The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-03-08

water business.
There will be sevices at 43O this after
noon at the Episcopal church.
A party of ten immigrants from Iowa
and Dakota arrived at Great Falls yester-
day.
The school board at their meeting yes
terday ordered fence to be built around
the school house.
Sheriff Downing and City Marshal Pat
Sweeney left on yesterday morning =
train for Helena.
Mr.. G. Pratt departed yesterday morn
Ing for his future home in Whatcon,,
Washington Territory.
J. K. Clarke finds $6s,977.47 in the Cas-
cade county treasury. That goes ahead
OF Lewis and Clark county.
Mr.. Samuel &. Burd of Choteau was a
Manitoba passenger yesterday morning
from Fort Benton to Helena.
Rev. Fl. Il. Cloves is up from Fort
Benton and will hold services here Sun
day next at the Episcopal church.
We are requested to announce that
there will be a concert at the Methodist
church in this city on Wednesday morn
ing next, March 18th.
Will J. Kennedy, the accommodating
and efficient proprietor of the CITY Meat
market, is again on deck, having returned
from his sojourn on Belt creek.
Messrs. Geisey and McGee, prosperous
farmers of the suburbs Of Kibby, on Lit
tie Otter creek, were in Great Falls today
purchasing their seed wheat of the Cata-
ract Mill company.
"They are the best harness l ever saw
for the money! said an old WAGNER yes
terday, after examining the new $50 sets
of Gibbons & Maher, Central avenue,
Great Falls is popularized by such an es-
tablishment.
Sheriff B. f. O'Ncal of Fort Benton
passed through this city yesterday en-
route to the Warm Springs asylum with
the man Murray, who was taken to Ben
ton short time ago from Choteau
charged with insanity.
Stock Inspector T. A. Matthews, T. B.
McShane of the Bay State Cattle company
in the Judith basin, and j. s. Carson of
Choteau, all recent arrivals in this city,
give cheering news from their respective
sections OF fat stock, green grass and the
near approach Of spring.
E. Z. Bywaters says it will not be ten
years before the best residences in town
will be in the Black Eagle Falls addition.
lie says it is half way between the
smelter and town and near the water
power and the town will naturally grow
III that direction. The view is splendid.
The board of county commissioners
occupied nearly all day yesterday in con
sidering the county treasurer's reports
and allowing bills. 1t is noted that Il
great many bills are not sworn to as pre-
scribed by law. The board examined a
great many bills carefully and criti-
cally.
The |. o. o. F. held a large and inter
esting meeting at their hall in this city
on Wednesday evening last. The order,
we understand, is in prosperous con-
dition and is steadily increasing in men,
bership. AS the 26th of April is the all
niversary Of the order nothing would lie
more suggestive than to celebrate the
event with grand ball.
E. A. Ringwald, our efficient county
clerk, has sent Choteau county warrant
for $4,000, leaving the question of coun-
sci fees to be settled by the Supreme
court. The cash is in the treasury fol
the payment of the warrant and the
money we trust will make the X. p. fee
1 ,n11 Nt11 In ~E ~,
have always had friendly relations.
Miss Sallie Bablage, one of Fort Ben
toms most popular young ladies, Rev
Mr.. Hector Cloves and E. w. Lewis. tn.
latter proprietor of the Park stables o
Fort Benton, are visiting Great Falls
What the object Of Mr.. Lewis visit is W,
are unable to state, but Judging from th'
broad smile that was visible on his fac,
while admiring one of the prominent cor
ncr locations in our city we would natur
ally infer that the erection OF 4 mann
moth livery, feed and sale stable was !.
the bottom of it.
We insert in our columns this mornin.
tine card of the First National Bank o
Helena. This is one of the Oldest an,
most solid banking institutions of Mon
tana, !ts officers are among the hes
known and most responsible gcntlcme
Of the capital. 1t is the pioneer uationa
bank Of the Territory and tho U. S. depos
itory, with IL capital of *:,OO,OOO and sur
plus and profits amounting to $525 ,OOu
Its permanclcc Is like unto that OF til
everlasting hills encircling the famed an
wealthy citV of the mountains
Mr.. Tom Lacy, one of the most s,lt
cessful farmers in Northern Montan,
whose ranch is located upon the Shonki
in ChoteaA county, was in Great Falls fc
Il short time yesterday. Mr.. Lacy col
firms the report which recently cam
from that section that the farmers wei
| all busy plowing and were preparing t
seed large crops Of wheat the prese,
season. lie moreover informed us til,
: all along the foot of the IIighwon
5 mountains the young and tender gras
e was coming forth like flower all
i, would in short time be of sufficie.
. height for stock to derive the benefit ,
the same. Mr.. Lacy left on the NOR,
: ing train for Helena.
Mr. Gibbons, of the leading harne'
and saddle firm of Great Falls, came rusl
ing frantically into the LEADER oftit
- yesterday morning and inquired, "Call
get an advertisement in the LEADER!
Ye local, all pale and trembling wi,
y fright, fearful that some great calami
;. was about to transpire, such as the el