The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-10-11
Interesting from the Capital.
BUSINESS Rather 0verdone-City Di-
rectory to be Duplicated.
Herald and Independent Out in
Their New Dresses.
The Mortgage Loan Craze Liable to
Eat out their Substance.

HELENA, Oct. 9.-Correspondence of
the LEADER.-There were three assipn-
ments of mercantile firms in Helena with
IN three days. The trade is very dull.
The assets of the suspended firms are
said to be in excess of liabilities.
A city directory war has broken out
between A. W. Ide and R. L. Polk s. Co.
Both claim to be the "great and only"
directory getters-up in the west. The
result will be TWO city directories.
The Independent appeared in new
type on Tuesday. 1t has dropped the
folio and taken up the quarto form.
: So far this week three persons have
been adjudged insane by Judge Howey's
court and taken to the Warm Springs
Asylum.
The notorious opium and morphine
fiend, joe Nesbit, has again been placed
behind the bars. Joe goes to Jail this
time for ninety days and $100 fine, which
will take at least thirty days more to eat
up. He stole SO watch and traded it
off for opium.
The Knight Templar Communicates
are having a high old time in Washing
ton city at the national gathering of that
order. There are no flies on the Mon
tana Knights.
The Helena Journal of Tuesday says
that the newly incorporated railroad, the
Great Falls and Canada, is undoubtedly
to be go and it is generally known to
be an enterprise of the Manitoba and
Montana Central railroads. Its objective
point will be the Lethbridge coal mines,
which are already connected with the
Canadian Pacific road, and which are now
actively producing. The coal of these
mines is Of exceptional quality and the
new road will supply it to Montana. 1t
was stated on the streets yesterday by
men who probably know that the Mon
tana and Canada railroad, which was to
have been built for the same purpose,
under the auspices of the Northern
Pacific railroad, has been abandoned.
The regular old syndicate of democrat
ic hangerson in Helena are already at
work for clerical positions in the legisla
ture. 1t is high time that these sponges
were squeezed out and laid on the shelf
to dry. The Helena outfit are ready and
willing to take all of the small offices fol
the little fry outside of Helena. The
fight in the constitutional convention to
continne Helena as the temporary capital
should be gentle reminder to the greed
of Helena politicians that there are
several thousand people in Montana out
side of Lewis and Clarke county. But
some people can only be convinced by
liberal application of boot-toes.
Helena will soon be overrun with
eastern mortgage loan companies. Peo-
pie who have any regard for their future
happiness and welfare will steer clear
of these loan companies. Once you get
within their iron grasp you are slave
for life. Better by far to live on corn
bread and bacon and wear Kentucky
jeans all your lives and call your home
your own than have a mortgage for a
companion and live on roast beef and
pie. Debt is the poor mans curse. 1t is
better to be your own master than the
slave of mortgage loan company.
The Helena Herald appeared in new
type on Tuesday evening.