The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-21
GENERAL NEWS
OF THE STATE.
MissOuIa.

Lewis A. Bradbury and Mary Lynn, both
of Demersville, were granted license to
marry.
Saturday morning, in the district court.
an application was filed by Amanda Thrower
for q divorce from Alexander Thrower. The
complaint alleges cruelty.
just before dinner Saturday two of the
vags working out their sentence on the
streets, concluded that they did not care to
stay in Missoula any longer. and made a
break for the west. Special Officer Scott
Was unable to catch ther,, and the last seen
OF them they were making tracks for Grant
sreek.
City Attorney Reeves presented to the
council an ordinance ordered drafted at a
fund be established and that the city Off
GERS be paid their salaries in cash instead
of IN city warrants. A vote was ordered
and the ordinance WAS rejected by a vote of
fou to one.
Tuesday evening after the meeting OF the
fremen about twelve fire laddies, headed by
Chief Mentrum, will engine and hook and
Mrs. Boz kossbach, on Pine street and pre-
sented item with a fine clock as a present
from the Missoula fire department.
DIR. Grain removed a piece of Policeman
Houtchens' coat which was forced nearly
ihrough his body by the bullet which was
fired from young Simons' revolver. and
which nearly cost Houtchens his life. The
doctor considers Houtchens entirely out OF
danger. His appetite is good and in q few
weeks it 10 expected he will be able to be
about on the streets.
From Oct. / until Jan. Z there Was ham
died at the foot of the lake, for the M. M.
company and the Great Northern railroad
alone 3,S0O,00O pounds of freight. This,
with the addition of what went up for
nfhoF rQrf1oa pvnn16 rnu AIo f~asrhA -. "a
for those three months, Of the fall and win
ter, up to over $4,000 0 pounds. This freight
was handled by the Flathead Lake Nayi0a-
ton company, and does not include the i'm
mense amount Of freight handled during
the summer months.
place which will interest a large circle of
Missoula society. The contracting parties
will be Miss Carrie Deery, a beautiful and
popular young lady OF this city, and Mr..
Clarence McGrath, q young mining man of
the Occur d'Alene country. Tho prospect
I've bridegroom ID o young man of good
habits and of an energetic nature who has
been for several years wooing fortune from
the mines OF the Occur d'Alene district.
Chinook.
Last Monday was the s~emi-anuuaI issue
day at the agency and the Gros Ventre IL
once again bedecked in new Blankets md
clean clothes.
j. W. Van Devort. who was recentlv in
jured by being forced to jump the track
with his bicycle to escape a train. ia atiiI
laid up in st. Paul, being unable to leave
his room.
Cattle are fat and in better shape than
they have been at this time of the winter
during the past three years and in conse-
quence our ranchmen are feeling iubilant.
Miss NJ. j.. Finnegsn, county superintend.
ent of schools, came down from benton iast
Monday to visit our school.
Our young bachelor business men and
ranchmen seem to have formed onto mr.
attraction for the North Fork.
A. g. Station X Co. are ARRANGING IN ,,,
in n sawmiii, shinole-miiI, pIanira aud
matching machinery in the Renr p pnu
mountains, oasily accessible In Ch;raox
and in n short time will be prepareI ~ tur
nish rough lumber ana framinr t;rrhs-. =
any size or length, and by june / vii ,n us
On the market shingles. siding. Hon,;na
finish lumber and lath. all of native irnss'
ber. A"
The action Of the party or partia. vho
started tho report last week ..thst 4 hand
q 30 Indians were located nj RocLv
Point whereby several families ON Pacy
plcs III Clear creeks wore frightened into |
coming 70 t0vn-not 10 mention thu aoars