of Cherry and Commercial avenue
and gave the fire department a useless
run. Uncle 81 was fooled by the brillian
fire clouds which came in the heavens a
midnight and continued until daylight
The b1:Itiancy of the clouds was due t.
the f - cft fires in Mill Creek. Today a
noon the smoke from hat section is dens.
and bears evidence of a terrible fir
raging there.
r. S. Mentrum, Anaconda's popular fir
chief. has returned from Chicago, wher
he spent a month or more gathering u
Gamewalrs system of fire boxes. He ha
not Keen in the hospital as supposed o
account of his reduction in flesh, on tn
contrary, Chicago v IS, he avs, as he
as hades, and during mis- absence he los
over fifteen pounds in flesh, due to tn
we,tering heat of the Windy CITY. M
> Mentrum is one of the best known chlef
: in the northwest. He is a student !
: his lire and never stops stuying and eA
: p~erimenting. This is low he came t
go to Chicago at the solicitation Of tn
Gamewal manufacturers and spen
enough time in the factory to thorough
: ly learn every detail of the mechanlsr
} OF fre-alarm boxes and kindred appa1
) abuses. He met thicago's renowned an
I venerable fire chief, Sweeney whom h
4 saws is as hard a fire fighter as reportet
Z The next days after meeting Chief sWet
} ney Subordinate Chief Horn came an
) said h. was detailed by Chief Sweeney
: show the chief from Montana the EMIL
? workings of the Chicago fire departmel
= in one district and also the fire boat
'It's grand" said the chief, "and tines
veteran fremen showed me every cour
$ esy. The heat was terrible during tf
time / was in Chicago. I lost more tina
!: Is pounds in flesh. but never felt better
. my life. am so thin I have had to ords
}. new clothes to fit me-"