Helena weekly herald., 1888-09-27
TOWN AND TEKKITORY.


Townsend Tranchant: The whistles
of the steam grain thresers are again heard
in our valley, and every available man is
given employment at extra good wages.
Michael Farran, a tramp who at
tempted to steal ride by jumping on a
train while in motion was run over and
killed by the cars at Silver Bow junction
last Thursday.
Inter Mountain: VIM. E. Craig, one Of
Butte's popular young society men, who
has been with the firm of Cans & Klein in
this city for the past four years, has gone
to Helena to accept a position with the
principal house.
The Northeast Mdgizine for September,
Mr.. Smalley's journal, devotes most of its
space to an excellent description of Mis-.
soula and the adjacent country. The illus
trations are good and the description ar
ticles we'll written.
Butte capitalists have asked the Ana
conda municipality for franchise to erect
and maintain an electric light plant in
that thriving burg. With 100000 hotel
electric lights, etc., Anaconda is fast put
ting on metropolitan airs.
e. B. Camp has retired from the edi-
torial chair Of the Billings Gazette and has
been succeeded by the new proprietor, E.
H. Becker, formerly of Wyoming. The
Gazette has the U. S. flag and the Republi-
can ticket nailed to its editorial masthead.
Alderman Lissner stated yesterday
that Mr.. Clark would receive 5000 major
ity over Mr.. Carter. A prominent Repub-
lican standing near offered to bet 5000 to
500 on the proposition, whereupon Mr.
Lissner drew in his horns and said he did
not want to bet.
The Missoula Daily Item has become a
morning paper and will hereafter give its
constituents the news of the day and some
good Republican doctrine for break fast
each day. 1t is a neat, newSy little sheet
and its enterprising proprietor, MIR. Cush-
ing, deserves success in the venture.
Frank Mcbride, who attempted to
Jump on a moving train near Silver City,
Thursday, and was run over by the cars,
had his right leg amputated at the county
hospital yesterday, Drs. Carmichael and
Baldwin performing the operation. He is
q man about thirty years OF age and came
lately to Montana from New York.
Gen. Phil Sheridan's Personal
Memoirs" is the first tsubscriptionbook since
Gen. Grants Memoirs" that has at
tracted universal attention. Unlike Gen.
Grants book, which closed with the end of
the war, it covers the entire life of Little
Phil" 1t is thought that the total sales of
these two histories will be nearly equal.
The old board fence around the coun-
ty jail yard, through which Godas made
his escape, has been torn down and is now
being replaced by a two foot wall of solid
masonry, which will enclose the prison
yard on all sides to the height of IA feet
from the surface of the ground. when
completed it will be an additional safe
guard to the security OF the Jail.
Benton Press: The recent fail of rain
was just what was wanted to eXtingoish
the extensive prairie fires which have
ragged with such fierceness in the vicinity
OF Big Sandy, and which threatened to de-
stroy all the range grass in that section of
the country. The rain did what large
crews failed to do, and thus saved an i'm
mense area of winter feed for stock.
The new bridge across the Missouri at
Fort Benton, now under construction, will
be S75 feet in length and IA feet in width.
1t will be constructed OF iron and will rest
on seven piers, each Is feet above low-water
mark. Six of the piers will be 81 feet in
length on the bottom, "a feet on the top,
with widtn of feet on the bottom and
feet on tho top. The foundation of each
pier is composed of heavy solid sawed tim
bers, firmly fastened upon the piles driven
in the bottom of the river bed, the top of
the timbers being four inches below the
lowest water mark.