Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-24
HELENA LETTER.

The weather is delightful
Raspberry festivals are now in order.
Plenty of rain and hailstones, as big as
marbles, tell yesterday.
The runaway Councilmen returned on
Wednesday accompanied by Conrad.
Daily mail service has been ordered be-
tween Helene and White Sulphur Springs.
The strawberry festival, given by the
Presbyterian ladies on Wednesday, netted
about $50.
The Colorado potato bug is the latest
difficulty with which Prickly Pear valley
farmers are contending.
A couple OF youngsters playing scamp
ing out" on Friday. nearly set fire to
Murphy, Neel & CO.. powder house.
Judge John Jones, an old and leading
citizen of Lewis and Clarke county, which
he once represented in the Legislature. died
at his home in the valley on Saturday.
The new brick school house on the west
side of town will be completed before the
Fall term Of school commences. Helena
now has more teachers booked for employ
ment than ever before.
The Territorial Stock Association, of
which Ross began. Z. G. Brooke, and j.
j. Boyer are the trustees, has been incor-
porated under the General Incorporation
Act. The capital stock is 1000 in 200
10O-dcllar shares.
Scarcity of wafer is what is now troub-
ling the Helena people. TO keep in good
order the many beautiful door yards which
adorn the Capital requires larger supply
than the water pipes can carry after de-
Quoting the amount necessary for domestic
purposes.
Ten or twelve lodges of Flatheads pass
ed through town toward their reservation
last week. The reds had come a-running
from Judith Basin on account of the whole
some respect which they entertain for their
old friends, the Sioux, who always require
a good deal OF room.
The petition requesting the passage of
the bill enabling Lewis and Clarke to vote
a subsidy of 100000 to the Utah and
Northern railroad for extension to Helena. !
which was disregarded by the mighty six
Councilmen who have assumed control of
our purse strings, numbered among its
many signers Murphy, Neel & Co., Klein
schmidt & Bro. II. NJ. Parchen & Co.,
Cans 6 Klein, G. L. Vawter, and r. S.
Hale & Co.-some of the very heaviest tax
payers in Montana.
A Conkling-Lama sort of an episode
occurred in the House on Saturday. Nc
Cormick, the worthy member from Mis-
soula, said something which disagreed
with the honorable Robinson, of Deer
Lodge. whereupon the latter plainly insin-
lated that Mccormick was liar, and that
ne would tell him so but for his presence
n the august body of which both parties
ire shining lights. The eXasperated states
men We're called to order, and have not yet
levoured each other.
There are few of the $40 the poor In
liam" class of sentimentalists in Helena,
md they are all very sorry for the mis-
GUIDED redskins who murdered Eagleson
md wounded Evans, near Lincoln Gulch. {
Of course the noble red men are blameless,
md the whites only got what they deserv-
ID, and its really too bad that the unfortu- ,
late Flatheads should be investigated, as !
hey are to be, for little pleasantly that 4
wasn't at all their fault Evans is willing
o give himself up to the proper authori-
les. and denies that he or Eagleson fur
lished any whisky to the Indians. The
big Indian" who was killed is thought to
AVE been the one who manifested quar-
elsome and insolent disposition in Helena
ONE time since when the Flatheads were
lere tor several days. +,
Farmers on the creek all expect splendid
rops this year and don't want their ex-
'ectations nipped in the bud by lack of
vater any more than by grasshoppers.
Hence, when the sky remains clear, and /
he sun shines holly on the parched earth
ommotion prevails along the course of ,,
he classical and turbulent torrent known
s the Prickly Pear, and there is hurrying H
a hot haste along its banks. One man I
uts in dam to turn the stream into his Q
ED, and the horny-handed sons of toll
over down rip and tear with rage, grasp
heir tDovels and march in overpowering