—Lloyd W. Maxson, who has been spending the past year at Philipsburg, Montana, arrived home last week and has again taken up his work at the Maxson Uensmore mercantile establishment He has had a very interesting time during his absence and is full of enthusiasm over the bright prospects of the golden west. In conversation with him we learn that he has interested himself financially in a/ mine near Philipsburg which in all probability will ret him a snug sum in the near future.