The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-05-12
GREAT FALLS GLINTS.

MA FALLS GLlNIS.
From the Tribune:
The bottom of the fountain in front
of the depot is being repaired and ce-
mentcd.
Mrs. w. II. Banks, Of Neihart is visit
ing her friends Mrs. J. Amsden and Mrs.
J. c. kenmonth, Second avenue south.
Thieves are at work stealing windows,
etc, from the shacks ON ranches east of
the city. The scoundrcls should be
rounded up and punished.
The meeting of the county commits
%sioners, announced to be held on May IL.
has been postponed until May Is on ac-
count of the absence of Commits
sioner Dickey and County Recorder
Crosby at the Hanks trial al Helena.
In relation to the law which provides
that no stationary engineer who also acts
as fireman shall operate his engine more
than eight hours per day, where fifteen
men are employed underground, AT
torney General Haskell decided that the
law applies, whether there are fifteen
men underground or less.
c. p. Downing, II. G. Klenzc, |. b.
Hopkins, and several others are making
arrangements to go by wagon to the
newly discovered placer gold fields on
Box creek in Dawson county. They
claim the trip can be made in less than
six days. They will probably start the
last of this or the first Of next week.
An advertisement may be compared to
the electric current. The newspaper is
the switchboard. The advertiser is the
operator. When the advertiser would
electrify the public he manipulatcs the
switchboard, and the powerful current
which he 50 thoroughly controls en-
livens the community and often shocks
or even kills a competitor.
The county authorities are taking
steps to stop the Cree Indian sun dance
announced to take place about the mid
die of June at the North Montana Fair
| grounds in this city. The gathering to-
gether Of 400 or 800 vagabond Indians
for the purpose of going through a lot
of barbaric orgies should not be tolcrat-
ed in IA civilized community. The Of
ticers are doing right in supprcssing the
barbarous custom.
The St%cvensvillc Tribune man inter
viewed Marcus DAILY the other day AS to
whether the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
railroad would be built through into
Missoula county this year. In reply Mr..
Daily said; "The railroad is no go this
year. There have been no bonds sold
and not likely to be any sold this year.
And we want the people to understand
it. Money is too scarce to venture out
between two railroads already in the
hands of the rcccivcrs.'
If this country had rs many railroads
in proportion to area as Great Britain,
we should have 492, t29 miles, where
as at present we have only 1850.
Therefore the Railway Age thinks, we
have not too much railway mileage at
present; that on the contrary we have
not nearly enough. But it will be Il
good plan to let IL few of onr roads get
out of the hands of the receivers before
urging that proposition too strongly on
the American people.
A rather peculiar case at law has
grown out of the late Great Northern
strike. A man named Rezza bought a
ticket from Trinidad, Colo, to Great
Falls, over the Great Northern. When
he got as far as Butte he was DELAYED by
the tic-up. As he had no means and
the railroad refused to support him, lac
perforcc became Il county charge. Now
the commissioners are going to try to
make the railroad company refund to
the county the amount expended in
Rczza's behalf.