Great Falls tribune. [volume], April 09, 1887, Image 1

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VOL, 2, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1887, NO, 47
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Iam now carry -.Ja fine
line of Samples for Suits
made to Order. tog'ether
with my line of Ready
Made Clothing.
"ARRIS H CLOTHIE,
ONE PRICE SQUARE DEAlER
Stone Block, Great Falis.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY,
Loa ns, Auction all Conissoiio,
Will Buy and Sell City Property, Negotiate Loans,
Make Investments for Non-residents, Collect Rents,
Pay Taxes, Rent Houses and Collect Rents. Best
of References Given. Correspondence Solicited.
Harry Ringwald, Great Falls, Mont.
JESSE L. HENRY, HARRY E. RANDALL
Land Attorney and Notary Public Six years in U. S. Land 1nines
HENRY & RANDALL,
Attorneys in Land Cases.
Real Estate Brokers, Loas nd
COLLECTIONS
Agricultural Claims Located. Contests a Speolalty.
All business before the local land office .t Hel]na. and the D;.partment of t he Inter ir at Wýeash
inton, civen strict attention. Special attention given to. the sale of real estate, rent collected, ti
tles examined, taxes paid.
Office: cor. 3d St. & 1st Ave. S., Great Falls, Mont.
HEO. GIBSON &CO.
Beaistate andt
STORAGE, FORWARDING & RECEIVING
Excelsior Meat Comp' ny
Wholesale and Rctaii Dealers in
.Fres]a Meats
OF ALL KINDS.
Special attention given to the retail trade. All orders filled t
promptly.
1st Ave. S. Great Falls
GOLDMINESALOON
SEXTON & McGEDDY, Props.
Fine Brands of Liquors and Cigars in Stock
1st Ave. South,Great Falls:
Steamer "Rosebud."
The steamer ~ "tls "i, left Bisnmarck
last Moa:iy, le. :dld with frei.ht for Ben
ton and (;r-at Falls.
Comin,.
IJu iide i)ouýl:l: hat rcceie1d a letter
fromt a friend in (Glendive, 1. T., statinc
th:t e.ihr families from" that place are en
route to Great Falls.
Telegraph Poles.
The p oles have been landed here for
the t.ele-,graph tlin: which is to connect
Sireat Falls with the ielena and lienton
line at the Leaving. We will soon be in
tel,%teraphic communeicati on with the (ot
side world.
Park Drive.
Few towns have been laid out upon such
a far reaching plan a- Great Fails. A
comnpl.te systemL of op.rks and drives has
a already been inaugurate.d. P:rk drive
has been extended to a distance of three
miles. lined on either side with treets.
Extra Coach Line.
Eener:d manager lh,,t informs us that
the extra line of coac:he will be put on
between Helena and Grcat Falls next
week and will make tri-we-ekly trips. The
regular mail line of coaches will cross the
river here and the station will be relmoved
from Johnstown to this place.
Will Preach.
EoiT BEarox, M1. T.. April 4, 1T. .
Ed. T'ribeue:
W\ill you oblige me by announcing in
your next issue of the T :IWUNE that the
1:ev. Geo. ('omfort. of Bozeman will hold
services at Great Falls on the 1,th of this
- month. Yours Rest.,
J. Vin's.
The Episcopal Sociable.
A very cnjoyaylle rec"lntion was given
i:ast Saturday evenina natu's hall hv the
ladies of the Episcopal society to give their
friends an opportunity of meeting M3r.
SC('lewes. An excellent literary and musical
entertainment was interspersed with
friendly greetings and informal converse
tions. At ':.30 a lunch was served by ti.,
ladies. after which the company dispersed,
:il hoping the freq,.tent recurrence of i
these plea<ant iocial vathi.rings. I
.-atal Accident at Augusta.
-" aite n-.n'. . .. t i k:n own l: ,th..
name of i:a1dy was /dr iv ng a spirite'd te.mi
a ttached to a t:lky plow on Mike 3a
loney's r'anch, on April 4th, when the
horses became frightened at something
and ran away. Batld became entangled
in the reins and wa- draLeed over the
routjh around. 'Mr. Malone going out to
call himnt to dinner, found hind lin, on
the ground, suffering from injuries which
caused his death a few hours afterward.
Excelsiot-ic Housekeeping,
Tlhey were young, amnbituous "nd de
sired t, succeed in life. Alfred and An- i
gelina were elgaged to be married. It
was a beautiful Sun ay morning on which I
they walked out, and seeking for reerea- I
tion cros-ed the river. Hand in hand they
strayed until severa! milet s !albeen male:
it was pa.t non and - et neither of them
thought of lunch: future prospccts,a home
and married h:apptiness occupied their at
tention to such a degree, that eating and
drinking did not occur t,, them till late in. n
the afternoon. \When their appetites aip
prised them that htnger's p:ans must be
satisfied, they were hungry indeed, and
far distant from horne welcomed the shel- I
ter of a: railroad tent. It proved to be the ,
kitchen tent of a railroad grading camp. n
The cook kindly offered th.m the food for Cr
which they .,ere in need, and as the suc
culent steak was brought on the board
they were forced to enquire from whence
such govd meat came, and when informed
agreed that in the near future, as man and t
wife, they would patronize the Excelsior 0i
Meat Co., of Great Falls. * T
"Chinook." d
MIr. Jioh: Minto. of :,tlem, Oregon, ci
writes tr,. u- as -,i-lows concerning the
name "chinook:"
,The n:une doubtless results from using e
the easiest means of intercourse, first be- th
gun when the Astor trading company th
planted the trading post of Astoria where of
the city of that name now stands. The F
Chinook was the most powerful tribe of w
Indians near the post, some eight or ten cl
miles nearer the ocean-in fact, just in
side the bar of the Columbia. It was easier
to say in the trading jargon that "the wind di
is from Chinook," than that it is from the
salt water. The deep cut of the river th
through the coast and Cascade ranges of of
mountains, forms a groove-like channel, ye
through which this wind. trade and vocab
iulary found their way from the mout to
- the lfeeding spring's of the C(,olunbia. '1'.T
stocklnl adp'ci tdh t term bl eotern 1"
egou, and carried it wit' : :.i - ' the y
first drove stock to fio'.i , . ; :';:
r ing camps.-Mi'an ,. 1 .... ..
The Outlookfor Ureat Falls
II
Never were the 1lr:;-,c :. of ,a ;i-i. ::,,
as bright as those If <G:,:,rt t-I': at t.'h
present time. It is certain r: b, . , ter
r ilinu of two railroads within six months.
t Within that time, also, it will be coelltc-ted
i with the Sand Coulee iron and coal ietlds.
a Over a quarter of a million dollars of im
Irovemiient have been contracted for, to
I be completed within a year. Agriculture
will be carried on upon a scale never he
fore attempted in this vic:nity. We preo
diet that no tow of three tilme. its size
will be the scene of such activity as ('rceat
Falls du:rin the present season. tiun
dreds of people from all parts of the )roun
try :re writing for information about the
"future gr,?.t." Sonme of these are splcl
lators, but the majority are of that clas-s.
who are seeking for homes in the west.
Snd de0 e to become bonatfitie (citize:1s of
the most promising town between St. Paul
and Portland. Nowhere in the west are
such opportunities offered to the settler,
such rewards held out to industry, per
severence and capital. It is not wise to
rush blindly after every boom which hap
pens to start up along a line of railroad.
It is always best to consider carefully the
resources of a place before adepting it as
a place of permanent abode.. 3Many towns
born of western recklessness and desire
for speedily acquired wealth, have sprung
up and ilourished for a day, only to be
come the sepulchres of blighted hopes
and squandered fortunes. We invite a
carefiul examination of the advantages of
fered by Great Falls and the surrounding
country. after which no one who has any
knowledge of the laws governing the
building of cities can fail to concede to
this town a phenominal combination of
resources which set aside all doubt as to
its future greatness.
Viardered oiy British Indians.
Four !,:1'x, rApril G.--bXDpe:iai to the
Inde.epend n t.-'-ews hs just been re
eci,d of a :orrild u nd c , d oodednmur
der. Edward B. Caldwell, an Englishman
who lived at Perrybu'rg, smalli postofiiice
n.iout ti't-:i:. mie ira this place,
started fronm his hone, on -[:.rch 29th, for
a neighb rar's Tom Bevins, about ten miles
distant. and started from the latter place,
returning MIarch 0Oth. lie was found
yesterday morning three miles from Bev- l
in's place, having been mu dered and left i
lying behind his buckboard. lie had been I
stabb..l in the breast in two places. One i
of his horses had been shot dead and the t
oth:"r had begn cut loose from the buck- t
board and ridden off by the murderer or ii
murderers. No clue has yet been reached. 1
Caldwell was a man of considerable means b
and was universally liked. lie had about I
4-45 with him at the time, and is now sup- i"
posed to have been killed by a party of tl
British Indians who stole some horses x
from Sare & Kennedy about the time of l
the murder.
Location of the Depot. R
We have had an opportunity of seeing :
somue of the maps showisng the latest lines b
:surveyed through town by the i. C. rail- tl
road engineers. It would appear that it ci
is now contemplated to Iqate the dei0ot re
grotunds either north or south or east or b]
west of Thomson's dry goods store. This eC
will make it convenient for gentlemen de- w
siring suits made to order, and for ladies F
who require any;tii:lg in dry goods, shoes, `l
carpets, sewing machines, etc. tf th
The New Scab Law.
cc
The new scab law goes into effect June li
Ist, and provides for a special tax levy not do
to exceed one-half of a mill on the dollar th
on the assessed valuation of all sheep. th
This fund is to pay for the services of a cc
skilled assistant, to receive six dollars a th
day, who will take charge of sheep when
circumstances require it, and cure them. W
fo
An Urgent Need. tu
A petition has been circulated and re- be
ceived numerous signatures, praying for ta
the appointment of a special constable for fo
this town. There is certainly great need te
of a peace officer this summer. Great
Falls, like all new andflourishing towns,
will be resorted to by many desperate
characters
Sand Coulee School Meeting. ht
At a meeting held in Sand t'oulee school W4
district last Satarday-thetollohiving titees P
were elected: Chas. Lochray for a term of en
three yeals; John G. EarhSt, for a term
ef two years and Jonathan Goon for one
year. ,,a
b- Pro'i: t;orn in Montana.
0 t i n o'w O : ';.v: ":',:raV conc led th"le
: cainnot rou1]
Montana politics.
f:,. 1 , 1 "tio l.w has passe
S..' " ...... s- -i.gned by on
S., -ton, ;. ::> he is called, clh
, : xer",,,r. Th,: legislature 5:<:
S>1 ', ?bill which prohibits the sale of
* whisky or beer within two miles of any
ra:ilroad under construction except iii un
corporated towns. They also passuid a
bill raising the license in all cases, and
prohibiting the sa.i> of intoxicating bever
ageS in variety theatres and all places
where shows are hehl. This is drawing
the lariet a ound the cause pretty tight,
but we don't see any of the mixologists
around our part of the territory who ap
p'ear to have b. ce at all alarmed at the
pro pects of tl.:s be':oming a cold water
territory. L,' i tarilmu his organized a pro
hibition part" and has become a gr:eat dis
turber in Gl::atin valley politics, in fact
there twre ,only 75 straight democratic
ticket· voted at the election hell there on
the 4th. Misseonla county, or at least that
part of it embriaced w:ithin the limits of
the Bitter Hict valley and its tributaries,
are preparing to wheel into line; the ques
tion is being agitated in Helena and at
many smaller places. The newspapers
appear to lack the courage, many of them,
to even state these facts as general news.
The fact is this prohibition question has
become the great big hidra-headed terror
of both the republican and democratic
parties: it is a question that is making
trouble in nearly every state of the Union;
Maine, Iowa, South Carolina, Georgia,
Kansas and Ohio are absolutely prohibition
while Michigan, Texas, Tennessee,Oregon,
Arn ansas, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
will all vote upon the constitutional pro
hibition amendment the present year.
The ante-prohibitionists claim that the
law cannot or is not enforced, while the
"prohibs" claim that it is. However this
may be there is a certainty that the pro
hilbition quoioteu is raising particular Ned
in all p:ort- f : th Union. There seems to
b, n,.thii lEke prohibition to take the
nmoi.et n out of politics. Just throw the
prohibition bombshell into the political
ciunp and all hands will be pulling hair
in no time. Even the women and chil
dren have got the vereioid of the disease,
and in some i'.lcs they seemito be able to
make more he: , .:::a the old wheelhorse
politician. X. X.
Northvwes''rn lnclans on the War-Path
d I'or nx. April 6.-[Special to the
Intepen:ient.]--Mr. G. W. Frields, super
t intendent or the Walrand Ranch Comrn
n pany at Macleod, arrived in the city to
e day. lie says the Blood Indians are on
e this side of the line in great numbers, and
that the authorities in the northwest are
r making strenuous efforts to prevent them
[. leaving their reservations. It is well
s known tht numbers of cur own Indians
t Piegans--are with them, and their object
- is undoubtedly to steal horses and kill
f those who may oppose them. It will be
well for the ,tockmen in this vicinity and
in the Judith and Musselshell regions to
be on the lookout. Mfr. Frields left Mac
leod on the 1st in-t., and on his way in
saw a band of horses just beyond the
Rocky Springs, which for the benefit of
the ow ners he described as follows: One
claybank mare, has been ridden, one sor
rel mare, one bay mare, tail banged,
blotched brand, one M3. P. horse tail bang
ed, one bay horse, white face. The horses
were large and the mares medium size. At
Fort Conrad it was reported that John
Spencer's horses had all been stolen and
the cabin raided. Inspector Watts was
at Conrad, but left for the Sweet Grass
country yesterday. Indian Agent Pock
lington, agent for the Blood Indians, had
done everything in his power to' prevent
the Indians from crossing the line, and
the mounted police have, scoeted the
country clean to the boundary line to turn
the Indians back, but without avail. We
would suggest that it would be in order
for the troops on this side of the line to
turn out and see if these red devils cannot
be checked in their career. If the mill
tary is not more successful than hereto
fore, the settlers will organize and pro
tect themselves.
Bank of Great Falls.
This institution opened Its doors this:
week ready for business. We have no
hesitancy in recommending it as being
worthy of the liberal patronage of the
public. The gentlemen at the head of the
enterprise have ample capital and are ex
perienced bankers, and all business en
trusted to their care will aeceive .prompt
and careful attention.