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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

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at this Office
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IL papers of value only to the owner Return
to this Office
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silk shopping bag containing purse. Finder will
please lea at The Eee Hive and receive reward.
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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

Butte now has cable railway, electric
line and steam motor cars in successful OPP
Grafton. On all lines the fare is ten cents
within the city limits and fifteen cents to
Meaderville, three miles from Main street.
Anaconda also has an electric street rail-
way. It plies between the city and the
town of Carroll, about three miles off. On
~ five cents is exacted for fares on the en-
tire line. It was built by Mr.. DAILY for the
benefit of the employees of the smelters and
it is great convenience. In Helena per-
son can ride on the street cars distance Of
about six miles all for five cents.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

A great change has recently come about
in Butte. Sunday in the Smoky City is no
what it used to be and the hundreds
do not know what to do with themselves.
All the gambling houses. the variety and
concert and beer halls close and to the
curious visitor Butte on Sunday is dull and
embarrassing. The very first sight that
presents itself in Butte is among the bad
lands through which all the street car lines
;nsss ass on Sne'f Wy 20 me BUS
bold and braze n and 90 about their streets
without any regard to decency in their at
tire. and nobody but stranger seems to
notice these trifiing matters, but they leave
a first impression" which generally holds.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

n GENERAL AGENTS SELLING THE PATENT
~ Adjustable shoe are making from 5000 to
5000 per year Canvasters 81 to 81 per day
Exclusive territory given. Address with two -cent
stamp. Consolidated Adjustable Shoe Company,
Salem, Mass,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

The district court docket at Butte is in a
very bad way. Mr.. Perrin w. Irvine, the
deputy clerk, is now preparing statement
of the number of actions registered, with
other matters. to be added to by Judge Nc
Hatton, who will have the statement pre-
sented to the legislature. The docket is
worse off than when Montana was admit
ted to the union. From the date of admis-
sion to Dec. 20, 200 civil actions were filed;
also 1873 criminal cases, and S. probate mat.
tiers. Nineteen insanity cases were disposed
of. During the entire year only twenty three
civil actions were disposed of, and the last
one settled was fled two years ago. Judge
Notation has worked faithfully and hard.
He held evening sessions of court and did
work which would have killed an ordinary
man. Ho had ono murder case which took
two weeks time. He is now off on short
vacation.
From the present outlook there is no in
dication that the docket will be caught up
with unless at least three judges are elected,
or unless it can be managed so that the
judges in smaller counties are required to
to assist. With 1O4 days of the year for
Sundays and thirty days vacation only 231
days are left for court sessions. The bust
ness in Butte increases steadily and it will
be actually necessary to have some ad-
ditional judges and at least two all the
time. With the beginning of statehood tho
docket Was not started anew as it was in
Lewis h Clarke county. The old numbers
were continued until now they run up to
No. :, 1874. The first action begun in Butte
was fled May, 1881.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

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WANTED-GRAND ARMY MEN. WE WILL
w nay $50 weekly for one order daily: some
thing new for live workers. Charles l.. Webster
d Co, publishers, 3 East Fourteenth strest. New
York City.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

SITUATIONS WANTED.
Advertisements under this head three, times
FREE.
CITUATION WANTED-AN EXPERINECED
y dressmaker wants work; cutting done by
tailor system of square measurement. No. 4OS
Brecke nridge, upstairs over Pacific Tea Co.,
room No, IS e
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31

The building boom in Butte continues.
It is said there were more brick used in
Butte this year than there was in Portland.
Oregon. A great improvement is noticed
in the quality of buildings being erected at
present. A new city hall is going up ON
Broadway. and on the same block the
Inter Mountain company il putting mp
fine looking three story structure. A num-
Der of Helena merchants are establishing
branch houses in Butte. Among them are
A. J. Davidson & Co., w. 81. Guthrie. and
Harris the clothier. n. A. Aeyendor6 was
over there Sunday looking for location to
put in . cigar store.
A second variety theatre was recently
built in Butte called the Avalon. It vas
never run successfully and has been closed
or attached ON several occasions by tho
sheriff. The place Vas again closed Sunday
and it IL not known whether another at
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
A Priest at AndersOnvfllo.

The only authorized representative
of the Christian religion who possessed
enough of it to visit to 10000 men in
the prison pen was Roman Catholic
priest, Father Hamilton, who came in
quite regularly, at least every Sabbath,
for several weeks, writes DR.. T. II.
Mann. He talked kindly to us. dis
playing much sympaty for our condi-
ton, and administering the last rites
of the church to all the dying ones
who would accept, without any regard
to individual beliefs. He stated that
strong efforts were being made to bring
about an exchange by both the North
and South, and that their efforts would
probably soon be successful. Upon the
strength of this report we concluded
to let our tunnel remain quiet for q
time, thinking that if exchange failed
we could have final recourse to it. The
exchange did fail; and heavy thun-
der shower loosened one of the timbers
of which the stockade was composed.
so that it settled into the shaft, dis
covering to the authorities our tunnel.
and they quickly filed it up.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

WHEN Bismarck was Prussian dele
gate to the Federal Diet at Frankfort
he took apartments in the house of a
patrician of that free city, who held
the Prussians in great repugnance; and
when Bismarck applied to him to have a
bell fixed up in his servants room he
answered that that was not in the
agreement, and that if Bismarck wanted
a bell he must get it fixed himself, and
at his own expense. A few days later
loud report of firearms was heard to
proceed from the delegates room. The
landlord, frightened to death, rushed
up to his lodger's apartments, and
bursting, all out of breath, into Bis
marck's study, found him seated at his
desk before great pile of documents
and calmly smoking his pipe. There
was pistol lying on the table, still
smoking at the barrel. "For the love
of heaven, what has happened?" ?" asked
the frightened landlord, more dead
than alive, Nothing, nothing" an
swered Bismarck, quietly. Don't dis
turb yourself; I was only calling my
servant. 1t is a very harness signal, to
which you will have to accustom your
self, for no doubt I shall want often
times to use it again." The bell was
fixed up next dav.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
STOCK AND FARM.

Stafford Republican: George Sell
fridge had over twenty three hundred
bushels of wheat this year.
From Lawrence: The peach crop in
most portions of Douglas county is far
above the average, notwithstanding the
report that the fruit crop of Douglas
county is failure.
Jewell City Republican: The CENT
ing is the fullest bearer this year
that is, the apples cling to the tree the
best, as the Missouri Pippin and Ben
Davis and Winesap are nearly all on
the ground.
Winchester Herald: J. F. Curry
threshed 475 bushels of wheat, by
machine measure, which, when weighed,
made 514 bushels. The wheat was
grown on twenty-five acres of ground,
and is of the full Castor variety.
Banker Lord, of Olathe, thus gives
his ideas: "Another great howl that
is going up from certain directions is a
compulsion to force cattle on the mar
ket through lack of means to keep
them through the winter. Kansas is
to-day, living field of verdnre, and
the pasturage for this winter will be
better than for many winters gone by.
1t seems to me that the principal end
of this cry is being swung by the cat
tlemen of the Cherokee strip, who hope
to incite sympathy that will result IN
an extension of time by the president
for vacation of the strip"
From Kansas City: As sample of
Wyandotte county prosperity in the
rural districts, people along the Kaw
valley, between Edwardsville and Bon
ner Springs, have the best figures yet
given out. In this vicinity the farmers
have banded into two alliances. namely.
the Kaw Valley and the Edwardsville
alliances. This year these farmers
planted potatoes, and in order to get
good prices, pooled issues, and, mp to
date, have succeeded in selling to Chi
cago parties $25O,OOO worth. They are
now getting S1.75 per bushel by reason
of the trust. Several parties went into
this district the first of the year and
paid 800 per acre for land, and after
paying S25 freight per carload to Chi
cago, their potato crop has yielded
enough to make the land stand them
nothing. One man has sold $4,000
worth alone, while another has sold po-
tatoes and garden truck to the amount
of $26,5
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Circleville item in Holton Tribune:
The Reformed Presby terian foundation
is being rapidly completed, and ere long
we will have three churches in our
town.
Oswego Independent: The Metho-
dist church at Hallowell was struck by
on last Saturday night. The
steeple was torn away and the roof bad
ly demolished.
Parsons Journal: The Methodist
people of Coffeyville are to have large
new brick church. The cost will be in
the neighborhcod of S1O,0G0. The
work is commenced.
Two of Abilene's leading churches
are without pastors, the Lutheran pull
PIT being empty because of Rev.
Porch going to Topeka, and the Grace
Reformed because of Rev. 7. F. Stauf-
fer's removal to Lincoln, Neb. The
latter place is soon to be filed by a
young theological student from Penn
sylvania.
From Hiawatha: The district con-
ference of the Christian church held
open air sessions in Mt. Pleasant grove,
near Reserve, in this county. Leading
di,ines from Nebraska and Kansas
were present. The camp meeting
was prolonged for three days, and
at least 10000 people vsrs IN attend
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

lcocoons here was good this season, and
quantities are coming in daily from all
parts Of the state. DR.. Buck. the COM
missioner here, says he feels assured
that great deal more silk will be made
here this season than was last year.
The doctor is very energetic and quite
enthusiastic in his work at the station,
and ls using all due economy in the
management Of the business, and seems
very sanguine in his expectations ot
ultimate success. He says the interest
among the people seems to be growing,
and more persons engage in raising
cocoons each year.
Topeka Capital: President George
T. Fairchild, of the state agricultural
college, wrs feeling quite elated over
the passage by congress, few days
ago. of bill which makes an appropri-
alton Of $4,000 year for the agricul-
tural colleges of each state; the bill
also provides that the appropriation is
to be increased $1,000 each year, until
the amount becomes 5000, which
will be appropriated every year there
after. This will almost double the fund
which will be placed at the disposal of
the Kansas agricultural college each
year, and will greatly enlarge its field
usefulness. The college has very
large endowment fund, growing out Of
the sales of public lands which were
allotted to the institution, but as the
rate of interest is decreasing the insti-
tuition has not been able to realize as
large a fund TO meet its current OK
penses as the officers deemed necessary.
The appropriation just made puts every
thing in good shape. President Fair
child says that the outlook for the
coming year is very promising. The
attendance from the western part of the
state, where there has been a failure of
crops, will probably fall of, but there
will probably be an increased number
from the eastern half There will be
two additions to the faculty. The chair
of physiology and veterinary science,
which has been vacant for some time,
and the new chair of physics and elec-
trical engineering will soon be filled.
Prof. E. A. Popenoe, who has been with
the college for several years, was re-
Gently offered an important chair in the
Texas Agricultural college at an in
creased salary, but he has decided to
remain with the Kansas Agricultural
college.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

A MYSTERY of New York is "Nor-
wegian, a thorough cook and house
keeper, with the best of references as
to character and ability, and now out
of employment" who has been adver-
tising for situation for nearly year.
Sometimes she receives as many as
one hundred letters day. Several
decoy letters have been sent to her ad-
dress by newspaper men desirous of
penetrating the mystery, but they have
been unsuccessful.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

A FRENCH paper announces that sue
cessful experiments with navigable bal
looms have recently been carried out at
the Mendon Arsenal. After number
of failures NJ. Renard has succeeded in
constructing an electric motor OF
seventy-horse power, of very small di-
mensions, weighing only 4SO kilogram-
mes, and working for ten hours. It is
believed that with the aid of this in
vention the problem of navigating bal
looms may be finally solved.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

The laborers of the blacksmith Zhur-
avleff, of Kiev, found conical bomb
and conceived the notion of using it as
an anvil. They knew what the thing
was, but they thought it was not
charged, because they had found it ly-
ing about freely. To make sure it was
not dangerous, they tried it several
times in the fire and it did not explode.
Hereupon they fitted it up as an anvil.
But as soon as they tried to forge a
piece Of iron on it, it exploded with
tremendous force, tore off the roof Of
the building and scattered the walls.
Luckily, the explosion tended upward
above the heads of the workingmen and
only three of them were slightly
wounded by flying fragments.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

An exchange has unearthed the fol-
lowing from the Leisure Hour of Oc-
tober 6, 1853. It shows that the pres
ent triumphs of water-gas were antici-
pated thirty-seven years ago: I'm this
age of wonderful discoveries one of the
most astonishing that has been for
long time announced consists of the
alleged conversion of water, by
simple magneto-electric process of de-
composition, into non-explosive illu-
minating gas. It is to superccde the
use of coal gas for lighting, heating,
and cooking, and Of coal fuel for loco
motives and steamboats,. About Cd per
], 1000 feet is, we believe, the estimate,
while even at this low figure there
would be room for considerable profit.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

AMERICAN naval officers who adopted
the cholera belt in the tropics find it so
beneficial that they often retain it in all
latitudes. 1t is simply broad land of
flannel worn night and day the year
around tight about the waist, SO as
to protect the stomach from sudden
changes of temperature. 1t is an ex-
cellens preventive of stomach dis
orders
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
COLBY,
KANSAS.

The reason given why birds do not
fall from their perch is because they
cannot open the foot when the leg Is
bent. Look at a. hen walking and see
it close its toes as it lifts its foot and
open them as it touches the ground.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

In Sarotov, Russia, An interesting
traveller on foot arrived recently. He
was q peasant, Nikolay Audukin by
name, and over seventy years of age.
He had been a serf, and in 1852 his
master had accused him of theft and
had caused him to be exiled to Okhotsk
in Eastern Siberia. As the crime of
which of which he was accused could
not be established, he was sent off as
a 2free exile;" that is, he was not kept
q prisoner or bound to penal service in
the place of his destination. For thirty
eight years he worked in Okhotsk IS q
tanner, and saved some money. Having
attained his SEVENTEEN year. he con-
ceiyed . desire to return to his native
land, and. Is he said. ito put away his
little bones among his own people when
his time i up in this world But b
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

was still hale and hearty aus. travelled
all the way from Okhotsk on foot. He
was on the road twenty-five months and
had many narrow escape from en-
counters with bears and wolves. At his
old home he has large family of chill
dren and grandchildren awaiting him
with open arms.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

AT Norristown, Me-. B. Logan, a
horseshoer, made nine miniature horse
shoes from silver 10 cent piece. Each
shoe has the number of holes usually
drilled in horseshoes of the ordinary
size, but, strange to say, the smallest
needle is too large to be used as nails
for these little wonders. Logan has
made affidavit that each and every one
of the miniature shoes were made with
the same hammer and punch used in
making the largest-sized real horse
shoes.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

THE Moldavian Princess Cusa is an
unworldly girl. Her young husband,
who died not long ago, left her all his
property, worth about 100000. Sheis
devoting all of her yearly income to
charities. and is a nurse in children's
hospital at Jassy. She is sister of
the Roumanian Minister. Theodore
Kosetti.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

JOHN MERRIMAN, of Rhode Island,
called himself q humanitarian, and
bought up lot of old horses, and
turned them out to pasture to end their
days in peace. He had got about thirty,
and the papers were eulogizing him,
when his wife got a divorce on the
ground of extreme cruelty. She proved
that he almost starved her to death.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

GAN after-dinner speec b." says
Daniel Dougherty, Should always be
brief. It ought never to exceed ten
minutes in length. 1t should begin
with some light pleasantly and end
in sentiment. The instant that you
have uttered all the thoughts you had
in mind sit down. Don't hesitate and
fish around for more ideas or reproduce
the old ones. If you do you will spoil
your ease of manner, and manner means
a good deal in an after-dinner speech.
If you say nothing pleasantly every
body at table will consider that you
have said it well. People at table do
not look for profound thought or solemn
propositions. And above and beyond all
things they object to being wearied."
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

A LOVER received the following note,
accompanied by bouquet of flowers:
''Deer -. I send u bi the boy buck
EFT of flowers. They is like my love
for u. The mite shaid menes keep dark.
The dog fen;l means I am ure slave"
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

TRADEMARKS were known in ancient
Babylon. China had them as early
as 1000 B. G. They were authorized
by Parliament in England in 1900.
Even Gutenberg, the inventor fprint-
ing, is said to have had lawsuit over
his trademark.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

The worker who pines for wealth
without being willing to work for it re-
CARDS the idleness in which it would
enable him to live as the acme of tenn
poral happiness. He has no idea of
money as great motive power to be
applied in enterprises that give health
full employment to mind and body. All
that he desires is to live feather-bed
life-to "loaf" luxuriously. People
who indulge in such sensuous longings
do not know how much more glorious
it is to tear affiuence from opposing
fate by main strength of will and infex-
ibility of purpose than to receive it as
a windfall. There is infinitely more
satisfaction in conquering fortune
with brain and muscle than was ever
experienced in obtaining or dissipating
the golden store that some thriftier
hand had accumulated.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

a JovIAL gentleman near Sheffield,
England, was lately fined e1OO, with
costs, as between solicitor and client,
for committing what the justice de-
scribed as a most outrageous contempt
of court by frightening a solicitors
clerk who was sent to serve writ upon
him. It was alleged that the gentle
man had set his hounds upon the clerk,
but the Judge held that the defendant
had not intended any serious mischief
should happen to the clerk, but merely
to frighten him. He was, therefore,
fined for his contempt Of court in at
tempting to frighten the server of the
writ
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

The Humane Society of Pittsburg
has turned up genuine wild boy. He
is colored, aged thirteen, and his name
is supposed to be Harry Allen. He
was brought from the mountains of Vir-
ginia because his parents, who lived
there in semi-civilized state, could not
keep him at home. He would run away
ever since he was old enough to climb
up the mountain side. Sometimes he
would be in the woods alone for q
month at time. He lived on berries,
roots and live birds, which he could
catch with the facility of a cat. These
birds he always ate raw. His hands
are like claws, and the pupils of his
eyes dilate like those of cat.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

The Spartans were trained to steal
and wear the same clothes in winter
and summer. They would have made
pretty good nineteenth century
trsmps.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

1Orby-IOur callDr6 revolver. rive DdllS
were sent through his chest, passing
entirely through the body and being
afterward picked up on the floor of his
room. Death ensued in few minutes.
Business cares had unsettled his mind
and he was temporarily insane. He
leaves wife and five children.
From Pleasant Ridge: During the
recent rain storm. the lightning struck
a pine tree in the yard of J. S. Van
winkle. Around the base of the tree
there were number of beehives. The
electricity ran down the tree until
within four feet of the ground, then
divided. Part of the charge struck of
at a tangent and demolished a bee hive
which stood a few feet from the tree.
The principal part OF the charge ran
into the ground on the opposite side.
The hive was scattered in all directions,
leaving the honey and bees shapeless
mass. The other colonies lost no time
in appropriating the honey. The bees.
after making fruitless efforts to defend
their stores, left for parts unknown.
Arkansas City Traveller: There are
quite a number of railroad men em-
ployed in the shops who have not
brought their families here because
they cannot secure houses to live in, il
the Second ward. The railroad compa-
ny, or superintendent, issued an order
recently, requiring the night and day
"callers" to call all employees residing
within three quarters of mile OF the
shops. Those residing outside of that
limit are obliged to watch as we'll as
pray, aud in order to avert that double
duty, there has been perfect rush for
every conceivable house in the Second
ward. Rent has advanced, and the de-
mand is still increasing. The fact is,
there is crying demand for fiftv more
new tenement houses in the Second
ward.
From Peabody: Our silk station is
running seven reels now constantly.
and would be operating moro if comps-
tent reelers could b bad The ceop q
- L.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

Stafford Republican: George Sell
fridge had over tweaty-three hundred
bushels of wheat this year.