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Show Tftterntountain Hews BUTTE, MONT. News from South Africa has it that Michael Kennedy, once a well known miner of Butte, died last month at Tarkua, a mining camp on the west coast. For several years Kennedy was in the employ of the Anaconda company. At first he worked underground as a miner and later he was promoted to the position of engineer at the Anaconda Ana-conda mine. Last November he left Butte for South Africa as a representative represent-ative of the Sullivan Drill company of Chicago. Kennedy was a member of the Miners' Min-ers' union and had many friends in Butte, who will regret to learn of his death. The remains will be shipped from Africa and will be taken to his old home in Michigan for burial. Daniel Sweeney of Butte Is working the Silversmith mine, located near Basin, Ba-sin, Jefferson county, under, a lease and bond. Mr. Sweeney has considerable consider-able ore sacked ready for shipment to this city. His working crew consists of six men. Miss Mary O'Neill and Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell are enjoying an outing out-ing with a party of friends in the mountains above Anaconda. Miss Mayme Sweeney has returned from a visit of two weeks in Salt Lake City. J. G. Moroney, cashier of the ' First National bank of Great Falls, is in the city today and will visit relatives at Anaconda. Sister Mary Zeita, who for a long time held the official position of druggist drug-gist at St. James' hospital, went to Anaconda, where she will become a nurse in St. Ann's hospital. Sister Zeita's departure has caused a commotion in the anks of the Miners' union, with whose vembers she was extremely popular. It was given out that a petition would De circuiaiea asking the Sister Superior of St. James' hospital to recall Sister Zeita. It is said the petition will be signed by hundreds of miners. "The members of the union are badly worried over the departure of Sister Zeita." said Secretary John Shea this afternoon. "Hundreds of miners have at one time or another been injured and taken to the St. James hospital, and they were all loud in their praises of her.' She is a competent and oblig- , ing nurse as well as a druggist of ex- j ceptional ability. ) I "The miners are going to make a hard effort to have her assigned to her old place at the St. James once more." The remains of Con Hayes, who died at Seattle last week, were brought to Butte and on Wednesday buriecj in the Catholic cemetery.' Members of the Robert Emmet Literary Lit-erary society and the Elks, of which two organizations Mr. Hayes was a member, attended the funeral. ' John MeCormick of 114 East Granite street is the owner of the prettiest and most unique collection of gold quartz specimens ever exhibited. They were purchased by Mr: McCormick nearly twenty years ago, from Salton Cameron, Cam-eron, who was then part owner and in charge of the Atlantic Cable mine, situated near the town of Cable, in Deerlodge county. Patrick Mullen received a telegram ! from John McDonald of the Commercial Commer-cial mine, near Bingham, Utah, stating stat-ing that Conrad Curran had been killed in the mine and asking for information in-formation concerninf the dead man's rvr.tives. Curran formerly lived in Butte and is well known here, having worked in the various mines of this district. He has a brother, Michael, in Butte and another brother, who is a conductor on the Northern Pacific railroad, his run being between Fargo and Jamestown, N. D. Dennis Curran, formerly sheriff sher-iff of Missoula county, is the first cousin cou-sin of the dead man. ' " State officers of the A. O. H. have been chosen for another year. At the Great Falls meeting it was decided to elect all the old officers. The following follow-ing good men are now in charge in Montana: D. J. Hennessy of Butte, president; William Kelliher of Anaconda, Ana-conda, vice president; John J. Clark of Helena, state secretary; J. J. O'Mahoney of Great Falls, state treasurer. treas-urer. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. O. H. elected the. following officers at the Great Falls meeting: President, Mrs. Nora Murphy, Butte; vice president, Mrs. -Rose McDermott Sealey, Butte; secretary. Miss Mary Brennan, Anaconda: Ana-conda: treasurer, Miss Mayme O'Don-nell, O'Don-nell, Helena. Missoula was chosen as the place for holding the next convention. Miss M. McLaughlin, county super- I intendent of schools for Deer Lodge j county, is a Butte visitor. J : ANACONDA, MONT. Mike Kennedy of Wamack, Ore., is in the city on a visit to his brother, William Kennedy. They had not met for thirty-seven years, and Mr. Mike Kennedy had not visited this section for over fifty years, .so sees many changes in the country. P. E. McGuire, just after he had gone on duty at the Washoe smelter, fell from a board on which he was standing and alighted in such a manner man-ner that his ankle was twisted under him, sustaining a severe dislocation. Mr. McGuire was joking with a fellow workman when he made the misstep which resulted in the accident. Marcus Daly and Howard K. Welch," who are spending their vacation in Montana, are in the city today. Achille Deanda and Miss Christina Imi, both of Brown's Gulch, Walker-ville, Walker-ville, were married Saturday in St. Peter's Catholic church. Miss May Sullivan went to Butte to visit over Sunday with friends. -- Miss Amelia Laurens of Butte is visiting vis-iting with Miss Nellie Sheehan of this city. Miss Annie Sullivan has returned from Butte, where she has been visiting visit-ing for some time. Mrs. J. M. Kennedy went to Helena to attend the funeral of the child of her brother, James Sullivan. Engineer Murphy of the statecapitol building in Helena is visiting his family fam-ily in Anjaconda. Miss Christina Neson, for eight years in charge of the dining room at St. Ann's hospital, is dead. Her demise is deeply regretted by the Sisters at the institution. Robert McGuire and Miss Bertha En-gle, En-gle, both of Butte, visited friends in this city. William Ahem has returned to Anaconda Ana-conda after an absence of several months on the coast. I Miss Nora Ronan of Missoula, who has been visiting Miss Nora Toole, left for Butte. .,. $ Thomas Murphy, formerly engineer of the court house in this city, now in charge of. the heating apparatus of the new state capitol building in Helena, is here visiting with friends for a few days. Judge O. B. O'Pannon, the Deer Lodge attorney, was doing business in Anaconda last week. HELENA, MONT. Bishop Brondel has assigned Rev. Father A. D. Lietham to Anaconda as assistant rector of St. Peter's Catholic church. Rev. Father Lietham arrived here a week ago from abroad. He was recently graduated from the American college at Louvain. Belgium, an institution insti-tution from which Bishop Brondel himself him-self was graduated many years ago. The young priest is a native of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and a graduate from a Buffalo Buffa-lo college. MISSOULA, MONT. The vegetable growers of Missoula county have been discussing the matter for some time among themselves as to the advisability of organizing a Vegetable Growers' union, patterned something after the style of the Fruit Growers' union, which has its headquarters head-quarters at this place. Some of the leaders in the, movement have at last called a meeting of the vegetable growers grow-ers of the county to meet in this city next Saturday for the purpose of discussing dis-cussing the matter, and if it is decided de-cided to be advisable to make such a move, to take the preliminary steps at this meeting . for the. formation of a Vegetable Growers' union. 'Miss N. Murphy of Wallace was a visitor in the city. Miss McElvaney of Hope, Ida., is a visitor in the city. James D. Campbell and Miss Anna Golden were united in marriage recently re-cently at the Catholic church by the Rev. Father Palindino. The couple departed de-parted on the Bitter Root train for Florence, to visit relatives for a few days before taking up their residence in this ciay. Laura Cyr, the six-months-old daughter of John Cyr and wife of this city, died last week at the home of the parents in this city of summer complaint. Funeral services were held from the Catholic church, Rev. Father Palindino conducting the services and the remains laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. Frank Riley, brother of Dr. Riley, arrived ar-rived in Missoula on Tuesday, and will make his future home with his brother. Dispatcher Kellyls-reported to be on the sick list. Deputy Sheriff Kelly has been on the sick list the past few days, H. T. Chaney, proprietor of the Florence Flor-ence hotel, has been down the Coeur d'Alene branch the past few days on a fishing outing. Colonel and Mrs. A. J. McGowan of Plains were in the city Monday, to meet their nephew and niece, Mr. E. F. Farmer and Miss Gene Farmer of St. Paul. Mr. Farmer and Miss Farmer are to be the guests of Colonel and Mrs. McGowan for the rest of the summer. sum-mer. Mrs. McKeown and family expect to move to Bonner near the first of September, Sep-tember, where they will spend the winter. win-ter. Mr. L. M. Coleman of Thompson spent Monday in town, shaking hands with his many friends. Mr. P. M. Reilly left for Seattle, Ta-coma Ta-coma and San Francisco. Mr. Reilly will be joined by Mrs. Reilly at Seattle, and they wil ltour the other mentioned cities, returning home in about a month. Attorneys C. F. Kelly and L. O. Evans Ev-ans of Butte returned home Tuesday, after a day's visit with .Misoula friends. Dr. McCullough has gone to the Lo Lo Hot Springs for a few days' visit with his family, who are spending the summer there. Hon, Robert O'Hara of Hamilton and Henry Thompson of Victor were among the Bitter Root valley visitors in the city this week. D. Mahoney, a prominent Wallace butcher, was in the city Tuesday ' on business. Revs. E. Ball and J. T. Corbett. who have been guests of Rev. Father Palla-dino, Palla-dino, departed for the east. DILLON, MONT. Mrs. Fagan and her sister, Miss Ella Hammond of Lima, are in town on a i visit. Tom Monaghan has returned to his home in Boulder where he will be kept busy transcribing cases while Judge Parker is in Salt Lake. Thomas O'Conner of Lake View was In Dillon this week. VIRGINIA CITY, MONT. Dr. J. J. Mahoney, formerly of Anaconda, Ana-conda, has located in Virginia City, with offices in the Madison house. S J. T. Conner of Helena was in this city on a business mission Monday and Tuesday of this week. Watson Boyle, a prominent mining man of Bozeman. is in this vicinity at present examining mining properties, both developed and undeveloped. Mr. Boyle says that from what he has seen of this camp Virginia City's future will surely be a bright one. DEER LODGE. MONT Deer Lodge, Aug. 23. Rev. Father Cunningham, who has been the guest of Rev. Father De Ryckere in this city for several days, after making a tour of the west, left today for his home in Leavenworth, Tex. Mrs. Michael Lavelle and family of Butte,' who have spent two months very delightfully in Deer Lodge, left for home tonight. Mr. Lavelle was here yesterday making arrangements for their return, and met many friends while in town. . PHILIPSEURG, MONT. John Burns and William Wells spent a few pleasant days on Rock creek this week. - . . Miss Maggie Brennan' spent last week in the Hill City. r James Brennan arrived in the city from Butte Tuesday., , .Mrs. George. Bryant is. very ill at her , home on Magnolia avenue. Mrs. Andy McDonald, who has been spending several weeks in the lower valley, returned home Monday. Miss Mary Hynes spent last week visiting her sister, Mrs. R. W. Grady of this city. Bishop J. B. Brondel arrived in the city from Helena Friday evenmg, and held services at the Catholic church Sunday, Bishop Brondel confirmed a j class of about twenty-four. , , CHEYENNE, WYO. The Tribune says: Bishop-elect Keene of the Wyoming diocese of the Catholic Cath-olic church has arrived in the city and is preparing to take charge of the affairs af-fairs of the diocese. At the bride's home recently, Mr. W. J. Ryan and Miss Mayme Gillespie were united in marriage, and left on the evening train for Salt Lake and other western points. A number of friends and relatives witnessed the ceremony. Miss Ida Whitcomb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Whitcomb, was several days ago married to Mr. Sweeney of Moorcroft, Crook county. They are spending their honeymoon at the Whitcomb Whit-comb ranch near Moorcroft. Miss Lillie, the little daughter of Mrs. J. M. Branegan, arrived in the city from the "Sibylee," where she has been spending her three months' vacation. vaca-tion. Mr. Ed Allen and Miss Annie Allen, her cousins, accompanied her. Mrs. P. J. Burns lef t ' for a week's visit with friends at Orin and Glendo. . "Billie" and Jack Morton w.snt down to Glendo to -visit their grandmother, Mrs. McDermott. Mr. Hassan, a brother-in-law of J. F. Murphy, has purchased the Rice property on South Fourth street. Mrs. J. H. Donegan and daughter of North Platte are the guests of C. K. Martin. . Stockmen residing in .southern Wyoming Wyo-ming and northern Colorado have sent to the interior department a statement of the government land illegally fenced in their district, and have demanded that the law in the matter be enforced and the fences ordered removed. The Warren Livestock company, it is alleged, al-leged, will be the heaviest sufferer if the department acts. The complaint will be pushed as far as possible by those behind it. The' council has refused to accept the deed t.o the $60,000 Carnegie library buildine until a complete investigation I can be made. One of the conditions under which the library was donated was that Laramie county each, year raise $3,000 for its maintenance. The deed on it face appears to be conditional, condi-tional, and should the county at any time fail to raise the required amount the library building would revert to Carnegie or his heirs. The legislature may have to pass' a law assessing a permanent tax for library maintenance in Laramie county before. the council will accept the building. The Cheyenne lodge of Elks, No. fiofi, is preparing for its second annual fair. The dates selected are October 17, IS, 20, 21 and 22. The fair committee follows: fol-lows: A. D. Kelly, chairman;. L. Kabis, W. E. Dinneen, C. B. Richardson. Frank Freeland, P. J. Gauff, Joseph Sladeck. The fair will be held in Keefe hall, the largest' auditorium in the state. The Denver News sayfe: Two distinguished distin-guished Indians of the Shoshone , tribe will be prominent in the Frontier day proceedings at Cheyenne. They are "Cornelius Vanderbilt" and "William Shakespeare." They will ride in the Indian pony race. Miss Edith Duffey returned from California, where she spent a most delightful de-lightful summer. 1 Reports from Cheyenne Indicate that all the arrangements for Indian dog eat will be carried out. The Humane society has received assurance from the committee that nothing of a brutal or objectionable nature will be permitted permit-ted and the dog eat -will not be interfered inter-fered with. LARAMIE, WYO. Mrs. William Mahoney gave a very pretty progressive luncheon Wednesday Wednes-day of last week in honor of her daughter, daugh-ter, Miss Belva Donkersley, who has been her guest, but who left the same night for New York. Fifty ladies partook par-took of the dainty menu, which was served in courses, and after the repast, enjoyed a programme which consisted of solos by Mrs. Mills of Fort Worth, Tex., and Mrs. Liti Stevens Williams of Los Angeles, Cal., and recitations by Mrs. DeLario and Miss Donkersley. RAWLINS, WYO. Last week we chronicled the accident acci-dent to Nora Mahoney, by which that little lady broke her leg. Mr. Mahoney Ma-honey had scarcely rteurned to the ranch before he was compelled to come back, to the city because of another serious accident, as a result of which his daughter Elizabeth may lose an eye. The little one was playing with some companions on the ranch when she got hold of a knife which one of the boys had laid down. In trying to whittle a stick, thp knife sliDDed and the blade entered the pupil of the eye, cutting it severely. . The little one was brought to the city and Dr. Maghee did all that was possible to alleviate the suffering. Mrs. Mahoney took the little one to Denver, w-here she could have the attention at-tention of an eye specialist in the hope that the eye could be saved. Journal. BOISE, IDA. H. E. Dunn, traveling passenger agent of the O. S. L., with headquarters headquar-ters at Salt Lake, is in the city. Mr. A. H. Vaughn, returned from California after a five months' visit with his son and daughter. . Salt Lake News: Mrs. Walter Anderson An-derson is visiting in Boise, Ida.., the guest of the Misses McMastef. M. E. Kelley of Emmett is a Boise visitor. J. R. McConnel of Moscow, is a Boise visitor. Undertaker J. D. McGuire, who has been undergoing treatment at St. Al-phonsus' Al-phonsus' hospital, is gradually improving improv-ing in health and will be out in a few days. ! A. H. Vaughn, who has been visiting his son and daughter in Los Angeles, returned home to this city. He had a very pleasant visit and is much pleased with that country, although it has been very dry this season. j John P. Foley of Quartzburg is in Boise today. .E. M. Kirkpatrick and wife are visiting vis-iting from Parma. P. M. Maher, formerly connected with the Capital News, but now a resident resi-dent of San Prancisco, is in the city en route to Butte to attend the mining congress. F. A. McConnell and William Talley of Spokane are Boise visitors. John Curran and family of Hager-man, Hager-man, Ida., are at the Capitol. William Burke, who has been in Boise for a few days, returned to American Falls yesterday. POCATELLO, IDA. Mrs. J. C. McLachlan has returned after a delightful ten days' visit to Salt Lake. Mrs. J. F. Kane and children returned re-turned from a visit with friends in Wyoming. Conductor John McManis has gone to Boise to take. .the Boise branch run, while Qonductor Frank Heald is taking a lay-off recuperating. The Nampa Leader says: "Contractor "Contrac-tor J. J. McDonald has secured a contract con-tract with the Oregon Short Line to work his force of thirty teams on rectification rec-tification of the grade. The Short Line is widening out the grade so as to put In . rock ballast later on. Mr. McDonald will begin work as soon as he can get his outfit on the ground, which will be about the first of next week. He will begin at American Falls and work west." Miss Margie Webber, . assisted by Mrs. Higson, Miss McManis and Mis3 Alwilda Trapp, gave a song recital at St. Joseph's hall Wednesday evening. Speaking of Miss Webber, the Oakland Oak-land Saturday Night says: "Miss Mar-eie Mar-eie Webber, whose magnificently train ed voice aroused enthusiastic encores, comes directly from Germany, where she was a pupil of the famous singer, Etelka Gerster." |