Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-07-23

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SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
Fishing is good in the Missouri at this
point.
The glazers had plenty of work this
week in Great Falls.
Numerous strangers have put in an APP
pearance in Great Falls the past week.
The River Press has purchased the en-
tire Record plant of machinery and ma
terial.
The Huy building is now completed on
the exterior, and presents a very credit
able appearance,
A gentleman lust down from the noun
tains says that a severe storm Of bail fell
rherelast Saturday evening.
The famous Penobscot mine, near Hell
ena, which Nate Festal scld for $350,00O,
was recently purchased for $4,000.
1t is reported from Fort Shaw that
Dan N]ettekoyen's wife has deserted him,
and in consequence, Dan is nearly crazy.
The hail fell with such force Saturday
evening as to pierce the new tin roof on
the Cataract FIGURING Mill in Il or two
places.
The sales of land at the Helena Land
Office for the week ending Saturday,
July Is, amount to $2,9S5.6S; fees and
commissions, $310.
Robert Hamilton has commenced the
erection of alivery and feed stable which
will be 30x50. This enterprise will I'M
doubleday prove profitable.
We understand that Plat Burr, former
ly proprietor the Jefferson County Enter
prise, will shortly commence the publ
cation Of a paper in Choteau.
Henry A. FRY has an advertisement in
this issue, Of his Silver Palace saloon,
which is becoming a popular resort. lie
will shortly add gaming tables to the es-
Enlistment.
The delights of a trip to Benton daring
the irrigating season, is better imagined
than described, especially through the
putty bed between here and Twenty-eight-
Mile Springs.
The first story Of Mckay Bros new
brick building is completed, and work is
being pushed ahead on the second story.
This building when completed would do
honor to a much larger town than Great
Falls.
The banquet given by the business men
of Benton to the woolgrowers, at the
Grand Union hotel, on the evening of the
10Th, was an elegant affair. Plenty of
sport was had and numerous cases of
Mumm's Extra Dry were disposed of.
In another column will be found the
advertisement Of Thomas Rose, of Sun
River Crossing, who has combined with
his business that of cleaning and repair
ing watches, clocks, jewelry. &c. Mr
Rose guarantees all work to give s~atisfac.
ton.
Mr.. Paris Gibson, in company with q
number of the government engineers. de.
tailed by the government to examine and
report on the upper Missouri river, visit
ed the Falls last week. The party visited
TIE SSIibS Vi lGllS, anu udu ShetCIsS tdktl
of them.
Great Falls has reason to feel proud of
the Improvement made and contemplated
for this season. 1t is safe to say that no
town in the Territory has advanced more
rapidly, and one pleasing feature obserya-
BILE is that her buildings erected this sea
son are permanent and we'll built.
Robert Casey, a we'll known stage driver
in Northern Montana, was shot and killed
on the 10th inst. at Medicine Hat by one
Ben Hale. Hale is supposed to nave fled
across the border into Montana, and the
sheriff of Choteau county has been tele-
graphed to hold him for extradition war
rant should he appear at Benton.
The Northern Pacific had shipped I'd
to yesterday $4,000 pounds of wool from
Lewis and Clarke and Choteau counties.
This is nearly double the amount shipped
from this point during the same time last
year, and shows a large increase, not only
in the amount received at Helena, but al
so in the product.-IndepeGdent, 18th.
The action of the county commission.