Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-09-17
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guest Of Miss Mable Allen.
Mrs. M. Shaw returned last Sat
urday from an extended visit IN
Milwaukee.
&C. H. Agner, Chief Train Despatch
err, of Milwaukee, transacted business
in our city Tuesday.
&C. c. Mathey and Mr.. Dana of the
Gaena Iron Works Co. were business
callers here Tuesday.
Mrs. f. P. Bennett and two chill
dren of Washington, ID. c., are guests
of relativrs in this city.
Joe GRADER returned from St. Paul
Wednesday. While there he purchased
3 carloads of fine cattle.
"A. r. johnson of Montfort had
Masonic degree work conferred upon
him here Monday evening.
j. C. Fox, master mechanic of the
Mineral Point division of the st. Paul
railway, was in our city Monday.
After three months trip through
the western states and parts of Canada,
j. H. Day returned last Friday to re-
sumo work in his shoe store.
Tom Leahy, the genial and efficient
c. M. & st. T. passenger conductor,
returned to duty on Tuesday, after
taking vacation of two weeks
The Tribune is in receipt of copies
of the Reno (Nevada) Mining News
and the Evening Gazette dated Sept. s.,
giving an account of the wiping out by
fire of the mining camp known as Raw
hide Three thousand persons are said
TO be homeless, scores are injured and
the loss in money will exceed $3.50, 600.
The fire confined itself to the business
section, the residence and mining sec
tions being unframed. Thanks are due
w. j. Prisk, formerly of Mineral Point,
for the papers.
Mr.. John Michigan, of the firm of
John McGuigan & Co., of San Francis
co, Cal, accompanied by his wife and
his mother, of Chicago, were visitors
in this city within the past week. Mr..
Michigan is a native of Mineral Point
and this is his first visit to the scenes
of his boyhood in twenty-nine years.
He is a nephew of Thos. B. Smith of
this city. Mr.. Michigan was one of
those who suffered from the great San
Francisco fire and graphically describes
the same.
Last week saw the completion by
the Galena Iron Works company of the
new concentrating mill of 100 tons
daily capacity at the famous Kennedy
mine says the Benton Advocate. The
mill is Of the latest improved type and
houses three sets of jigs cells twenty
one jigs in all. The mine is now
equipped with two concentratin 6
plants, the only mine so equipped in
the field. The new mill is about one
fourth mile from the site of the old
plant and northeast of the office and
has its own power and pumping station.
The property is owned by closed cor
poration, which consists of the Kennedy
estate at one-fourth interest and
Messrs. McIlhon, Allen and Spensley
of the city of Mineral Point, Wis.
Times are pretty close in Dakota
this season and money scare according
to all reports. A Swede went into one
of the banks at Kenmore a few days
ago and asked to borrow $40 for a
month. The Swede had plenty of prop
erty and was honest but the bank cash
Ter was careful to take out interest in
advance, which though little high
amounted to $3.50. The Swede started
home with his $3.50 and the further he
walked the more he studied his financial
condition. He sat down along the road
and was still figuring when one of his
friends CHANGED TO come his way.
whats the matter, Ole? What S
troubling you today" Ole scratched his
head little and replied: cay tank them
bank fellars been great. Ay borrow $40
for one month and they took 81 Ay
was Just thinkin' that if Ay'd borrowed
that amount for four months Ay would
not have got a cent. Elk.