The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-13
oOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

The Kessler school will open to day.
Tomorrow is the day for valentines.
A regular meeting OF the city council will
be held tomorrow evening.
A large audience was present Mt the meet
ing for men at st. Paul's church yesterday.
Rev. j. Wesley Hill will lead the meeting
at the Goapel mission tonight at 81 south
Main street.
The Ladies Auxiliary society Of Temple
Emann-El will meet at Mrs. A. Birken-
fields this afternoon. All are cordially
invited.
The contract for the construction OF tho
new Phelps. Dickerman block at Gtsat
Falls has been awarded to u. Workman, of
Helena, for $4,000.
Girsey Warren. who formerly lived In
in Helena. and who came here lately from
Portland. Ore, with her sister. Eva War
rem, died at the Alden block yesterday
morning.
The ladies of Protection Lodge No. 10,
Degree of Honor. A. O. U. W., of East
Helena. will give a necktie ball at their
hall Tomorrow evening to which all are
cordially invited to attend.
Bishop Brewer held service in the Episco-
pal church at Fort KeoGh yesterday. As
tho morning service five candidates re-
ceived the rite of confirmation and were
admitted to full communion in tho church.
The Billings for the PEN lobby in Hell
ena was reinforced last week BY Fred
Sweetman. Paul Mccormick. Sheriff Ram
sey. ]. d. O'Donnell, j. Il. Goss. Charles
Spear. Alex. Graham. Peter II. Smith and
+. +. Whitney. of junction.
Mayor Curtin and several members of the
looking around for good coasting streets to
take the place of Hillsdale. Chsucer and
Howey. which are NO longer suitable for
such purpose. Upper Rodney. Spruce and
perhaps some other street will be selected.
where the element OF danger is less than
on the old coastinR streets.
Twenty seven Indian students arrived at
the Fort Shaw Indian school last Friday.
OF this number seventeen are girls and ten
are boys. DIR. Winslow, suuerintendent of
the institution, had everything in readiness
for the reception of these scholars on nrri-
val. and the old fort at present presents a
scene of life and activity which reminds
one of the days when it was occupied by
white troops.
I. d. O'Donnell, Of Billings. one of yell
lcwstone's representatives at the Irrigation
convention, and his family, will go to Ana
conda to visit Miss O'Donnell. then they
will make a tour of Utah and Colorado,
where Mr.. O'Donnell will, as lei resentatlve
of his land company. take observations OF
Ate. that they will 90 east to their old
home in Michigan and will possibly end up
with q trip to New York.
The governor has granted the application
of Edwin j. Lewis for restoration to citi.
zsnship, and the matter will be finally
passed uron by the board of pardons at
Helena on March 4. Lewis was convicted
in the district court Of Custer count OF as
sault with intent to kill VIM. j. Brown on
March 6, 1890, at tbs %lntter's ranch ON tho
upper Rosebud, by stsbbinQ Brown three
times with a iack-knife and was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary.
A gentleman who came to Helena yester-
day from Red Mountain says it was only
FIVE below at than place during the recent
cold snap. They have a queer way of
reckoning the degrees of cold at Neihart.
One day last week. q citizen of that place
says. the Thermometers froze up. indicating
sixty-four degrees below zero. Next day
a mule froze to death in the street, ipai-
eating eighty degrees below, and after it
got below that the citizens had to guess at
it.