Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-08-21
HELENA LETTER,

HELENA, MONTANA, Aug IS, 1879.
Respiratory.
| Game is in the market.
Wild berries are more plentiful tina
usual.
The churches were all well-attended yes
terday.
Sawtelle's theatrical troupe is in Bento
and will be back this week.
The John Thompson troupe and Prof
Lewis have had good houses for seycra
nights.
The mountains are full Of prospectors
hunting tor rich lodes. Some think the,
have ''strnck IT,"
The pupils and teachers Of the Episco
palian church had Il pleasant picnic at tn,
/ Flower Garden last week.
A number of IIelenaites will attend the
Butte races, and Helena horses will "co'
tor several of the purses.
MOntanians seem to be perigrinatinc a
good deal just now. Coaches running out
of and into town are as rule loaded
down.
Canadian money is at a discount in Hell
eaa. The late bank failures in the Domn-
ion have made people distrustful of the
currency, and the Helena banks will no
longer receive it on deposit.
In another lecture on ''Creation and
l ODV ink lact ,ySrlt ~ ~
low, OF Missouri, considered the Mosaic.
and orthodox version of the origin of
things and the Darwinistic theory.
The fire iicnd is cevouring thousands of
acres of valuable forests on the Belt
Range. Several parties engaged in haul
ing timber have had narrow escapes from
the conilagration. ard in some instances
were forced to abandon their wagons in
order to save their bacon"
1t seems to be the ambition of a ma
jority Of the mechanics and laborcrs in
Helena to become cattle raisers, and many
Il hardwcrking son OF toll has little but
steadily augmenting pile designed to give
him start in the business Of fabulous
prospects. Everyone wants to be bloat-
ed capitalist.
"A Chinaman went to Jail for 20 days last
week in default of payment of a $40 fine,
imposed for his iniperiling the town with
detective tlues. While Helena is in its
present parched condition. with hardly
.nough water to drink at hand, fire
would make terribly rapid progress, and a
lose of Jail medicine will perhaps make
he Celestial more careful.
The heat of the dog (goncD days drives
very one who can conveniently get away
o seek refuge in possibly cooler spots.
lence eligible wayside inns in breezy To-
alities are crowded, and the tents of
are to be seen in shady hooks
long all the clear, cold streams wherein
he trout disports himself within miles of
lelena. Present weather has been the
lost insupportable within the remenn-
rance of that ubiquitous antiquated fraud,
nc Oldest inhabitant.
On Thursday, as the Diamond City :
zach was going down Broadway, a front ,
heel came Oft, and the driver and passen-
ers seated by him We're thrown from !,
leir places, and the horses started on the ;,
mp down the grade. When halt the de- :
'ent had been safely accomplished, Don :
d Mclean, one OF the two passengers .
no were inside the vehicle, hoped from y
e coach, striking the ground head first f
ID with sickening thud. The other I
'ssenger wisely kept his seat and escaped .
ithout scratch when the horses ended !,
cir career at the foot OF b. oadway by =,
inning into a hydrant. Mclean was v
cked up, bruised, bloody and uncon- \
ious and taken to the hospital. His con-
lion was considered critical and he could :
ither speak nor recognize any one for :
any hours, but unless his internal injur- :, :,
are more serious than is supposed, he :
II recover. Ira Mott, the driver, was ;,
dly bruised, but is now all right. :.
Montana is probably about to get an 81
partial writing up" by competent O
IN that will do her more good than can
ssibly be effected through the efforts of II,
respondents paid expressly TO pun and tn
esent only the most favorable side of the ii
ture. z. l.. White, one of the keepest ps
servers and best correspondents on the
nerican press, who has long been chief b
the New York Tibuae's Washington co
VS. bureau, will soon be ir the Territory an
The express purpose of telling the null tn
ldcs who swear or affirm by the Ti5- st
what kind of a country this is. He
l nothing extenuate nor set down ri;
.ht in malice" and Montana will be ~
re faithfully and accurately presented No
1.-THE States" than ever before.