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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
Turkey dinner at the Bon Ton.
APPOINTS.

Land Commissioner and Four
County Auditors.
Governor Toole yesterday announced the
following appointments:
For mineral land commissioner, Hon.
Martin Maginnis.
County auditors: Lewis and Clarke, Will
liam J. Beckett; Deer Lodge, Nat Y. Hoss;
Missoula, Will Cave; Cascade, Ernest
Ringwald.
Major Maginnis' name had been men,
toned in connection with the Office to
which he has been appointed, and it was
generally understood he would be rendered
the Office. He did not learn of his appoint
ment until last evening while attending the
performance at Ming's opera house. Major
Maginnis said he was not quite prepared to
say whether he would accept the office. 1t
is looked upon as the most attractive po-
sition created at the last session of the
legislature. The yearly compensation ia
$4,000 with a like amount for expenses.
Under the act creating the office the COM
missioner is placed in charge Of
with the collection of all decisions concern
ing mineral lands and u other statistics
as may be of use in any efforts made to pre-
serve the mineral lands to the miners OF
Montana.
There is another state Office yet to be
filled. 1t is that Of state land agent, with
salary of $1,000 per annum. The manner
of filling this Office is somewhat different
than the others. The governor is author
lied to nominate some person for the posi-
ton whose confirmation is left in the hands
of the state land commission board. com.
posed of the governor, secretary of state
attorney general and superintendent o.
public instruction. Silver Bow county is al
so entitled to anyauditor. This office viii
probably be soon filled.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

The meeting in the Sixth ward announced
for this evening has been indefinitely post
poned.
The county board of appraisers held a
short session in the commissioners rooms
in the court house yesterday afternoon to
effect an organization.
Prof. Beggs gave q very enjoyable soiree
at Edwards hall last night. About twenty
young couples participated and they thor
oughly enjoyed themselves.
r, G. johnson is to be appointed deputy
sheriff and bailiff for department Nc. = of
the district court. Mr.. johnson has lately
been employed in the Office of the district
court clerk.
1t is reported that a colored man and a
white man had a smuggling set-to Thursday
night in this city. Only a select Number
witnessed the affair and are keeping the
matter very quiet.
james q. Anthony and wife have con-
veyed to John Rogan the northeast quarter
of the southwest quarter and the northwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of section
fourteen. township ten north, range three
west, for ST, 800.
Judge Sanders court room was densely
packed Yesterday with an audience mostly
Scandinavian. The Christina Hoeglin-
VIM. Larson case was on trial. Efforts
were made to establish the previous bad
CudTdCt6E VI II OlloA WhSt q ~
mitted gave birth to a child in Michigan.
The case will be argued and submitted at
four O'Clock this afternoon.
A gentleman named NARROW is a lodRel
at the Homer Hewins block on Park ave
| nue., but at present is out of the city
Yesterday some cheeky individual walked
INTO his room. Finding a razor and Other
tonsorial implements convenient he pro.
ceeded to shave himself. After finishing
the operation he pulled a bureau drawer
ont and wiped the lather on some nice silk
handkerchiefs. He then escaped through q
window. Nothing was missing in the room
Eleven people will take part in d" Katb-
lecn Mavoureen'' to be given at st. Alloy
slus hall on the evening of st. Patrick's
day. The best amateur talent in the Cath
olic literary society has been selected. Re.
hearsals have been diligently pursued fol
the past three weeks, and those who have
seen and heard the company say a grea1
treat is in store. Beautiful and appro-
pirate scenery has been made for this pro
duction. Admission will be fifty cents ane
the proceeds are to be devoted to the pay
ment of the new hall.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

Mr.. ARTHUR r. LYMAN, treasurer of
the Lowell Carpet company and vice
president of the American Carpet Man
u%facturers' association, has recently ex-
pressed the following views on the car
pet wool duty:
"The duty on carpet woods Substantially
the whole supply for carpet making is i'm
ported) imposed by the Mckinley bill put
up the price of wool carpets about 10 per
cent. This advance was owing purely to
the Mckinley wool duties, and no advance
would have taken place if the bill had not
been passed. If the duty on wool had been
removed the price of carpets would have
been reduced. And as to the carpet wool
schedule, there have been unusual diff
~culties, and the law has not yet been fully
applied"
Time will gradually develop the fact
that men who know their business are
better posted on certain tariff subjects
than Mckinley and his friends.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

GOVERNOR TooLE's appointments an
nounced yesterday are certainly worthy
of the best commentator. No better
man could have been named for mineral
land commissioner than Major Martin
Maginnis. His long experience in con-
gress, and his extended acquaintance
with national legislators, will prove of
very great value in the work which he
is about to undertake. No mar has a
closer knowledge Of Montana's needs or
is better equipped to secure proper pro-
lection for the interests of the state.
Governor Toole could have made no bet.
ter appointment. Like judgment has
been shown in the appointments oil
county auditors. Mr.. Beckett will Ger.
tainly fill the office in an acceptable
manner while the other appointees have
been selected with proper regard fol
ability and reputation.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
WHO'S TO BLAMEe

It was Punch, the leading English
comic, paper, that suggested the preven-
ton of railroad accidents by the attach
ment OF a director to the buffer OF every
locomotive when in use. 1t has remained
for the %coroner's jury in the case OF the
recent tunnel accident on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, to
turn the Jest into earnest and to pro-
pound a theory Of responsibility for rail
road accidents that is nothing il not
radical. The evidence in the case
proved that the lamentable occurrence
was primarily due to the failure OF an
engineer to distinguish a danger signal,
and that many OF the deaths were the
result of the firing of the wreck by an
overturned car-stove. The verdict of
the jury attaches criminal responsibility
to the officials and directors OF the road,
and prosecutions have been instituted
as the result. The engineer, the jury
believes, was the agent of the officials of
the road, and his responsibility was
theirs. The cars were heated in a man
ner expressly forbidden by the laws OF
the state, and the violation resulted in
the death of unfortunate passengers.
Sufficient precautions were not taken to
regulate the speed of the train or to pro-
vide warning in case of sudden danger,
and on each and all of these grounds
the railroad officials and directors must
be held Timinally responsible. Such a
verdict iSssufficiently novel to be start
ling, and the travelling public will watch
with interest the result of the appeal
which has been taken.
Even railroad officials will admit their
general responsibility for the safe con-
duct of the operations under their
charge, but that, when an accident takes
place and passengers are killed
through the mistake or neglect OF an
employe, they ara to be brought face to
face with a charge of murder or man
slaughter, is something they have not
been accustomed TO contemplate. They
are but mortals, Nike the rest OF us.
They cannot personally see that every
possible source of Hanger is absent and
kept absent. In4y cannon III thelr W
bodies attend to the observance Of
every signal tha1hangs out it's warning
light on the thousands of miles Of road.
They will certainly be expected to
maintain a competent staff of employees,
and when an accident occurs, they must
and ought to bear the pecuniary loss.
But we have never known it to be held
that the carelessness or fault Of a su-
coordinate rendered his principal Grim
inally responsible for the result. The
life of the railroad manager or superin.
tendent is not a very happy or luxurious
one at the best; but if the verdict Of
this %coroner's jury is maintained, we
imagine that the railroads of the coun-
try will have to do a strong amount of
hustling to find men willing to work
with a halter around their necks and
the other end Of the rope in the hand of
every incompetent subordinate within
their jurisdiction.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

The billion congress is what the New
York Sun calls the last national legisln-
ture, because the appropriations for the
first time in history run over Sl,OOO,OOo,-
600. Montanians should feel greatefnl
that a good part of this sum was ex-
pended for public buildings in Helena,
Butte and Fort Benton.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

house in order that the repre-
sentatives may have more room.
The hall is said to he un-
comfortably crowded, while the desks
are used only for writing purposes.t II
future houses are to be like the last, it
might be we'll to remove the members
along with the desks.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

PRESIDENT HARRISON is hunting
ducks down on the Chesapeake. The
republican papers say the vacation is
we'll earned, but it is doubtful it his ser
vices to the country are deserving OF
even this reward.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

A MAN over in Washington started
started out on a whisky drinking match
the other day and died at the end OF
the thirteenth round. The grim o
ster is not a jovial companion, but is a
GOOD stayer.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

THE report OF the Ives sale in New
York contains the following: THE
grand temple vase, bottle form, with
elaborate color decorations, painted in
relief, of the Ung-Chin era, twenty-one
by fourteen inches, was sold to Potter
Palmer for 5000" Chicago is always
found at the front, it matters not what
the subject may be; a prize hog or Il
temple vase of the Ung-Chin era.
money talks"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

THE democrats made almost q clean
in the Minnesota town elections.
The tidal wave will continue to move at
frequent intervals until the war tariff is
washed away.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

Cor. SANDERS is gratified to know
that there is one man III Helena who ia
considered a good enough republican
and citizen to meet the approval OF the
president and Power. The c%olonel's ex-
perience is that it is much more difficult
to win the approval OF tho people than
to steal his way into the United States
uopnto
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

Ir is said that Wanamaker's ambition
is to live in history as the father OF one
cent postage. This ambition may or
may not be gratitied, but it is certain
that Benjamin Big Head Harrison will
90 down to posterlty as the one cent
president.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
Helena, March !
ORDINANCE NO. 10.

An ordinance appropriating money 10 DAY Hell
ena Electric company.
BE it ordained by the city council Of the city
of Helena
Section l.. There is hereby appropriated ont III
any moneys in the city treasury, belonging to
the general fund, and not otherwise approp,i, tied
the sum of sA4, to pay the Helena Electtic
company for lights furnished the city during
February, 1881.
Approved this 18th day of March, 1891.
DONALD BRADFORD, Mayor.
RoBT b. SMITH, City Clerk.
IsEALl
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
DOUBLE TRAIN SERVICE.
1t Will BE Resumed by the Northern Pa
citic the 29th Instant.

1t viii BE Resumed by the Northern Pa
citic the a9th Instant.
Commencing the 9th instant the Northern
Pacific will resume it's service adopted last
fall, of two fully equipped passenger trains
between st. Paul and Portland. The
morning west bound train will leave st.
Paul at nine o'clock and will go via Butte.
This train will have a Chicago, Milwaukee
d. st. Paul first class sleeper.
The afternoon train leaves st. Paul at
4:l5, running via Helena. This will cave a
Wisconsin Central first-class and second
class sleeper. Thu Butte train will reach
that place at LEO y. H., while this other will
pass through Helena at 100 Il. M. The stub
trains from Garrison to Logan will be run
as before for the accommodation of pas
sengers to and from Helena. Thu Mis-
soula local will be retained.
The net earnings of the Northern Pacific
during January were $6O1, $50, an increase
of 1913. 718 over last year.
The Oregon Short Line and Utah North
ern show a net increase for December of
$75,bOl over the corresponding period OF
1900
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

THE people of Montana will nurse a
tender and LOVING remembrance for the
late Speaker Reed. He used all his Ell
forts to defeat free coinage and the
Cooke City railroad bill.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

COMMISSIONERS MoRaAN's views on the
Indian question will have as much effect
on the future Of that race as a manifesto
from Boulanger on the French govern
ment,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
HELENA, MONT, MARCH IA. 1891.

eE-Nontanians abroad will always lind THH
DAILY INDEPENDENT on file at their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New
York: West, Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace,
San Francisco; McDermott, Butte; Leland Hotel,
IL.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION or COPART-
~ nership--We hereby rive notice that the co
partnership heretofore existing between John G..
name Of Paulsen d Mcdonnell, is dissolved by
mutual consent: John Z, faulsen will do the
paying and collecting all outstanding accounts
in Helena, and N. J. Mcconnell will do the pay
ing and collecting all outstanding accounts In
Missoula,
tSignedl JOHN G.. PAULSEN,
NJ. }. MCCONNELL.
Helena, March IN, 1881.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

ONE satisfactory result Of Gen. Palm
er's election is the assurance that we Will
hear nothing more of the nan known as
Long" Jones.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
Grand Masquerade ball

Saturday evening. March IA, at Harmo-
MIA hall. Admission: Gentlemen, 800;
ladies, so cents. Nothing will be left I'M
done to make it enjoyable for all present.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
Meeting of Trustees of Montana Savings
Bank,

Bank.
Col. B~roadwater, John L. Murphy. James
NJ. Tucker and William L. Walton for him
self land also representing James l.. LON
bard, trustee met on last evening and
elected officers and adopted rules and by
laws for the Montana Savings bank. Mr..
VIM +. Walton was elected president and
Mr.. James NJ. Tucker was elected cashier
and secretary. The Office of vice president
was left vacant for the present.
The bank will open for business about
the middle of April.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14

In is suggested the desks should be
removed from the floor of the national
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
INDEPENDENT

Remittances AZ the risk Of subscriber unless
made by Registered letter, check, or postal or ax-
press order, payable to The independent Pub
ishina Company.
eU-persons desiring the INDEPENDENT served
at their homes or place Of business can ofasr ~
postal card or through telephone No. loo. fiess'
report cases of irregular delivery promptly
Advertisements, to insure prompt insertioh'
should be handed in before 5 :. y.
Rejected Communications not returnAoie on-
ses npstax 70 ia enclosed.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-14
AMUSEMENTS.

The Bon Ton uses Chicago corn-fed beef
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-25
ChurnIng.

Churning should be done with some
form OF churn without dash or pad
dies. as this gives butter better grain
than those churns with a dash. The
charming should stop when the butter
Is In the granular stage or before IL
gathers as we call II. The reason for
this Is that In this stage every particle
OF the butter-m.Ik can be easily remov-
cd and the grain OF the butter better
preserved. The buttcr-milk Is now
drawn of and the butter covered with
briac and allowed 20 stand half hour
or 70 10 dirsslve any cheesy matter In
it aud 10 take out the butter-milk.
One or two washings OF water may be
ns,essary 20 free IL entirely from the
b,.tlcr- milk. and IL Is then ready Tor
tho salt, which may be thrown into the
chrrn, and by slowly revolving IL the
salt will be thoroughly mixed and tho
bgtlor gathered into lump which IL
roaAy for market by being simply
shaped as you wish IL. The grain OF
b1tter Is often spoiled ~ working with
a paddle with a scraping motion. but
when the butter-milk Is removed by
washlng with brine while In the gran
uler stage when the brine can touch
every particle the size OF grain OF
wheat. there Is no need OF working
with a paddle. Butter made accord
ing 20 these directions and put up In
neat packages 10 suit customers, can
not fail 70 please. for IL Is and must be
flrst-class. and the reason why l., that
II has been managed so as 10 preserve
it, good qualities.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-25
nou.ehold sugge.tIon..


Scalding hot water should never be
poured into dishes which have held
milk until IL has been removed by cold
water.
The best way is when hot grease has
been spilled on the floor Is 10 dash cold
water over H. so as 10 harden 1t quick
ly and prevent IL striking into the
boards.
II a tablespoonful OF kerosene be put
into four quarts OF tepid water, and
this be used in washing windows and
mirrors, instead OF pure water. there
will remain upon the clean surface a
polish no amount OF mere friction can
give.
Silk underwear should be washed
through several cool waters in which
soap and borax have been dissolved.
All silk wear should be squeezed by the
hand rather than rubbed, although
especially soiled spots must be rubbed
with little soap.
Buy fine copper wire by the pound
for hanging pictures. IL does not cost
half what a twisted wire or cord does.
and looks for better Paste light ma
nilla paper over the back OF every
picture-frnme not alreany protected. as
IL effectually prevents dust from reach
ing the pictures.
Steam heat l. said TO be the worst
for o piano. and In time shrinks both
case and action. so that the former
cracks and the latter rattles. When
one lives where that handy mode OF
heating room obtains a dish OF water
should be kept constantly upon the
radiator; Il increases humidity and In
a measure prevents shrinking.
Small tears In wooden goods should
be darned with Rawlings OF the same
having first put under piece of the
cloth. and afterwards pressing care
fully. Breaks In black silk garments
may be mended with bits Of court plas.
ter. and II the lace curtains become
torn wet piece OF lace In starch and
iron II on the wrong side OF theeurtain.
Caro- should be taken In the matter
OF sweeping 10 cover up house plants,
and 10 sponge the leaves frequently.
The dust that nccumulates on then.
shuts up their breathing pores, as II
would on the human system. rendering
them unhealthy Another thing con-
ducive % healthy plant-growth IL fire.
quent stirring OF the soil. and hair
ing i good implemen. for the pur.
pose.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-25

faithful 10 ner post throughout all
those awful scenes for three days.
When the end came she replaced the
telegraphic machinery In Its old posi-
ton aud resumed her work In the sta
ton.
IL 10 a story that belongs In history.
but like many another incident OF that
time-especially wherein women were
the heroes unrecorded.
My informant could give me only
meagre details. had forgotten. unfor-
tunately. the name OF the brave girl.
She was an orphan. reared by MIR.
Lee Drown Lee) In Washington
county. PA. II l. known that she re-
manned year In the Gettysburg sta
ton Office after the tle.-Mary Dye.
In Pa Grit
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-25
The EMPEROR wa. sso,.

Berlin cablegram; The kaiser Is much
annoyed by the disregard OF his wishes
shown by number OF cavalry officers
In attending the hurdle society races.
Last Sunday the emperors brother in
law, Duke Gunther of Schleswi g- Hol.
stein. who was among the delinquent,.
received the full measure Of the i'm.
perinl resentment. so loud aud menac-
irg was the language In which IL was
conveyed that the empress ran 10 the
room 10 protect her brother. whom the
emperor was denouncing as "A blas-
phemous jockey. The duke and his
partners ia guilt spent the Sunday IN
barracks deprived Of tobacco and
liquors and In other respects treated as
prisoners
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-04-25
The Malta in Italy.
The sun.

When the late General Phil Sheri-
dan was In Europe ten years back he
became particularly interested In The
Malta, and other similar charming
products OF the Italian peninsula, by
his association with Italian army com
manders whose orders were 10 tear
those societies by the root out Of Italy.
In Italy Sheridan was witness 10 n
practical proof OF the terrible power
OF these societies by the violent meas
ures the government was compelled
10 resort 10 TO destroy them. In the
Sheridan party was AN lrlshman
named 81. John Brenon, who ac-
companied the general on his journey
through Italy. acting on all occasions
as his interpreter After Sheridan
went home Brenon remained In South
Italy five years and made special
study OF the secret criminal societies.
In letter TO friend. among other
subjects he said
II must give you an idea OF what
the Malta really Is. Many mobiles Of
the wealthiest families OF Sicily were
members OF it--some from sympathy,
others from fear. II differed from the
Camorra society In the fact that il had
been always leagued with brigandage.
For that reason its existence was TO
defy the law and TO despise the judic-
larry OF the country. The MALTA con-
trolled elections. boycotted when IL
was In merciful mood. but
as rule Il robbed and assisted
unfortunately the purposes Opium
der and revenge II has code OF
honor called Omerta. which means the
code OF men who have blood In the
veins by which all who are members
OF the Malta bind themselves never TO
give evidence In court OF law aud
never TO seek at law redress for any
injury.
In alliance with the Malta Is n sub
secret order called Fratellanzo. who
are a band OF assassins whose motto
A.: Sweet Is the wine, but swectcr
still Is the blood OF the Christian.
Their acknowledged god is Aren't
which is TIE name OF the playing cards
OF the Sicilians marked with gold
money Doubtless IL Is this subdiyi-
sion OF the Malta that Is the pest OF
New Orleans. The Legal Adviser.