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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

&. x. Wells Succeeds c. W. Cannon as the
President of the Company.
At a meeting Of the board Of directors of
the Helena Electric Railway company yes
terday, officers we're elected as follows:
President, G. X. Wells; vice president, W.
A. Chessman; secretary and treasurer. IL.
l.. Walker. The new board of directors is
composed of G. X. Wells, W.. A. Chessman,
C. A. Broadwater, G.. w. Cannon, A. NJ.
Hotter, l.. G. Phelps and H. nj. Parchen.
It will be seen that tho only change in
the list of officers is that of president, @. K.
Wells succeeding G. W. Cannon, who re-
signed. Mr.. Cannon was the originator of
the street car service in Helena, and WAS
the president of the horse car line, occupy
ing the same position after the consolida-
ton Of the Broadwater and Main street
companies. He is also the president of the
Gas company and the Electric Lighting
company. His private business takes up a
large part of his time, and in order to prop
erly attend to all his duties he was forced
to resign his Office in the railway company.
That Mr.. Wells will continue to give the
public the same good service it has had I'M
der Mr.. Cannon's presidency, there is 40
question. No city in the west has a better
equipped street car service than Helena,
and Tor more gentlemanly officers or court
eous employees.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
/ Il ON II TRAIN.
Sudden DEATH Yesterday nj a Passenger on
tho Montana Central.

Sudden Dsath Yesterday Of Passenger on
tho Montana Central.
Fcrreol Payette and wife started yesterday
morning for Toronto via the Montana Cen
trail, which city they proposed to make
their home. Before reaching Silver City
Mr.. Paystts suddenly fell over and ex-
PRED without regainipg consciousness
The body WAS taken of at Silver and
brought to Helena on the train which AZ
rived at three O'Clock. Undertaken
Flaherty had been notified and had n cas-
ket ready for the body, which was taken to
the residence OF John L. Murphy. Coroner
ROckMan was also notified and lle inn
panelled a jury, the inquest to BIO held at
four p. m. to-day.
Mr.. Paystte was apparently in good
health when he left Helcna, and had no
organic trouble. He was a man OF heavy
build, and the theory IL that his death was
tho result of heart trouble. s~uperinduced by
tho excitement incident to getting ready for
his long journey. He was n painter and
enjoyed an excellent reputation as \ work
man and a citizen. He had resided in
Helena for several years. but recently not
been very strong, and an offer coming from
a Canadian road for him to take charge of
it's painting department he accepted and
was on his way there when death overlook
him. He Was born in L'Original, Ontario.
Canedn. and was 38 years old.
Mrs. Payette is very well known in Hell
cna, standing high AZ n teacher OF French.
The shock to her has been a very severe
one.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

A Popular Montana Central Railroad EN-
plOye Receives . Present.
w. D. Stansifer has a host of friends
among railroad men. He has been in the
of the Montana Central at Helena
for over a year AZ storekesper and chief
clerk of the motive power of the road.
With his family he left yesterday for Seat
tie, whore he will fill a similar position for
the Great Northern. Before his departure
the employees in his department waited upon
him and pleasantly surprised him with sub
stantial proofs of their high regard.
Mr.. Stansifer carried away with him a purse
containing 500 in gold coin and a magnifi-
gent specimen of the c~arver's art in the
shape of q meerschaum pipe. The presen-
tation address was made by +. j. Nc
Caughey, to which Mr.. Stansifer made a
feeling response. On the eve Of your
departure, said the spokesman, from
the responsible and honorable
position which you nave filled with perfect
satisfaction, both to your superiors and
subordinates, we, AZ the representatives of
the motive machinery department of the
Montana Central railway, beg of you to ac-
oept this little present as q slight token of
our esteem, assuring you that it bus poorly
represents the respect entertained for you
by the employees of this department.. There
are some things which words cannot ex-
press, and in this instance language fails
us, but We can assure you that wherever
you may go our regards will follow you,
and your name will ever be one bright
green spot in our memory.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
aARN1sHEED THE TRUSTEES.
Whalen s. Grant Win Their Case In thu
Supreme Court.

Whalen g. Grant Win Their Case In the
Supreme Court.
Some time ago Whalen & Grant gar
nishsed the trustees OF Helena school dis
trict for work done on the Helena high
school now in course of construction. The
trustees answered that as to the amount
due William Harrison on his contract they
were unable to give any definite informa-
ton. They stated that his contract called
for 800. PAS and that be had been paid
$15,GO3.4l the balance being subject to tho
fulfllment of the contract according to
plans and specifications. Harrison then
moved to discharge the garnishment. He
filed his affidavit with the motion in which
served upon the trustees the district was
owing him and still owes him several hun
died dollars for material furnished for
the building. That by reason
of the garnishment the trustees
refused to pay what was due him and to es-
innate and compute what was due upon his
contract. He moved for the discharge of
the writ, on the ground that the debt at
tached was 4 debt due him from q public
municipal corporation, and exempt from
execution. The motion was granted and
the writ discharged. Whalen d. Grant ap-
pealed to the supreme court. Associate
Justice Dewitt, in his opinion upon the
case Yesterday, says:
Tho motion to discharge the ga-nish-
ment was made in the district court solely
upon the ground that the garnishee, as a
public corporation, was exempt from gar
instrument. No other ground was set forth.
That the motion on that ground should
have been denied ia settled in the Water
bury case. Since the decision in the Water
bury case the respondent has filed his brief,
in which he urges this court that which hs
did not present below, viz: that it did not
~~~- Al-,A 80 &-1<l lDEf r,ar lrn r, thA
garnisheS to the defendant. Whether there
was or not ID not apparent from the record,
II is q matter to be ascertained in the
lower court in the manner provided by law.
The order discharging the garnishment ia
reversed and the cause remanded with in
structions to the district court to proceed
in accordance with the views herein ex-
pressed"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

What makes Raleigh & Clarke's store the
great and popular rendezvous for the ladies
of Helena? Then read their announcement
at top of this page in regard to special in
ducements offered of thing they need every
day but seldom find at the astoundingly low
prices they arc selling them for this week.
1t is impossible to quote deductions made
on these goods. They must be seen and
handled to appreciate the opportunity of u
selection of such desirable goods ms are now
presented, which means more than 4 whole
page of advertisement: besides, it has been
repeatedly said and never questioned that
their announcements are never ovcrratea,
md consequently the ladies arc never dis
appointed when they visit their store.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
AN AFRICAN

How Mile. Carlotta Recame the Lion
Queen.
Mile Carlotta is the name of the "lion
queen" who is seen in the circus ring of
the Adam ~Forepaugh shows, surrounded by
five monster lions, all as free from restraint
as when roaming i'll African forests.
There is a tinge of romance in connection
with her adopting the profession of a Zion
queen"
chant residing in South Africa. Several
years ago Col. Boone, the now famous lion
trainer, Was an ivory hunter in the county
where Miss Mile lived. Meeting him at
her father's house, she accepted him as her
lover, greatly to her parents disgust, for it
was their intention that she should marry a
very wealthy merchant of the place. So the
fair Millie and her ivory hunter lover did
what many others under similar circum-
stances have done-eloped and married.
Her husband then quit searching after
ivory and became O lion hunter and tanner.
Returning, after a somewhat prolonged alb
sence to the place of residence of his wife's
parents, he gave an exhibition of his trained
lions, under an assumed name. Afraid to
leave his wife at the hotel, during the time
he was performing the lions; he prevailed
upon her to enter the cage with him, ar
rayed in a fancy costume, 80 that no one
would recognize her. She did SO, and no
harm resulted to her from the lions: but II
former lover and townsman who was pres
ent detected her. Notwithstanding her dis
guise. Everybody admired her heroism,
her parents relented and thencefortb she
determined to become q "lion queen"
Those of our readers who attend the Adam
Forspaugh show, which is to exhibit here
on Thursday, Aug. 81, will have an oppor-
tunity of beholding Carlotta and her hus-
band in their wonderful exhibition of
trained ions all let loose in the circus ring.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
Congregationalists Disapprove.

DIsHVVTUVe.
The following resolution, which explains
itself, was unanimously adopted at the
Congregational church Sunday morning
last:
1.-THE Congregational church of Helena
having learned that work is going on this
sunday morning on the new public school
building in this city, respectfully, but en-
approval of this deseoration of n day which
our Christian civilization has dedicated TO
rest and to worship. and the members of
this church. rs citizens and Taxpayers, ear
nest!y urge upon the competent and respon-
Bible authorities the duty of causing this
Sunday work to cease and of preventing its
repetition" II. g.. ARNOLD,
l.. W.. HEATH.
Church Committee.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Tourists contemp plating visiting the
National park should so with the NJ. X.
JohnSon excursion party's fifteen days
camp life in tho Worlds Wonderland
Parties Of five, ton or twenty made up here
fora fifteen days trip. Everything fur
ntshGd. Time Of starting, July l3, August
=, August 10. and september :. For
further information aud terms apply to,
or address. BSGiEN n INGRAM,
Brokers 3.3 North Main ~.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
with Lightning RapidIty

Moves the dry goods at the Now York Dry
Goods store. Another case of Freeza
kochlin's sateens only lic.-Poaitively re-
tailed across all counters at 25c. Another
case French snteens customary price 20c.-
now niue cents. No such bargains ever
offered in uelona before.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
Removed,

John II. Watson has removed his stock of
groceries from the old stand on Main street
TO Nos. IA and Is PAX avenue, where he
will be glad to see all his ole friend, and
patrons. Telephone No. 81.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

The Montana Savings bank has money on hand
to loan on real estate security at loves rates.
Time and terms to suit.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
Typswriting, room IL Bailey block.

Mems hnlhriggnn underwear FOR sumIner wear
only 81 per suit, at The Bee Hive.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Decorated dinner sets containing LII pieces,
new shapes, splendid goods. only $3.50 at The
Bee Hive.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

The Montana savings bank pays interest nj the
rate OF five per cent on deposits of 81 or more.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Pocket saving banks for dimes and nickles, at
This Beo Hive, on'y 1ic.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Large line of mems neckwear, suspenders an
f hose at 25c at The Ees Hive.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Helena Cafe, the only frst-ciass restau-
rant in the city.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Ladies' fancy silk parasols at he Bee Hive, to
close, choice 81, worth from 81 to $3.50.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
FROM HIS FRIENDS.

Labor and time saved by buying one Of those
pnett. potato Washers ct The Bee Hive only 50c
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
no FOR THE NATIONAL PARK.

Great drive in summer underwear for mon,
women and children at The Beo Hive.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
Would You Like to Know

Big drive in table linen and towels at Tho Bee
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Mary Il. Jackman, stenographer and
room Is Bailey block.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Ladies' silk handkerchiefs at The bee Hive for
o5p
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21
THE HELENA ELECTRIC LINE.

Dinner from five to eight at the Helena
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-21

Nursery stovo- q. Tho Boo Hive only ssc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-12

1t is said that Billy Cranes falling
health viii force him TO postpone his pro-
posed European tour.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-12

gun on this section, and the grading haa
very nearly been finished. When the
track shall have been laid they will have
nineteen miles of road instead OF the
thirteen now in operation, which the
farmers will have built themselves and
which they will own and operate. The
next and last section is from Mendham
to Morristown, where it will connect
with the Morris and Essex road, and
thus connect the two great systems of
the New Jersey Central and the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western.
Norristown is rich community, and
it has a decided interest in seeing the
farmers get their road to that point, as
that will bring coal to that fashionable
borough, and the price will be reduced
at least 81 a ton. AS Morristown burns
40, 600 tons of coal a yen, the property
owners will of course not delay putting
up the needful when the opportunity ar
rives. This chance will not be offered
to them till the shrill shrek of the loco
motive shall have sounded and echoed
through the Mendham hills, as Mr.. Mel
ick's experience at the beginning of his
work showed him the wisdom of entirely
completing one section before beginning
another.
OF course this road is not a first class
one as to grades or construction, but the
alignment is generally very good indeed;
and if the business should ever require
that heavy trains should be hauled, the
grades could be made less steep by cut
ting here and filling there, and such
work could be done without the inter
ruption of traffic. The culverts have
usually been made of wood, and to the
professional railway builder they look
rough and almost inadequate. But they
have answered the purpose so far, and it
is likely that they will continue to do so
until the road has means to make better
ments to its roadbed. So far the road
has paid running expenses, and there
fore it does not seem improbable that in
the near future this new experiment in
railroading may prove profitable to its
builders merely as a railroad. But they
have not built it for the direct profit
from the road itself. They have built
it because they have been hemmed in by
the high hills from the outside world,
and the farms which made their fathers
and grandfathers rich and independent
were sources of outlay rather than in
come 70 the present owners.
JNo. GILMER SPEED.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-12
The Work of the Snnw-

Snow has several curious methods of ex.
tending the sphere of it, hostile influence
The comparatively light SHOWS which fall
in our latitude are of minor importance
since they readily yield 70 the early spring
sunbeams. They are in some degree bene-
fetal TO the fertile surface and protective
TO IT'S more tender annual plants, while
their only Important adverse effect Il the
dangerous flooding Of she rivers, due %
their rapid melting. But the deep and
persistent SHOWS of northern regions are
far more exhaustive of solar heat, and re-
duce the agricultural season Of those re-
gions to a dangerously short period. In
their melting, also, the surface air Is
chilled, and winds from the north convey
this chilled air far 10 the soath, thus
spreading widely ever the warmer zones
the frost inducing influence Of the melting
SHOWS
We have seen how the tropic heats are
carried toward the poles by winds and
waters. The frigid cold Is carried toward
the tropics by the same ageEGies-chilied
winds and cold ocean currents. IL ~ car
red By another agent Of grest importance,
the direct creep OF the sDow Itself toward
the lower ATTITUDES This agency has once
perhaps many timss-produoed sB sI
traordinsyy elect upon the surface Of the
earth, one far surprising that Of volcanic
explosions and lava outeovs In "a >dverre
influence. At pr-seaS this glacial sction IL
greatly reduced, bet Is still Of much i'm
portAnce- - Charles Morris In Popular
Science Monthly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-12

THE ONE WOMAN ~ THE PRESS GALLERY.
statesmen by stamping with their feet
in an impatient effort 10 hasten the be
ginning of the session, like the gallery
gods in theatre noisily expressing their
wish 10 see the curtain rise. After the
senate had begun its deliberations the
visitors spplsuded what they liked, and
now and then shook their heads in dis
approval, in defiance 10 all the rules and
in utter indifference TO the rappings Of
Vice President Morton's gavel and the
warning glances of that patriarch and
pink of senatorial propriety, Capt. Bas-
sett
In their rambles about the Capitol these
pretty Schoolma ans were much like al
the other American women who come
here-that is, they were not inclined TO
pay out their good dollars for the serv-
ices of guides, but were much more
prone 70 ask questions Of every man they
saw, be he justice OF the supreme court,
senator, newspaper correspondent, con-
gresham or Janitor. 1t Is safe TO say
they learned more about the Capitol
Than any other party OF visitors ever
did IN so short time, and that the his
tory lessons Of the coming year IN the
schools Of New York. Brooklyn and
thereabout will be embelhshed by many
Illustrations drawn from personal OBJ
servation.
These pretty pedsgogues explored
every part Of the building, from the
Crypt. IN which ii was the intention Of
the foreiathers 10 deposit the remains OF
Washington, and the still lower ana
gloomier precincts in which state prs
oners were once confined. TO the famous
whispering gallery az the top OF the
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pears to know rather more about taking
care Of herself than she does in other
cities, develops greater facility for get
Sing what she wants, going where she
wishes and ascertaining what she de-
sires to know.
We had very good example of this
but few days ago, when four or five
hundred women school teachers from
New York and New England descended
upon the capital in all the haste, eager
ness and jollity of an excursion party.
They arrived about dark and the man.
ner in which they surrounded the hotel
registers, wrote their names with a
businesshke air and held the poor clerks
up sharply with demands for the best that
could be had, was surprise to many be
| holders. aha" said one of the clerks
at Wizards hotel, after the last of his
newly arrived guests had been disposed
of, that is the hardest job lever under
! took In this house. l have handled many
I parties of men and women in my time,
but for knowing what they want, and
sticking to it till they get it, commend
me to an excursion of schoolma' ans"
After dinner that night the streets of
the capital took on an unwonted air.
Snow and slush were everywhere, but
the women, by pairs, trios, quartets,
( groups and parties, were out doing the
town. They went over to the White
House grounds, and browbeat the watch
men at the gates into giving them ad-
mittance. They stopped at the base
ment of the treasury, where a sentinel
sits just within great barred door-one
of the many guards of the hundreds of
millions of dollars in Uncle Sans vaults
and endeavored to persuade him into
letting them in. For once they failed.
They trudged down toward the monu-
ment in order to get new view of the
greatest of obelistns by moonlight. They
surrounded the big equestrian statue of
Andrew jackson, and threw snowballs
Orleans.
Attracted by the brilliant spectacle of
a moonht capitol at the other end of the
avenue-a capitol which seemed but a
few blocks, though of course it was
more than a mile, away-many of them
walked thither and made the new ter
race and the grand old eastern portico,
on which so many presidents have taken
the oath of Office, resound with their
laughter. Not till near midnight were
the streets cleared of these eager, romp-
ing, curious, merry, but very pretty and
very proper tourists.
Bright and early next morning they
were on the move again. The Capitol
and the monument were the first objects
of attack, as they are with most
strangers within our gates. Their visit
to the national state house proved to be
mild sort of sensation. They overrun
the big building like birds on a black
berry bush. In the senate chamber, as
the Geographic dispatches have already
chronicled, they startled the good old
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Eagle
A FARMERS RAILROAD.
aGRIcULTURISTS OF NEW JERSEY
BUILD A WAY TO MARKET.
Mow They Tried in Vain to Secure Con-
sideration from the Trunk Lines-De-
tails Of the Planning of the wOrk-How
1t Is Being Carried Out.
Especial Correspondence

MERIDIAN, N. j., jar. A great deal
has been written about the railroad the
farmers of New Jersey are building, and
the following is offered in response to
the general interest that has been mani
Tested in the project.
For twenty-five years the farmers in
this immediate neighborhood, and for
that matter nearly all of those who own
the land for twenty miles or 50 to the
south and west of this village, have strug-
gled on from year to year in the hope
that either one or the other of the great
trunk lines of railway eraversing the
state would build branch railway
through here. The great railway mag
mates have from time to time encouraged
this hope by promises more or less def
mite, and there is scarcely a farm any
where about through which the engi-