The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1888-12-14
cry LOCAL NEWS.

Tho cemetery work Is now AhiSneo'
Race is affected BY bad cold.
mo county line is now accepted by
'y snnt. Mayer, of the Manitoba line, was
IN the city yesterday
" mo Roard of Trode meets tonight in
~ Probate court room.
rhe choteau road is ordered to be re-
"a and the Sand Coulee road is ac
cepted
W. sball have some more interesting
,;nc for mining friends in the next
;ssne Of the LEADER.
o.;n Wakefield sold his horses at a
.,a,e last evening, in order to procure
@ tands to visit his sick child.
1;ent and Mrs. Frost, DIR. and Mrs.
Norris. and f. s. Robe, Of TT. Shaw, are
registered at the Park hotel.
58 Harry Ringwald informs a LEADER re-
,.asentative that a good second hand
stoam fire engine can be bought for
$4,000.
ur viii Hanks showed signs of i'm
nrovement yesterday. He did not ex-
perience any de1eterious effects from his
removal.
mo Probate Court the past year has
,.;d more money into the school fund
than all the Justices Of the Peace and
n,ark Of the District Court in the county.
Andrew F. Burleigh. the silver-tongued
orator of Montana, is in the city. Mr..
Rnrleigh struck some hard blows for the
renblican cause during the late cam
paign.
Miss Bessie Ford, the popular County
snnerintendent, shows in her report that
.hora are 931 children between four and
twenty-one in the county, Of which 800
attend school.
H. H. Higgins was brought before JUS
tice Huy yesterday for assaulting and
threatening to kill his wife. He was
n,aced under bonds for three hundred
dollars to keep the peace.
Do not forget that the Great Falls Arion
will rive their first grand ball in their
hall in the Phelps block tonight. First
class music will be furnished aud a very
pleasant time is anticipated.
Hon. A. F. Burleigh, who made us a
most effective speech in the last cam
paign, is in town on very important
mission, which the LEADER trusts he will
be successful in accomplishing.
Winchester & Mcmahon have just com
pleted drilled we'll for Mr.. Richards at
\ his blacksmith shop in the southeast part
Of the town. Water was struck at the
depth Of forty feet. They are going tc
put in well for Pat Sweeney.
City Ordinance No. 8, passed by the
Council Wednesday evening, is calculated
tobing brick and stone into more genera
uein Great Falls. Henceforth, without
Especial permit from the City Council, nc
person shall construct building withi1
the fire limits that is not practically fire
proof.
The case Of the Territory VS.. Getz was
on trial in the Probate court room yester
day. There was some conflict Of testi-
mony in regard to the question whether
the fact Of Bradford's being deputy
sheriff was made known to Getz. The
trial consumed the whole afternoon. The
jury returned verdict of not guilty.
The matter Of furnishing Great Falls
with a tirst-class system Of water works
has again come up. Residents Of this
city are conversant with. the fact thai
many advantages could be derived from
agood system Of water works, publicly
and Individually, and from its inception
it would be looked upon as a good thing
A good water works system would be {
better thing than the electric light
Everyone would be benefited by it,. LIE
US have the water works.