The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-10
CITY news AND GOSSIP.
a Grand Testimonial Benefit Ar
ranged for Manager J. c. Rem
ington on Saturday.
The City's New Dumping Ground
The Coming Foot Ball
Game.
sonething About the Duties OF . Cor-
oner-Tennis Club Officers
Elected.

Plans for the benefit to Manager Reming-
+on have been completed and the entertain
,Yrent will take place next Saturday evening
at Ming's. A programme OF more tnan
usual attractions has been arranged IN
which local and professional artists WILL
participate. The Capital City band Will DO
present with twenty pieces; Mrs. Cohen Will
render several vocal selections; the we'll
known local trio, Messrs. DeLestry, Clark
and Bennett, and the double German quar-
tette will add several attractive lnstru-
,oenta1 and vocal numbers, and the famous
ladies', orchestra will be present to delight
the audience Other features WILL be the
only appearance this season OF the versatile
canadian Mr., L. A. Babcock, the banjo
solos of Mr.. Frank Morton, the eccentric
Irish comedians the German Brothers, the
colored ouartette and Messrs. Germ and
Davenport of Great Falls and Miss Blanche
Granger. This list of names, with others
not vet given, assures the artis-
tin success Of the entertainment.
II will be very largely attended, not only
for the endowment of the evening, but for
the purpose Ol Suo"lAEo uPGASSAooAOAA AoA
Mr. Remington's excellent management of
the opera house during the last season. The
patrons of the theatre never we're treated
more courteouslv or given more attention.
Tickets for the benefit may be procured
anywhere in town and the reserve seat sale
will open at Pope g. O'Connor's, on Wednes-
day.
The devotees of lawn tennis met, yester-
dav, at Bach Cory's store, and elected the
following officers: Stephen Carpenter,
president; J. y. Cory, secretary and treas
urer. and X. S. Hill, J. U. Cory and Stephen
Carpenter, executive committee. The ten
mis- season is now fairly at hand and the
lovers of the royal game in Helena mean to
have their share of the sport.
The INDEPENDENT has been requested to
publish the following section from the Re
vised Statutes concerning the coroner's
duties:
The coroner shall hold an inquest upon
the dead bodies of such persons only as are
supposed to have died by unlawful means,
or the cause of whose death is unknown.
When he has notice of the dead body of
any person supposed to have died by I'M
lawful means, the cause of whose death is
unknown, found or being in the county, it
shall be his duty to summon forthwith six
citizens of the county to appear before him
at time and place named.
The longest instrument ever recorded in
: the clerk and recorders Office is the lease
oF ND @bo &C. of iao
by the st. Paul, Minneapolis d Manitoba
company to the Great Northern Railway
company. 1t contains the entire list of
property and covers ffty-three pages in a
17x13 record book. The law requires that a
similar copy shall be made in every county
in the state in which the road owns proper
ty. The lease runs for ninety-nine years.
Street Commissioner Brady has about
completed the wagon road to the new city
dump up in Lime Kiln gulch. and has made
good job of it, though under any circum-
stances it is hard road, the dumping place
being at high elevation. The gulch is
tirst-class for the purpose, but the city
secured very small portion of it for $1,000
The entire gulch might be purchased fol
for any other purpose. Considerable linn,
has been quarried there, but it is nearly al
gone now. 1t is in this gulch that tn.
street commissioner obtains the rock which
is now being used in grading and refllinf
Main street, and while the rock itself costs
nothing it was learned incidentally that tn,
hauling costs $50 per day.
Jack Wilson, who has charge of the mat
ter of getting up foot ball team to pla.
with the California University team, say
he has seen about half a dozen men VIII,
will go in for the event. He anticipate
some difficulty in securing eleven men VIII
will go in for practice. A challenge ha
been received from the Great Falls team
The Tribune, of the Cataract city. believ
ing that Helena will be unable to organic
team, suggests that tho Californians &
there and try them. "We have" it says
1.-TWO clubs-the first organized in the state
Both are excellent clubs and they are i
practice. Some of the members are exceI
tionally strong men, having been trained i
the clubs of Glasgow, Oxford and othe
old country places" If Helena canno
succeed it is thought Great Falls and th
college boys can be induced to play here
Helena, though Mr.. Wilson has not give
up the effort to secure a local team.
Yesterday was..F Flower Missionary and Il
ladies of the w. G. I. U. visited the jai
and hospitals and similar places, distril
uting reading material, flowers and ne,
cards with satin bows each bearing bill
lical inscription. It was really shamefl
that the ladies who called at the city 10
could not have found the den in a MOI
cleaniy condition. The stencil was stif1in
but much needed sanitary improvement
are now going on there.
party of sixty business men will lea
st. Paul on the 10Th, over the Great Nortl
ern road, for trip to Helena and Butt
Ihey will be out on visiting tour, thong
atls possible that some of them will ha'
AN eye to business on the way.
Prohibitian Meeting Tonight.
Hon. Samuel Dickie, chairman of the n
tional prohibition executive committe
VIII speak at Ming's opera house at
O'CLOCK this evening. Mr.. Dickie is wide