The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-11
DOING GOOD BUSINESS
Real Estate Men Report a Good
Demand.
NO COMPLAINTS HEARD
Work OF Grading Higgins Avenue Is
Nearly Finished-The Man Who
Sells Whiskey to Indians
Is Cur.

days. The hotels and lodging houses
have been doing a land office business
for week or two and for the past few
days there has been hardly a vacant
room in town. Equally true is this of
residences House hunters are not hav-
ing an easy time. The real estate men
say that the demand for the past
month for good houses, both for rent
and for purchase. has exceeded the rec
ord of any other month in years. At
present there is hardly house in town
for suitable places for their customers.
The list of hotel arrivals Thursday and
Friday made the hotel registers look
as If there were a state convention Of
some kind in town. All of this means
business for the local merchants and
all of them seem to be doing good bust
ness. There are no complaints heard
from any of them and most Of them as
sert that their business is better this
fall than it has ever been before. Far
mers have demands for more produce
than they can possibly supply and are
wishing that they had planted greater
acreage this year. All of these signs
augur well for the coming Thanksgiv-
ing season and Western Montana will
certainly have abundant cause this year
for complying with the requests in the
proclamation of the governor. All local
conditions are favorable.
I With little more consideration on
! the part of the weather clerk, Contrac-
| tors Singer & Campbell will soon turn
over to the city the five blocks of Hig
| gins avenue that they have had in hand
| for month. The work of grading is
practically finished, the cutters are
completed on the avenue and all that
| remains to be done is the surfacng and
| rolling. Engineer Hughes and the MEM
| bers of the street committee, who have
| had supervision of the work, seem well
satisfied with the results thus far and
the objections which have been raised
in the past month or two are being
silenced by the Improvement that the
work already done has made in the
avenue. When the work is finished the
city will have practically demonstrated
how much good can be done with lit
tie effort, if the work is Systematically
done. There has been money enough
spent by the city on Higgins avenue
in the past to have paved it three times.
The trouble has been that the work of
| one season has been undone the next.
Now that start has been made in the
right direction, there should be no diff
| Guilty in giving the city good streets all
| but it can be done gradually and with
| no more expense than the city has had
| to bear in the past.
| The recent murder of Ambrose, the
| Indian killed at the camp west of the
| city, has again called attention to the
fact that there are some INSCRIPTIONS
persons in the city who sell whiskey to
| Indians. Much has been said upon this
subject. but it ought to be said over
| and over again. The man who sells
| whiskey to the Indians is cur and
ought to be punished to the limit of
| the law. He endangers the lifes of wo-
| men and children. A drunken Indian IS
crazy and there is no telling what he
| will not do. There have been instances
| in this city within the past year when
| Indians full of liquor have called at
| threats against the women who were
| there alone. 1t Is not easy to detect
the men who carry on this despicable
| traffic. The Indians are too fond of
their liquor to tell where they get it.
A Jail sentence has no terrors for them.
| 1t means a warm place to sleep and
plenty to eat That is all they want,
anyway. In his letter to the sheriff, the
Indian agent urges that every effort
| be made to detect the men who are
| furnishing the Indians with their whis-
| key and Mr.. Curran is doing all that
he can to find out, but it is difficult
| task. Public safety demands that this
traffic be stopped at once. A man who
| sells whiskey to an Indian is little bet
| ter than a murderer for he does not
know what his deed will lead to.
The announcement that Rabbi Essen
| berg has consented to deliver his lee
| ture upon the Genius CT Shakespeare
| (not the Genesis of Shakespeare" as
| a local paper has it, will give satisfac-
| ton to those who heard the doctors
| address before the literary societies of
| the state university last summer. Rabbi
Eisenberg has given the subject deep
| and careful study and is well qualified
to speak upon the theme that he has
literary circles will be glad to avail
themselves of the opportunity to hear
another of the. rabbits lectures and
those who had not the pleasure of hear
ing the "Shylock" lecture will have a
pleasant surprise in store for them.
The subject is one to which
the residence here of Herr
Bandmann has given a local in
teTest. as his Interpretation of the great
| Shakespearean characters have ia
| miliariZed these creations of the great
| poet to nearly everybody who attends
! the theater. &,
Nissoula will lose a good man when
| W. H Davenport goes away. The an
! nouncement of his prospective depart
| ure made this week has caused many
expressions Of sincere regret. Mr. Dav-
export has been a resident of Mssoula
| for several years and during that time
has been closely identified with the
| amusement circles of the town. Him
self an actor of talent and versatility,
he has been able to provide for the
amusement loving public the best class
| of entertainments that have ever been
brought to the city. Mr.. Davenport
will be accompanied by his wife, whose
abilities as an actress are of high
order. The two have an engagement
on the coast and their Missoula friends
will be glad to learn of this fact and
viii congratulate them upon the sue
cess which they are sure to attain.
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