Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-27
B0zE NJ A N Ne VS.
Dan E. Allen. manager Inter Mountain
Branch Office. P. o.. News Stand.


LIE temperature loudy IL W
talk about. Yesterday we were in the
midst of summer and a reasonably warm
one at that until about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, when a heavy shower came up
and since then we have enjoyed all the
pleasures that can be derived from close
proximity to a stove with a wood fire IN
it. The mercury Goes not SHOW any marked
signs of returning to the lowest recesses
of the thermometer. but a damp ana cold
breeze is getting in it's work in great shape.
Now that threshing is pretty we'll under
way in the district commonly called up
land where the farmers take chances on
raising a crop without irrigation. and not
withstanding a season unparalleled for
want of rain and generally ~unfavorable for
ranching under the condition of being UNI
able to carry water onto the lands, the re-
suits in bushels is, to say the least, start
ling. A full crop was entirely out of the
question and but few were ~sanguine enough
to hope that it would pay to even cut the
grain, yet despite the unpromising cOndl-
tons it is found Inat ABOUT a one-th1rd to
one-half crop was the yield, and of better
quality than usual, SO that while the bulk
is decreased the prices that will be realized
will bring the gains up to the normal yearly
amounts coming to our farmer friends for
their season of toll. 1t is a common saying
that a farmer is always kicking but 1t
should be added mot in old Gallati.'
| Little Barbara Sutton entertained a mum
Der Of her friends and playmates at her
home on South Black avenue between the
! u u u dIiI !. "a GAL ~ SAS AhAIAS
! folks that had been invited made 1t a point
to be on hand and a very pleasant time
was spent with games and other p~astinles,
and wound up with an assortment of light
refreshments suited to the very young.
| Sheriff Fransham reports that he has not
a, single boarder in the county Jail at pres.
ent, and that although the circus was in
town yesterday he was unable to do bust
ness looking; toward capturing a few fol-
his house Not for years has the county
Jail been as poorly patronized as it has
this year, and the sheriff is a man who
Away makes it a point to do the right
thing by anyone who partakes of his hos
} pitality. The chief drawback seems to be
the hours one is forced to keep while So
I journing with him and sundry other rules
and regulations of the house that do not
appeal to ones fancy.
Bud Story has his foundry and machine
shop almost completed, and while not eX-
actly in shape to do business. has a large
amount of repairing and other work or
hand, and that Keeps him and his force
busy from morning until night. The build
ing occupied was put up for the purpose
i for which it is being used, and will when
completed be Il 1lrst-class plant 70 al
work in his line. Besides being a 81 1lleG
man himself. he has a force that arc al
as good men as can be found in theil re-
spective lines, and the work turned out is
finding favor with the patrons of the es-
adjustment. AS soon as some necessary
additions are made a more extended ac-
count of it will be given in our letters.