The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-15

I OuNUK VCVs LEVIN 0SU uV SpA0VbAaVS NAAAVAAp
cattle, sheep OF horses and no local diaeAes
worth mentioning. The health Of stool
mas been very good all the year. No, ] do
not leave my Office and fly all over the state
when every Tom, Dick and Harry writer
that hs has a horse sick. ! regulate my moye
, ments according to the symptoms described
! in the letter, the character Of the writel
when I know him, etc. The good healthfof
cattle this year ia largely duo to the exam
nations made OF Texas cattle brought into
this state from March to November. They
are examined wherever loaded and again At
Cheyenne. Finally ! may add that the
sheep business will drive the cattle industry
out of this state.
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CHARLES II. Bell. restaurant proprietor
"rhe restaurant business in this town 10
greatly overdone and a proprietor is obliged
to watch every end of the business all the
time or go in the hole. Sometimes he gets
there despite the greatest attention to his
business. In the best uptown. all-night
restaurants, a place, for instance, like the
Bon Ton, winch was run first class when
Billy Melien was there, the expenses are
very heavy. II you have a big place you
must have plenty of help, even If they are
not busy all the time. The cheapest cook
YOU oan get in this country costs $50 q week.
The greatest profit in the restaurant busi-
ness in this country comes from pastry and
oysters, though there ia not a great deal Of
profit in the latter whom the beat oysters are
purchased. The greatest loss comes in
meats"
JAY C~oMsrocK-'In my opinion no partic-
ular person is to blame in this vexed matter
of assessment and taxation in Helena and
! Lewis and Clarke county. There 10 no
question but there is ground for a good
deal of complaint, and the worst feature OF
it is that it is keeping out outside capital. |
The system of assessment itself is wrong,
and will have to be radically changed In
better things. The assessor is only human
and is sure to make mistakes. Some prop
erty may not be assessed at all, aud then
there may be irregularities. My idea is to
divide the county up into districts, small
.nough SO that one man can go over it in
not to exceed three weeks. When these as
SCISSORS have completed their work let them
meet as a board of equalization in con-
junction with the county commissioners.
After the assessments have been equalized
then there should be kept a record of every
piece of property in the county, simply for
assessment purposes. When a deed is left
!or record with the county clerk let it be
his duty to notify the assessor of the change
n ownership and the latter will note the
same in his books. In this way his books
would always be up to date on ownership.
Of course this is a mere outline and is a
suggestion to be taken into consideration
with Others that may be offered"
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Col. JOHN WORTH, mastering officer N. G.
of Montana-"My duty is to see that COM
panies are properly mustered out when the
time is finished. Company II, First
infantry, of Billings, Capt. Griggs, was
mustered out this week and next week l will
20 to Missoula and muster out Company I,
under command of Capt. j. T. Phillips, one
of Missoula county's representatives in the
last state Legislature. My orders from the
governor and Acknowledgement provide me
with a list of supplies given out to the COM
pany. I take the list and check up supplies
as they are returned. TIL roll of the COM
pany is called and the men are discharged
from service in order. The condition of
the national guard in this state nov is very
good indeed"
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JAMES H.. ScULL Y. night clerk at The
Helena.-'I noticed by the papers that the
Count Vallambrosa has applied for a coun-
Gil to take charge of the affairs Of his son
the Marquis de Mores.. Tn marquis ia very
we'll known in Montana. I happened to
know him very we'll because we had bust
ness relations at Miles City where I lived,
and where he spent a good part of his time
during his year in Montana in 1884. He
agreed to stock a ranch with sheep for Bob
Wallace, now t: ain dispatcher, and myself.
After wa had done a great deal of work in
pre- pairing the ranch and getting things
ready he failed to produce the sheep and
we sued him. He was robbed right and
left. He once bought a big ice house filled
when half of the house and nearly all of the
ice wore floating down the river. He was
the handsomest of men / ever saw and was
also a very bright man. He was unused to
the country and people and was therefore
badly handicapped. would like to have
the money he ~squandered along the line of
the Northern Pacific"
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THOMAS MAcINN1ss, with I. Marks-"Tho
cigar trade is fairly good now. II ia always
dull during warm weather because smoking
then is attended with many DISCOUNTS.
A man will smoke less than one-half as
many cigars as in cold weather and will
throw a cigar away after he has pulled it a
few minutes. Less imported cigars are
smoked aud there is less smoking since the
Mckinley bill went into effect. While the
prices of imported cigars were raised the
prices of domestic cigars were raised also,
though it costs no more to manufacture or
for the tobacco. The conaeonance ia that |