Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-10
HELENA LETTEK.
HELENA, MONTANA, July Z. 1879.

HELENA, MONTANA, July :. 1879.
Deuced dusty.
4 1ee-creamy weather.
The corner stone of the new Odd Eel
lows Temple was laid on the Bird.
The Rocky Mountain Club as re-orgar.
lied has over forty members, including
many of our leading business men.
News Of Lieut.. Loder's suicide at Ben
ton created considerable stir in Helena
where the young man was well known.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church added
$500 to the funds of their society by the
successful dinner served on the Fourth.
Strawberries are down to a dollar per
gallon. Half dozen gardeners have large
crops of the delicious fruit-hence the low
prices.
"a little somethin' to eat. please, num-"
Is an appeal heard by Helena housekeepers
several times last week Is MOntana's
''ltalian sky' to beam on beggars?
make or break is apparently the mot.
to of the Montana Company, whose Presi-
dent is en- route to Montana with the capt.
tai required to again commenceoperations
Mother Earth, having been up late on
the Fourth, woke with start Saturday
and shook things up slightly. which is an
idiotic way of saying that there was an
earthquake shock Saturday morning..
a concert, for the benefit Of the Library.
is to be given salis evening by Miss A.
Natalia King, teacher of music in the col
legiate Institute, assisted by Miss Sands,
Miss Rumley and Mr.. E. b. Walker.
The Herald says Smith, the long dis
lance rider, will ride a hundred miles at the
next Fair in .tou. hours and twenty min
utes-not in five and twenty as previously
stated.
Councilman Kennon, whose unfortunate
accident was chronicled in last weeks
COURIER, is getting along very well and
will soon be out. 1t is the general verdict
that kennon is the coolest man when en-
during agony, that ever struck Helena.
There was first-class row in an upper
Main street brewery on the day we cele-
brate, which came near being very seri-
Gus affair. The Sheriff and his deputies
could make no arrests, and their efforts to
restore order were unavailing FOR some
time. Mixed drinks were the irritating
element.
On July End, John Behring, miner at
Greenhor1 Station, (old Deer Lodge road
took dose of strychnine and "shuffled
off this mortal coil" Financial embar.
rassment. 10 fact, extreme poverty, dis
couragcd Behring from continuing his con-
test with the world, and made him leave
his wife and four children-the eldest but
six.
A. F. Migeon, a Connecticut man, who.
with Farrell, the we'll known iron-founder
OF the same State, owns the Helena Smelt-
ing Works, is in town, and it is possible
the works may soon be in operation.
Messrs. Migeon and Farrell are out nearly
$50, 600, it is said, however, and feel rather
down on the smelling business.
Six Sioux raiders picked up forty horses
in the Deep Creek country on the night of
the lst inst. but were overiaken the next
day ut SiXteen-mile basin, over the Belt
range, by eight settlers who recaptured
the stock and wiped out four redskins-thc
other two ei1ecting their escape. JEFF.
Sharp. one of the pursuers, was badly |
wounded and may lose a leg. He reached
Helena YESTERDAY.
The day itself and the celebration of the
Fourth were in keeping. Neither was ever
equalled in Montana, though that assertion
with reference to the day would seem to |
;r.raie.tU II rcHIHkaule KnowIengn or several
thousand years weather on the part of
your correspondent. The rangers in
town numbered several hundred. and to |
the delight Of business men, their pocket
books were well lined with gieenbacks,
which were scattered profusely rs the star
bangled spanner waved. The procession
was half mile in length and was an hour
and halt in passing around given point
said point being the city of Helena. The
in their gay uniforms, with
swords dangling at their sides, bounced UP
and down on their war horses as they gall
oped wildly through the assembled host,
ntusing order into chaos the gorgeously
Third Infantry Band discoursed
It's liveliest strains tor the cdification of the
multitude; the firemen, in their flaming
ed shirts, boldly tran with the machine;' -
he Gesang Verein Harmonic members ar
aged, with the simplicity of lilies of the
feld, in MANILA hats principally, trod in
dignity thro' the streets the
'olid men Of the Board of Trade smiled
,enignly on the populace from their COM
ortable carriages, and all Helena presented
wonderful scene of brilliancy and anima-
ion from early morn ''russet mantle
lad," when nights candles had just burn :
d out, to the late rise of Luna, ''sweet
egent of the sky" Marshal BOtkin's
ration was finished effort and held his l
hearers spellbound to its close. The torch
ght procession at night was most at
ractive feature of the occasion, the twink
ing lights, when viewed from distance, b
boxing like hundreds of will-o'the-wisps 4
ancing in the air. The Social Clubs ball,
nd the Nellie Boyd theatrical troupe's
erformance were well attended. A stiff
reeze prevented the fireworks from being
complete success, but the Fourth of July,
$40, will linger in the memory of Lewis
nd Clarke county when the Pyramids :,
hall have crumbled into dust-yea, when
he extra session Of the 18th Legislative =
.ssembly shall have become shape
ss phantom in our minds!
MONTANA. n
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