Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-12-11
HELENA LETTER.
HELENA. MONT.. Dec. 7. 1879.

Inc flOneer SluD gave another mop {
) Friday.
The County Commissioners were in Sc
sion last week.
The Masons Of Helena give grand bl
Christmas night.
The Alta Montana Company has bougl
the well-knOwn Cornet mine.
Gov. Potts has a ranch of 1000 ACRE
about three miles from Ielena-all undo
fence
: The final transfer OF the Bonanza Chi,
mine to the Bonanza Chief Gold Minin
Company took place last week.
The Sisters of st. Johns Hospital hay
contracted to keep the county poor neN
year for $3.50 per week for each patient.
ii. =. Role. former principal of til
Helena schools. will remove to Benton
where he is said to intend practicing law
On Monday S7O,OoO OF Montana's : pc
cent. bonds sold at ll-l6 per cent. pre-
mium-mos!ly to "A Vincland. New Jersey
firm.
! The LIE Petre-HudsOn Minstrel Troup
closed u successful twO-weeks engagement
in Helena last night. and left tor Butte to
day.
Jos. GlOster. who killed Dan Fairy
was convicted Of murder in the second de
gree. and will he an ornament to the peni
| Tertiary for ID (:) years.
The holiday trade is opening and som,
branches of business are booming. Hele
ma is better supplied with pretty things
for Christmas than ever before.
The school census. just completed. gives
Helena lI5S inhabitants under 81 years OF
age. OF these. 279 are under /. and OF the
Ssl between ! and q about 400 attend
school.
The present editor of the independent
receives great deal of praise for the fear
less way in which he enunciates his opin-
ions as to matters of public interest
What religious meetings there were last
week were SHINY attended. The church
members were all taking in the lie Petrp-
Huds on ''nigger' minstrel show.
The schedule time for the carriage of
the mails from Franklin to Helena is 100
hours. This is certainly too long. and a
petition 20 the Postmaster General for
better mail service is receiving ,nany sig
natures in Helena.
The Presbyterian sOciable at the resi-
dence Of MIR. Cornelius Hedges Tuesday
night was one of the pleasantest affairs OF
its kind that the Helena folks have en-
joyed. About $50 ladies and gentlemen
were present.
Geo. w. Fox provided for the payment
Of two Of his attorneys by making over to
them Helena real estate. This. it now ap-
Years. belongs to the estate Of L. j. Lys-
err, deceased. and was not Fox's to give |
way.
\ couple of weeks since a wood box in |
he st. Louis Hotel took fire and but for a |
ortnnate circumstance the lives of several
# the guests would have been imperiled.
The hotel prOprietors are sound to keep
mum about such accidents. for fear OF
frightening the bOarders. II would be
etter. by exercising care and vigilance, to
revent the occurrence of such accidents.
Judge Wade having sustained A. E. In
ersoll's motion TO quaslI the Indictment
,r robbery found against him by the
pecial Grand Jury summoned to investi-
ate his case. that cause has proba-
" come to a most lame and impotent
inclusion, as further action will doubtless
2 barred by limitation. II the defendant
innocent it is unfortunate that his inno- ,
nee was not established. and that he Sc
lred his freedom only by means OF le-
Al technicality.
After all the r,imors and reports pro and :
m it is now settled that the Utah and
Orthern will not touch Montana before
ring. Late ai.:.als from the terminus ..
Inonnce the railroad off work altogeth-
. Freight will no longer be- delivered at
e end of the track by means of cOnstruc- !
IN train. but will be dumped at the Dive. /
On Saturday K. Stearn left Helena for
kuVIs 1tVdIh SCCbhS ~ nave UcCIl IOI-
wed fast by commercial disaster. and q
10 will doubtless be ever remembered BY
N as year of trouble. Fire consumed s
, earthly goods, one OF his children was t
rned 10 death by coal oil explosion.
xt his wife died, and finally, coming to I.
)Etana to retrieve his fortunes. he got il
re just in time to he himself arrested on
spiciOn OF being concerned in the MUIR n
+ OF John Dem. g
has. 4. York, a deserter from the N
my, who secured employment of II. H.
srke six or eight months since, and "
suddeaiy with $3.50 belonging to his i
'plOyer, was convicted Of grand larceny "
t week. and appeared in court Friday al
sentence. When asked ii he had any,
ng to say, he made a long and some G.
rat eloquent speech, stating that he ;,
the crime tor the benefit of his -
ed mother in Maine, and begging a light -
ltence. Judge Wade, in consideration
the extenuating circumstances, gave the
st penalty possible. e.. year in the y
nitentiary. y :.
As was generally expected, the jury, af- !.
: ~ hours consideration of Fox's case. =,
i disagreed and were discharged. For
ime eight were for conviction and four
acquittal, but at length one of the four
mt over to the majority, and finally two b
the three who held out for the defend p
signified their partial conviction that e
, majority were in the right, but made II
.ir votes dependent upon that of the last al
m. who stood firm for acQuittal to the v
]. This Is the rumor. FOx's case will m
,upy the court again tomorrow, and II
,bably for some time hereafter.
MONTANA. f
The Union Pacific Railroads. earnings IL
twenty-One days in October were ST. ii
!, 40l 20, against 1851 1851 for the cor N
ponding time in 1878: increase. Sl72,- O.
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