Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-10-31
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
HELENA, Mont, Oct. 20, 1885.

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energy. The Ohio election has occupied
the average Helena mind, aud we Demo
Gratis are afraid I'VE have met the enemy
and are their'n," both in Ohio and in New
York.
The President has sent in q batch OF
appointments lately for this Territory.
There is some disappointment, because
Montana men have not been chosen i'll all
cases. Such an appointment as that OF
Col. De Lacey for Surveyor General, Tor
instance, they say, would have been in
the interest of civil service reform, but to
send q carpet-bagger from Louisiana is
not even in accordance with the platform
of both great parties, which insisted On
Territorial appointments being made
from the Territory itself.
Considerable amusement is felt at the
chagTin manifested by q certain set in
Choteau county which has failed Of no
tice. Political wise men say let Choteau
county put forward its good men for these
offices and it will be recognized, but these
everlasting candidates who could not get
elected to an office in their own comfy
should not be expected to get an appoint
ment.
The Montana History is out and the
agents are having some trouble in getting
copies taken. The engravings are said to
be esecrable. Hundreds of errors in the
historical part, which is evidently a hash
of the Vigilantes of Montana and the
Aontana Post, and the whole thing issaid
to be a big fraud and imposition on the
public.
Great Falls is attracting considerable
attention. Every business man who has
been there, returns with glowing accounts
Of its beauty Of situation and fertility of
resources That Helena must DE connect
ed with that point and secure an abund-
ance of cheap coal is felt to be a neces-
! sity. John 3. Wilson, who made a half
million in Pennsylvania coal and
iron, says the Sand Coulee coal is the
| IllGSl III Has SSGIt OuiSiSiC VI L SiIiSN ~ III
He goes onto say thatif he had sufficient
money accessible he wouldn't hesitate a
minute in building, equipping and own
ing individually a railroad to these coal
mines. He predicts that they alone will
build up 4 large town at Great Falls.
Others whoAave examined them careful
ly speaking in glowing terms Of the Won
derful agricultural country adjacent to
Great Falls, and the ease with which the
greatest waterpower on the continent can
be made available.
The Teachers Institute has been in ses-
sion for a week, and at our boardin Q
place we have heard nothing but the
''toots" Of the school ma'ams. One OF
the gentlemen teachers, a not very hand
himself by saying that he believed in
kindness, and when he went into a school
house he loved his boys and his girls, and
he admitted that the girls constituted the
larger part of his school. These senti,
ments were worthy of anyone, more es.
pecially a fellow Missourian. We under
stand the "'Tute' sat down upon the ap-
plicatiOn of the title of Professor to every
person who manages q school, thumps a
piano, makes mineral assays, OF shines
your stove, insisting that the term was
only applicable to the possessor Of an en-
dowed p~rofessorsliip in some college, and
they ridiculed also the idea of APPLYING
the term College to an institution in Mon
tana where there are not half a dozen
pupils fitted to enter the regular course
Of a standard college. This We do not
object to, but when they ridicule such ex-
pressions as" i would have WENT Il seen
him." and we uns' and you uns"-ex-
pressions which are so universal in this
mundane territory-we object strongly.
So, also and likewise, object we to the re-
Elections which were cast upon the news
papers in reference to the lack OF knowl-
edge of grammar displayed by the en-
lightened % press.
BY the by, the newspapers Of Helena
are having their customary spat every
day. The Herald says Deacon Swallow
is a conceited old ass, who was kicked
out of a Missouri school; while the indie
pendent retallates by saying Dan and Bob
are "mutton heads who stole their paper
from the lawful owners,r and so on ad
d~isgustandum. Meanwhile the readers
and Subscribers are growing because the
papers do not give them more news and
less back biting.
For the last few days there has been
great excitement over the new discover
les in the Red Mountain tunnel and the
Drum Lummon mine. AS a consequence
have gone up and Helena enjoys
the distinction Of having her clergymen
engaged in this mining excitement. How
ever, it is the same as a church fair, and
we leave it for the thoughtful considera-
ton of our old friend Judge Fergus.
Helena mourns today the death Of
Fred Greenleaf (who paid a visit to the
a year since and took views of the
scenery.) Mr.. Greenleaf has been an
honered employee of the Assay office
its establishment here in 1875. His
death, which was caused bystoo close at
to his duties, is rendered the more
affecting on account of his re~ent mar
of only a few weeks to a Boston
lady. His kindly disposition and many
qualities had won him hosts of