Great Falls tribune., 1888-09-19
tFrom Mondays Daily. ]

The county commissioners are in ses-
sion today as board of equalization. The
full board is present.
R. G. Wight of White Sulphur Springs,
deputy clerk and recorder of Meagher
county, is in the city.
DR.. Fairfield, j. H. McClelland E. D.
Hastie and H. P. Rolfe left for Helena
yesterday to attend the republican con
| vention.
c. W. Greenleaf and DR.. I. 8. Martin,
friends of Mr.. Hotchkiss, are revisiting
town. Both are from Peora, ILL.,, and
fond of duck hunting.
Mr.. Herman Nalback of New York
will arrive about October /, with full
stock of clothes to locate as merchant
tailor here. Mr.. H. has the reputation of
being first class cutter and filter.
E. G. Jaffray, travelling passenger agent
of the Manitoba, is in the city. He ac-
companled an excursion party Of several
members and will remain a short time to
enjoy Montan's fine climate and scenery
Granville Stuart, the democratic war
horse Of Fergus county and candidate for
the council from the joint district COM
PopOl1 VI y I'll lo hAh vi II COuuyltS ulllH-
ed from Helena last evening en- route
home.
The Great Falls delegation is united on
DR.. Fairfield for the legislature and would
probably give him the house nomination.
Sam Mitchell, WHO was recommended by
the Choteau convention, did not seem to
be favorite among the delegates yester-
day.
Another large excursion party from
Ohio, under command of D. r. McGinnis
the popular travelling agent of the Mani
toba, is now on the way to this city and
will arrive in a day or two. Excursions
are becoming frequent but we are glad to
welcome them all.
The case of the United States VS.. John
j. Weikle for counterfeiting, tried at the
spring term of court here, the defendant
having been found guilty and sentenced
to the penitentiary, has been reversed by
the supreme court. A new trial will be
held at the next term of court.
The Fort Benton delegation to the Hell
ena convention consists Of Jere Sullivan,
Chas. Rowe and W. H. Black, who arriv-
ed here yesterday and took the train for
Helena. Mr.. Sullivan would like the
nomination for the council and Mr.. Black
has aspirations to 60 to the house.
Word comes from Minneapolis that the
finest wheat on display at the exposition
is that grown on the highest bench lands
in the vicinity of Great Falls, about three
miles from this city. 1t is so pronounced
by experts who have examined it. This
wheat is shown both in the grain and in
the sheaf and its merit is the subject of
general comment.
S. F. Gilman and wife and Miss Gilman
and B. A. Cleveland and wife, of Daven-
port, Iowa, returned yesterday from the
ranch of Mr.. s. s. Hobson, in the Judith
country, where they have spent the past
month or two in the enjoyment of ranch
life. The gentlemen are interested with
Mr.. Hobson In the cattle business They
are noW enroute home.
Samples of No. hard wheat from E.
R. Clingan's 10 acre field are on exhibi-
tion at the Cataract mill office and the
Park hotel lobby and attract much atten-
tion. The grain is large and plump and
about as hard as stone. Experts who have
examined it say it is fully equal to any
hard wheat they have ever seen The
wheat was grown on the high bench lands
between Belt and Box Elder creeks and it
is worthy Of note that 10 acres is the lar
gest crop of wheat yet grown by one far
mer in northern Montana. The wheat
has not been threshed but we understand
it will yield handsomely. 1t will be but
short time until bonanza wheat farmers
with hundreds Of acres each under culti-
vation, will be found in the splendid ag-
ricultural region between Great Falls and
the Belt mountains. This is one of the
No. hard wheat fields of the future.
Mr.. Hill and party returned yesterday
in special train from Helena and Butte.
The party had a pleasant and profitable
trip. At Butte they were met at the Mon
tana Central depot by Hon. VIM. A. Clark
and Mayor Hamilton and were escorted
to the Silver Bow club rooms, where prom
inent members of the board of trade re-
ceived them and an informal reception
was held. Mr. Clark made speech of
welcome to which president Hill respond
ed in happy manner. He said the Mon
tana Central intended to do great deal
for the camp in giving 1t such rates as
would enable every mine owner to ship |
his ore and make q profit, 1t was sup
posed he alluded to the Great Falls smell |
ter and copper works. The party visited |
the Anaconda mine and other points of
interest and departed in the evening much
pleased with their visit to the greatest |
mining camp on earth. A feature of the
trip was the remarkable time made over
the Central, a record which president
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