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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
OWED TO THE FLOOR.
A Serious Accident to An Old PrOspecto
in the City Jail,

A Serious Accident to An Old Prospector
in the City Jail,
Peter Woods, an old-time prospector
about these parts, was arrested by Police
man Finnegan IN Tuesday night on the
charge of being drunk. At the city Jail he
was placed in a cot on top the steel cage.
During the night he got up, and imagining
he was at the Broadwater plunge. took a
header over the rail running around the top
of the cage. He struck the tloor head and
arms first and doubled up on the cement
pavement, where the police found him I'M
conscious some time afterwards. He was
placed on a bed in the office and DR.. Rock
man attended him. Woods had broken
his left shoulder blade and his
hip, besides badly cutting his head. He
was unable to give any account Of himself
until yesterday afternoon, when he was re-
moved to the Sisters hospital. He came
down from Rimini, where he has several
good prospects, about two weeks ago.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
AN EMF.

1t is nearly ten years ago since Walter
Besnnt published his best known novel,
"All Sorts and Conditions of Men" The
book hit the popular fancy, and the
charming idea OF a peoples palace of
delights was unanimously voted a dainty
bit of realistic Imagination. The author
called the book an "impossible story"
and most of the critics were content to
agree with him. The Spectator alone
saw no reason why the palace should re-
main the "insubstantial fabric of a Wis
ion" And, behold. in recent years. in
solid stone and limo there stands in the
Mlle-end road of London, England, a
veritable Peoples Palace. Select speci-
mems of 'our old nobility" presided over
it's birth, and its infancy was coddled
with all of kindly notices and
praise. The palace is not q success.
The East end is the East-end still, and
no pen descriptions of squalor or misery
can add to that simple statement. Tho
reasons for the failure are, perhaps, not
far to seek. Mr.. Besant, as becomes a
novelist of his standing, welded the
imagination and the funds of n million
aire. This handbook of romance did
not deal in paltry hundreds and thous-
ands. HIS paper palace was endowed
by a brewer owning half the saloons in
the east of London. Millions were at
it's disposal, and, when once a man or a
concern has millions, it is the old story
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
THE A OF Raj

Inc latest report OF lne bureau VI
statistics on the subject of Il foreign
trade is a straight knock down blow
from the shoulder for the advocates OF
prohibitory protection. The fact is its
showing would make an excellent cam
paign document for Gov. Campbell and
the democracy Of Ohio in the contest Of
the year. According to the theories Of
high tariff enthusiasts, England is our
deadliest commercial antagonist. The
idea has been carefully fostered that
she imports from us little but raw
materials and food products. Throw
down our Chinese wall Of restriction,
says Maj. Mckinley and his followers,
and this country would be flooded with
the manufactured products of English
labor. A most contemptuous and con-
temptible view of the skill and inventive
power of the American w%orkingman, but
it's effectiveness has frequently proved
to be in the inverse ratio to it's common
sense.
Its refutation lies in this report, clear
ly to be seer of all men. 1t is not only
in crude products, such as cattle, corn,
wheat, cotton, copper ore, flour, furs,
hops, oil cake, tallow, bacon, hams, and
a score Of others that Great Britain is
our best customer. No other country
buys SO much of our agricultural nipple
ments, builders hardware, saws and
tools, books, maps, engravings and other
printed matter, sewing machines, manu-
features of wood, leather and refined
sugar. Next to Canada, she purchases
most our miscellaneous cotton manufac-
lures. Australasia only outpaces her
in the demand for II manufactures of
tobacco. In estimation of our cotton
goods she yields to China and the West
Indies. She invests in a greater number
of our cars and carriages than any other
country but Latin America, and ranks
second to the West Indies in the pur-
chase Of our steam engines. All the
American nations combined buy fewer
of our sewing machines. Compared with
the rest of the world, England buys
three times as much of our leather and
four times as much of our refined sugar.
More than all this, we sell to Great
Britain more agricultural implements,
engines, sewing machines, manufactures
of wool, leather and refined sugar than
she sells to us.
And in the face of these figures we
are asked to believe that tho Amaricon
workingman, with all his education and
native ability, requires Mckinley pro-
lection. The whole thing is absurd. We
have invaded neutral markets with the
products of our labor, and in fair field
we have time and again wrested from
English manufacturers the prestige and
the hold that years of previous occupa-
ton had conferred upon them. With
out one shred of protection we have
done it. Better still, if this report
proves anything at all, it proves and
proves conclusively hat the products of
skilled American labor can enter the
home dominions of Victoria and GUST
native competition from success. That,
too, without protection and with freight
charges against US. Another national
campaign and the manufacturers
mutual ACKNOWLEDGEMENT association will
be compelled to make an assignment.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

house Sunday afternoon at $50 o'clock.
Mr.. Murphy is the foremost temperance
orator Of the world, and his success has
been truly wonderful. He uses only the
weapons OF love and appeals to each in,
dividual to abstain from the use OF
liquor for his own sake, of his own nc
cord. Mr.. Murphy does not mix politics
and law with his arguments and invita-
tions, nor has he harsh words for any
one The meeting Sunday will tax the
capacity OF the auditorium and the
effect cannot be otherwise than helpful
to all who attend.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
G. A. Il. Staff.

Department commander, Harry G. Kess-
Ter, Butte; senior vice commander.
John l.. Sloane, Mlssoula; junior vice COM
mander, John G. Duff, Fort Benton; assist
ant adiutant general, l.. +. Wyman, Butte;
assistant q~uartermaster general, II. C.
Yeager, Helena; inspector general, Lucius
whitney, Billings; chief mastering officer,
Pierce Hopes, Livingston; judge advocate,
IL. =. Howell, Virginia City; chaplain, j.
w. Sanderson. Rozeman; council of admin
lstration, }. W. Sanderson, Hozeman; Will
Kennedy. Boulder; Geo. ". Flanders, Boze-
man; Jas. II. Mills, Deer Lodge; j. ). Wis
Ter, Anaconda.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
HANCOCk'S BAIL FIXED.
In View of the Penalty for the Onense 1t
Is Placed at $4,000.

Al AcW VI VIC ohhity ioF bHS olItuSe IL
Is Placed at $4,000.
Judge Sanders, last night, fixed at Sd, 900
the bail of Stoney Hancock, accused of be-
ing one Of the highwaymen who robbed
''Patsy" Rice Sunday morning. The
amount of the bail wa placed at this high
figure IN account Of the severe penalty at
tached to the otfense of highway robbery.
The law says the punishment cannot be less
than five years in the penitentiary and the
judge in his discretion may make it a life
term. A woman named Mrs. Grant was
brought here from Chinook yesterday bv
Marshal Treat, of Great Falls. She was
wanted as a witness in the hold-up case,
and the men concerned had been in her
room on Saturday night. After question
ing her County Attorney Nolan came to the
that she did not know ANYTHING
that would shed any further light on the
matter.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

A RECENT blue book gives the mineral
statistics of Great Britain and Ireland
for last year. The value of the
Irish product was slightly over $1,000
900, nearly three-fourths of which is
derived from slate and slate slabs, clay,
sand and gravel, Coal of the value of
some $4,000 was mined, and iron ore
and ironstone yielded s16O,85o. The
output of English minerals for tho year
stands at S;333, 109,2l0; of Welsh, at s74.-
795,94o, and of Scotch at 353, 528, 800.
The coal production of England was
worth in round numbers S261,O 600, 900.
Wales figured up 500 100000, and Scot
land, Sal 100000. That is a grand show
ing, but the supplies are far from mex
haustible, AS the Briton may some day
discover.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
HELENA, MONT, JULY %. 1891.

Montsnians abroad will always find THR
DAILY INDEPENDENT Oh file At their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New
York; West. Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace,
Tan Franoisco; McDermott, Butte; Leland Hotel.
springfield. iii.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

Mr., WILLIAM CLEAvER WILKINSON is
the latest recruit in the ranks of Ameri-
can poetry. From his Epic of Saul we
quote a passage without the metrical
division of the lines. But, seriously,
Saul, you overwork the idea of con
science. What is conscience? Mere
sell-Will assuming conscious airs. A
term caJoles you into making it a point
OF moral obligation to be stiff. Timber
up, Saul, and be ADJUSTABLE And this
is epic poetry. Timber up, Saul, in
deed!
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

THE earl of Rosehery is chairman OF
the London county council, and the
marquis of Butte is mayor of Cardiff,
Wales. The upper ten are not all bac-
carat players.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

WITH excellent good sense the pope
repudiates the scheme for perletuatlng
foreign traditions and languages in this
country,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
a False Alarm.

Joe Esslick, watchman at the county Jail.
walked Under Sheriff Richards late on Jucs
day night and told him some of the nris.
oners were evidently trying to dig theil
way out. Richards listened and distinctl :
heard the scratching AS If the prisoners
were digging through the wall. Both mar
removed their sho s and crept stealthilv II
the rear of the cage. Nothing was MOVING
there. Then Richards went outside and te
the rear of the building to see If some one
wns trying to cut in. There he found n lot
OF bill posters putting np circus pictures
III" scraping of the brush made the sus-
p~icious noise.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
THE INDEPENDENT

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made BY registered letter, check, or postal or ex-
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ishing Company.
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1t their homes or place of business can order by
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report cases of irregular delivery promptly.
Advertisements, to insure prompt insertion,
should he handed in before 8 -. m.
Rejected communication not returnable I'M
less postage is enclosed.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
Fresh MackereI.

See the display Of Csc bargains in tn, north
window al Tho rec Hive,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

FRANCIS MURPHY will begin "A series of
gospel temperance meetings at the opera
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23

Boston Fish Market, Is North Warren st,
Telephone. 81.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
The French woman's Jewels.

from Wt otWtNtTS' Uethty
Sara Bernhardt has set all Paris crazy
by her African complexion and Egyptian
Jewels. 1t has been the dream of her life
to play ''Cleopatra," and for years she has
been collecting jewels, girdles, armlets,
bracelets and necklaces.
Every dress consists of diaphanous
piece of material seven yards long, embel-
lished with metallic or silk embroidery.
This long strip of gauze is wound and
draped about her lithsome form and held
in place at the hips, belt and shoulders
with magnificent fasteners, brooches and
girdles, incrusted with stones OF every con-
Ceivable shade. Through the garment
other jewels, buckles and embroideries,
used to ornament and secure an under
garment, shine.
In her hair and about her fingers, arms
and ankles bandeaux, bangles and brace
lets gleam, and the sandals in which her
feet are slipped are also finished with
rainbow effect. Row after row and chain
upon chain of Jewels encircle her breast,
and the unparalleled display Of opals, tur-
quoise, topaz, scarabees, corals, sapphires,
amethysts, rubies, sardonyx, malachites
and pearls produce the almost overpower'
ing sense of luxury.
One dress, an Egyptian robe, is certainly
most wonderful creation. The material
in itself is Of gold colored gauze, appliqued
with design of laurel leaves. The belt
of pearls and torquoise that holds the deli
cate fabric in at the waist also secures q
barbaric drapery made of q tigers skin al
the hips. Fancy the contrast of embroid
cred gauze and tigers fur! For a head
dress she wears skull cap of pearls
fringed with coral and turQuoiSe.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
THE b. ~ o. TERMINUS.

The bill to define the route of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad in the District of
Columbia. which has been favorably re-
ported to the Senate, is one Of great local
importance. II II finally becomes n law
il will involve the expenditure by the
railroad of nearly two millions of dollars
in Washington. by the route laid down
in the bill the Washington branch tracks
will leave the present route at the new
round house, thence in the rear of the
Deaf and Dumb Institution to the inter-
section Of Boundary street and Delaware
avenue. The Metropolitan branch will be
Strengthened so as to enter the city on the
same tracks. The route will then be
along Delaware avenue to ID street and
thence, making loop, the tracks will
come back to Delaware avenue at f street.
A splendid new depot building will be
erected facing on New Jersey avenue lust
north of the present building, which will
DE removed.
Trains from the West, for instance, can
then run into the station and run around
the loop and proceed to Baltimore without
turning or backing. 1t will thus be an
infinite convenience to the company and
enable them to land the enormous num-
ber of passengers on an Inauguration day
without difficulty or danger.
Tic advantage to the city will be the
splendid improvement of the depot prop
erty, the safeguards which will be thrown
around the tracks for the protection of
life, the removal of one-half of the pres
A. A.. L., ,.u
Of the city and the general improvement
of the railroad facilities for the people.
Under the bill North Capitol street,
which is now closed, will be opened and
carried over all the tracks by handsome
yiaduct. Massachusetts, avenue and II
and Boundary streets will be carried over
the tracks in the same manner, and ap-
proaches to these viaducts from other
streets are required. The entire length of
the road in the city, when at street grade
or in open cut, is to be protected by an
iron railing upon stone parapet with
protected openings at street crossings. Al
present the linear feet of streets occupied
by tracks in the city is 1000. Under the
senate bill this will be reduced to 5,0jC
feet.
The change is required to be completed
by January /, 1891
Upon the whole the plan appears to be
greatly for the benefit of the people oi
Washington, and for the promotion of thC
public interests.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
FaCtSf0r the SkeptiC
Multitudes Cured Of Their Ills.
THE LAME, HALT AND The BLIND
RESTORED BY A MYSTE-
RI0US POWER.
FREE TO ALL.

The wonderful cures by Drs. French
that are attracting such crowds to u.
A. r. Hall every morning from 10 to
/ !, have set people to thinking. The
stories told there also shed light upon
the tortures and indignities to which
the afflicted are subjected by certain
physicians called REGULARS" for the
treatment of diseases peculiar to fe-
male organism.
Mrs. Duke, 715 Fourteenth street,
came forward yesterday. She had
been treated some two weeks ago for
the headache saying: ~ have suffered
for nine years; have used all kinds of
medicines, tried doctors and doctors
and electricity, without any percepti-
BILE benefit. Your treatment alone has
given relief" and her face gave evil
dence of the wonderful change that
had taken place. A very remarkable
case treated was that of a lady 30
years old. She had rheumatism in the
arm and shoulder; she could not lift
the arm or bend the wrist In less than
FIVE minutes she was entirely cured,
and she raised her arm high above her
head. Again the people beheld Mrs.
Siggins of 80 II street struggle to get
up the steps with her crutches. Her
knees were stiff, painful and swollen.
The cords were drawn. For eight years
she had suffered and waited. Fourteen
doctors had dosed her. The more she
dosed the more she suffered. She paid
their bills and wore her crutches. Ten
minutes yesterday-onlyt ten minutes
and she shouldered her sticks and
walked down from the stage, out of
the hall, down the steps and across the
street, and her son followed her, over
joyed to see his mother cured at last.
Twelve to twenty persons are treated
free every day at q. A. r. Hall, and
their office, 1925 F street, is crowded
with applicants for treatment. The
doctors say the present ntindications are
that their business here will exceed
Pittsburg, st. Louis, Philadelphia,
Buffalo or even Boston. They cure all
forms of disease, but will in no case
take an incurable person for treat
ment. Go to q. A. r. Hall and see for
yourself Don't be prejudiced by any
would-be adviser. Consultation at the
Office, 1926 F street northwest, free.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
OVER THE NUTS AND WINE.
Love may he foolish, but Love knows better
Than to have any faith in a type.written lett

Love may he foolish, but Love knows better
Than to have any faith in atype.written letter.
-N6O York Herald.
s1f your son s such natural-born liar why
don't you make u lawyer OF hims"
ale lies too well for that lie should be an
explorer. Puck.
Goslne-Miss Roxy is little chic, doncher
know.
Dollcy-Yes, but not spring chic.-Rarper's
Bd@df.
match. The winner will prove that the race is
sometimes, II not to the swift, at least to the
fast.-LoaCeH Courier.
"Why don't You stop asking Max to your re-
ceptionsy lie never comes"
n know that, but do 1t for the fun OF see
ing what new excuse he will invent. File
DeHde BidtteT.
Nelly-Don't you think, Grace, dear, that Mr..
Slowpate IL man of very agreeable speechi
Grace-Indeed l do, Nell. His income Is
S25O,0O year.
Mr.. Susceptible (seating his partner at table,
suppose some OF the other girls OF that set
will go OF now. The
Dean Highrite beginning to say grace)-
The Lord be praised for all His mcrcies.-
Kate Fieid's Washington.
Mr.. Bellows Ito Chicago widow TO whom he
had once been married)-And so your late
husband is deadS
Widow-Yee,
Ut IL needless TO NsK YOU, OF course, III he
was willing to die?"-J. ". j.
Photographer--I'm sorry, madam, but I'm
afraid must ask yon to cit again. The pic.
tures have Just taken are by no means salts
factory.
The Lady lin extreme evening garb)-oh,
I'm very sorry. What's the matter with themY
Photographer-A triflc too much exposure,
The Iady-sirl How dare you say such a
things-Pick Me Jp
Young Wife--Just to think, Harry, dear, my
new hat blew into the street to-day, and was
run over by three wagons, four carts and q
cable earl
Iarry-IIumph! That means new hat, of
course.
Y. W.-No, truly. It was rescued and took
IL to Nine, Wayuppes, who was perfectly
charmcdl The wagons and things had mangled
II into the most fashionable shape imaginable,
and II Is to be trimmed lust as IL IL. You never
saw anything no utterly etching!-Phts6urq
Chronicle.
at is true that father has been soldier"
| remarked Miss Gushe "and sometimes, when
| he comes home feeling well, he says lie doeen' I
think any more of killing man than dude.
| now?n
~ don't think will prolong my call,' he
| managed TO say, and, grabbing his hat, he got
| himself outside the house.
Possibly he was afraid, in his secret heart
her father might take him for a man.
| Gsazam-lt is said that many book is sold
| by its title.
Bunting-Many American girls are sold by
titles, too.--SmiM GrGy ii C0,J Monthly.s
| The Latest boston Caper.
"oh, where. do You come from, my pretty
| maidfn
81 came from the Hub sweet sir" she said
"And what IL your calling my pretty maid >
II am school-teacher, sir" she said.
| And whore are you going, my pretty maldl
no teach the poor Indian, sir, abe said
"Thcn cannot marry you, my pretty maid.
"Thanksl The Sioux are not all dead yet,
she said.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
Want to Set Aside the Sale.

A bill in equity was filed to-day by
Anna c. Crutchfield and Shirley NJ.
Gathright, through A. b. Hallam, against
Rachel NJ. Hewett, Walter f. Hewett and
others for an order to vacate the sale of
certain properties situated in square 403
of which the parents of the plaintiffs,
Arthur and Elizabeth Shepherd, were
possessed. The property frontcd on New
York avenue and Ninth street northwest,
and on June @, 1878, n paper purporting
to be deed of trust was placed on record
to secure the payment of five 81 900 notes
The deed was also purported to have been
executed by the mother of the plaintiffs,
but before her death she denied and re-
pudiated the signing of the deed.
The deed was represented as having been
executed before q justice of the peace named
Kelly, whom the plaintiffs claim was
not a justice Of the peace. They state fur
ther that the trustees sold the property
and subsequently assigned it to Robert II.
Hewett, who has since died, and whose
heirs and administrators are the defend
ants. They claim that the sale is void be-
cause there was not any advertisement of
the sale in ''some newspapers" but only
in one newspaper, and that the notice was
not properly signed, nor the sale made in
the required manner,
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-21
OPPOSE THE ASSESSMENT BILL.


Trades Unions Declare II is Neither
just Nor Equitable.
Opposition has come to light to the new
Assessment bill recommended by the
District Commissioners, the Federation of
Labor having placed itself on record as
opposed to the bill. At meeting held
last night twenty.four different trades
were represented, and upon the question
being put but one vote was cast against
the resolution.
The meeting discussed the two assess
ment bills now pending before Congress,
the speakers contending that neither the
present nor the proposed plan of assess
ment are equitable. The Butterworth
bill provides for equalizing assessments by
making the basis the selling value of the
property assessed. Another point which
was discussed was the fact that the Butter
worth bill provided for concentrating the
responsibility for the assessment upon the
Assessor.
Another reform organization will prob
ably discuss the Assessment BILL the
Single Tax Club having already appointed
a committee to report on the bill.