Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-01-30
/ nat MOnStrOuS MOnSirOSitV.

The letter to the taxpayers of Chotaau
county was published in the Rising Sun.
We presume that u copy Of this remarka-
bic production was furnished the Great
Falls TRIBUNE and the Choteau Calumet,
and possibly the Helena papers.-River
Press.
No, we were not favored with a copy
Of this gigantic monstrosity, but will give
-steen cents for the original, and start a
Observation-Disclosures.
We have preserved the copy furnished
this ofice-it is in the bold and fearless
fist Of Mee-to-and will be kept as a start
er for a cabinet of curiosities.-Press.
We believe the Press is in error regard
ing the part taken by mEE-tO. The
mAjoRiTy we believe, was the c~oncocter
of the potion, yet it is quite possible the
little fellow may have acted as dispense
~ clerk for the big 'un in order to bear a
just part of the nauseating effect which
the dose was sure to produce.
The Husbandman, which in many re-
spects is an excellent newspaper, coca
s~ionally gets wild and turns itself loose at
the most impracticable and outlandish
schemes imaginable. The last issue con-
tains a lesson in railroading addressed to
the Northern Pacific Railroad company,
which should entitle its editor to the belt
Or rope. 1t assumes that if the N. p,
company would build a branch to White
Sulphur Springs, they would control the
Neihart camp, whereas if they do not the
Gait line will gobble the plum. The Hus-
bandman certainly has a right to know
that the wagon road leading into Neihart
from that side Of the range is only passa-
bic during the summer months, and such
would be the case were a railroad built
into the camp as directed by that paper.
So far as the Gait line is concerned, we
fear it is 50 far back in the dim, dark and
distant future, that the n. P. has no rea-
son to trouble itself over the possibility !
of any encroachment upon its territory
from nat quarter. As a pointer for the
Husbandman we will say that the first
railroad built into Neihart, or for that
matter, any Of the mining camps in the
Belt mountains, will head from Great
Falls.
There has been considerable nawspa-
per discussion la~telyregarding the origin
of the name Montana, applied to this ter
ritor whea its organization was effected in
1868. Capt. Mills of the New Northwest
in order to get at the facts, procured cop
les of the Congressional Record, covering
the period or that session, and in the cur
rent number of his paper contributes a
Of very interesting matter com
piled from the session records upon the
subject, which show that Hon. James
Ashley, a Member from Ohio, proposed
the name, stating that it was a Spanish
word meaning mountains, and a very APP
propriate name for the territory. Other
IN. C. though differently; objected to the
name, and Montana narrowly escaped
one of the following names sub
in its stead: Jefferson, AbyS-
Slosfl0ne OF Douglass.
Neihart has been very unfortunate with
her smeltsr. Something like one year
ago it was unloaded from the cars at
After numerous DELAYS, COW
a period of six months it was final
landed in the camp. Then a series of
nishapsr closely following each other &C
Cured, which have prevented any prac-
sical work being done, The: Hus
bandman has information that no further
will be made to start agsin until
owing to the destruction of the
kilns, and the throwing up Of
heir contract by the parties who were to
the coal.
A Mr.. Brown, formerly of Sand Coulee,
Who arrived hare from Helena Thurday,