The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-30

1Stln'y Unfortunate Effort to
vssMdfs Money - Leave


$SSs sse EWe Grassy Ter.
Dob Austin has found out what hard la
II. The notorious colcred character
i ~ Tsrrsstsd on Monday On suspicion of be-
fnnes EcOncerned II the burglary Of the Bos-
ciothing store. Nothing could DO
nroved on him, but in view of his general
G1putation the. police gavs him three DAYS
~ which v leave town. On Wednesday he
Evas run In aRain, this time for lifting $35
from ! man III the Buoket-of-Blood saloon.
This could not be fastened On him either,
- 10 va turned losse on Thursday morn
III with the idea that he would be out of
Last Chance Rulch before night. The same
aicht he appeared st tho police station and
announced that he had come to
himself q !. He aid his wife,
had Given him SO 10 get away
Win, but thinking to increase ii he gam
hlsd and lost it all. Sergeant Nicholson
informed Austin that the Hotel Sims was a
sharitatly disposed institution which never,
turued anyone away from tn doors. Aus
I'm was accommodated with ! bed in the
sscooisr'' and Yesterday Judge Sanders told
him that ten days work for the city would
probably agree with him.
Lawyer Tom Penny has succeeded in get
cling : Jury in the district court to officially
pass on the disputed quessioa as to which
way ! COW will run whom shot. Lawyer
IPenYv has held all along that thee would
break in whatever way she WAS headed when
hit. The Jury evidently thought
Tho same, as they acquitted D.
n. Westerstreet, telegraph operator at
Butler, OF shooting q coM belonging to a
farmer living at Butler. In this case a
eseat deal depended on how : COW would
~ under distressing circumstances. The
COW was shot on the innsr side of the hind
leg, and made 9 bolt, 70 the owner said,
direct for the barn. 1t war claimed for the
defense that a cows first impulse would be
~ 90 right ahead in whichever direction
ahe was looking whom hit. Such being the
cass, it was claimed that the COWS position
~ the tineof the shooting was such as to
make 1t impossible for Waterstreet to fire
from tho depot platform, az claimed by the
prosecution, and still hit the COW where she
vas struck. The jury ACQUITTED Watershed
after being out only ten minutes.
There is q remarkable scarcity Of dimes
iust at present. It is all on account of the
numerous dime savings banks now in use.
Everybody who owns one wants to slip all
his dimes in it until the little tin thing COR
itains S.. Then the bottom is supposed to
drop out and deposit fifty ten cent pieces
On the owners hand, or in his lap, or on
the Aoor or the sidewalk. The dime saw
ings bank 10 a purely American invention,
Ia proud Of its country, very patriotic and
refuses to be used for the STORAGE of foreign
coina. The possessor Of one df these con-
trivances recently got in his fifty pieces of
silver and was surprised to find that the
thing wouldn't open. He tried it every
way, and finally opened it with a chisel and
hammer. He counted the pieces. There
were Just fifty, but right about the middle
was 4 Canadian ten gent piece. That ex-
planned the failure Of the machine to work.
Most OF the sherifs in the state would
rather take two insane men to Warm
Springs than one. And they would prefer
9 man every time to a woman Warren E.
Evans, one Of Marshal Furay's efficient
deputies, has had = good deal of experience
with ''crazies.' as they are generally called
by the officers. He has q very simple and
effective way Of getting two insane men to
60 along with him without making a fuss.
Before Mr.. Evans starts he takes each one
aside and tells him that the other is crazy
and must be taken TO The asylum, and asks
him to 20 along rs a guard. It works like
q charm. They watch each other like
hawks, and relieve the officer of considers
BILE labor. With a woman it is altogether a
different matter. She has to be carefully
looked after and never allowed to get out of
sight. At one time there was an attempt
made in the legislature to have women at
tendants% appointed for these cases, but the
humane endeavors Of the man who intro
duced the bill we're not properly appre-
Grated.
Complaints are made by the mothers of
Helena of a very Objectionable method
taken by proprietors or agents of patent
medicines for advertising their wares.
Sample packages or bottles Of stuff are left
in'doorways or thrown into yards. FIRE.
quently these samples have been picked up
by children and eaten, much to their dis
comfort. This is a form of t~respass which
calls for a vigorous protest, as the samples
at times may contain medicine powerful
enough to cause great trouble among the
little ones.
ladies' muslin underwear very cheap this week
at The Bee Hive.
II you want any towels go to The Bee Hive and
6o6 what they are selling for Sjc,
Weinstein's Prices.
Crackers. in twenty pound boxes, per
pound. 619c.
STATES flour, per 100 pounds, $3.50.
New OniOne mar popr5 o.