The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-14
City CountyNeWs Items.

DR.. Longeway returned yesterday from
Canada.
A. McClintock, of St. Paul is registered
at the Park.
Mr.. Jesse Taylor expects to spend th@
next month or two in Texas.
]. Mcintosh, of Helena, Is in the CITY
and domiciled at the Park hotel.
Civil Engineer Kern commenced work
upon the street grades yesterday after
noon.
Marcus Daily has been elected
president of the Missoula National
Bank.
Mr. Calvert is building a frame dwell.
ing on Sixth avenue North for Conductor
Pinney.
There are four patients in the county
hospital. Several of them are afflicted
with chronic rheumatism.
Yes, it was in yesterday mornings
LEADER where you can find all the news
twelve hours ahead Of you.
The sheriff's office will have a hand
some covering of paper hereafter, put on
in H. Wildekopfs best style.
The Germans are said to be tampering
with the letters sent to Americans al
Samoa. They have control of the mails
there.
News has been received in legal circles
here that strong opposition is being made
to the confirmation of Judge Wade
Blatter.
Marcus Daily is erecting an elegant
residence on his ranch In Bitter Root val
ley. Twenty-one carpenters are en-
ployed.
Twelve days. freight bill amounting to
pany, looks as though the pesky thing
wasn't dead yet.
A sensible Central avenue bachelor re-
marks that the girls would look better
nursing babies than riding bicycles!
What straddle-bug notions some people
have!
There are several buildings on the
South side in course of construction, and
one on the North side. The weather has
been very favorable for out door work,
and the people are taking advantage
of it.
She went to bed with whine, cause
she'd got no valentine. A burglar broke
in and tickled her-chin, and she died as
the clock struck nine. Moral: If you
had sent the girl a valentine the burglar
would have been struck by lightning.
Yesterday was sort Of ''field day" in
both branches Of the legislature the in
PRODUCTION Of bills and the discussion of
the county bill was about all that took
place, according to our telegraphic re-
port.
Prof. Oscar Wernsr, q highly accom-
plished musician of St. Paul, will arrive
in Great Falls Saturday next. He has
been engaged by the Arion to act as
leader. He comes highly recommended,
and no doubt possesses considerable
musical ability.
Without controversy Joe Toole told
the truth and his honest conviction when
he said of Cleveland and his carpet bag
ging horde, "We expected better things
of this administration" His recent letter
don't explain away the facts
worth cent.
Major Field was in the city yesterday.
The Major has been somewhat under the
weather for few days, but is recuperat-
ing. He says everything about the Cou-
lee is flourishing; plowing is going on,
prairie dogs are being shot and the
ranchers are happy.
George E. Fuller, commercial tourist
from San Francisco, is registered at the
Park hotel. He is desirous of establish
ing an agency here for the famous
"Punch Bar" pulverized sugar. Mr..
fuller remarked the metropolitan appear
ance Of Great Falls, and says he may in
vest in reality here.
j. w. Dennis, drinker of the ardent
and knocker from Knoxville, appeared
before Judge Dyas yesterday afternoon.
Noticing his inebriated condition the
Judge ordered his removal to the Jail
bird cage. Directly the words emanated |
from the judges mouth, the prisoner
from the court room and |
struck out for freedom. lie took SER
pentine route up the street. Deputy
Sheriff Hamilton followed hastily. Den
mis- was finally overtaken and forthwith
showed considerable powers of resistance
After strenuously struggling for some
time he was carried by the quartette to
the Jail, soliloquizing and cussing.
Mr.. Cole made some interesting re-
marks before the city council yesterday
afternoon in regard to the water-works.
He is engineer for the Minneapolis water
works, whose system was changed COM
pletely on account of the great amount of
sickness caused by impure water He
says that Great Falls cannot get pure
water from the river Immediately in
front of the city which drains the whole
own. He proposes to take the water
from above the sawmill starting out with
1 II inch main and running twelve inch
mains down third and ninth streets to
Sixth avenue North This would accom-
nodate the town for a long time. AS the
quantity of water in a pipe is proper
Toned to the square of the diameter it
will be seen the supply would be ample
The cost however of the new plan would
be much greater than the old one.
Rough on Jerry.
The Choteau Calumet, after congratu-
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