Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-03-06
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HELENA LETTER.

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HELENA, MONTANA, March 2, 1879
March came in like lion in lamb.
skin.
The ground has again donned its winter
clothing.
The members of the Pioneer Club ha(
another pleasant dance Friday night
"A less successful club than the above
used in support of an unlawful demand tol
money, secured its wielder thirty days in
the county Jail.
i The donation sociable for the benefit OF
the Rev. John Armstrong Melted over one
hundred dollars.
There was no dearth of amtlsements dur
ing the winter just past. Social parties
dances. and the theatre amply satisfied the
requirements of pleasure seekers.
q. Bashaw made the best score (43 out
of a possible 5O) at the Rifle Clubs match
yesterday. There were thirteen shootists,
four of whom scored above 40.
Gen. Brisbin has returned to the Board
of Trade $4,000 of the $4,000 appropr-
ated for the repairing of the telegraph line
! from here to Bozeman. The work was
cheaply done.
The Penobscot mine furnishes employ
ment to nearly hundred men. The Black
hawk. its extension, whose discovery re-
ported a few weeks since, is not so rich as
it was supposed, though the vein is four
feet wide.
Two mail sacks. due here last December.
with part of their contents, were recently
found by =. Q. agent buried in dung
pile at Sand Hole station on the overland
road. The thief who is in confinement at
Malad City. Idaho, had destroyed most OF
the letters and the packages sadly needed
airing.
Twenty-six degrees above was the aver
aye temperature during February, the
coolest day being the 18th when the Their
mOmetcr indicated IL below zero. and
rose to G2o above. According 10 the OBJ
servers at the Surveyor-General's Office
there were nineteen cloudy days; but Or
binary mortals couldn't see more than
fifteen.
A new arrangement Of the Utah and
Northern railroad will give Montana Ter
mails one day earlier than at present. and
enable travellers to avoid a nights delay at
Blackfoot and Ogden. Helena will Get
mail from New York in eight days thanks
to this charge) when the overland coaches
commence running on summer time.
The Sawtelle Theatrical Troupe will start
in the morning for a trip through the Ter
ritory. having played to full houses here
for couple of months. Sawtelle is the
best manager ever in Montana. and his
company has very perceptibly improved
during its last engagement in Helena. Play
goers will anXiously await the first of
April, when they return.
PERSONAL.
Col. Voolfolk has returned from the |
East
Major Bruce has disposed of his store
fixtures and is presumably going to quit
business.
\ number of Helena business men start |
ed on their annual pig'imagcs East last |
week
L. s. Marshal Botlin fret! ten s!iots 1t
Crae,inore target one hundred yards dis
tant. and missed tile target five times.
How are the mighty iallen." since III"
days OF Neil Howe WHO could drive nail |
at seventeen hundred yards iniorc or less
every pop.
II. F. Galen. proprietor of the Helena
and Bozeman stage line. has brought his
f,nily TO town and will reside here hence
forth.
John w. Eddy, perhaps the best penman |
in the Territories. gives instruction i'll this !
art at the school building.
Judge Wade will be exceedingly healthy |
for some time if there is any efficacy in the
good wishes of couple of hundred citi
zens who drank to his long life yesterday.
Montana never before held so many COM
mercial travellers as at this writing. They |
are from all directions. east. west, and
south. and seek what they may deyour in
every hamlet in the land.
E. N. Dunphy has bought Rumley 4
Embroy's mining claim in Grizzly Gulch.
Consideration. 5000.
John S. Inglis, Pacific Coastagent Of the
''Blue Line Transportation Company" is
Helena merchants on the
freighting business.
MONTANA.