The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-08
CITY NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Anthony Harrity Challenges Percy
Kennel to Shoot for the
State Medal.
Lillian Smiths Exploits With the
Gun Beats Anything Seen
Horeabouts.
The Material With Which Main street II
to BE Paved Information
for All.

Anthony Harrity, tho Sixth ward alder
man, has challenged Percy Kenneth to shoot
for the state medal, and the match will
come of shortly. Kennett has held the
medal for quite a long time and has only
four more months to defend it before 1T
becomes his personal property. Harrity
has therefore decided to put up the neces-
sary stake and try to keep the trophy open
to competition for awhile vet. On Satur-
day, at the club grounds. he brought down
ninety-six out of 100 clay pigeons and
thinks he il now in condition to compete
with the holder of the medal. The contast
will be for twenty-fi five live birds.
There is a gunner in town, however, that
can lay either Harrity or Kennett out, and
that ia Lillian Smith. Miss Smith is scarcely
II, but she can handle a rifle or shot gun in
Il manner to make the local sportsmen ask
for odds. Among the accoutrement at her
shooting gallery on lower Main street is a
swinging deer. Some one asked the little
marksmRn to show what she could do with
it last night. Picking up her repeating rifle
she fred ten shots as rapidly as the lever
could be worked. The constant ringing Of
the bell showed that she had hit the bulls
eve every time. Miss Smith is from Cali
fornia, and is accompanied on her trip by
her father and mother and sister. She has
challenged Miss Oakley, the celebrated
shot, and says she has no doubt Of winning.
The city council did not meet last night,
owing to tho absence of the CITY clerk, who
went to the Coeuer d'Alenes to deliver a
Fourth of July Grafton. 1t is not thought
that the gifted orator is still talking, but
that he has missed the train. The main
thing awaiting action by the city council IL
the kind of wood that will be used on the
Main street paving. The committee hav-
ing the matter in charge have practically
decided on what they will recommend. 1t
is understood that they will recommend
tamarack, a wood grown in abundance in
this state, and said to be we'll suited for the
purposes of n street pavement. The tama-
rack, which does not grow to a great size, is
stripped of it's bark and sawed into proper
lengths. The blocks are then stood end
wise on the foundation already pre-
pared for them, gravel is poured
into the interstices and tamped and
the whole thing covered with pitch. The
committee will recommend that the foun-
uAJlOu OAbl u oiA 1llShCD oL DAohCAA
stone, rolled hard, on top of which will be
a %two-ineh, instead of one-inch plank as in
other places, and on top of the board a
layer of sand for tho blocks to bed in. In
anticipation of the action of the council,
the city prisoners are already at work pre-
pairing the stone for the first part of the
foundation. Eight of them were up the
gulch yesterday, armed with heavy ham
mers, breaking rock for the foundation of
the new Main street pavement.
A great many letters have been deposited
at the Helena postof1ce of late bearing
stamps out from stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers. The postal authori
ties desire publicity given to the fact that
such stamps cannot be used in payment Of
postage when detached from the Original
wrapper or envelope, and their use renders
letters to which they are attached unmaila.
Bile. When stamped envelopes or news
paper wrappers shall have been spoiled BY
misdirection, they may be redeemed at the
face value of the stamps on them, either ir
postal cards or adhesive stamps, if pre-
ssnted in substantially whole condition
and the postmaster is satisfied they have
never been used, and that the misdirectior
occurred at the place where his office is stu
ated. In this connection it may be statet
that mutilated STAN ps, fractional p arts o
stamps, postage due stamps or special de
livery stamps cannot be recognized in pay
nent of postage. When stamps are 80 af
fixed that one overlaps the other, conceal
ing part of it's surface, the stamp so covered
will not be taken into account in prepay
ment. The use of cancelled stamps is
misdemeanor. punishable by Imprisonment
for not less than six months nor not more
than one year. or by a fine of from 800 t.
$500, or both fine and imprisonment.
'The Woven Web at st. Aloyaius Hall-th
most thrilling domestic drama Of the day. Ad
mission SO cents.
Large line of umbrellas and parasols yer!
cheap at The Bee Hive.