The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-07
THE .SH-ADOWGRAPHER.

Inc GfeAte1t oxcltemonB prevailed IN MI
town Monday 40 the rssult Of = report q
Queen victoria's sudden death. How ID
rumor started or whore are mAttera uu
known to rs at the present writing. Poi
haps fifteen or twenty Pinkerton detective
now in Butte could BE- secured 70 ferret Iii
matter to 4 finish. People should not b
fooled In this way. The newspaper Office
were crowded with anxious callers during
good part Of the day and the editors wer,
cursed from one end Of the town to ID,
other for not supplying news. II was only
through tho kind graces of Hugh McQuAid
that the public we're enabled to secure an
authentic denial. OF course everybody
rushed to McQuaid, az he 10 known to be
in closer communication with the court Of
st. James than n other man In the Gulch.
At a late hour Hugh received the following
cablegram from Wales which WAS posted on
the Northern Pacific bulletin:
MoQuaid:
"Report that mother dead false. She IL
alive and I am kicking. Can you send that
eco you borrowed of me at Windsor. Am
going to Tranby Croft next week and may
need the money. Why don't you writer
WALES.
McQuaid declines to explain the cirourn-
stances under which the loan was made.
He says it in NO way concerns the public
and might offend the prince. The haber-
dashers reaped quite a hArvest out of the
scare. They were besieged all day by an
g%lomaniaos ordering black gloves and hats
in half mourning. One enthusiastic young
fellow went 30 far as to purchase an entire
new suit of black underwear.
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The coffee house in temperance work is
a most valuable adjunct when it is conduct
ed in the right way. The one established
by our local workers ia a good deal Of a
failure. It is located in . oheerless and
narrow basement and is never open except
on meeting nights. The coffee
never appears except in paper bun
dies and the provisions there are
wasted. It should be relocated
nearer the night center of trade and on the
first floor.I II should be open all night with a
man in charge; hot coffee and sandwiches
should be served and a supply of the daily
papers kept. In other words it should be q
place where the ''old ~stiffs," as Sears calls
them, can 60 and read and rest. This ad-
vice is entirely gratuitous, but is given be-
cause we believe the managers of the pres
ent home are throwing away the money in
vested, and because next to the Kelley cure
We think the coffee house the most sensible
and feasible method Of bringing about
temperance reform. .#
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Who SAYS that the dainty muse dwelleth
not amid the fowery glades n laughing
brooks of Last Chance gulch. Yesterday
VI received twelve poems on autumn
weather in one mail. The majority are
quietly sleeping in the waste basket along
with October bills, but here is a single
verse from one of the ADLER efforts by an
''old-timer:''
OF all fall weather since I've been here
The weather this fall beats all
The weather we've had in any one year
OF the kind that comes in the fall.
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Ed Zimmerman is now busily engaged in
bringing in the October crops on his ranch,
which is located near ex-Mayor Bradford's
place. The count says that he enjoys rural
life. He has become quite interested in
agricultural matters and can now guess the
age of Il two-year-old colt, or detect the
between bone phosphate and ore
from the Maj. Budd. In the evening wien
work is finished he goes over to the Brad
ford ranch and plays checkers with the ex-
mayor until eight O'Clock, when, according
to the rules OF the alliance, lights are put
out and farmers must retire. Zimmerman
says he is looking for a heavy Farmers
vote next year.
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It always gives US pleasure to shake the
hand of DR.. Charles F. Mussigbrod Of
Warm Springs, who is not only the youngest
old man in Montana, but one of the best
The doctor has recently returned
from a visit of several months duration in
Germany and Russia. During his stay he
vent to the old Russian town where he was
born and lived until he was twelve years
old. During the following eight years he
visited the town occasionally. but had not
seen the place for more than fifty years
until this summer. 1t is now a city of
900 inhabitants, but non all these
he found but one man whom he had
known, and this man could not remember
him. The doctor says the visit under these
circumstances was unpleasant and left only
sad "reminiscences when no visited the vii
lage church yard.
'Where the names he loved to hear
Had been carved tor many a year
On the tomb"
He says the condition of the peasants in
both Russia and Germany is very bad
compared with tho farmers Of America.
Thousands eat meat but three or four times
l year. Yet there ia no com
The doctor found that tho rise
fall of real estate values in some Rus
nan and German towns we're quite %
as in this country. In one town land
that could be purchased for S. an acre
when he was a boy is now worth $1,000 q
ront foot, and in other towns values have
in like manner. TIL doctor
his visit most enjoyable, and will re-
peat it next summer.
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Manager Remington recently received
the following letter from Bozeman: "Ef d
get room on yure teeawtor on desc mont. eli
vont to put en- Syedis pla PEGS vat es Kol
Sven Svenson. Eli es get Q guide kompanee
vid Evedis boys en- gurls vot ken ext yus 80
guide som enni Won. We get all ov or own
steeRe %peentings vod We put op en- plee vid.
Eli es not ken yet emmy enser from Yon
Mekgvire en- Butte, en- eli get to ext some
plees vid mel kompeni els. We ken not eat
nuts. We get n big belune vot Won Of de
ekters 20 op en- de are vid yust befor de