Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-04-26
branch will be built five miles FROM the
main line, branching at Mann and going
to kibbey.

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the ne114 and the ne1l Of the ne14, sec
ton 2G, and the nw1i of the nWIl. sec
ton %, township Is north, range = east. |
George Jefferson, Charles Craig aud |
Thomas arnold, three vagrants arrested |
on the West Side, sleeping IN the rail |
ROAD company 9 sand house, were before |
his honor yesterday on Il charge Of yag- |
rancy. The company have been much |
annoyed by the occupancy Of its sand |
house by tramps. The court dismissed |
the prisoners.
The body of RoLeYt Ftutfner d coal
miner Of Belt, who Was killed by sui |
phur ball fired with the force of d can
non from blast in the mines, was
brought in yesterday to McBratney's |
undertaking rooms, where it viii be en-
balmed and shipped to his parents at
Latoon. New Mexico A full account of
the accident appeared in a special dis
patch to The TRIBUNE published yester-
day.
Word was received here yesterday of
the death of Mrs. Nancy Edring on,
motIer-in-law of Charles Lawson, who
has resided at Mr. Lawsons S ranch, some
miles out of the city. She was about 50
years of age, and has resided with her
son-in-law for some years past. Ar
rangements for the funeral will be per-
fected later, but she will be buried in
the cemetery here, probably Saturday
next.
The Union Mems Building association,
organized for the purpose of erecting a
trades union labor temple building for
the meetings of the various unions, held
meeting last night and completed the
organic 3tlon of their stock company by
adopting a set of bylaws. They are now
ready to sell stock, and as soon as suf-
ticlent is sold they will purchase site
aud commence the construction of the
building
Charles Booth wigmaker and hair
dresser, was arrested yesterday on q
charge of petty larceny. He is charged
with taking wig and certain tools be
longing to lady formerly in partner
ship with him. He denies any guilt in
the matter AMI has secured the services
of an attorney. The case will come up
for hearing today before Judge Hawkins,
and meantime he was committed in de-
fault of 500 bail.
VIM. Hail. who shot Deputy Sheriff
Mcleod at Belt some weeks ago, was
brought before the district court yester-
day. He pleaded guilty to q charge of
assault with intent TO commit murder,
although he assured the court that he
was go drunk at the time that he oidn t
know what he was doing. He will be
brought up for sentence Saturday. The
sentence may be from one to fourteen
years in the penitentiary.
JohT Duncan, general superintendent
Of the Calumet and Hecla Copper Min
ing company of Calumet. Mich. who has
been here for several days as the guest
of l.. s. Woodward, left Yesterday for the
east. During his stay here Mr.. Duncan
took occasion to visit the copper smelteI
ard other points about the city and eX-
pressed himself as firm believer in the
future destiny of Great Falls as an in
dustrial metropolis in the northwest.
} In the case of the Northwestern Ma
tional bank vs. \. Z. Dickerman, county
treasurer, an application for writ OF
} mandamus to compel the county treas
urer to pay warrant for Sl5,S335G is
) sued by the school board in payment OF
money loaned the board, the district
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of the bank. and ordered the money
paid. The county treasurer had refused
the payment on the ground that the
warrant was illegal and his paying il
might leave his bondsmcn liable. He is
now fully protected in this respect by
the order Of the district court.
Shipments of northern Montana pota
toes to eastern markets may become al
important factor in agricultural develop
ment in this section. T. G. Power x
; Bro. on behalf of local ranchman
shipped two carloads Of tubers to the
Chicago market about three weeks ago
and have just got returns on the consign,
ment, They brought - gents pei
bushel. or 81 % per cwt,. and the freight
charges being GO cents per cwt. the ue,
returns were 3G cents per brshrl.- River
Press.
| VIM. NJ. Atkinson. who returned few
days ago from business trip on the
Pacific coast. left yesterday for the east
to bD gone few days To a TRIBUNE
reporter he said that most of the flour
used on the Pacific coast is the product
of local mills and is manufactured from
soft wheat This fact gives the Royal
milling company a chance to introduce
their hard wheat flour in competition in
the Pacific coast markets, Mr.. Atkin-
son met with fair success in introducing
Great Falls flour in the Coast cities
State Superintendent T., A. Steera has
written a letter to County Superintend
ent Swan suggesting the adyisabili,y OF
taking come concerted action to preserve
as far as possible some uniformity in the
text books used in the public schools
The late legislature left this question in
a muddle and after July ] any school
district may adopt such text books as it
pleases. The state superintendent has
information that the various school book
firms intend to send out a lot Of agents
to endeavOr to induce school boards to
adopt their works and much confusion
will occur and great expense to parents
later on, when the state adopts uni
form list, He proposes that the state
board recommend list OF books. which
may have some influence IN checking the
evil.
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