The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-23
LIVE MONTANA TOWNS.
The Chicken Season in Gallatin
County Not Yielding the Re-
turns Expected.
Philipsburg Pioneers Anticipate a
Treat in the Helena Meeting
Next Week.
Some of the Most Prominent Buildings
of the Year at Livingston-From
Other Cities.

BOHEMIAN. Aug. 22.-[special. THE chick
en- season is not proving as prolific as was
anticipated. The birds are remarkably
scarce, and the scores of hunters who went
out expecting to return with a bag full of
game returned with only a bag full of air
and a disappointed countenance.
There is some talk of a new irrigation
ditch. to be constructed and owned by the
farmers whom it will benefit. II built it
will probably run between the K~leinschm1dt
canal and the ditch of the Excelsior Canal
company. The construction of these nu-
merous canals is lessening the amount of
litigation over water rights and is doing the
county an incalculable benefit.
The latest device that has come to notice
for the purpose of promoting comfort on
the hot, sultry afternoons of midsummer ia
three cakes of ice located under a hammock,
and in the Church-street yard where this
novelty could be seen the occupant seemed
to be enjoying life with the relish that
comes only to those with an original turn
of mind.
Lew Kitchener was down on Wednesday,
and tells of a new lead he has discovered,
which is thirty miles long, one hundred feet
"aO II SOC0 pllo,oOO W II tOus LOW h
reputation for veracity is unimpeachable,
n as a consequence the excitement is in
tense, and Victor Tull, the civil engineer,
has left for the new field to survey an ad-
dition to the new town of Squawcrekus,
believing more fully than ever that a wagon
road should be built to tie Gallatin basin.
Bozeman is to have a new academy, to be
located In the Ferris block. Francis j,
Roddy, formerly with the Mission school in
northern Montana, will be the principal
and proprietor.
X. G. Hite, who started out about a year
ago to travel from the headwaters of the
Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico in a boat of
his wi construction, is now at Sioux City,
Iowa.
W. G. Feischhauer, an attorney from
Reed City. Michigan, who located here
some months ago., has been appointed
United States commissioner for the Ninth
judicial district.
And now is the winter of our armers
discomfort made glorious summer by the
sun and cloudless sky on Montana's match
less climate. The danger from hsilstorms
is over, and the time has already passed
when a frost can damage the crops: and in
consequence. this promises to be Gallatin
c%ountv's greatest year. From q very care
full estimate, the value of the crops last
year was So, 10000, and it is predicted it
will go away above that figure this season.
Oats will probably start off at a cent a
pound and may 90 up to $l.30; wheat is
likely to open at Is cents q bushel, but ow-
ing to uncertain advices concerning the
foreign supply it is difficult to predict what
will be the standard price. 1t is probable
that the Manhattan Mailing company will
be a material factor in determining the
price of barley, and at present there seems
to be no defined notion as to what the price
will be. A carload of new Nebraska barley
recently sold at G7 cents in Chicago, and as
~u freight rate is 40 cents per hundred,