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Show . .1 Tntermoisfitam Hews j BUTTE, MONT. His Many Years of Priesthood. The thirty-fifth anniversary of the priesthood of Father De Siere occurred Sunday and was the thirty-fifth anniversary anni-versary of the first solemn mass pronounced pro-nounced by him on his advent into j priesthood. j Father De" Siere was born in 1S43 at Houthem, Flanders, .and received his education in the best schools and under the leading masters of Belgium, having attended the College of Furnes and the Seminary of Bruges. For twelve years he was professor in the College of Dix-mude. Dix-mude. He was assistant priest, for four years in Roulers, a prosperous iniiiuiaeiuring city ot 3o,U00 inhabitants inhabit-ants in Belgium. He spent four years as pastor in Westende near Ostende. In 1SS7 he came to America and took the position of assistant priest at Deer Lodge. From there he went , to Anaconda Ana-conda and was the first pastor of St. Paul's church at that place. About ten years ago he came to Butte tnd immediately took charge of St. Patrick's Pat-rick's church, which position he still holds. Father De Siere is a great lover of children, and his happiest hours are spent with the little ones of his parish, of whom there are almost 4,000. When he came here there were two priests in Silver Bow county, but the membership of the church has so increased in-creased as to now require the work of nine. Earnest in his work, modest in his conversation and gentle in his manners. man-ners. Father De Siere has made friends of all with whom he has come in contact, con-tact, and his love for and interest in the children of his parish has endeared them all to him. At the church of the Sacred Heart services will be held on New Year's day in both the morning and evening. In the morning Rev. Father Moskopp of the Jesuit college of Spokane will preach at 10 o'clock, and in the evening even-ing the Rev. Father Lishner, a Maur-ist Maur-ist priest from Salt Lake City, will deliver the sermon. There has been practically no change in the condition, of Mrs. William A. Clark, jr., for -the past twenty-four hours. She continues to hold her own, and this is taken as a favorable sign. That she withstood the operation so well and has been resting a great deal since augurs well for her ultimate recovery. re-covery. Dr. Perkins states that he feels very much encouraged at the outlook. Father English of St. Mary's parish, in Dublin gulch, while attending a sick call on Sunday night, slipped and fell, breaking his arm and otherwise bruising bruis-ing his body. He was taken to St. James' hospital, where, his . injuries were attended to, and he is now resting comfortably. His injuries, while painful, are not serious, but it will be some weeks before he will be able to be about again, much to the regret of his congregation. Joe Walsh, a popular employe of Gans & Klein's store, ruptured a blond vessel in one of his legs while getting out of bed a few days ago. Physicians were hastily summoned to stop the flow of blood, as he was threatened with bleeding to death. Tim Ma honey,; a pioneer prospector and miner, whose home is in the Bull Run district, about twenty miles northwest of here, vyas in the city recently. re-cently. . The Young Ladies' sodality of the Sacred Heart church attended the funeral fu-neral service of Miss Mary Lynch on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Sacred Sa-cred Heart church, in a body. J. S. Flanagan is slightly under the weather and is more or less confined to his room. O. B. O'Bannon, a pioneer of Mon tana, was ih Butte Sunday' fl-om Deer Lodge. Mr. O'Banhoh was at one tima probate judge of Deer . Lodgre county, and the original townsite of Butte was laid out by him In his official capacity. On Monday at 12:30 o'clock Rev. Father Quesnel entertained at luncheon all the fathers of the Butte parishes, ! the missionary fathers and Rev. Fathers Fa-thers Lischner and Murphy, of All Hallows' Hal-lows' college, Bait Lake City. At this gathering three different orders were I represented the Jesuita, the Redemp-torists Redemp-torists and the Marists. Besides these three Were the local priests,. The Ladies' Catholic ' Benevolent association as-sociation gave an ehtei'tainment after its business meeting in Hibertiia hall at Centerville last Friday evening. The event consisted of a short musical pi'o ! gramme, dancing and refreshments. -.. - Before beginning to enjoy their holiday holi-day vacation, the sttici'.hts of St. Patrick's Pat-rick's Parochial school rendered an excellent ex-cellent programme on Monday afternoon, after-noon, in the presence of a large and appreciative audience. There are about 700 students in attendance at-tendance al the school now, and it is needless to say a good programme was arranged by their united efforts. The exercises were enterlaihing from beginning be-ginning to end, and everything went off nicely. Rev. Fathers Nierman and Maddox ' left for their respective homes Satur- day afternoon. Father Nierman is ! from Kansas City and Father Maddox resides at DeSoto. Rev. Father Nierman Nier-man preached his last sermon in Butte for awhile at the 11 o'clock soleiVj high mass at St. Patrick's on Christmas. Christ-mas. His sermon was just as thoroughly thor-oughly enjoyed as his sermons always have been. News has reached Butte that James F. Lionel of Syracuse, N. Y., president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has signed papers whereby the order throughout the world is brought tinder one governing board. Rev. Father Murphy has returned from a. visit to Anaconda and will be in this city for a few days, but will return to h;v college duties at Salt Lake City at an early; date. ANACONDA, MONT. Mrs. Louis Lavelle died at her home in this city Thursday night from a rupture of a blood vessel. Mrs. Lavelle La-velle was 32 years of age and the mother of eight children. The funeral took place on Sunday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Peter's Catholic church, and interment was in Calvary cemetery. At a meeting ofD&ision No. 3, A. O. H., which was held last Friday-evening, Friday-evening, the installation committee reported re-ported that a joint installation of j Divions 1 and 2 and the Ladies' auxiliary auxil-iary will take place on Jan. 6 at the A. O. H. hall. Invitations are to be extended to the state officers and the division of Silver Bow. It is thought they will attend. The funeral services over the remains re-mains of the late Mrs. Frank Fairfield were held from St. Peter's church Monday Mon-day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment was made in the Catholic cemetery. Many of her friends in life were present pres-ent to pay her their last sad respects as a testimonial to her character and her general womanly loveliness. At the meeting of the Catholic Order of Foresters last Monday night the following fol-lowing officers, to be installed Jan. 12, were elected for the ensuing year: Chief Ranger, Frank ' M. McGrath; vice chief ranger, Pat Dalton; recording re-cording secretary, . W. H. Mahoney; financial . secretary,1 ;;,'Lqu is Verbeck-moes; Verbeck-moes; treasurer, George Barich; trustees. trus-tees. Father Barnard, D. F. O'Donnell, Hugh Early: delegate to state convention, conven-tion, John Dooly; alternate, John B. McCarty. . Justice of the Peace Quane, whose term of office will expire with the year just ending, has definitely decided to take up the duties incumbent upon the office of general northwestern deputy dep-uty of the National Union society. The welcome announcement was made Christmas day of ' the breaking of the fever of Tom Daly, the typhoid patient who has been so low at St. Ann's hospital for many weeks. MISSOULA, MONT. Missoula, Mont., Dec. 23. A Catholic fair was given at Frenchtown last week, continuing from Tuesday morning morn-ing until Friday night and closing with a grand ball. It was one of the greatest great-est events that has ever occurred in the metropolis of the, Grass valley.- $ Lieutenant Rains, stationed at Fort Missoula, has departed for Olympia, Wash., to join his wife, who is there on a visit to relatives. The lieutenant will spend the holidays there, returning return-ing to Missoula soon, after the first of the year. While the work of decorating the interior in-terior of the -church has been going on steadily for over a year, it is not yet quite completed, but only a few more strokes of the brush, a few more finishing fin-ishing touches, and St. Franci3 Xav-ier's Xav-ier's will present not only the most splendid appearance of any church in ' Montana, but may be ranked among the finest in the Whole we st This beautiful structure that tmJJV lends a charm to the city of Missoula was erected in 1S89 under the supervision of the Rev. A. Deomedi, S. J., who was then in charge of the parish. M. M. Joyce and wife will move on Jan. 3 from their rooms in the Union block to their elegant new home in South Mossoula, which is now completed. com-pleted. T. A. and Henry McClain are in the city on business from Carleton. P. J. Channon, superintendent of the Ritter Root stock farm, was down from his home Saturday. Mrst. Bonar and her daughter, Miss Harriet McKay, of Butte, are in the city to spend the Christmas holidays with their son and brother. Professor J. G. McKay, superintendent of the city schools. Judge John M. Evans and wife are the proud parents of a daughter, which arrived at their home in South Missoula Mis-soula on Sunday, the 21st inst. George Barrett, at one time, foreman on the Northern Pacific at this place but who is now in the employ of the Oregon Short Line, is visiting friends in the city. Miss Nora Doane, who has been visiting vis-iting A. B. Wood and wife in this city, has departed for her home in Nebraska. Ne-braska. Probably in no city in the United States can "be found a church building build-ing that is as handsomely finished on the interior as is the St. Francis Xavier of the Catholic church in this city. The structure is a massive one, and the interior is of the old vaulted ceiling style of architecture, so much in style among the cathedrals of the old world. POCATELLO, IDA. At St. Joseph's church, on Christmas eve, promptly at midnight, a beautiful beau-tiful mass was sung with orchestra accompaniment. Sermon was on the lessons of Christ's coming. On Christmas Christ-mas day masses were at 8:30 and 10:30. The evening services and benediction were at 3:30, and were largely attended. at-tended. Mrs. R. A. McConnon of San Francisco Fran-cisco is in the city and will visit a few days with Mr. and Mrs. James F. Kane. Mrs. McConnon is just returning return-ing from Salt Lake City, tthere her husband, R. A. McConnon, a promoter of mines, died a few days ago of pneu monia. Mrs. McConnon has property ip Pocatello that she is looking after while in the city. Q Alexander Houlahan of Heath, Ida., member of the board of trustees of the Academy of Idaho, was in the city Sunday. Mr. Houlihan came here to attend the special meeting of the board which was held on Tuesday. -$- Dr. Brereton has closed his dental rarlors on the east side for the present pres-ent and is moving to Blackfoot, where he will remain for a couple of months to complete some unfinished work. The doctor expects to return to Pocatello and open an office on the ast side when he completes his work at Black-foot. Black-foot. -! County Superintendent Harmer is experiencing a famine of teachers. Two places remain unfilled. One is a call for a man teacher at ?60 per month, seven months in the year. CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO. The jury in the case of the Sedan against tne Sunshine, which has been on trial for a week before Judge Seeds, brought in a verdict at 11 o'clock Monday in favor of the Sunshine. This is the third trial between the companies on the apex question. The properties are sit-uateel sit-uateel in what is considered outside the recognized belt, on the south slope of Ualena hill. Each corporation has expended ex-pended at least $20,000 in the suits, and evidently there must be a fair showing in the properties to warrant this expenditure. expend-iture. The controlling interest in the Sunshine is held by John Dalze.ll and the controlling interest in the Sedan stoeK is held by William A. Otis and associates of Colorado Springs. J. E. Nichols, a well known prospector, had his right foot badly crushed near the Midland terminal depot Monday. The (rain was backing on the Y and evidently Nichols, who was walking on the track, did not hear the signals given. He was taken to the Sisters' hospital and in all probability the leg will have to be amputated am-putated above the ankle joint. . S. S. Brooks, dealer in mining machinery, machin-ery, died here of typhoid fever Monday. No arrangements have yet been made for Interment. BILLINGS, MONT. Philip M. Gallagher, a former citizen of Billings, but at present located near Chestnut as civil engineer for a mining min-ing company, is in the city renewing ' accpiaintances. . A marriage license was issued Friday to Frank D. Derby and Mrs. Nina J. Browne. The parties are both residents of Billings and very well known. PHILLIPSBURG, MONT. Burton Harris, for the past year assistant as-sistant manager of the Bimetallic Mercantile Mer-cantile company's store, left this morning morn-ing for Pueblo, Colo., where he will probably engage in business. Mrs. Harris will spend the winter with her relatives in Red Lodge, Mont. The Missoula branch of the Catholic j Order of Foresters has paid $1,000 in- j surance to the children of the late Mrs. i D. M. Durfee, this sum representing the amount of insurance held by Mrs. Durfee in the order.- ' BOZEMAN, MONT. CeHonel Tom Cooney of Helena was a vistior in Bozeman last week. Miss Merel McCormick, daughter of ! Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCormick, who is j attending school at Tacoma. arriveel i home Tuesday to spend the holidays. ! HELENA, MONT. Rev. Father Cochi, S. J., of Spokane, arrived Wedensday to assist in the i various services incident to Christmas. He held mass at St. Helena's church and the house of the Good Shepherd on Thursday. ' GRANITE, MONT. Mrs. James R. McRae has been seriously seri-ously ill for some weeks, but it reported much improved. Mrs. C. Breenahar.. who has been visiting vis-iting friends in Butte, returned Friday. John McMillan left for Everett, Wash., Thursday. Mrs. Charles Martin, who has been visiting in Butte, returned Monday with Miss Eva Phillips. Mrs. George Bryant went to Butte Monday on a visit to her husband, who is employed there. Mrs. Dan Price and children are visiting vis-iting friends in Bonita. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. A search in the ruins of the Santa Fe Pacific hospital corroborates the assertion as-sertion of Superintendent Cutter that no lives were lost in the fire. A number num-ber of watches, rings and articles of jewelry were dug out. The valuable surgical instruments were nearly all saved. The report of the death of a fever patient proves unfounded. All the ill are now doing -well and it is not likely that loss of life will result from the disaster. The most seriously ill were taken to the St. Joseph's sanitarium. sanita-rium. Wednesday temporary wards in tents were about completed and the patients will be moved back. The hospital hos-pital will be rebuilt on the present site. Dr. Cutter favors the erection of a one-story brick edifice of pavilion style, with detached wards. RAWLINS, WYO. On Christmas afternoon, from 2 to 4 o'clock. Rawlins lodge of Elks threw its hall open for the children of the city, and every child in the city whose age was not over 14 years was invited to be present. There were gifts of various kinds, and the Elk Santa Claus was assured that no child was allowed to -go away without receiving something. some-thing. Engineer J. O'Connor spent the holidays holi-days at Wood River. Dan Brees, traveling air brake inspector, in-spector, was in the city Wednesday. The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Will W. Daley, who has been quite sick for some days past, is much improved. O. Humberger, George Bracken, Neil McCormick and J. W. Bell were promoted pro-moted engineers. CHEYENNE, WYO. The new county officers,, who take their positions on Jan. 1, 1903, have announced the following appointments: County clerk's office, Edward Artist, deputy: Herman Brookhart and William Wil-liam Benjamin, clerks. County treasurer's treas-urer's office, John Schuneman. the present treasurer, deputy. Sheriff's office, of-fice, Richard Proctor and Les Snow, deputies. The new county officers follow: fol-low: T. Joe Fisher, clerk of the district dis-trict court: Edward Smalley, sheriff; Joseph Cahill, clerk; Edward Vreeland, treasurer; George Gregory, assessor; J. B. Boyer, Harry Farthing and Samuel Corson, commissioners. Henry Smith, the aged father of Mrs. William Storey, dropped dead Wednesday Wednes-day morning. . He had risen from his bed to secure a drink of water, when death came from heart failure. The deceased was a pioneer of Cheyenne and for many years had been sexton of St. Mary's cathedral. The state officers are making elaborate elabor-ate preparations for the ball which they will give to the public at the cap-itoi cap-itoi building, on the evening of Jan. 5. The following invitations have been issued: "The state officers-elect hereby extend ex-tend to all citizens of Wyoming a most cordial invitation to be present at- a reception and ball to be given by them at the capitol in Cheyenne on Jan. 5, 1903." BOISE, IDA. As usual the midnight celebration with the Christmas mass was the principal service at St. John's Catholic cathedral. The music was beautiful and impressive. The church was nicely decorated for tho occision. The Ladies' Aitar society had this in charge. The church was open at 11 o'clock, or.e hour before the service ! bran The public was invited to and Rev. Father A. M. Billiau said .rg.. fi James V. MeGinness of San Jose. Cat. Jl ' and Robert McGiniu'ss of Idaho City ar- M rived in Boise Saturday and are stopping at the Capitol 'hotil. Mrs. Nathan Smith has been quite ill at her home for two weeks, but is somewhat some-what better. , Mrs. E. N. Murphy entertained Christmas Christ-mas afternoon. . Miss Permeal French, state superintendent superin-tendent f schools, lias announced that she will leave I'.oisi Jan. lor Chicago. She expects to spend a year there in taking tak-ing a special course iu English at tho Chicago university. NAMPA, IDA. Miss Maggie Knowltou. daughter of J. J. Knowltou. returned to .Vmpa to visit her parents during the holidays. Mis 4 Knowlton io one ef Butte's most popular educators. Miss Ada F. Madden, who is teaching in the Butte public schools, arrived in Nampa Sunday. wh re she. will spend the holidays visiting relatives. Among the family reunions that took place on Christmas day was that of tho Bernard. Cameron and Jack families. Mr. (iregg. formerly of Bannock, Mont., was the guest of honor. -- J. M. Kane of P.ois,. and Klmer Bell .if Payette were at the Commercial hotel 011 Tuesday. Miss Irene Lynch called on Boise acquaintances ac-quaintances last Monday. |