The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-05
JOTTINGs ABOUT TOWN.
Tho Helena Turn ysrein give a ball TO
night at their hall.

Tho Helena Turn vsrein give a ball to-
night at their hall.
Little Lord Fauntlsroy will DO played nj
a matinee this afternoon.
The awitchback around Iron Ridge tun.
mol will bo completed to-day.
Next Monday the county commissioners
are TO meet in regular quarterly session.
The body of Mrs. Charles II. Leith, who
died suddenly In Sioux City, Ia., will reach
Helena to-day.
From the way work IL progressing on tho
new county jail 1t IL likely the building will
be- completed by Jan. /.
james u. Sanders has sold 10 Cyrus -.
Bowser, OF Butte, II lot in the Northern
Pacific addition for goo.
The county poor farm is to be supplied
with city water, pipes having been laid
from Helena 10 the poor house.
Nick Williams, the former and capable
manager of ths Coliseum ~theater, has again
returned to take the management.
Miss benjamin gave an illustrated tom
peranco lesson TO a number Of children.
members OF the Loyal Temperance union,
ut the Denver block yesterday afternoon.
Mayor Klsinschmidt says he hopes the
council will take some action Tuesday
night on tho proposed ordinance for the
measuring of wood and the weighing OF
coal.
!steol gratinga are being put in the rear
windows of the CITY jail by Alderman
Wilmer. to prevent outsiders passing in
prohibited articles, such as whisky,
tiles. etc.
Mrs. +. A.. Warner, of Ut. Nicholas,
Florida, writes that she will send southern
moss for Christmas decoration to all who
Will pay the postage. This amount to if-
teen cents Il pound. "
Commissioner Carter, Of the general land
ttjr in. n if Srnk mis- LAAa ~rl
that when a person takes up less than 1c0
acres under the homestead act he exhausts
his rights to homestead land.
Reports from the counties in the state
are being received Mt the attorney generals
Office giving statistics regarding irrigation.
This data will be used in the irrigation
congress called to convene at Helena next
February.
The rattle for a gold watch, at Alderman
Hartwig's, for the benefit of Mis-. Ham
mond. resulted in two people throwing
forty-two each. The tie was shaken of
yesterday and the watch was won by Mrs.
j. j. Hindson.
A young woman who said she was Annie
Wilson, of Bonner, took an overdose OF
morphine at the Merchants hotel Thursday
night. but her life was saved by Drs. Leiset
and Salvail. Dependency over bad health
was given as the cause.
The school election to-day will be held at
the Central building, on Warren street.
from II p. m. to sunset. 1t is for the
purpose of authorizing the purchase OF a
lot near the Northern Pacific depot and
one north Of the motor line near the
Broadwater addition, on which to erect
school buildings.
Despite the stormy evening a fair congre-
CATION was at the Christian church to par
tioipate in the long service last night
and to listen to a most elo-
quent and interesting sermon by tho pas
tor who took rs his theme the words of
Peter, found in acts 10, "a and 81, "Of a
truth / perceive that God il no respactor of
persona" This evening his theme will be
Indifference and everybody is cordially
invited to go and listen to a discourse upon
''the greatest stumbling block to tho Gauss
Of Christ in oil this western country"