Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-04-14
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
G. P. THOMSON,
Reliable Dry Goods House

Paint, kalsomine and whitewash brush
es at Churchill & Webster's.
Work on several buildings in town has
been suspended on account of the scarcity
of material of all kinds.
Mr.. Horst, of the Park hotel owns a
great many fine horses and intends to
bring some of them here.
Ira Myers has drive of 100000
feet of timber coming down to his mill,
He also expects $4,000 cedar shingles
from Oregon,
The Montana Central is in splendid
be run over the Great Falls route from
St. Paul to Helena this month.
In Fort Shaw General and Mrs. Brooke
gave ball recently, in compliment to
Mrs. McRae. The attendance was large
and the enjoyment considerable.
Carpenters are at work today removing
the buildings from the lot recently. pur
chased by Bach, Cory & Co. The stable
has already disappeared from view.
The excavation for T. f. Collins brick
block is about completed and the masons
began work this morning. 1t is proposed
to have this building ready for occupancy
by June 1st.
Mr.. McClelland late manager of the
Park hotel is now doing duty at the desk
in Hotchkiss & Hawkins hardware store
and making himself generally agreeable
to the customers of that firm.
Traffic on the Manitoba track is tenn
porarily impeded at Beaver creek, a trib-
utary to the Milk river. In consequence
no trains left here today. The obstruct-
ion, which is due to freshet, will disar-
pear soon.
The readers of the Tribune may expect
the announcement soon that work on the
Neihart branch has been ordered. It
will not be many weeks until the survey
ors are in the field, and the work on this
important line is in full blast.
some wag has sent to the Helena In
dependent an account of a team and wag-
on being lost from ferry boat at Sun
River. It is all correct except that there
is no ferry boat at Sun River and no team
and wagon were lost there.
Word comes from Gorham that on
Monday evening Dyers team and wagon
went into the river from the ferry boat.
The team was drowned, but the wagon
and part of the goods on it were recover
ed. The driver had narrow escape from
drowning.
The cattle kings of this city and vicin-
ity are speaking of the convention which
is to be held at Miles City next Tuesday.
Cascade county will doubtless be we'll
represented there, although the distance
is far and this is very busy time on the
ranch.
The handsome little cottages being built
for Mr.. Sherwood by James Lawler will
soon be ready for occupancy. They are
house and will be handsomely finished.
Call on James Lawler Immediately and
have the rooms partitioned to suit
Goss & King of Central Avenue have
Just set up the ranges for the smelter
boarding houses which are in full opera
ton today. The Montana Smelling Com
pany have likewise completed tank
from which water will be distributed to
the boarding houses and over the grounds
The water will be forced up by hydraulic
rams from the Giant Spring.
Phil Gibson intends to build several
houses which he will let at moderate
rent. He will build 80 if the demand
shall warrant it. At present residences
are in demand and many people live in
rooms, who wsuld readily pay $40 to S3C
per month for house of their own. Al
that rent the houses you'd make fail
return on the cost.