The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-18
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.
The supreme court will be in session al
10 q. m. to-day.
An important meeting Of the board OF
trade is to be held Wednesday evening.
The output Of the Anaconda company ID
100000 pounds of pure copper per month.
At the regular meeting Of the Good Tenn
plars this evening an interesting literary
n musical entertainment will be given.
The battalion of troops from Fort Keogh
which passed through Helena Friday
night bound for the Ceur d'Alenes num-
bers 225 men.
The postponed picnic of Society Svea
which was to have been held on July 4th,
took place yesterday at Alhambra aud was
largely attended and q decided success.
Three arrests were made by the police
Yesterday. Two were for being drunk and
disorderly and the other man was arrested
on suspicion of having stolen some cigars
Tn twenty-third annual exhibition Of
the Montana State fair will be held at Hell
ena. Aug. 10 to 20 inclusive. Premiums
and purses amounting to $25, 900 have been
offered.
Two more colonies of Hollanders are
expected at Manhattan soon. The Hol-
landsrs who IN already settled there say
tAO olA VI VIC 0dll0tlA NhllCN o. ~ cQOuk
on the face of the globe.
r. D. Arrow, of Helena, who owns 9, 300
acres of sapphire ground on the Missouri
river. was in Mlssoula on Saturday in the
interest of a movement to organize a COM
pany to work the ground.
The assessment books of Lewis and
Clarke county will be before the commits
sioners to-day at the court house, whore the
commissioner meet as a board of equaliza-
flOn and tn hopr rrIAvQnNa1 nf tRYrDvArr
An enormous number of cattle have been
shipped out of Arizona during the last two
months Nearly all Of them were for Mon
tana. The inspector at Benson examined
1900 head of cattle during the last few
weeks.
Capital lodge No. 2, A. O. U. w., will
hold a meeting this evening when there
the future action of the grand lodge at its
session next month, on matters pertaining
to the order.
The first circus that ever visited Fort
Benton exhibited there last Saturday. 1t
was Raymond's. The republicans will holds
ratification meeting there next Thursday,
when E. D. Weed, of Helena, will be the
principal orator.
There will be a meeting at the Board of
Trade rooms at eight O'Clock this evening
of ladies interested In work of their sex at
the Worlds fair. The meeting has been
called by Mrs. P. A. Meadow. who hopes
that there will be a large attendance.
Jack Munyan, the we'll known catcher
who caught for the St. louis Browns in the
association last year, left Saturday for
Great Falls, to join the Butte team, He
takes the place of jerry Harrington, VINO
has been reinstated BY the Cincinnati Reds.
Interesting addresses were made at the
Murphy Gospel Temperance rooms on
South Main street by Evangelists Ried and
Webb Yesterday. A meeting of the execu-
tive board of the union is called to meet at
their hall at 7:15 p. m. to-day. A full at
tendance ia requested.
Tn directors of the Montana base ball
league will meet in Helena to-day to you
slider an important question. It ia whether
there shall be two series of games. Half of
the games were finished yesterday. If this
closes the first half Butte will be the victors
and if they should be defeated in the Sec
ond half some way must be devised in order
to settle which team wins the pennant.
A bill passed the house of representatives
on Saturday for holding terms of the
United States court at Butte. 1t provides
that the counties of Beaverhead. Madison
and Silver Bow shall constitute the south.
ern district of the division of Montana,
and terms shall be held at Butte the first
Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday
in September. The bill was introduced by
Congressman Dixon.
The first shipment of Montana cattle this
season was a mixed lot of heifers. lows and
a few steers, which passed over the North
ern Pacific last week. and we're sold in the
Twin City yalds on Friday for 1915, which
Is a top figure and very encouraging. Ship
ments from Northern Montana, over the
Great Northern. will begin soon, the Home
Land being the first to lead off, ship
ping from Malta in II few DAYS.
College boys organized as the Freshmen
played the Boston Clothing COMPANY nine
Yesterday and were defeated by a score of
35 to 7. The batteries were Goodman and
Muntz for the Boston Clothing Company and
Bixby and Voolfolk for the +. eshmen.
The Boston Clothing Company nine would
like to play any non-protessional nine in
the state for $50 in money. to be found vi
ths Boston Clothing c~ompany's store.
league and Davsy, the gentlemen who
walked away with the drilling match at the
auditorium on Friday evening and are nov
entitled to the distinction of the championt
of the world, are both Cornish. but are citi.
zens of Silver Bow county. When they re-
TUNED to Butte they we're met at the depot
by two brass bands, the Alice and the Bos-
ton and Montana, together with severa
hundred friends and admirers. and given &
reception.
Next Sunday evening the Calumet clut
will give another of it's entertainments. t.
which it extends a cordial invitation to it
friends. The best local talent will assist ii
making the programme a SUCCESS. Among
those who have kindly consented are tn,
following: Mrs. Sol Poznanski, the Misse
Hepner, Cohen, Sadie Loeb, Tom, Boyer
F%eldberQ. Plof. Zlmm erman. Signor Ga
lassi, Messrs. A. J. Poznanski, Chns. CLAIR
and others, assisted by the Calumet or
chastra.
German. who is to have a twenty-fv,
round go with Ike Hayes, the coloret
Helena pngilist. at the Butte Ath
letic grounds on the 31st OF tn
month, is In active training at tn
Pastiule club rooms. German nov
weighs go. but he expects to relieve him
self of twenty pounds by the 3lst. A
present he is training himself, but Jimm,
Barns, who was to have fought Kid Gala
CHER Oh the coast q short time ago. vii
arrive from the west in Il few days and vii
take a few falls out of him.