The Western news., 1904-12-14

ence over Sunday. He is with the
firm OF Harper & Baird and who have
transferred their headquarters to
fuckers spur near Woodside.
Hiram Smith and family will leave
tomorrow for GAINESVILLE Ca, where
they will spend the winter.
Mrs. Joe Bush and daughter, Miss
Edith, are expected home this week
from an extended trip east. While
away they visited relatives in Ken
lucky and took in the We rld's fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Mcleod return
ed Saturday from Helena where Mr..
Mcleod passed successful examina-
ton before the supreme court and was
admitted to the bar as full-fedged
attorney.
John Campbell has brought suit
against the board of county commis-
sion ers to recover $56O.15, alleged to
be due him under contract executed
which he holds for the maintenance of
the county poor.
James Dunnigan was a Hamilton
visitor yesterday. He reports an ex-
citing experience on Willow creek
Sunday, when he and Robert Neaves
encountered and bagged two good
sized grizzly bears.
The United States land Office at
Missoula last Saturday rendered de-
cision in the case of Leonard Oertli
VS.. Carl G. Nelson. in favor of Oertli
holding that Nelson had not lived up
to the requirements of the homestead
laws. The land in question is near
Darby.
G. w. Ward, E. A. Wolfe and Ar
thur Woods left yesterday for the east.
Mr.. Ward will visit his aged father at
Halltown, Mo-, and Mr.. Wolfe will al
so visit relatives in that vicinity,
while Mr.. Woods will do little pros
pecting in the vicinity of Stroud, Ok
lahoma.
Lamar Chaffin, a large sheep owner
Of Corvallis was a visitor in Missoula
yesterday. The gentleman is just
returning home from trip to Chicago
with twenty-five carloads of sheep, for
which he received satisfactory price.
The sheep were shipped from their
summer range in Chouteau county
Missoulian.
The entertainment at the Lucas
opera house given last night under
the auspices of St. Paul's guild was a
very enjoyable affair. The little tots
who participated in the program did
the mselves proud. The recitations so
happily rendered by Misses Helen
Grow and Mabel Bowman were very
we'll received.
Hamilton has whist tournament in
prospective. S. J. M. Beebee and w.
A. Grow having challenged Rev. J A.
Fogarty and Attorney Chas. S. Wag-
ner to play series of Is games, five
5 games at a sitting. The vanquished
will show their appreciation of the
prowess of the victors by entertaining
them at an oyster feed.
Farmers institutes have been ar
f ranged for various sections,the fol-
lowing dates having been fixed for
Western Montana: Plains February 6;
Missoula, F February 6, and 8; Darby,
February 9; Corvallis, February IL;
Stevensville, February 13. The in
structors to be sent out by the board
will be w. w. Wylie, Fred Whiteside
and F. B. Linfield.
DR.. T. H. Hanbidge of Victor did
business in Hamilton Saturday. The
: doctor expects to leave next Monday
for New York, where he will take a
post graduate course in his speciality,
i. e. treatment of the eye, ear and
nose. His family will spend the win
ter at Victor. The doctor will return
about March l, and with his family re-
move to some point on the Pacific
coast where they expect to locate per-
manently.