The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-27
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GENERAL NEWS
OF THE STATE.
Compiled 1}Om Exchanges.
Big Timber.

Harvey Bless md James Vestal Left las
SUNDAY evening for st. Paul and Chicag
on Z business TIP.
BENZ. Urine, president Of the Mellvill
Me camille COMPANY, 10 in 81. Paul in til,
interest OF the company.
j.. A. Hall was in Bozeman and Hslenl
on q business { ip in the interest OF th'
Fret National bank last + iday.
The business block of Kellogg ant
Walbridec is about completed. II is al
imposing structure anu will be a credit y
Big Timber should she become a city o.
$1,000 people.
The Brilliant. owned by Senator Geo. n
Hatch and w. w. Beasley. is considered Il
be the best mining property in the camp
The development work IL progressing
rapidly and with very satisfactory results.
The electric plant is ready for operation.
Wires have been connected with the Poor
man mine. The Daisy mills will also use
electric power. Everything points toward
a very successful year for this mining dis
trict, which means everything for Big linn
Der.
The pure gold ore continues to come
from the Independence mine. This com
pany have been wo king all winter and il
reports are true thy have a ~"bonanza" in
fact, The stock has been withdrawn from
the market II is steadily increasing in
value.
The Big Timber Athletic club was organ
lied Saturday night with the following Of
fcers: President, Flank Bliss; secretary,
A. Anderson; treasurer, G. s. Walbridpe;
representative. ]. A.. Humphrey. The club
starts with . membership OF forty would-be
Corbetts. The Busha Il Bailey hall has
been leased for their meetings, which viii
be equil ped with frst-class appliances
throughout.
IfvinpAton.
BON. to Mr.. and Mrs. James Carroll.
Sunday. Jan. %, a daughter.
Schilling's minstrels have been booked by
Manager Hefferlin for Feb. 8.
A marriage license was issued to Matt
Kakela aud Josephine Latwalla, both o.
Red Lodge.
The trial of Mrs. Maggie Dowty for the
murder OF Patrick Tierney has been set for
next Monday.
The application Of Orlando Dewing TO-
admission to the Soldiers home at Mil
waukee. Wis. it is expected will be favor
ably acted upon within = few days.
Volta S. Ayers and Miss Blanche Smith
were united In marriage at the residence OF
Charles F. Smith tuesday evening BY Rev.
Nickel. of the Methodist church. Only a
few of the relatives and friends of the con-
tracing parties witnessed the ceremony.
Harry McCue returned Sunday morning
from It. Paul, whore he had been in at
tendance at the meeting of the grievance
committee of the b othei hood of Loromo-
tive Firsmen of the Northern Pacific. After
a lengthy session matte 8 between the com-
pany and the order were satisfactorily ar.
ranged.
John Frazer, day bartender at John Lisk's
sample room. had his hands badly lacerated
MONDAY by the bursting of a bottle of
b andy. into which he was trying to push u
cork. The index finger of his left hand was
laid open cleal to the bone. and a fearful
cash was cut through the Ialm OF the right
hand into the wrist.
The Livingston club held its annual cleo
ton of officers in the new rooms of the
opera house block aturdey evening. The
following were chosen for the ensuing year:
T.. G. Day. president: I. Goughnour, vice
president; Charles Connop, sec etarv and
treasu err; Il. s. Ash. George L. Carey.
Judge Henry, G. A.. McCuen, A. l.. Love
and A. j. Campbell, trustees.
Nick Hoffman. through his attorney, John
T. Smith, has begun suit in Justice Roses
court against the city of Livingston for the
sum of Sl70, damages alleged to have been
sustained by plaintiff by eason of the neg
ligence of the city in permitting a tree to
stand in Geyser street with which plain
tiff's team came in contact hlie running
away last tuesday,, causing the death of
one of the horses.
The Livingston rublio school exhibit,
which is to TO m a part of M~ontaua's at
fractions at the Worlds fair. ia about fin
ished. and it is designed to ship it to Hell
ena on Saturday morning. 1t compris 3
mounted ma draw nps of the United
States showing the mineral deposits, sp ci
mems of penmanshlp, neatly written dem,
onstrations in the branches of mathematics
accompanied by MP, ropriate drawings, ex-
ercises in spelling. in history. in Latin
t nnslations, in geography, and the rudi-
ments of writing. TIE specimens are taken
from the regular work of the eleven grades,
and it is the design to have the products Of
the school labors of every pupil in attend
ance re- resented in the Columbian exyo,i-
ton. The Livingston display is highly
creditable to the scholars. and will. it is
confidently believed, compare favo ably
with that of any public school in the
country.