The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-18
CITY NEWS AND GOSSIP,
Tbs School for Cooking Pies and
Everything Else Of
tho Kind.
How Schuyler Crosby Once Saved
the Life of Mrs. Gordon
Cumming.
TrlondIess Dogs Must Fin IN Owner or
tho Law Exacts the Death Pen
atty ON Them.


atty ON Thorn.
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience. and live with
out heart.
We may live without friends; We may live with
out books;
Bot civilized man cannot live without cooks.
-Meredith's Lucille.
Miss Burge intended to have everything
ready yesterday morning to start q class but
found 1t necessary to postpone the opening
Of her school until next Monday morning.
She is q very bright. interesting young lady,
enthusiastic in her work, and has a most
profound respect for the appetites of man.
kind. She is a graduate of a cooking school
of national reputation, located in Philadel-
phiA, Pa. Although young, she has had a
great deal of experience, both of a practical
and theoretical nature, in the line Of o
ing. Ths young lady came all the way
from the good Quaker city for the purpose
of instructing those who are not already
adopts in culinary matters, and even those
who have had years Of experience may learn
many practical lessons.
Pretty much everybody has read of the
Gordon-CumminR baccarat scandal, and of
the baronet's subsequent marriage with
Miss Florence Garner. Most people here,
however, have forgotten the facts con-
nected with the drowning Of the brides
father and mother, and the narrow escape
of tho young girl who has now become Mrs.
Gordon-Cumming and of the part played
by a former governor of Montana and resi-
dent of Helena in that affair. One fine
summer day about fifteen years ago, Com
modore Garner's yacht was anchored of
Stapleton, Staten island, but with
all sails set. In the cabin were
the commodore, his wife and three
children, John Schuyler Crosby, q maid
and several others. A sudden squall turned
the rakish little yacht over OF her side, i'm
prigoning those below decks. Commodore
and Mrs. Garner were drowned, with the
maid and two or three others. Crosby es-
capped through the cabin window and saved
Florence Garner by drawing her out after
him. The other children were rescued in
like manner. Crosby broke open the sky
light and made an effort to save Mrs. Gar
ner, but the piano had turned over or her
and he could nob move it while
under water. John Schuyler Crosby, the
hero Ct the OCCASION. afterwards became
governor of Montana territory through APP
pointment by President Arthur, and is we'll
known to most people in Helena as we'll as
those Of some outly ing camps.
Very few people are aware that the dog
catcher is around and that canine pets
caught running about without a license
ARE liable to get into the pound. That
isn't the worst of it. If they are not re-
deemed within three days they are killed.
The dog law, like other kinds of law is no
respecter of persons. All kinds III condi-
items are shot. 1t is something of a pity
too. as some of the dogs caught on the,
street are very fine animals. For instance.
there is now in the pound two %greyhounds,
one spaniel and a setter. Several others
who might be classed as genus hobo are
there, too. Most of them. if not redeemed
by their owners to-day, will be shot to-
morrow. Among them is one of the grey
hounds. All dogs taken to the pound are
kept three days, during which time the
owners can reclaim them by paying 50,
pound charges. and twenty-five cents a day
for board.
When Gov. Toole sent Dudley Du Bose to
Choteau to preside over that and adjoining
counties, the farmers up in that country
looked at him, sized him up for a tender
foot, and thought they could have all man
ner of fun with him. Men summoned on
juries thought they would attend court il
convenient, and otherwise not. A few we'll
directed fines changed their ideas of the
young judge. One day during the recent
term of court at Fort Benton a witness in
one of the cases went out shortly
before his name was called and
got very drunk. When he
was called on to testify he had to be hunted
up, and presented himself in the witness
chair in no condition to tell anything
Judge DuBose directed the sheriff to take
the offender out of court and give him n
half hour with his head under the horse
pump. The sentence was carried out and
when the witness reappeared he was very
much damper but a great deal soberer. The
folks up that way have learned that they
cannot play horse with the young judge
II was Watching a game Of poker once. a
Helena, Mont, says h writer in the Detroit
Free Press. The players were a gambler
(whom l knew slightly and who bore the
sobriquet of Lucky Billy, and two miners
Suddenly after the hands were dealt anG
the players had 'ohipped in and draw
cards, Lucky Bill, with perfect oalmnes
and not 80 much of a shadow of change il
the expression of his face, laid his cards or
the table, took a note book from his poke
and deliberately wrote a few words. Ther
he tore out the leaf and handed it to me
Look at that when you get home tonight
His voice was steady and did not betray a
particle of excitement. thrust the paper
aimlessly in my pocket and gave the mat
ter hardly q second thought. The play
progressed. Lucky Bilrs face was un-
yielding as n stone and entirely inexpres
sive. He noticed everything, however, and
his vigilant eye did not miss the sliRhtes'
move on the part of the other players.
He was a typical gambler and one of th'
most successful of his guild. Hence hi
sobriquet. At Inst there was an alteration
between the two miners. Hot word ensuec
and revolvers were drawn. Some OF tn,
bystanders interfered at this point and II
the scufle that ensued I heard the SHARP
whistle and sping of a bullet. Lucky Bill
his good star in the descendant. fell to tn,
floor and expired without a groan. He hat
haap killed nv the aCcidental diachnrue of