The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-03
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SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
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Surveyor Kern and j.. p. Nelson are
moving their office into the Dunn block.
Hon. =. S. Hobson of Utica is a. guest
at the Park.
j. X. Cashier of Belt is in the city
looking satisfied. 1t is reported that the
$4,000 bond on the Paragon properties
has been closed.
Mr.. James Ravens desires to secure a
barrel of Montana's famous big potatoes,
each weighing. two pounds and over. He
will pay an extra price for them. Ad-
dress him at this city, care of the Park
hotel.
A subscriber at North Great Falls re-
ports that since the election a republican
has secured the monopoly of delivering
water, and In sympathy with the raise in
prices on other articles has increased the
price of water from 25 to 40 cents per
barrel. He says the Mckinley bill is
having some peculiar effects.
James Haven arrived from New York
yesterday. He is enthusiastic in regard
to the future greatness of Great Falls and
claims that the people here do not appre-
ciate all the good opportunities they
have. He will remain several days.
~ have not seen a town in Montana
that .is as lively as Great Falls. Your
people are wide awake and are going
ahead. Neither Helena, MissouIa, Boze-
man, Anaconda nor Butte is showing as
much enterprise as Great Falls" So said
Mr.. Conner, secretary of the Helena Y.
M. q. A., yesterday.
E. M. Corbin was arraigned before
Judge Huy yesterday charged with
breaking into a freight car and removing
therefrom numerous articles, packing
them in a trunk and shipping to How're
The trunk and goods were recovered by
Sheriff Hamilton at Havre and produced
as evidence. The case will be concluded
today.
Steve Pierce of the Ingersoll Mining
company of Neihart is among the visitors
in town.
John q. Wilson of Neihart is now con-
nected with the Nelhart Herald, which
promises to look upon the world next
Friday, The prospects for a paper in
that camp are good and we wish the en-
terprise success.
While a u. s. commissioner has now
authority to take final proof In land cases
1t must not be forgotten that the district
clerk, as heretofore, has the same author
ity. His rights In this respect are not in
the least abridged. ~.
Out of the first 100 lots for sale in the
town OF Willard at the narrow gauge de-
pot ~ have been sold. Mr.. Gahagan sold
yesterday five lots. There are six cot
tages being erected, each to cost $1,000,
besides other buildings to be started soon.
Herman Ludke, with the firm of
Holmes, Featherly & Calkins, arrived
Sunday from Helena and will attend to
the arrangement Of the paper stock for
the new house In the Collins-Leplev
block. The stock for the store is arriving
daily and will in a few days be open for
inspection.
The upper dam on Sheep creek, being
built by the Boston & Montana company'
will be 800 feet long, 10 feet wide and 81
feet high and built of hewn timbers,
There are now said to be eighty men
employed In the camp. Every stick of
timber in the vicinity large enough for
q railroad tie Is being cut out and run to
Great Observation-Disclosures.
The new wagon road which is being
constructed between this place and Nei-
hart is progressing splendidly. Already
four miles of the road have been COM
pieted and two miles OF this is over the
worst road to be encounted on the whole
route. Disinterested parties who have
been over the road thus far completed
say that the work has been done in SPLEEN
did shape.--Husbandman.
The North Ontario Mining company
was incorporated the past week BY M.
Davis, H. j. Leroy, Geo. Riggs. Carter
Barker and Ben D. Gardner. This prop
erty bodies the Bunker Hill and Mizpah
Iclaims at Barker, both on the Ontario
lead, which is fast becoming in promi-
nsnce as the most phenomenal silver lead
in Montana. The treasury stock has been
offered for five cents by the lncoporators,
who feel warranted In recommending 1t
as a splendid investment.
George sweeney has commenced an
action, through Peter NJ. Baum, his attor-
ney. against the Great Falls u Canada
Railway company to recover $25, 600 dam
ages for personal injuries which he
claims to have sustained last fall through
the negligence Of the company. Mr..
Sweeney was employed as a car repairer
and claims that while he was at work in
the yard with q car standing upon the
track an engine was carelessly and with
out notice TO him backed against the car,
permanently injuring him.
DR.. r. T. r. Gordon has returned from
az extended visit to friends n Michigan,
Now York, Minnesota, Dakota and other
states. Part of tho time was spent with a
brother in Michigan whom he had not
seen since coming to America. Wherever
ne has beer the Doctor says that the peo-
pie are interested in Great Falls and
many inquiries are made concerning her
resources. He further added that he did
10y VISIT a town which shows as much &C.
nvity, has AZ many resources Or as bright
a future as Great Falls.
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