Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-06-26
HELENA LETTER.

DNAs MONlANA, vuuC I'D, 1917
u The supply OF mud exceeds the demand
Strawberries are In the market.-$l pc
quart.
: On Friday the ladies' Of the Episcopa
, Church give strawberry festival.
II Montana h an arid country huml
country must be Inhabited by fish.
The Flatheads have ''taken i'm Helen.
on their way to the Muscleshell and '.buf
falo."
Several proposed picnics were nipped in
the bud by the everlasting rain of LAST
week.
| Bill Holland, deserter from the Second
Cavalry, is in the Helena Jail. X. Beidler
! picked him up at Butte.
Acknowledged mails-fallen tele-
graph wires-no business-solemncho
taspect OF affairs geaerally-fer ten days.
Hoarls Of "Roman candles, )" ''sky rock
ets," ETC., exist in the wood-shed or barn
of every establishment in Helena with
which live boys are connected.
The umbrella was stranger in Montana
not many years ago, but is now fully ac-
climatized and an indispensable adjunct to
walking costume.
A six-hundred yard dash for $500, halt
mile dash for $l25.OO, and mile dash tor
a purse of $4,000 are the attractions at the
Fair grounds on the Fourth.
The coaches from the head of navigation,
Bozeman and the Terminus due on Thurs
day managed to get in on Friday morning
t-trOm nine to fifteen hours late.
The Union Brewery team ran away on
Saturday and, striking pile Of lumber,
threw Charles Peabody from the wagon,
breaking his leg so badly that amputatiou
may be necessary.
The liberal reduction of rates on SINAI,
packages from New York to Helena which
is announced by the Union Pacific Express
Agent here indicates that Montana has
gained by losing Wells, Fargo & Co., who
were nobly conservative of early-day
charges.
"Whoa, Emma-grants ~ shouts Mon
tana to pilgrims through the "Wanted''
columns of the Herald and New Il ortA West,
but the faint-hearted tarry not and turn
backward almost as soon as they get here
If they don't Immediately find work at ex-
travagant wages.
The present condition of the Benton
road inpels some OF our merchants, who
refused to contract with the Union Pacific,
to a vehement utterance of wishes that
they had. Freights en- route from the river
are universally stuck in the mud. II
One of the Indian murderers of Lynch,
charge of Tom Irvine and X. Beidler, pass
ID through Helena last week to the Deer
Lodge Penitentiary, wherein he is to be
mmured for ten years-unless ere that
ime has elapsed ''His body shall be out of
tie, his soul he out of prison." He called
Helena cheap big town." and seemed as
lappy as lark-not at all dismaycd at the
respect of getting his grub free for a y
engthy period. a
''Oh. it don't matter; they'll do no harm
nd will bring a little money into the 81
own," said one burgher to another-refe,-
ing to the coming extraordinary session
Montlna's solons. ''Confound them :
ley have no money; they're all dead
eats,' was the actual response, whose sub
ance is only irrefiltable, however, in so
II as q little cover cOvereth the whole
mp" +,
If the published programme is carried q
ut, the coming celebration will be far Of
lead of anything of the kind ever before n n
Montana. The Fire Department, Ge-
ng Verein Harmonic Society, scholars of S.
e schools and Sabbath schools, colored N
items everyone in the country, in fact OF ct
i'll take part in the procession, and the
'ercises at the court house, to say moth p
g of the fireworks and torch light par
e at night, promise to be better than
'cus. But how much of it will represent A
patriotic love of country?
The Jail birds contemplated flying away
Tuesday night, and had jewelers. saws
tn which to cut the iron bars which sep G
lte them from the corridor and liberty S6
lich the corridor practically represents, rit
'ess to the open air through the unse- ter
red windows being very easy. But some str
weakened, ''peaclsetl,'' to the Sheriff -, :
10 surrounded the jail with armed men sac
readiness for whatever might turn up, e ssis
] the candidates for penitentiary honors We
70 to;lad Effort, ~, ,,,.,.:.. ,: latl
. 10 "Ac 'i'ahIls W ulScOV- bui
the confederates of the prisoners who -
)Dlied the SAWS No Ono hoc ora,. n, | stOl
:, =, NV ''"s o'cA CO wa
'ed from the present Helena jail, and der
re is no reason that thoso who on+or e, hei
."' 'ioSo ""o clloi It's linz
tails should not leave hope behind until Fig
tice is pronounced upon them. s ssi
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