The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-07-27
r OF THE FALLS.
FRIDAY 4 DAILY.

all kinds are very abundant,
Eugene B. Braden will take charge Of
tie assay Office at Helena on Monday,
July %.
The republicans Of Meagher county
will hold their convention at White
Sulphur Springs on Sept. 3.
The shipments of ore from Neihart to
Great Falls for the week ending Thurs
day amounted to twenty -four cars.
Under the law fixing the salaries of
postmasters, the salary OF the post
master at Billings has been reduced
$500.
The total assessment for Lewis and
Clarke county for this year foots up &c.,
5l0,510. Last year the total was 3d.
10000.
First-class tickets from Great Falls to
are now selling for $3.50. Cheap
enough.
Valley county democrats have selected
J. s. Truscott, Of Glasgow, chairman.
DR.. M. d. Hoyde, secretary, and Chas.
Hurd, treasurer.
Station Agent Arthur Douglas at
Monarch, on the Neihart road, has been
transferred to the Cascade station on
the Montana Central.
Deputy Sheriff Dryer left yesterday
for Deer Lodge, with a prisoner for the
penitentiary. There are two or three
more "birds" to 60 over
The postoffice in Boulder was entered
by burglars Tuesday night, who secured
from Sc to IS in coin of the realm as
the reward Of their labor.
A United States patent 10 James M.
Bourne for 1G0 acres OF land in sections
"a and 30, township II north, range 8
east, was recorded yesterday.
The call is out for the republican state
convention to be held at Helena on
Thursday, Sept. 6. Cascade county is
entitled to twenty delegates in the con-
vention.
Mrs. +. G. Maclay entertained Miss
Swanton and a number of her friends
after the performance at the opera house
last night at her homo on the South
side. Refreshments we're served.
Miss" May Fullerton is again in
trouble. This time she is charged with
petit larceny on an information made by
one WI Elliott. The trial will come
off in the p olice court at , o'clock this
afternoon.
Monarch seems to have become a fav-
orite place for Great Falls people to
camp. There are at present between
twenty and thirty families camped there
enjoying the fishing, gathering berries,
and otherwise enjoying themselves in
one Of the most beautiful spots in Mon
tana.
Engineers to make the preliminary
surveys OF the projected Great Northern
branch from Kalispell to Tobacco Plains
are now at the former place. This road
will open up a rich mineral and agricul-
tural district. Coal, silver, gold, iron
and copper are known to exist in that
vicinity.
j. p. Arson came over from Basin
yesterday. He reports his new town
development of new mines and has
hopes that in a year or two Basin will be
the greatest mining camp on earth"
Basin is in Jefferson county on the line
OF the Montana Central railway.
The following deeds were recorded
yesterday: TOWNSHIP to Anna Il. Nc
Clelland, lot 3, block 2i5, TOWNSHIP,
$1,000; Anna T.. McClelland and hus-
band to TOWNSHIP company, lot II, block
100, first addition, s1,400; sheriff of Cas-
cade county to Theodore Gibson, in
terest OF Geo. Enfield ct al. in the north
half OF lot |, block DOB, sixth addition,
$685..
The following cases were disposed Of
by Justice Hawkins in the police court
yesterday: James Wells, John Tierney
and Will Fox, general vegs, were each
given five days in the chain gang: Clara
Roberts, a blooming damsel of the ter
derloin district, was fined $40, which
she paid, for being under the influence
Of strong drink and using "~unladylike"
language on the street.
The little 6.year-old child of B. j
Montgomery on the West side had a mar
row escape yesterday. The child was
playing with a dog and laid down on the
railroad track between the ties; a train
Of twenty-eight cars passed over it, the
child only receiving n slight scratch.
The mother, seeing the child's condition.
tainted and recovered to find the child
comparatively uninJured.
On Wednesday companies ii. B, d and
f, OF the Twentieth infantry at Fort
Assinniboine passed through this city
over the Great Northern for western
points. Yesterday companies A and &
OF the same regiment and troop f, Of
the Tenth calvary passed through the
city for the same destination. This will
leave only two companies at Fort As
sinniboine-company |, the Indian COM
pany Of the Twentieth infantry, and one
troop Of the Tenth, colored, cavalry.
The wool market is very quiet owing
to the close down Of buying until Sat
urday. The large receipts Of wool made
II necessary to stop buying until Agent
Kelly could make room in the wool
house for new arrivals by shipping the
stock on hand east. BY Saturday the
blockade will be removed and buying
will be resumed. There are several
hundred thousand pounds ready for the
buyers as Don as the market opens
Saturday.
The Neihart Miner says that orange
ments have been made at White Sui
phur Springs by Freight Agent Searles,
Of the Great Northern railroad, to ship
via Neihart the wool clip Of Fred Dan
zer and another sheep man in that
vicinity. These shipments are in the
way Of a trial and IL successful it Is
probable that there will be considerable
freight come over this way. 1t is said
that by shipping the wool this way a
bigger price is obtained owing to the
| compe.ition among wool buyere nj Great