The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-16
NEWS NOTES FROM HELENA.
Judge Pollard Renders His
First Supreme Decision.
A BAR

"A a "GMO6GxAA
The Chatauqua Circle-Some Quee
Ideas Of Federal Omcials--Fire
Matters.
HELENA, Montana, January 12.-Judg
Pollard rendered his first opinion as al
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to
day, by affirming the judgment of tn
lower Court in the case OF Miles VS.. Ed
wards ct al.
The following memorial was transmitted
to Hon. j. K. Toole tonight for presenta
ton:
To the Honorable. the Senate and Hous,
of Representatives of the United State!
of america, ia Congress assembled:
Your memorialist. the Bar Association
OF the Territory of Montana, assembled a,
the Capital Of the Territory, does most re-
spectiully represent to your honorable
bodies:
That by the act passed by your honor
able bodies in the year A. D. 1864. organ
izing the Territory OF Montana. provision
was made for the appointment Of a Chic
Justice and two Associate Justices OF the
Supreme Court of this Territory, by whom
all business arising in the District and Su
preme Courts OF the Territory is to b.
hes I'd and determined. WHAT was ther
an adequate judicial force to pass upon the
controversies arising ia a few isolated hin
ing camps, has now become wholly made
n,ofo <> +n &Lo :l:l -
arising in au area o. country larger than
all OF New England with the Empire State
Of New York aud tine great State of Penn.
s.vlvania added. Every part of this vast
territory open to settlement is attracting
immigration and multiplied industries are
springing into existence in many of which
large sums OF money find profitable invest.
ment. There are now settlements in which
almost every industry known to the people
OF the West is conducted. The population
has increased at least tenfold, created
wealth has increased at least fftyfold, and
business enterprise and litigation proper.
tionately.
The result is that litigation in our higher
courts is of such ,olume that the judiciary
originally provided has become wholly in.
adequate, however Industrious they may
be, to discharge the duties which now de.
volve upon them. AS a further result bust.
ness is done in q hurried manner, and not
understanding every effort on the part OF
the judges, there is at the close of each
term of court a large number of cases, the
trial of which is deferred because of the
pressing duties of the judges elsewhere.
One of our judicial districts is more than
500 miles in length, and it is not infre-
quently the case that a litigant is com.
polled to travel from 200 to 500 miles to
obtain a judicial order.
The organization OF every new county
necessarily adds tn the burdens of the ju-
dietary and the many growing widely, separ-
ated centers of population in the Territory
require that new counties should reformed
in order to lessen the expense and loss of
time incident to transacting county bust
ness at remote county seats. Objections
are also made to the present Supreme
Court because the justice whose decision is
in review in that court is himself q compo-
nent part Of the reviewing tribunal. q con-
dition of affairs which your memorialists
believe should speedily be removed by leg
islation; wherefore your memorialists pray
honorable bodies to enact a law
whereby there shall be five justices of the
Supreme Court of this Territory appointed,
and as in duty bound your memorialists
will ever pray.
W. F. SANDERS, President.
AsHBURN K. BARBOUR, Secretary.
The Chautaqua Circle, organized here
about a month ago by the Rev. F. D. Kel-
sey, of the Congregational Church, is the
best literary society in Helena. The men,
bership is composed of ladies and gentle
men Of culture and literary attachments,
and while the subjects they handle are a
little heavy. they manage to make their
weekly entertainments both delightful and
profitable. Deer Lodge claims to be the
hub" of Montana in q scientific and
sense. They will have to bestir
over there if they want to get
away with Helena. Such subjects as the
History Of Carthage and "Contempcr-
aneous History in Gaul, Greece and Syria"
have a Maccaulayan and Carlylian sound
coined words,) and must make the
Deer Lodge b~luestockings green with envy.
These were the subjects Of the last meet
ing, not forgetting an essay on "Hanni-
society.
WHAT queer ideas some of the recently
appointed Federal officials have as to the
average intelligence of Montanians. Glad
to obtain an appointment in the Territo-
for the sake of the guild pro quo, they
arrive with q large sense of their own i'm
p%ortance, and an utter social disregard for,
ignorance OF, the community in which
their lot is cast. Their prejudices blind
them to the solid commercial, professional,
and artistic advantages which are
working quietly and unostentatiously in
Montana, and they see only the prepon-
lerant, uncouth, rough exterior of bone
and sinew which is under the direction of
The higher intelligence, making the Terri
tory what it is ultimately destined to be-
power in the Union.
~
APROPos -SurveyOr-General Green ex-
himself a little too ardently on
New Years day this makes it excusable)
by stating in the oom of the Montana
Club that L. @. C. Lamar gave him the
of Territories, and that he would
not be imposed upon in the matter Of his
disappointment by having hungry ap-
for office imposed upon him, H.
.ustrating his position by the narration of
yarn which is anything but f1attering to
Territory. A friend of his advertised
|or a bear-dog. A gawky lad answered the
advertisement by producing a mangy-look-
ing cur. The would-be purchaser inquired
Is to the merits of the dog, and was in
that he had been tried on ducks,
coon, opossum and skunks, and bein'
Is he was no good on them, he
he might bea good "b'ar-dog." This
was received with roars of laughter by
'he company, but next morning the Sur
7eyor.General found it OF sufficient import
ance to necessitate certain apologies, tend
red through the medium of his chief clerk.
knew OF the circumstance at the time and
lid not intend to mention it, but as it has
orced itself in a garbled manner into the
press, l give you the facts.
FIRE CHIEF CURTIS makes his annual re-
,ort on the Fire Department next Thurs
lay and will, at the same time, call atten-
ion to the fact that his resignation is in
he hands of the Mayor and that he will
positively relinquish the position at the
nd of the month.
A Warning to Butchers.
At a meeting OF the Silver Bow Stock
Association, held in this city On
he 9th inst, the following resolution was
Resolved, That the SECRETARY be in
to notify all butchers in this dis
riot to conform to the law requiring them
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