The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-26
JoTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

Trains now run throOHn 1rom 0EeHb ESi
to Helena on schedule time without Int
ruption.
Herman Ludcke, of the firm .Ludok,
Speedy Il CO., Of Great Falls, was III tow
yesterday OF a business trip.
Twenty acres Of placer ground. north {
Fosters homestead, on Pricxly Pear oreel
have been located by A. L. kluse.
Assessor Ben 9. Gardiner reports the az
sessment OF MeaRhcr count for 1892 4
IS. 454, $50 as sRainst IS, 1885, $50 last year.
Helena and vicinity got a slight touch
yesterday, Of the torsid wave which !
sweeping over tho eastern and middl
states.
Sanitary Policeman John Fry ia makini
a tour Of the east side, looking after neg
looted garbage dumps and other unwhols
some debris.
The first instalimcnt on the Montan
building at the Chicago exposition, amount
ing to S4.s5s. was paid yesterday by Score
tary Ramsay.
A force Of men are at work on the Davil
street tiuma repairing it and endeavoring tx
increase its usefulness in carrying of wstsl
during heavy rains.
There will be a meeting Of the Cleveland
democratic club this evening At the roomi
of the Rroadwater club. All members ART
requested 10 be present.
Agents OF the Smithsonian institute are
making trips to the different reservations
collecting Indian curiosities for exhibition
at the Worlds fair in Chicago.
August Peterson was found guilty before
Judge Gage yesterday of assault and bat
terry on a six-yesr-old girl. The judge
withheld sentence for the time being.
The unused tracks of the Helena Electric
Railway company on Seventh avenue.
Davis street and State street, are being Gov
Grad IN NV tina muNpHanlylNu of thnae
th~orouEhfares.
The team of a rancher named Gordon
ran away ON Rodney street yesterday and
down Broadway to Main street, where il
was cauSht by Jerry Hoyt after the wagon
had been badly wrecked.
A meeting Of tho Lewis and Clarke
County Woman's Columbian Exposition
association is to be held to-day at the Board
OF Trade rooms at three p. N. All members
are requested to be present.
The cracker factory building il about
completed and the machinery will soon be
placed in position. Fifty men will be en-
ployed as soon rs this is lone and the force
will be increased by 100 in a short time.
A musicale will be held at tho Benton
avenue Christian church This evening. An
excellent programme has been arranged.
After the musicale an ice cream social will
be given in the church parlors by the Y. p.
S. c. +.
The directors of the Montana State fair,
at II meeting yesterday afternoon, decided
that in view of the fact that Helena had
only lately seen a rock drilling contest. il
would not bs expeiient to have another
during the fair next month.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold.
ers of the Montana Gold and Gem Explo-
ration company. limited. yesterday, the
following officers we're elected: s. Il. Hsu-
ser, president, F. D. Sprstt, woe president.
L. Il. Hershhsld, treasurer, W.. E. Cullen, |
No meeting of the stockholders of tho
Central Railway company was
held yesterday. owing to a lack of a quo
rum. President j. j. Hill, of the Great
Northern, telegraphed that proxies would
be here to-day. A meeting will be held at
four p. M. to-day.
Edward Vaughan died at Great Falls
early Sunday morning at the residence of
his uncle, Robert Vaughn. His death was
be sustained several weeks ago from tbs
loft of the A1tell stables. The deceased
% years old and came to Montana
about five years ago.
Davsy and league, the Cornish team
which took first money in the rock drilling
here, broke the worlds record at
Butte on Sunday. They drilled q hole
- GIG inches deep, nearly five inches more
han eve made in any recorded contest.
Tho drilling was done on the same piece of
.ranits on which Blu ns made a hole OF
u ll-l6 inches the previous sunday.
Dr.. Harry j. With saw two men irving
% force an entrance to his house on Davis
treet, near Eighth avenue. by way of the
ear window, sume time during Saturday
iight. He fired two shots at them and
hey ran away. making their escape up
DAVIS street. One OF the shots went through
he window of an unoceupied house on
eighth avenue owned by c. E. Colbert.
Charles Teno charged Ed Castee with
assault and the case was tilsd before Jus
ice "oodran yesterday. Tho men are
and have been living together in
Ieno's house. They foil out recently and
jastee went TO live in the stable. Teno
him to leave there too, but Castes
to purn the stable and caught
lls cousin by the throat. The line and
imposed by Justice Woodnan
to $50. Ii.
The following new companies have been
Incorporated: The Williams Mining COM
'anv. to do business in Lewis and Clarke
'ounty. with an Office at Helena. The
'apltal stock is $500. 600. in 81 shares. A..
VI. Williams. H. 5. Thurber, D.. G. Moore,
F. ;. teathe ly and G.. o. freeman are the
ncorgorators. Montana Publishing COM
ANY, to DO a general printing business at
5oulder, Jefferson county, with a capital
took Of $4,000. in $40 shares. The incor-
'orators are VIII Kennedy, Karl M. Hansen
nd Frank Showers.
The city couneil. at its regular meeting
o-nlglt, will likely order further transfers
moneys from one tunG to another in
fder to cancel outstanding warrants. The
and the mayor are all of one
ana on the wisdom Of dsvotlnq all the
urplus money in any fund to the cancella-
ION OF warrants aud the redemption OF
anu thereby aavIng ccumulation Of
1t was with this idea in view
hat the council directed the recent trans
ers of funds. and that tho treasurer. act
az on the suggestion of the mayor and in |
ofnpllanoe with the wishes OF the alder
len. cancelled nearly $4,000 of warrants
called in $1,000 OF funding bonds.
The following transfers wers fled with
he county clerk ycsterday: Leopold Van
'atp to Montana Catholic Missions, east
All OF the southwosb quarter, the south
quarter of the s%outhwsst quarter Of
ectlon eleven, and the northwest quarter Of
ne northwest qua'ter of section four teen.
own twelve north of range Ave west. IS:
". Clark to Adam Schmidt, lot l.
lock 10. Fat Helena. $50; Philip Miller
. Ellen Eminit, east twenty-eight feet of
u 10, and west twenty-elght feet of lot Il,
LOCK 1bC. Eastsrly addition, $3.50; Joseph
Casaido to Montana Catholic Missions,
le Ola Buffalo Bill ranch, containing 100
G es, and other lands in LOWS and Clarke
ouHty, ".
buy your baby carriage ut the Bee Hive and
we ~ per cent. Prices cut away Town below