The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-19
From thursdays Daily.

from thursdays Daily.
A daughter was born to w. j. Minar
and wife Of Fort Benton on the 10th.
The ice looks as if it we're preparing to
make a final jump over the Black Eagle
falls.
Mr.. Sparkling, late of Calgary, N. W. r.,
has accepted ii position in the City Meat
Market with WI Kennedy.
A large two-story hotel is being built
on the vest side, near the main track. 1t
will accommodate many of the railroad
boys.
Messrs. Miner Il Boardman arrived to.
day to observe the growth of Great Falls,
and probably to make more profitable in
vestments.
Chas. Bristol, a merchant of North Da-
kota, is in the city looking for a business
location. lie is favorably impressed with
Great Falls and is likely to locate here.
St. Patrick's day was celebrated at
Sand Coulee by a ball in the school-house.
All present enjoyed greatly the dancing.
A good supper was served.
The graders on the copper smelter
branch are visible from this side of the
river. Lower down many graders are at
work with blasting powder on a large cut
ting.
School elections will be held here and
throughout Cascade county on Saturday,
April 5. In this district a successor to II.
p. Rolfe is to be chosen, as the other two
trustees hold over,
The latest Townsite company's sales
are as follows: John Erickson and John
Olson, lot 3, block $50, $500; j. Shipton,
lot 6, block 1872, $500; Maggie Wetzel,
lots II and IL, block 497, 5000: lot 3, block
$40, $500; Charles Adams, lot 10, block
1876, $400.
Track laying was resumed yesterday
on the Neihart branch, near Belt, and
will be continued until the road is COM
pleted to Monarch, and probably to Nei-
hart. The Zig trestle that has delayed
operations Is now completed.
Colonel Curtis of Helena has many
friends here who are not pleased at the
steps taken as a pretext for his removal.
He is an efficient postmaster and will
leave with honor a post in which he has
handled thousands of dollars and conduct
ed business of great extent.
George Currie, Jr., of Grafton writes a
letter to the American Wool Reporter, in
| which he says under date of February 8,
that the outlook for the wool growing
business could not be better. The fleece
appears to be longer and better grown
now thal at the shearing season last year.
The increase will be larger in proportion
than last year, and everything has favor
ed it.
Hereafter the Neihart stage will 90 d.
rectly from Great Falls through to that
camp, leaving here on Sundays. Tuesdays
and Thursdays. A lay-over is made at
Mann's, so that for the present it requires
two days to go to Neihart, and all mail
goes through in the same time, which is
II great Improvement on the old schedule.
Douglas Huy says the large trestle is
finished and in less than two months
trains will be running to Martins. Track
laying was resumed yesterday, The ma
terial is on hand for two ~trestles that are
to be built. Douglas came in to hire 40
to so men for night or day work. He is
offering 81 for day work.
The John Williams who claimed to
be II ranchman from Great Falls, and who
by his story was robbed of $1,000 in St.
Paul, is not from here at all. He is a
sheep-herder from Choteau, and not q
ranch-owner, as the st. Paul papers said.
He was in tow some days before he left
for St. Paul and there fell into the bad
company who robbed him of his cash.
The report that Hon. Jere Sullivan Of
Fort Benton, collector of the port, came
to Great Falls yesterday to select a site
for the custom house and government
building to be erected here, seems to be
a mistake. This will not be done until
Tom Carter gets his ideas Strengthened out
and recommends a public building for
this city, where the customs Office must
be. Col. Sullivan came up to meet Hon.
7. c. Power, Billy Jacks senator from
Montana, who was expected to go east
yesterday over the Great Northern, but
did not.
The new Great Northern folder shows
Great Falls as a growing railroad center.
There is first the great trunk line from st.
Paul. Then there is the Sand Coulee road.
Branching from this is the Belt Noun
tain road, which crosses the line into Fer
gus county, The Great Falls Il Canada is
seen heading for the north. 1t is note
worthy that on this map the line passes
through Choteau, Bynum and Dupuyer.
1t has a branch to the Sweet Grass hills,
and stops at L~ethhridge, whence there is
track to the Canadian Pacific at Medicine
Hat. Lines are marked from Butte to An
aconda and Deer Lodge. A line trends
from Assinniboine westward, but this is
only projected and is intended to show
that there will be a Pacific extension,
which every IL expects will be built
from Great Falls.