The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-27
CITY NEWS AND GOSSIP,
The Municipal Political POT Begins
10 show Signs Or
Slmmsring.
0ossip About Candidates and the
Approaching Spring
Csmpaign.
An OpiniUn About t1is lbuttc smoke Mails.
ancs-Ths Great Anaconda Mint
other News.

en0S-Tne 0feMt AmncOn0n Mtnu@-
other News.
Now that spring will soon, be hero there
can already DO hoard significant md jocu-
lar conversation In the local political hori.
xon. Both parties nre skirmishing around
for mayoralty timber, but In q quiet way.
IL seems TO be q forsgono conclusion that
the Junior alderman from tho Sev-
enth will he led to tho slaughter and he Ia
not averse to trying his muscle with a dem
ocrst. He II already dubbed Mayor Thomp-
son by nj Of his friends. He Is one Of
the hold over aldermen Of the present. city
council. He II not permitting any grass
TO grow under his feet and il alrea sJ@lay-
ing bis wires for the nomination.
Alderman Dunn declares positive y that
he will not accept a denomination and that
under no consideration would he make the
race again.
Charles williams. who ran against IL.
Steele last year, is said to be working for the
nomination ngain. Alderman Garrett goes
ont this year, but while he 10 not anxious
70 be returned, he would take a great de-
light in running against Mr.. Williams.
Would the legislature get down to work
and grant a new charter to Helena before
the spring election. there will be several
more city Offices to be filed by the people
and not by appointment, AZ is now done.
II 10 understood to be a prevailing senti-
msnt that the candidates for street COM
missioner, city clerk and attorney, city
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for the same as the other officers. The
building inspector, the inspector of
weights and measures, fire marshal and
other minor Offices would be filed by APP
pointment.
The citizens of Helena are almost a.
much interested in the Butte smoke prob
lem as the citizens of the smoky city.
Those Of US who visit that town and are
obliged TO endure the fumes usually return
with the determination that we will never
90 there again unless it is a case Of actual
necessity. Usually the determination wears
of for Butte is . lively town and has many
attractions outside of business. In the
course of a pleasant chat at Anaconda on
Sunday, Hon. Marcus DAILY said to mn INDIE
PENDENT representative that he doubted very
much if Hutchinson could succeed in elm
mating the smoke from Butte. He believed
that the smoke might be consumed but he
said the consumption Of the sulphur fumes
was exceedingly difficult and not likely to
be accomplished in a brief space of time.
He thought Mr.. Hutchinson shouldbe given
all encouragement in his efforts.
HHU HHNNM3 U-. NEWEMNaS
In speaking about the Great Anaconda
mine Mr~Daly said that few people knew
that 60 per cent. of all the ores mined in
Montana were smelted at Anaconda. In
this process thirty-six tons of arsenic are
thrown off every twenty-four hours. OF
course the greater part of the immense ore
consumption comes from the fourteen miles
of drifts in the Anaconda, in which by the
way, an immense new body of ore was re-
Gently discovered. The affairs of this great
corporation are SO admirably managed that
work moves on from one line to another
without the slightest hitch or interruption.
The handsome and progressive city Of Ana
conda is perhaps the best illustration of the
company's prosperity. All industries and
trades in the town are dependent on the
WOIA VI II VIZ llilc duu dl4 dIO ULTlVluR
in a very brisk way.
A kicker who honestly believed that he
had a genuine ..kick'' dropped into THE In
~EPENDEN Office yesterday. He said: For
twenty years I have been taking your pa
per and I have grown to regard it as my
nearest and best friend. Therefore when I
hoor nv OrSAi0icvn uhnrf kha - T nIr,nuc
come to the defense. Now, then, here we
have Joe Toole governor, ri honest man
and a loyal democrat. Then, again, we
have a good round democratic majority in
the senate. These things are SO, amt they?
All right. Now, then. / want to know what
kind of democrats we have in the house. I
pick up the paper every morning and in
reading the proceedings of the house 1 see
That the journal was approved. / think it
Is time for a democratic house to approve
democratic papers,"
The plumbers strike still continues, and
those formerly employed by Sturrock d
Brown have been out seven weeks, and
there is no likelihood of a settlement of
the difficulties very soon. 1.-THE men,
said Mr.. Brown, 'are too unreasonable in
their demands. They asked for ten hours
pay for zine hours work. We granted this
and next they asked for ten hours pay for
eight hours work. We cannot afford to do
this. Plumbers are about the best paid
tradesmen in the country, but some people
are never satisfied"
DIR. Carmichael is the owner of a curios-
ity which he is going to send to some of his
''tenderfoot' friends in the east who are
skeptical about Montana weather. and be-
lieye that we are in tie polar regions.
While it will be a curiosity in eastern
states, it is nothing rare in Montana. The
curiosity is just n bunch of green grass
with blades about eight inches in length
and nestled in this nest of grass is n grass
hopper that is alive and kicking and Just as
frolicsome as a mosquito in July. This
hopper WIS picked up yesterday On DIR. Car
michael's ranch on Flat creek, a fcw miles
from this city. The luxuriant grass ia in
fine growth there. Ordinarily nobody
would believe that grasshoppers could be
found in Montana during January and
much less fine and healthy bunch grass. II
anybody doubts this DIR. Carmichael will be
pleased to show his little hopper.