The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-21
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st. Bernard pup to Gov. Toole to-day.
The United States circuit and district
oourts will be in session at two p. m. to-
day.
Reports from eastern Montana are to the
effect that sheep were never IN better con-
dition than now.
II is rumorsd that the signal service sta
ton, now located at Fort Asslnnlbolne. VIII
be removed to Chinook.
A mass meeting Of laboring men has been
called to meet at Assembly hall III the
Union block At eight p. M. today.
A dry stretch of county north of hinoo
WAS burned over by q prairie fire q few days
ago. No property other than the grass on.
the range was destroyed.
Richard Jockey announced yesterday
that he is out for the mayoralty noinlna-
ton in spite Of the efforts of some republic
cans to put him on the shelf.
Several witnesses at Bozeman have been
%subpoenaed BY Sheriff Jefferis TO testify in
the case of the state against Sandy Lane,
Doc sSeeley and Woods, to be tried this
week.
very attractive entertainment is to be
given this evening at Adams hall. in ths
Sixth ward, being a Japanese W ddlnR ~
the young folks for the benefit Of the Cakes
street church.
The Jury in the Paynter case against the
First National bank Of Helena, agreed on q
verdict 1T three O'Clock Sunday morning.
It was sealed and left with the brennan and
will be handed to Judge Hunt this NOM
ing.
AT Pocatello, next Saturday, there will be
q twenty-round contest, under the auspices
Of the Pocatello Athletic club, between
| Noble and Freeman for $3.50. Quite q num-
ber Of sports will be present from Mon
tana.
TT-.lJ .-N IL Cl.sIJ. ~ IIa1n.,r Inx n h0t1rhk
the National Park Transportation com
pany's entire outfit. including all the stock
and vehicles. 1t is understood that MT.
| Wakefield will establish an independent
line Of his own outside the park.
CLARK Bros, the sheep raisers Of western
Choteau county, now have 1900 sheep.
They are kept in ten different camps all
connected BY telephone, and they craze
over 200 square miles of land. The firm
captured the first prize on wool at Boston
last summer. @
There will be a meeting at the Board OF
Trade rooms at two p. M. to-day to dis
cuss the advisability of forming q state
base ball league. Two delegates are also
to be chosen to attend the league confer
ence at Butte which is to be held next
Saturday. ~ .=@# %~
james Levitt, Of Marysville, writes to
The INDEPENDENT that he will mest Chick
Rodgers at 154 to 1853 pounds. Levitt says
Rodgers is a middle weight and not a Welter
weight, and that be is not a heavy weight
and not looking for a man out Of his class.
He says if Rodgers means business let hllp
put up.
Persons who are fond Of curios will be
glad to know that a library table, and an
ebony chat that were used by Napoleon in
his prison at st. Helena, will be exhibited
on the stage at Ming's during MIR. Mac
knights lecture tuesday evening. The
table is worth over $1,000 as a relic, and the
chair almost as much.
Manager E. H. Hutchinson, Of the Spo-
kan Q base ball club, amateurs, says The
team is open to play any club in Montana,
Idaho Or Washington. It is composed OF
the best players Of last seasons clubs, the
1. X LIS, Chicagoes and Holley. Mason,
Marks Il Co.'S. Dates can be arranged by
addressing the manager,
The board of county commissioner O.
Fergus have compromised with the North.
ern Pacific railroad in the matter OF assess
ing it's land, on a value of thirty-6ve cent!
an acre. They did so on the advice of tn
attorney general of the state. This is til
rate fixed in other counties on the sam
class of lands. The price fixed by the stat
board of equalization was $l,00 per acre.
The Montana Summer School of Norma
: Methods will begin u three weeks session
, commencing on juno ID, next. It was or
ganized last summer for the purpose of af
> fording to the teachers of Montana an
! the northwest an opportunity to study tn
most approved methods of teaching an
school management without the neoessiG
: of attending at great expense the normf
1 schools of the eastern states.