The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-12
NEWS
OF Il STATE.
Compiled from Iixchsnge&l

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A. X. Ysrkes and family have returned
from California. at4t
W. L. MeOlura loft Monday for . three
months visit to Missouri.
X. d. Turner and family have gone 10
Denver. They expect to be away about one
month.
Miss Anne Maxsy spent tho last two
weeks In Helena visiting her slater. Mrs.
IsnRhsn.
William Mccullough and Julia Knadler.
Of Belgrade, were married in this CITY last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cooper we're entsr-
tanned at tea. Saturday evening. by Mr.. end
Mrs. u. Brook Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fielding have returned
from Lowell, Mass, where Mrs. Fielding
went several months ago.
DR.. md Mrs. q. L. Hogan returned on
Wednesday from Los Angeles, Cal. whore
they spent tho greater part OF the winter.
Judge md Mrs. l.. A. Luoe started east,
Monday evening. They will visit Chicago.
and st. Paul for q month or six weeks be-
fore returning.
l. r. Asbury has resigned his position
order to accept the position of bookkesper
with tho GAllstin Valley Mercantile COM
pany.
On Saturday evening Miss Minnie Hen
dofson gave = very enjoyable birthday
PARTY to hsr young friends Al her homo on
West Babcock street. Miss Henderson il
popular and is charming in her hospitality.
BE- ta Missouia.
Hon. Thomas G. Marshall has returned
from Washington.
Mrs. L. e., wife of Under Sheriff Hicker-
nell. returned after a few weeks absence in
the cast.
Hon. - u Gv,,tkI, ~ IJ>Ior. g.. L. A..
CITY on legal business and will remain sew.
eral daya.
EIecta Chapter No. 7, Q. =. s.. will give
q dance and supper ut Odd Fellows' hall on
Friday evening, April 81.
Mrs. John d. Ruff. after q pleasant visit
with her relatives in this city, left for her
home in Hamilton on Saturday.
A marriage license was granted by tho
district court to William Henry Harrison
Dunkle and May L. McKilliRan. both OF
this city.
The funeral of the infant child of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Baker. which died on Sat.
urday evening. was held from the family
residence.
4. G. Hathaway returned from an ex-
tended trip to the east last saturday night.
bringing with him his wife, to whom he
was married in Germany several weeks
since.
VIM. Peon, Of Spokane. and Maggie
lOuAs "a VA oASOhs "oAo AlOV III Il
holy bonds of matrimony in the district
court room Saturday morning by Judge
Woody.
w. KlineberQ, one OF Missoula's we'll
known OWL engineers, returned from Col
umbia Falls, where he has bsOn erecting a
handsome bridge for thas rustllng little
municipality.
II is reported in the city that Hugh Kirk
endall g. Co., of Helena. have been awarded
the contact for constructing 100 miles of
the roadbed of tho Butte, Anaconda u Pa
cifo railway. and work will begin at once.
Mrs. j. Dou0herty left Sunday for a six
weeks' visit to Minneapolis.
j. s. Day returned Tuesday evening from
the south and east. whore he has been for
the past two months.
Leopold Beck has purchased the ranch
and improvements of M. M. Hedges on
Love- Seven Mile creek. This ranch is
one of the best in Dawson county.
George Fish, aged II years, while picking
a dynamite cap with a hairpin. had the first
two tingers and thumb OF the left hand
blown off last Sunday morning. The boy
claims to have found the cap on the rail-
road track near the stockyards.
Edward Marion, manager for Hubbard &
Sampson. arrived from Texas Tuesday
evening, where he has been purchasing
boIppOa w okAA OuuCt1Ous VyOs, anu OIlVou
from there to the range on Rcd Water.
G. A. Dole. manager for Sampson d
Fahnestock, has purchased $500 head of
mixed cattle at San Antonio, COL, which
will be driven to the company's range in
Dawson county. s.. W. Pendleton, in
left Thursday for Grin junction, Wyo..
from where the horses will be shipped to
San Antonio. They expect to arrive here
in July.
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The masquerade ball given by the Glen
dive Base Ball association at Masonic opera
house last Monday evening was the event
of the season. There were seventy couple
masked. All nations and characters we're
represented by gaily affixed ladies and gen.
tleman. The masks were removed at mid.
night. and many happy surprises. were
given. A late supper was served in the
hall. to which tall present did ample jus-
tioe.
Mrs. Flora Ellis. of Hastings, Mimi,
niece of Mrs. Hardy. of Glendive. has won
the famous three-cornered contest over the
100000 estate loft by tho late Matthew
ELLIS, husband of Mrs. Flora. The other
claimants for the estate were a former
wife. Mrs. Rachel Ellis, divorced nine
years ago in Wisconsin, and a sister Of de-
amounts to $1,000 0 the deceased having a
life insurance policy for $4,000. besides
the estate, valued ut 800, 000.
The mean temperature for March at
Glendive was 23.2 degrees above. sixteen
above February. Tho maximum tempera-
ture was si1ty-eiRht on the 3Oth, twenty
five above February. The minimum. WAS
thirteen below zero on the 18th, thirty-four
above February. Monthly range eighty
one. Snow fell on the 18Th, 18th and 21st,
TO n depth Of five inches. Total precipita.
ton 80. There WAS eight inches of snow
on the ground on the 10Th. which had en-
tirely disappeared at the end of tho month.
Ice broke in the Yellowstone river on the
2Sth. and ran out on the 29th. The mean
temperature was below the normal for the
past eleven years. Between the first and
10th there were ten days that the tempera-
ture ranged below zero. Only light storms
occurred during the month.
A Deer story.
Last fall Mr.. Wallinp. whose farm ad-
Joins the village of Halliburton, had two
acres and n half of Swsde %turnips. Or these
he gathered two acres, putting them in
heaps and covering them with about six
,,bo. ~ o1rou Tho hnlP ,ar