The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-04-16
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
From Saturdays Daily.)


Mr.. G. L. McGibbon, returned to
Neihart yesterday, where he will open Il
boarding house on the new townsite.
There are now nearly 500 men en-
ployed o. the Great Falls q Canada rail
road. Grading is in progress from this city
as far as the Teton.
The Young man Helson Williams, who
was SO badly injured by an accident at
Walters saw mill on Eagle creek, died at
st. CLAIR hospital at Benton yesteday.
Mrs. Amelia Roehl went to Neihart
! yesterday to make arrangements for the
construction of 4 5000 hotel to be built
on the townsite which 10 owned by several
business men of Great Falls.
Mr.. W. c. Kester, a gentleman from the
east, will on May 1st ommenc the
publication of a weekly paper at Chinook
to be called tie "Chinook Opinion
Welcome. May the enterprise prove
successful.
A German family of ~ people came in
today. Their name isWombank and they
intend to engage in hotel business on the
South side. The family includes six
sisters, all good-looking. They come
Llohl NAlAuOoOtb.
The Hotel Broadwater and plunge
bath will reopened for business about
the 25th inst. Manager Mcintyre has
made arrangements for a weeks enter
tainment for the guests and citizens OF
Helena, which, when the programme il
announced, will prove a pleasant sur
prise to everyone.
Jonathan Coon says that he has killed
of the prairie dogs on his farm by using
%strychnine. He puts q bottle and a half
OF that poison in q gallon of wheat and
d d some sugar and water. After stew
ing the mixture he puts some of it at the
prairie dog holes. The dogs eat the stuff
readily because of the sugar in it and die.
Messrs White & Matthes, owners of
the Sleeper lode in the vicinity of
Neihart, received a handsome offer
for their property Yesterday. This
claim adjoins some of the best developed
mines in Neihart, including the Moulton,
Flag Staff and Dakota. Besides show
ing rich mineral, this claim is valuable
for building purposes.
The stockholders of the Great Falls t.
Canada railroad met at the Park hotel to-
day. They elected the following direc-
tors: Donald Grant, W. A. Barr, D. W.
Grant, A. F. Kinsman and Sam Grant.
The directors organized and elected Don
aid Grant president; W. A. Barr, secre.
tary, and Sam Grant, treasurer. Mr.
Grant says the work is going on satlsfac-
torily.
Mr.. R. Fl. Mclean, superintendent for
A. Y. Bayne & Co., bridge builders of
Minneapolis, is a guest at the Milwaukee
house. The piling for the foundations of
the lower Sun river bridge is about all
driven and the foundations of the bridge
will be completed next week.. Two cars
of iron are expected mex week. TIE
bridge will be ready for travel about May
10th. -a.
The miners of Snow creek have been at |
work all winter and have uncovered some
valuable properties. The Seifred broth |
ers have run q 200 foot tunnel in the Jen- /
ME Whipple and have a large amount of
high grade ore on the dump. They have |
been working six men all winter. Mr..
Briggs has over $50 tons of ore on the I
dump at the Ripple. Messrs Paul, Roehl
and Klenzie have had four men at work |
in their mine during the winter and have
made a splendid showing. The ore found
In this creek is in combination with crys-
tai quartz and is free smelling and a por-
ton of it free milling.