Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-03-17

What the bridge builders call false
bridge so as to make it ready for the iron
superstructure, which is now on hand.
Ira Hickory is building a store 24x60 on
Central avenue, next to Lapeyre Brothers
school-house. The foundation will be fin
ished today and the work hurried through
to completion.
At a sheriff s sale the "Maud S" stables
together with 10 adjoining lots in Sun
River sold for 1886. A. j. Vance was
the auctoneer. Charles Forester Of Sun
River was the purchaser.
A telegram from Minot saying there
were no charges against Con Hennessey,
recently arrested here was received on
Sunday. Mr.. Hennessey was released
instantly and is still in town.
Rev. J. Reid will try the experiment of
growing vines this year. The red NAM
moth and alfalfa which he sowed last
year have stood the winter we'll. He
says the coulee produces potatoes in great
abundance.
Roberts Il Winters have already had
a number Of applications for the lease Of
UIltll lt" llOlel llON llllGl totlISC VI COll-
struction. The building will have from
81 to 40 rooms, and will be completed at
as early a date as possible
Two dogs We're poisoned on First ave
nue. South last night. OF course worth
less ours should be disposed Of but tn ere
are certainly means of Kidding the town
of useless dogs other than the promi Sou
Gus throwing ofpoison around the streets.
The building boom is extending to
Sixth and Seventh-avenues South
Quite number of houses are being built |
and the lots recently thrown open for sale
by the Townsite company on Eighth and |
Ninth-avenues are selling like hot cakes. |
A busy scene is presented at the site Of
the reduction works and a great change
has already taken place there. Work on
the excavation is proceeding rapidly and
the boarding and bunk houses, both NAM
moth buildings, are going up at a rapid
rate.
Peter Shellhorn and Rhoda Parker
purchased through Hanks real estate
agency to-day, property amounting to
s., 900. This makes between $4,000 and
$4,000 worth of property which has been
sold through this agency alone within the
past forty days.
II. R. Becllwith, the photographer of
Helena, is in town. Mr.. Beckwith will
be remembered as having made trip
through the northern country two sum
mers ago in the interest Of his business,
visiting Fort Shaw and other points in
this section.
The Townsite company sold the fol-
lowing lots yesterday: Samuel r. WILDER,
lot a, in block 500, $500; Z. D. Jordon,
lot 10 in block 4S1, $500; Longeway s.
Collect, lots and in block 500, $500;
Getz & Delaney, lot IA in block 4S1, $500;
Eugene Chapman, lot ID in block sol,
$460. ~. ~ /
Walter Brown has just completed the
arrangements for taking up placer claim
for limestone in Cottonwood coulee He
reports that the lime obtained from the
calcination of this rock is of very good
quality and suitable for all purposes where
such is required. He is about to erect
new large kilns and says that owing to
the railroad and other facilities he will
be enabled to supply Sand coulee lime at
very moderate rates.
The Townsite company sold Is lots up
to noon today for a total Of $4,000, which
is pretty good half days work. Fol
lowing are the sales: J. I'll. Corson, lots
10 and IA, block 500, $700; Charles Veg
ner, lots 1, 2 and 3, block sos, $1,000:
James Mansfield, lot II. block 479, $500
and lots and 2, block Alb, $1,000; Longe-
way & Skinner, lot 70, block 40, $500;
H. A. Knight, lots 1 and 2, block 5OG,
S7O0; Lewis Il Knight, lot I, block 1857,
$4,000; Mrs. G. B. Shields, lot II, block
1867, $1,700; II. Weinrder lot ia block
1852, $500 and lot l, block 400, $500.
The advertisement of John ]. Kennedy,
live stock commission merchant, will be
found in another column. For some
months Mr. Kennedy has been quietly
to engage in this business and
in casting about for the most suitable
location, decided in favor of Great Falls,
this being the natural center of the great
stock ranges of northern Montana, and
having every desired railroad facility.
Mr.. Kennedy has had years of expert
ence in the stock business and knows all
about it. He has also had much eXpe-
rience in buying, selling and marketing
stock and knows thoroughly every phase
of the business. With all of these quail
ifications, he is thoroughly honorable and
reliable, and is certain to make a success
in the line he has marked out for himself.