The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-18
THE S-HADOWGRAPHER.

cent difficulties of tho Marquis de Mors
started a few intereatinR reminisoenoss
Ihore are many Montanians who will "a
call the atRlwnrt form. the proud carriage
the bright eyes, black mustache and hroat
back Of the marquis. The New York Har.
aid OF tho 10th printed an accurate pictur,
OF the nobleman in the costume Of . Mon
tana cowboy. He was attired in the con'
yentional sombrero and buckskin chappar
ala, tho only inconeruity being q stripct
jersey. At least We assume the stripe,
from the picture. The poise of the heat
and dainty mustache at least will brinG
recognition to those Montanians who knew
the French high roller" A ~well-known
member OF the Montana club, while chat
ting about the marquis yesterday, said
HE was a thoroughly good fellow, Will
all the elements Of the genuine w~esterner,
His erect carriage was without the artificial
effort common to the dude crowd. and with
out knowing him he would at once impress
you as a man of noble blood as we'll as a
man of brains. He was a thorough gentle
man, always courteous and never assuming
airs over his interiors. / have seen him
often in crowds of cowboys around Miles
City and he was always the Same elegant
and polished cavalier. The boys all liked
him because he had the elements of manli-
ness and all were sorry when no left"
by the way, the Herald of the same issue
had also a fine newspaper portrait OF the
prince of Wales. 1t is singular that the
Montana club is the only place in this city
where this valuable journal is found filed.
Shelby Eli billiard lately offered evidence
that he is a journalist of the Arizona
Kicker school, whose fighting is not con-
fined entirely to the columns of the Red
Lodge Picket. Without an accurate knowl-
edge of the shooting affair the other even
ing, we feel entirely safe in assuming that
when Shelby Eli starts out with a gun he
means business. This assumption, how
ever, is not the result Of intimate ac-
quaintance with the CHARACTERISTIC OF this
Red Lodge and red visaRed journalist, but
merely an opinion gathered from the blood
curdling paragraphs in the esteemed Picket.
Senator Daniel ]. Henusssey. he is still a
senator, came over from Butte yesterday
to testify in the big insurance case. Incl
dentally, he was warmly Welcomed by many
friends. The senator tells US that reports
Of smoke in Butte are without the slightest
authority. He says no smoke has appeared
in that camp since it was struck.
The wife of a Helena millionaire is cred
tied with the handsomest sleigh ever
brought to Montana. She il interested in
the weather bulletins and is patiently wait
ing for snow.-Herald.
Well, the snow is here; now then produce
the sleigh.
1t is gratifying to learn from Senator
Hansbrough's figures that this years grain
crop in North Dakota is equivalents to $214
for every man, woman and child in the
state. They will need it before spring.
Warden Tom MoTague, Of the peniten-
tiary, tells us that Henry Clark, who will
spend the winter at the Royal George"
inn of Deer Lodge, lately received a letter
from his .erstwhile bandit partner, Miss
Helen Forslund alias Charlie Miller. The
letter was really touching in its expressions
of sympathy and love for the prisoner.
Miss Forslund wrote that she was once
more at home with her parents and that she
would devote all her energies and save
every dollar for the purpose of securing his
release at the earliest possible moment. In
view of the fact that he is serving q forty
years sentence she will nave no lack of time
in this work of love. It is safe to say that
she will work for the money in place of
holding up" for it, if her exper-
fence in Helena was a lesson for the future.
She possesses the double distinction of the
first highway lady and the luckiest woman
that ever dropped within the jurisdiction
of Montana Law.
The town of Great Falls is to be congratu-
lated on the failure of different mobs to
lynch Jew" Jake. Alynching is always q
confession CT the i~nadequacy of the law
and this does not exist in a Montana town.
A western city of the vigor and respecta-
bility of Great Falls can receive no harder
blow than a lynching. At this time we see
no possible excuse for "Jew' Jake's firing
into the crowd, but it the statement of so
respectable a citizen as Alderman GARRETT is
to be taken he had abundant reasons for
resisting the continued insults heapei upon
him BY an officer outside his Jurisdiction.
The facts will be brought out at the trial
and every citizen can afford to wait until
hat time for the verdict.
We note with unusual Satisfaction, recent
steps in the progress of musical growth in
Butte. Senior Quinnius has been at work
some time on a masterpiece of melody de-
signed to harmonize the hues of John
Maguire's Sunday ralment with the shades
land colors of that immortal solo of nature,
the rainbow. We learn that he has pro-
crossed to the degree of referring the COM
position to that eminent musical critic,
George Wagner Irwin II. But another and
more interesting phase Of Butte's progress
in the music of the spheres''is thai offered
by the musical editor of the esteemed Inter-
Mountain. As Col. Read cannot define the
difference between annie Rooney and a
symphony in A fiat we cannot hold him re-
sponsible. The author, whoever he may be-,
suggests that an arrangement be made
whereby all the steam whistles of the mines
which blow at morning, noon and night
unite in favoring the musical public of
Butte with popular airs in place of the dis
cordant blasts that now pierce the smoke.
In other words it is proposed to have a
calliope solo three times n day, with Mar
Gus DAILY at the Anaconda as musical direc-
tor. The only difficulty in the way of sue
cess is the suggestion that the calliops play
Comrades" at noon. This might drive
immigration away from the camp.
Soaking Pencils in Oil.
A new discovery has been made by rail-