The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-02-17
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.

. AAAsD VIVIAN l. NL vvSs
More than half of Maine is vet howl
. ing wilderness.
: For good Sunday d,sner go to tn
Farlor restaurant.
A. B. Allen and H. Smalley, of St. Paul
are registered at the PARK hotel.
O'Dynamiter, the resslution maker
should be solidly sat down upon.
Charles Wegner will leave TODAY fo
Helena to be absent about week.
The royal infant of Spain has eight,
; nurses and sixty papal priests to prey up
on him.
Jerry Collins is down from Helena
lie thinks the admission of Montana 8
certainty.
-Four thousand carloads of ore for the
Great Falls smelter have just been con.
tracted for.
An exorbitant bill of the Tribune was
allowed In the council night before last
without the shadow of legal authority.
Supt Law recommends improvements
on the Montana Union railway to the
amount of half a million dollars. Good!
| The cry of the women in Washington
is, 80! for mainland the cry of the
men at Great Falls is, "Oh! for the water
works!"
Settlers in unsurveyed townshi ps II
North Range and East can have these
townships surveyed by making early ap-
plication.
The Hon. Jerry Collins came over from
the capital yesterday to spend the Sab
bath with his family-and read our Sun
day discourse.
The young society men at Butte have
engaged private parlors at the McDermot
house, and will have banquet on Wash
ington's birthday.
One hundred and forty seven dollars
for the Tribune bill. Great Scott! How
much printing has it done? It is sheer
robbery to charge such price.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the "Daily Tally-Ho Line"
Parties desirous of visiting the smelter
should avail themselves Of the induce
ments offered by this line.
Mr.. Alex. B. Allen, agent of the St.
Paul Pioneer Press company, visited the
LEADER sanctum yesterday. He is on a
business tour to the West in connection
with the Press supply department and is |
a genial and pleasant gentleman.
The grand Washington's Birthday
ball that was to be given at
the Milwaukee house has been postponed.
so that nothing shall diminish from the
eclat of the reception to be rendered
Montana's legislators on their visit to
Great Falls on that day.
General Gilman Marston has been ap-
pointed U. S. Senator to fill out the re-
mainder Of William E. Chambers term.
General Marston is q cousin of the mana
ger of the LEADER. He has often been
offered the position of Senator by the
New Hampshire legislature, but has so
ar refused.
Another desert land contest has begun.
We imagine when certain Helena indi-
'iduals got possession Of the Special
Agent Cleary they bit off bigger piece !
han they can chew. 1t is said about a {
lozen desert land proofs were made near
Jun River valley, upon which drop Of
water had not been placed.
Joe Toole is now trying to explain to +
be Husbandman that he didn't mean to
all it names. His explanation is rather {
anne. He says he clipped the classifca-
lon from the Inter- Mountain and that he
J sorry and will never do so again. Joe +
, not success at writing explanations. =
lis speech was all right-it seemed to
ave been inspired-but today to confess
nat he had to clip it from q republican
aper is rather weak statement to
lake. He better have let well enough
lone.
With all of his accomplishments in di-
lomatic fnesse, the honorable gentle y
ian from Silver Bow could not keep his
larriage from the Butte reporters; and .
lie Butte Miner announces the nuptials, "
l Monday afternoon last, of the Hon. .
7. H. Roberts, of Butte, and Mrs. NJ. "
owe, of Centreville-after which Rep g
sentative Roberts quietly returned to g
is Legislative duties 1T the capital. The K
EADER joins In the congratulations, and W
ON Silver Bow will cause the rainbow hi
promise and of peace to encircle Mrs. th
owe and the long row of Roberts that te
ay spring from the horizon of their dl
lion. He is staunch republican. We al
ust he will be present at the legislative h.
lnquet in Great Falls on the 22d, with iu
s bride and bevy Of fair ladies from II
ute. tn