Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-03

The Sioux are now on this side of the
, line, stealing, and occasionally killing a
; man or two. This tribe of Indians are
considered by the United States as British
subjects, and will be treated as invaders
when they come on this side.
HELENA LETTER.
HELENA, MONTANA, June 30, 1879.
Green peas tickle the palates Of Helena
epicures.
"a bass drummer" say the Capital mer-
chants.
1t raineth no more and the sun is fast
transforming sometime mud into dust.
''Oh, what is so rare as day in June 80
Two days in JUse
+ Torpedoes are popping, and the scent of
: gun powder is in the breeze.
i The Helena Board of Trade will process
with the rest of the people on the Fourth.
Five horses were stolen from Col. De
Lacy's surveying party on the Muscleshell.
The strawberry festival given by the Ia
dies of the Episcopal church Melted 1925.
Rev. w. A. Shannon, Of Bozeman,
preached at the Methodist church yester-
day morning.
The corner stone of the Odd Fellows
Temple will be laid on July 3r-!.
The Episcopal church is rapidly nearing
completion and will be a neat little edifice.
Butte likes strawberries. Curtis had
orders for $50 quarts from one firm there
last week.
Twenty wOuld-be school teachers have
applied for positions in the Helena Graded
School.
Members of the House will act their
part in Sawtelle's Theatre which is being
fitted up for Il legislative hall.
Helena smacks her lips over hundred
quarts OF strawberries per Gay and, like
Oliver Twist, cries for ''more.''
''There isn't room for me and railroad
in the same place. l had enough Of 'em in
the States" says a pilgrim, who is, of
course, anti-exemption.
One of our solid men, A. G. (ssChina'')
Clark, will start for the East shortly with
several thousand head OF cattle, aggregat-
ing nearly 100000 in value.
The Prickly Pear round-uppers found
twenty-one head of unbranded stock, the
net proceeds OF whose sale at auction will
augment the school fund.
Rev. NJ. N. Gilbert visited Wickes last
week, picketed his $50 horse on hill side
and found the animal choked to death the
next morning. Horse wanted to 60 down
hill, and picket stake stood still.
The Comptroller of the Treasury tele-
graphs Secretary Mills that he is not al
lowed to incur any expense on account OF
extra session. Private individuals have as
sumed responsibility for necessary expen-
ses until an appropriation is made.
The operations of the Assay Office are
to be suspended after tomorrow till Official
notification is received OF the appropriation
for enclosing the grounds with picket
fence and for identifying the same with
flowers, shrubbery, etc.
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other buildings in the Fair Grounds are to
be removed and put up outside in order to
give an unmolested view of the entire
track to occupants of the Grand Stand.
Horse-racing forms the backbone of the
Fair, and this will be good news to those
addicted to the sport.
1t is thought that Governor Potts will
favorably consider the Custer county petit
ton, asking for Communication of sentence
or pardon for Black Wolf, one OF the red
skins sentenced to be hung on July 7th,
and that full pardon will be granted. A
half-breed who claims to know Black
Wolf, says he is the wickedest Of the lot,
however.
A long-distance rider, N. V. Smith by
name will give an exhibition Of his endur-
ance during Fair week, when he is an
nounced to ride one hundred miles in five
hours and twenty minutes, using twenty
horses and changing every mile. Smith has
a wide reputation as rider, but is said to
have been rather lax in his efforts to make
time on a certain occasion in San Fran
cisco. g,
Barclay j. Smith, the Pennsylvania ex-
Bank President, charged with pecula-
ton to the amount Of 100000, who was
arrested some months since by Philadel-
phia detective, but released on account of
in the papers, was again ar
rested by the detective at 1890 Saturday
and hurried away on the Ben
ton coach fer the Quaker City OF Brother
" Love. Parties from Bucks county,
where the bank was located, say that Smith
Is more sinned against than SHINING; but
however that may be, his course in Helena
has certainly been such rs to merit the j
expressed for him. His family, {
cared in luxury, had an arduous strug- /,
yle for mere existence last winter and were II
,nly enabled to live through the brave ex-
,rtion of the bright boy Of fourteen who :
called over one hundred dollars by the
ale of lamp mats made by his sisters. d
ninth himself learned to cook in order that b
le might open q boarding house and at s:
be same time save his family from labor o.
0 which they were unaccustomed.
Sd. PERSONAL. -
Bishop Merrill of the M. E. church ar II II
wed from the railroad yesterday, and will
reside at the Conference to commence at
lutte on Thursday.
A number of commercial travellers from
Frisco and the States are in town. II
Judge Gilbraith, the recently appointed 81 81
Associate Justice who takes Judge At
movies place, is expected in Montana in
lree weeks. si
MONTANA.
Sad Death Of IN Old.TtmeP.
The Husbanc san OF the 18th ult. con-
lins q sad account Of the accidental death
Stephen Watson, an olltime resident ~