The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-01-25
LOCAL ITEMS.
1t was as dark last night as u stack o
black cats.

II WAS dS udFk laSt ulEIlt AS Sttk VI
black cats.
r. r. Hotchkiss has been in the Belt
mountains for several days taking
glimpse of the mines.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. s. Hawkins gave a
progressive eucher party last evening.
About sixty guests were invited.
Bobby Burns anniversary festival will
take place at the Dunn hall this evening.
A very pleasant time is anticipated.
The Electric Light company now have
about 400 lamps in operation. They ex-
pect to enlarge the plant in the spring.
MIR. Walker the General Ticket Agent
of the st. p, NJ. Il NJ. r. r. at New York
City was expected at Great Falls yester-
afternoon.
The knights Of the brush were at work
on the roof Of the school building yester-
day, which is very much improved in ap-
pearance by a coat of paint.
Attention is called to G. II. Renton's
professional card. Mr.. Benton is wide
awake disciple of Blackstone and is one
of the leading legal lights of Great Falls.
Mr.. Woolston stopped over ut Great
Falls yesterday afternoon on his way from
Ft. Benton to Helena. He has been in
Fort Benton locking after his water
works in that city.
Before leaving for Butte, Mr.. Thomas
Couch honored the LEADER sanctum with
IL pleasant call He subscribed for the
LEADER, and spoke ofthe paper in COM
mrndablc terms.
| J. +. McClelland has been rlstling
about lively for the last ten days and has
obtained options OH some of the best
lands about Great Falls. He will open
up IL real estate office and make things
hum.
A train ran off of the track in Sand
Coulce day before yesterday on account
of the spreading of the rails us the train
was going around curve. The cars
|
jurcd, and the track has been righted.
Among the patents ut the Helena land
Office for parties living in this county arc
those of james Kelly, Herman Wildekopf,
Nettic II. Glib, Willis A. Parsell, Edward
W. Ball, Edward Remickc, Charles A,
Black, Geo. D. Buddington and Albert J
lIuy.
Messrs. Gibson & Maher have a curl
osity Of sewing machine, from London
Eng 1t is IL saddler's manufacturing
machine and isa novelty both in its con
struction, its adaptability to saddler's
work and the perfect performance Of its
various tasks.
Prof. Begg returned to Helena ycster
day. lie will visit Great Falls again mex
Tuesday. lie has met with success il
his efforts to get up /. dancing class il
this city. The professor is an adept il
the tcrpsichorean art, and experiences III
difficulty in getting Up u good class o
amateur dancers anywhere.
The Rev. Mr.J. NJ. I.argent, of Cascade
formrrlya resident of Great Falls, is il
the city as agent and general manager fo
Montana OF Johnson's Universal Cyclic
pcdia, and will visit our citizens in tn
! interest of this great American work
Tho connection Of MIR. l.argent with tn
book is in itself Il high recommendation
and we are assured that All examination
Of it will be Il persuasive argument to tn
, purchase of it by large numbers. tn
work is a library in itself.
A gentleman from Butte, who has re
sided there since the town had begin
) ming, and who has examined the mine
of the Belt mountains, says in his est
nation the Barker and Ncihart district
will become second only to the Butt
mining district With the Belt ,lOuntai
railroad running up into these mine
next summer, the development OF tn
t mines will be greatly accelerated and tn
!. value of the district will be recognized.
= Great Falls is IL great seat of intell
t gencr- to say beauty for they al
| really one and inscparablc; that is, the
= should be; or, in other words, the inte
= ligrnt and the beautiful, as reads tn
r. Greek maxim, should go hand in han'
a But besides beautiful women and BRAY
= men, we have fine and intelligent equine
+ who, though they go off Oh IL tangen
+, lust for frolic, quite frequently, when
. thouwhtless driver leaves them untict
!, vet they always steer clear of trees, pos
+ and urchins, and gracefully round
when they have made their run-sel
siblc to the last!
The Sand Co,llce Coal company al
taking out two or three hundred tons {
:, :, coal day. They have struck IL vein {
# coal which is unsurpassed in any coAntr
IS Thus far the coal has been used almo
% entirely by the Montana Central All
:, Manitoba railroads: the Montana Centr
O using from seventy to On" hundred tons
;, ,av. and the Manitoba railroad would u:
over two hundred tons il it could he o
- taiurd. The smclter also uses /; lar!
is amount The main tunnel Of the mi.
" has been run in about G5n feet. In
II short time the output will be greatly il
~ creased.
4 visit to Mr.. A. Nathan, in his ne
and commodous Clothing House is OF
y, Of the most refreshing things imaginabl
>. His goods are so new that their We
If fragrance Is inviting: his stock is So COZ
- plctc that YOU cannot ask for anvthil
That he has not: there is such an air