The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-20
,0TTINGS ABOUT TOWN,

Eighty acres of placer ground in Stemple
district have been located by Thomas SAN
ford.
The Montana Lodge Record for Novem-
Der appeared in enlarged form. full of In
teresting matter.
The Commercial club will give a dinner at
the Hotel Helena Tuesday evening In honor
of Gen. Wesley Merritt.
The official returns from min OF the ak.
teen counties in the state have been re-
ceived by Secretary Rotwitt.
Members of Mendelssohn lodge l. O.. II.
Is. will please attend tho funeral of their
late brother. Jacob Feldberg.
The county canyassing board will adjourn
sine die Tomorrow after sigaing the GER
t~iticates of election of county officers.
Walter Matheson has conveyed to Hilda
Il. Campbell the south 100 feet of lot u.
block GG, Northern Pacific addition, for
500.
Annual representation proof was filed
with the county clerk yesterday of the
Clyde lode in Owyhee park district by Sam
uel Sullivan.
The Montana State Fair association
stockholders will meet tomorrow (Mon-
day night, aud elect q board OF directors
for the ensuing year.
A telegram was received yesterday from
ST. Louis, announcing that Mrs. Paul A.
Fusa died there in the morning FROM the
effect of a severe cold.
There will be n special meeting of the
Women's Columbian association for Lewis
and Clarke county at the Board of Trade
rooms at three O'Clock Monday afternoon.
The charter commission of the CITY coun-
Gil, consisting of City ATTORNEY Mcintyre,
and Aldermen Morris, Fuller, Iissner and
Hunaley, held u preliminary meeting yes
terday.
A fine entertainment will be given in
Adams hall Thanksgiving evening at s
O'clock by the Ladies' AID society Of the
Oak Street NJ. E. church. A good pro-
gramme has been prepared and the patron
age of the public is cordially invited.
William Is. Clanton, of Magdalena, New
Mexico, Henry A. Rorvick. of York, Mont,
Fred Z. Tintinger, of Stanford, Mont, and
A. G. Schneider. of pittsburg. Pa. joined
the Engelhorn Helena Business college the
past week for a course Of studies this win
ter.
The east-bound Northern Pacific express.
due here yesterday afternoon, was very
much delayed by an accident near Knox
vile, twenty-nine miles east of Hope, Idaho,
at which point the tram was derailed. Re-
ports of the accident received here say that
no one was killed and nobody seriously
hurt.
In January the Engineering and Mining
Journal, of New York. will publish a COM
plete ieporG covering tne complete mineral
production of the United States. These
publications are issued each year and are
regarded by mining men as the most val
liable and trustworthy statistical reports
published.
Treasurer James b. Walker gives notice
that after a consultation with Mayor Cur
tin, no city warrants will be received for
taxes. All taxpayers must liquidate their
Indebtedness to the city in cash. and the
Tnnnpv racn1Ua1 will ha mad IN faka M, thu
warrants that have been registered and are
now drawing interest.
A decision of COMMISSIONS Stone, of the
general land Office, has been received in
which he upholds the findings of the local
land office in the case of George Decker
against G.. b. Whiteford and others. The
case WAS a dispute over mining property and
is settled in favor of Whiteford. George
Haldorn was counsel for Whiteford and o.
G. Dallas for Decker.