The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-10
THE SHADOWGRA PIER.


THE SHADOWGRA PIER.
II 10 now said that The new GunboRt TO DO
launched Al Port Orchard next season Will
be named the Thomas H, Carter. II IN also
rumorsd that Col. Malsnc, of Miles, and
Col Il. j.. Cater. OF Helena, will assist IN
tho ceremony by breaking the historic wine
bottle over tho bowsprit, that II, II the bot.
tle 10 not broken over somebody's head 30.
fore tho time for the arrives.
The ship colors, We understand, will DO
given by Charlie Snsdsker, of this city.
II tho Baxcndale granite il found too soft
for the coming dtilling contest we recon .
mend a trial on the Uranium of the Great
Falls Leader. We believer to DO impervia-
BILE. for two reasons. In its densitv II can
not grasp a mild joke, and therefore I'D
vises its readers to boycott TnE lNpErENp'
ENT. Perhaps the good people of Great
Falls would assist in carrying out the above
suggestion.
1t is announced that Gen. Weeds guber-
material boom has been delayed by west
side washouts.
The great drilling match will attract a
mass of spectators and no end OF interest
at the mining congress- next week. II ID .
trial of strength and skill altogether I'M
known in the east and never before ssen in
Helena. Tbs rivalry will be very sharp for
the best single drillers aud teams from the
western mining country will contest. Al
ready there have been twenty-six entries.
Each team will drill fifteen minutes on =
smoothly finished slab of granite from ths
Raxsndale quarry, furnished by Hon. VIII
liam Harrison, of the Duksdon, Of Baxen-
dale. The prizes will aggregate s., 500, and
any amount of money will change hands on
the result. A Colorado gentleman came to
town last evening with $2O,0 900 to wager on
a team from his state. As the majority Of
visitors will come we'll supplied with money
the pool box will probably be we'll loaded
before the fun begins.
This distinguishing feature in the play Of
the Maroons is that you never ca tell when
they will win. Perhaps this adds to the
fun when they knock down . %perslmmon
like that Of yesterday.
Mr.. Russell b. Harrison's visit to Helena
has been indefinitely postponed; that is to
say he will not be with US until I chairman
OF the republican national committee has
been chosen.
The last news of Sir Hugh MoQuaid was
found in a New York Sunday paper some
tims ago. 1t was a simple society announce
ment BY cable to tho effect that McQuaid
and the RI. Hon. A. D. Churchill, OF Mon
tana had gone down to see the Derby in
Lord Gsorgs Montmorenoy's coach. In the
absence of later information in suspect
that thu distinguished Montanians went
broke on the result and huve shipped be-
fore the mast on a South Sea whaler.
We take special pleasure in announcing
that through railroad communication will
be re. established between Helena and Great
Falls before the end Of the month. 1t is
for both cities that the good fell
will be once more cemented by the
iron bands; it is particularly fortunate for
HI INDEPENDENT and our Great Falls even.
ing contemporary. Tho threatened boy
colt will be removed from the former Jour
nal, while the danger of returning to the
era of ~cave-dwelling will be averted for the
latter.
For the first six months in the year Mon.
stands second in the mileage Of new
constructed and first in the mile
age washed away.
In a recent interview in a Chicago paper
Gov. Toole stated that what Montana wants
moro than anything else is rain. He doubt
less was in a hurry and was thinking of the
great American desert.
The Montana club building has reached
the stage where the promises that it would
be one of the stateliest and handsomest
buildings in the northwest are being real
lied. The club will certainly be ready for
the house warming by Dec. Is. when the
leading social event Of the year" will take
A feature will be a fine restaurant
which will add immensely to the comforts
of club life if maintained on the rig b. lines.
That this will be done cannot be doubted
for the present managers of the club have
kAFoA ontleIhCblOu DeyOuA ClltlCl6u.
We shall be greatly surprised if the ru-
mored attempt to secure Col. Botkln's
from the republican national
committee succeeds. We do not believe
him to be that sort of a colonel. Tn
national committee is anti-Harrison by
about one-third majority and very naturally
Col. Botkin will fnd this company very
congenial and fully in sympathy with his
views. Nevertheless it is not sur prising
these efforts should be made. In the
convention which, by the way,
was a strangely mixed up affair, he ap-
peared as a candidate from Lewis and
Clarke for a place in the delegation to
and would have been elected
difficulty had it not been for the
speech Of Col. Irwin, of Butte, in endorse
ment of seligman. This was of itself evi-
dence Of a we'll laid political scheme when
We remember that Seligman secured the
everlasting abjurations of Gen. Warren
for his work in defeating Lee Mantle for
the senate in the famous dead locked lepis-
lature. Col. Botkin was easily the more
candidate of the two before the
and was defeated only because
the majority Of delegates were led about
will rings in their noses by a few promi-
nent federal Office holders. He had nearly |