The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-15
JOTTlNGS ABOUT TOWN.

There will be a meeting Of the Hendricks
democratic club, Thursday evening.
The Burlington 4 Missouri railroad has
filed maps of location of part of its line. be.
tween Great Falls md Belt.
Percy Wilmot has appropriated a water
right of forty inches in Spring c%oulee, q
tributary Of Sun river, for irrigation pur-
poses.
Butte sportsmen have sent to California
wall be a grand rabbit drive in the Deer
Lodge valley.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive fremen
Will give q ball Thursday evening ct Elec-
trio hall. Extensive preparations are being
made fer g good time.
The colored democrats of the city will
meet for organization on Thursday evening.
at the colored Masonic lodge rooms, in the
INDEPENDENT building.
The local union Of Helenn will hold q
missionary meeting at the St. Paul M. d.
Everybody is cordially invited.
The japanese Wedding entertainment al
Adams nall, last evening, for the benefit OF
the Cakes street church, proved a very en-
joyable affair and was largely attended.
The Unity club will meet tonight at
eight p. M. in the g. A. r. hall. Prof. A.
$. Merritt will give Il paper on the "Educa-
ton of the Masses" to be followed by dis
CusslOn. %4.-|" Wv
The school trustees are asking where the
fines are GONG which the law says should
be turned over to the school fund They
have heard nothing of anything Of the kind
for a long time. $@"#
The rehearsal Of Madjoon. which was to
have been held tonight at Encore hall, has
been postponed to Saturday night ne xt,
March 10, at 1880 o'clock. A full attend an Ct
is respectfully requested.
Henry Knippenberg was last week, at the
meeting Of the Hecla Consolidated Mining
company, unanimously. for the twelfth
year, elected general manager OF the com
pany. He has been east for several months
but is expected to return to Montana this
week. Il
1t is believed that Arbor day will be more
generally celebrated in Helena this year
han ever before, as the governors ptoc-
lamation was issued in ample time for the
tree planters to make preparations. Many
who do not own houses of their own, but
who have lots in the cemetery. will plant
trees or bushes there.
Michael Flavin, arrested at the instance
of his wife, was released yesterday, the
woman declining to prosecute. Mrs. Flavin
keeps the pot boiling by renting out rooms.
She had saved up 81 toward buying shoes
for the children. f'lavjn got hold of the
OAAS A@A Ho1A " - la ~ L "a
says she will apply for a divorce.
Notices Of placer locations aggregating
32O acres were filed with County Clerk
Tooker yesterday. II. b. Pursell locates
280 acres; l20 in Section 81, township II,
north of range 2 west, and 1GO acres in Sec
ton 5, township 10, north of range 2 west.
Henry Schimpf locates forty acres in Blue
Cloud district.
DR.. w. L. Stesle was called to Craig yes
terday to attend Mrs. Nellie Il. Burke, but
the lady died about an hour before his ar
rival. She was the wife of w. L. Burke,
a well-known %ranchman, and was born
thirty years ago at Bangor, Mich. She
leaves three small children, the eldest be-
ing seven and tho youngest q babe of a few
days. The immediate cause Of death was
heart disease. The funeral will take place
at two p. m, at Craig.
George Kirwan came in from jefferson
county Sunday and after a good time
went to bed in his room at q hotel.
He was only partly undressed. When he
woke up yesterday his coat and vest were
gone. Will Hankley, q colored man who
has Just arrived in town, was arrested for the
robbery. He had on the stolen garments,
as we'll as a pair of trousere which he said
had been given him at the Northern Pacific
depot. The coat and vest he said he
! bought from another colored man. The
man who gave him the trousers was found,
and it is possible he may have bought the
other things, as he claims. A charge OF
burglary was preferred against him. From
Hankley's manner he is thought to be some
what daft"