The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-14
JoTTlNGs ABOUT TOWN..

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The United states circuit and district
courts meet on March ~.
Tickets for .My Geraldine" are new on
sale al Pope h O'Connor's.
The democratic ward primaries will be
held two wesks from to-day.
The trial al the Penrose casa has been
set for April 4 at Deer Lodge.
Stuart Robson will be the next attraction
at Ming's after Hobby GayloT.
John Wick hagged three wild geese while
on \ hunting trip In tho valley on Saturday.
Tho fnrnituf 0 and muaic house OF A. p.
Curtin " Go. have opened u branch at Great
Falls. l
Rev. W. y. BELL, Of Helena, occupied the
pulpit OF the Congregational church at Mis-
souln yesterday.
The regular monthly inspection of the
county jail was mads Saturday By Shorih
Jsffsris and hia deputies.
A club il being formed at Deer Lodge
which will be modelled much after the plan
| Of the Montana club, of this city.
Bobby Gayloy and his company ars the
next attraction at Mina'G orera house. The
engagement begins next Wednesday even
ing.
The Ladies' Saving Circle Of congreaa-
ton Emanu.El will meet at $50 y. N. to-
day at She residence of Mrs. =. Genzberger,
2l9 sixth avenue.
The report Of the First National bank Of
| Helena at the close Of business on Mnrch l
shows So, 0iS. 475.4O represented by demand
certificates Of deposit.
Bishop Brewer will make his annual visit
to Ruzoman tomorrow. He will preach
and administer confirmation IN st. James
church on Tuesday evening.
A japanese wedding entertainment ia to
be given this evening at Adams hall In the
Sixth ward for the benefit Of the Cakes
| Street Nj. j.. church. Admission 20 cents.
There will be a meeting of the school
trustees this afternoon, when it is expected
that satisfactory arrangements Will be made
for the speedy completion of the new high
school building.
The first annual ball Of Mount Helena
lodge No. 423. Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen, will be given on March IL at
Electric hall. The Elite orchestra VAL FUR
nish the music.
1t seems that Helena is not going to have
a monopoly Of precious stone finds. Gal
latin county claims to have Rs valuable
stones within it's limits as are fonnd any
where within the state.
as Temple Emanu-El. the occasion being
tho celebration of the advent Of Purim, 9
Hebrew holiday which preoedes the Pass
over season four weeks.
There will be considerable criminal bus
mess before the district court this week,
among which is the state against Doc
Seeley, Woods and Sandy Lane, growing
out Of a card game with q %greenhorn from
Wisconsin.
w. +. Parker, formerly of Helena, and 9
law student OF Col. Sanders, has formed a
law partnership with Geo. w. Taylor, of
Great Falls, ex-county attorney Of Cascade
and d student with Warren Toole some
years ago. 5#U4
The county commissioners will resume
their session this morning. There is con
siderable business before the board which
is being transacted by Commissioners
Knight and Burns, COMMISSIONS Edgstton
being inrths east. EE5 @
At a social entertainment in Billings
lately S14.2 Is was raised for the relief OF the
Russian peasants and the amount for
warded to Gov. TOole. who will send II to
the relief committee. This is the second
cont ibution received.
While in Dakota and Minnesota billiards.
are Staying people, derailing trains and
making havoc generally, in Helena, Mon
tana, March II, BOYS gathered il bloom the
flower known as windfiowsr. or scientific
ally called Auemone patens, var Nuttalliana.
Hugh Kirkendall, Of Helena, the Grea :
Northern contractor, is in Spokane again.
He reports that he has 400 men at work on
nlS COnErACbd lOIx Lu6 NOluIuDlh hlYGE HIlu
that inside Of ten days he will have 1000.
At this rate his work will be done in quick
oldar. ~
Ed Morris, charged with selling liquor
to Indians, was examined before United
States Commissions Logan, at Missoula,
Saturday, and bound over to the federal
grand jury in the sum of 5000. He was
brought to Helena yesterday by United
States Marshal Furay.
r;fn l,o,&n, x,,or ,rnorAo1 vooAov1nu IT,
is Mike Flaven who runs a lodging house
on Rodney street. Flaven was locked up
on complaint of his wife. The police say
that he WAS arrested once before for mis-
treating her. Usually in such cases as
this a fine Of $50 and costs ID imposed.
Helena WAS visited by q light fall OF
anow last night. Old-timers say the pres
ent winter is very similar to that of 1868
There was no snow of any consequence in
the valleys that winter from Oh istmas I'M
til the first week in April, when about ter
inches fell, but which soon disappeared.
Some good sized trout are brought t
, Helena from adjacent streams, but mono sc
large as the nineteen-pounder caught a
White Fish lake in the Flathsad countr,
by Charley christensen. The trout wa
of the salmon species and sent to A.. j
Davis, of Butte, as q sample of what ma,
be aone by a man who %studiously pursue
the trout in his native lair.
Fl. o. Willard, the successful candidat
t at the Helena examination for the Wes
Point cadetship finished his supplemental.
examination at Fort Keogh last week. Th'
. result cannot yet be known, as his exami
j nation papers must first be passed on b,
+ officials at Washington. It is quite likely
: however, that the returns will prove tina
, he meets the requirements in all @particu
lars.
DIR. D. B. Vermilye, Of Great Falls, ha
just returned from Dwight, where he me
quite a large number of people from Helen
and other cities in Montana, many c
t whom had been drinking for twenty {
thirty years and had been ali completed
: cured of the habit. He says that he is ne
v at all ashamed of having been at Dwipt
s as u patient. After several days in til
company of the patients there ono gets owe
. such feelings.
A Big Railroad Deal.
Q ATLANTA. Ga, March 13.-It ID said bel
on u%ndoubted authority, that a deal hi
q been perfected by which the Baltimore
n Ohio secures control of all the Richmon