The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-02-05
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
From Saturdays Daily. !


Conductor Dowd is improving rapidly
E. A. Phippen. a prominent citizen o
kibbey, is in the city.
Dame Rumor predicts a wedding a
Kibbey in the near future.
j. j. Ellis and Ben Rumney left fol
home today after a busy week as jury
men.
j. M. Erskine, the father of st. Clair
came in from that thriving town this af.
t%ernoOn.
Thomas Moran left for his ranch at St
Peters, today, after doing good service
as juryman.
One dollar will buy a chance in a raj.
fe for a large compartment tent worth
sou, at Ed. O'Reiley's Exchange.
Mr.. Burghardt, who is agent for the
Neihart townsite syndicate, has a com.
Portable Office in the Dunn block.
The county commissioners will meet
on February 10, to accept the bonds OF
the bridge contractor and transact other
business.
Thirty men started this morning to the
tie camp at the head waters OF Sun river.
They will get out ties for the Great Falls
and Canada railroad.
Architect Clinton is at work on plans
for q stone building for Lapeyre Bros.
This will 500 he erected on the corner
of Central vel and Third street.
]. 0. Gregg is being interviewed in
Dakota and Minnesota on the growth of
Montana and Great Falls. He gives clear,
faithful accounts of our remarkable prog
ress.
j. A. Benoit is in the city from his
ranch near Kibbey. MI. Benoit has been
troubled with rheumatism for some time
and has concluded to sell out and try an
other climate. He has a valuable ranch,
which he offers for sale.
The professional card of DR.. Jones,
dentist, appears III our columns today.
The doctor comes highly recommended
from his former home in Connecticut,
both as a mar and practitioner, and he
will doubtless soon stand in equal favor
in his new home.
Although the past SUMMER was the
dryest ever known, yet J. A. Benoit
raised AZ bushels OF oats per acre on 40
acres, without irrigation, on his ranch
near Kibby. This section of Cascade
county cannot be surpassed for growing
small grain.
Chas. Conlin and Chas. Weis of Mt.
Vernon, Indiana, arrived in the city
this morning. They come as an adj
vance guard to look over the country and
if pleased will be followed by a number
of families from southern Indiana.
Captain ]. o. Gregg arrived today ac-
companied by his wife and accomplished
daughter. The ladies came out to see
what the Montana climate is like. Ii
they are pleased a beautiful stone resi-
dence will grace one of the best lots in
North Great Falls early in the spring.
In the district court today when Paul
Savage was called up for sentence, MIR.
Brady submitted to the court that Savage
had been two months in jail. Some Of
the principal witnesses for the defense
had failed to attend and one Of them
Duross had not been served with a SUBJ
pnna. Judge Benton in passing sentence
said that the defendants own testimony
had shown that he knew every circum-
stance almost up to the time of the stab
hing. The sentence would be three
months imprisonment in the county Jail,
800 fine and the costs of the prosecution.
Mccarthy and Harris were each SEN
fenced to go days and costs for petty
larceny. Harris said that he pleaded
guilty because of the trouble and delay
which the procuring of witnesses would
entail. This term of court will end on
Wednesday or Thursday next week.