The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-05
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An attempt will be made 70 organize 9
republican club fortnight.
The steel work for the new county 1all ~
expected in Helena next week..
AT the cara OF tho Rapid Transit com !
pnny will start from jackson street to-day.
The double daily train service on the
Northern Pacific will go into effect about
April |.
The restaurant effects Of the w. CT. u,
OF Great Falls have beon attached for a
debt Of S53.
Lots ii and Ia, block 10, Lookoy addition,
have been sold for SS22,sa5O, by y. y. Dick, to
i. II. kikaldie.
John II. Tinerty will lecture at Ming'a
opera house Monday evening, his subject
being Robert Emmett.
The Butte ..Mikado'' troop will pass
through Helena to-day. The members
play at Great Falls tonight.
A. M. Wilkinson filed location notices
Yesterday with the county clerk Of 48O
acres of placer ground near Sheep creek.
Word was received in Helena yesterday
that Thos, j. Hyman had been appointed
assistant to President Hill Of the Great
Northern.
There will be at least three colonies To-
Gated in Montana this year. One Will set
tie in Gallatin county, and two IN
and Clarke. @
quite u nuH1OGF GA ldu1cS HAu koApAuA4CAA
are taking advantage of the opportunity
offered by Mrs. Lamberton to take private
dancing lessons.
Land Commissioner Carter has written a
long letter to E1-Gov. White, severely Grit
icising the action of Montana on the arid
land proposition.
j. II. Featherly. Jacob Loeb n w. B.
Smith selected a list OF Jurors yesterday
for the April term, in department No. 2 of
the district court. a6
Last night Mark Tracy, Fred Sass.
and Phil Best, with Il few friends,
COMMUNICATED the Helena Business col
lege fire of two years ago..
Revenue Collector Mills instructed the
officers at Boise. Idaho, to return all opium,
legally imported, to the Chinese from whom
it was lately taken in a raid.
The meeting at Assembly hall last even
ing to discuss the Chinese question was
we'll attended, the discussions going over
the same ground as former meetings.
The Wickes tunnel on the Great North
ern road between Helena and Butte will be
cleared to-day. Tn service to Wickes will
be resumed and trains will run on time as
usual.
town. Ike Hayes is looking for him to ar
range q match. Ed kowles says he is will
ING to back Hayes for any amount Stone
wants to fight for.
Butte has organized a baseball club, with
j. +. Cowan as president, =. i. Calkins.
vice president, Chas. French, secretary and
treasurer. The prospects Of forming q
state league are very good.
There were bankers, doctors. lawyers.
railroad officials. United States. county and
city officials, and merchants, at Ming's last
night to see Ajax. Most Of the gentlemen
said they were going to the lodge when they
left home.
The builders who we're caught at the be-
ginning Of November with incomplete
to suspend operations owing to the cold,
are taking advantage Of the spring weather
to complete their contracts.
The Golden Hope Mining COMPANY filed
its articles of incorporation yesterday with
the secretary Of state. The incorporation are
E. j. Anderson, &c. T. Bunker, andL. Fish
or, of Meagher county, whore operations Will
be carried on. The capital stock is $780,
600. %5@ -a%
General Agent Edgar, Of the Northern
Pacific. will hold a reception to-day IN Gel
ebration Of the com pletion Of the renovat-
ing work that has been going on IN his OF,
fee for three months past. Mr.. Miner Will
assist, rs will Mr.. Mann and Express Mai
ager Williams.
The report from Great Falls that Presi-
dent Hill has ordered the suspension OF all
trains on the Belt Mountain branch OF the
Great Northern, from Monarch to Nelhart.
was confirmed yesterday. 1t will go into
effectto-day unless the right of way through
Neihart is arranged.
An endeavor will be made to have e fine
exhibit at the Montana State fair this
year. It is thought that a good deal OF the
exhibits from this county at the Worlds
fair can be sent to the local fair, and at It's
conclusion turned over to the board OF
Worlds fair managers.
Private advices were received from Wash
ington Yesterday to the effect that the sub
committee to which had been referred the
Helena military post bill would report
unanimously in its favor, making the ap-
propriation, however, $50, GOO, instead of
$500, 900 as agreed on by the senate COM
mittee. f
Judge Sanders yesterday dismissed the
charge of assault with a deadly weapon"
against w. j. Spencer, who plead guilty to
simple assault and was sent to the county
Jail for sixty days. AS to William Irwin,
who's singing led to the assault, the judge
has not yet decided whether to punish him
for making loud and unusual noises or not.
Rev.. @. U. Shinn, general missionary of
the Uniyersalist church, arrived in Helena
Yesterday and will preach in Great Falls
tomorrow, and return to Helena next
week. If he finds people of his church he
will stay over Sunday, the 18th. He re-
quests all rniversaiists who would like to
have him call on them to inform him to
this effect, addressing him at the general
postotice delivery, Helena.
Excursion Union Pacific System.
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