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WEEKLY- TRIBUNE, t
PU-BLIAD EVEBY SATURDAY BY
THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
[INOORPORATED]
WILL HANKS, President.
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THE Z ort/hiret Tributen is the latest
newspaper venture inths territory. It is I
published at Stevensville, Missoula county.
NOT least in importance among the
great industries which will be built up
about Great Falls will be that of cutting
and dressing of the various kinds of build
ing-stone to be found here in such abund
ance.
THE TRIBUNE management is to be
congratulated upon securing the services
of Mr. Walter M. O'Dwyer, who will
hereafter have editorial charge of this
paper. Mr. O'Dwyer is a thorough jour- I
nalist, of large experience, and will be a
valuable acquisition to the fraternity in %
Montana.
THE Helena Independent seems to have
taken upon itself the task of booming the
Benton water works scheme. Now, we
have no desire to decry any of Benton's f
Pchemes, but we believe this water works
racket will fail. This opinion is the out- '
growth of conversation with a gentleman t
who originally worked out the water sup
ply problem. c
BAD weather has impeded progress on
the Manitoba road, but it will soon be
made up and the five-mile-a-day gait be a
reached and kept up for the season. It
would take little over one hundred days at
that rate to reach Great Falls from the h
present end of the track. It leaves a good S
margin for the shortages to say that the
engine will be at Great Falls by September S
1st and in Helena a month later.--Herald. v
GLADSTONE, the grand old man, says he
does not desire a gesaral election for par
liament until the English mind is as ripe
on the Irish question as Welsh and Scotch
minds are, but that time is rapidly advanc
ing anyhow. He says: "I am prepared to
face anything to defeat coercion. I con
tinue to hope for much from vigorous ac
tion on the part of the constituency whose h
representatives in parliament have the de
cisive votes on the issue." ti
FRIEND Co~LLNS seems to have stirred
up a hornets nest when he tackled "A
Continuous Subscriber." 'We regret that ,
the innocent paragraph which appeared ii
in the TRIBUNE two weeks ago, touching
upon the head of navigation should have
created so much commotion, and, but for e
the simple reason that Collins seen fit to. c
pass some very uncomplimentary remarks
about our correspondent, his article which
appears in this issue would not otherwise h
have been published. The TRIBUNE has r
no desire to rob Fort Benton of any of the
glory attached to its individual resourse
and advantage, as the head of navigation
on the Missouri river, and greatly dislikes
to disclose the patent fact that except du
ing the period of higk water, steamboats
to reach there are forced to slide over sand S
bars. We fear that Collins over-reached T
His mud-slinging redounded, and has un- h
covered that which he endeavored to con
ceal. There is often wisdom in silence, C
which quality he has proved himself L
wholly devoid of. ci
THERE are numerous recipes for build- to
Ing up towns, some of which are good so
mand many are impractical and bad, but the in
haistory of Fostoria, Ohio, as depicted by G
the Toledo Blade, and which the writer
!knows to be substantially true in every A
aiticular, is not a bad precedent. The"
Blade says: "Fostoria, Ohio, the home of
ex-Governor Foster, is a city of about 6,-s
000, only a short distance.from Toledo,
and twelve miles from Tiffin, a city of 10,
000. , Governor Foster's father started a
a general store at the the cross- roads, and a
whenhis son Charles became of age be he
had itudied the secret of building up, a
town. He bartered in everything. One:
day a druggist came along looking for a o0
place to lortite, and Cearley says: 'Here, '
take these compounds snd go acros. the ci
street and start drag store, and if you
hav'tthc pitahIlPllhelpyou.' He turned a
over hisstak of nails and serets to an
ethrman and started a large lsrdware
store, but didn't tell himto spoi his w
trade by andliUng lambr, lime al shit
Sdohree tI icles. 'The he rtilesed "ri
g qeenare.tc, folo i
the town was made, and Mr. Foster, by
the rise of real estate, became a million
aire. His secret was: Divide up and keep C
a good-stock-encourage emigration."
SENATOR STEWART of Nevada, who was
in Helena last week, says with proper r
as management Montana can be admitted to i
statehood at the next session. The senator a
P- stated that he proposed introducing a sort i
of omnibus bill that will cover Montana,
Dakota and Washington.
.0 TWE notice that our youn'g friend Fred' t
0 Anderson is contributing to the Helena I
10 dailies. Fred is authority upon his spec- t
ialty, and his articles are read with inter
est by every student of nature. We pre- i
,a- dict that Fred will make his mark high t
ed up on the ladder of fame in his chosen t
be profession.
PERSONAL MENTION.
>st Mrs. Ira Myers is still confined to her I
is room.
S Wmin. Ulm came down from his ranch
Saturday.
Ep E. G. Ingersoll and Ben. Webster came
in Thursday.
d- Sheriff Black was up from Benton one
(I. day this week.
J. G. Hopkinson of. Choteau was in t
town this week.
be
es Jne. Hatton of Spokane Falls, W. T., is I
ill a guest at the Park.
Lis Rev. Largent will preach iat the school 1
ir. house next Sunday evening.
a Geo. Barron, of the Montana Cattle Co.
in was in town one day this week.
J. R. Ross' family arrived here from a
ve Washington territory last week. a
Re R. F. Meek is in Helena after a band of c
"e horses which he will bring to this place t
1's for sale. i
ks Paris Gibson started Saturday for a brief
It- visit to St. Paul. He will be absent about r
in ten days. t
p- E. R. Clingan was over from Belt Mon-. i
day. He reports everything blooming in t
his section. 1
Robert Stratton of Minneapolis, an old
be acquaintance of Judge Huy, arrived here
It Wedne.sda.
at Frank Lambert, formerly of Benton, has
ie been engaged (by C. P. Thomson, our dry
>d goods merchant.
Rev. Ciews of Ft. Benton will be here
Sunday, and if arrangements can be made
will hold services.
Walter Kennedy of Big Hill, Ill., a
brother of Will Kennedy of this place, ar
rived here Sunday.
T. J. Armingtoa has returned to his
Belt ranch after an absence of several
months in the states.
Col. Broadwater went recently to St.
Paul. Soon after returnining to Helena,
he will visit Great Falls.
Frank Wilcox of Minneapolis, a prac
tical mill man, arrived here last week and
will have charge of the Cataract mill.
Mr. and Mrs. Ii. O. Chowen took pos
session of their homestead claim this
week, just on the outskirts of the city
limits.
Phil. Gibson and Alex Lux returned
from Helena last Saturday. They follow
ed the M1. C. grade through the Missouri
canyon.
W. R. Getz and wife and W. I. De
laney, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, arrived
here Tuesday, and will become permanent
residents.
Miss Alice McGuirk, of Minneapolis,
arrived here on to-day's coach to re
main and nurse her sister, Mrs. Myers,
who is quite ill.
Chas. Taylor and Joe Belleview, two of
Sun River's leading citizens, were in town
Thursday. Both contemplate locating t
here in a short time.
E. T. Broadwater, of Breadwater, Mc- C
Culloch & Co., Ft. Assinaboine, and Miss t
Lillie Healy, of Ft. Benton, arrived in the
city by private conveyance Thursday. r
W. J. Sherwood of Bryna, Ohio, left c
town yesterday for home after a pleasant
sojourn here. He goes away favorably'
impressed with the bright prospects of
Great Falls.
C. F. Wernecke and party consisting of
Alex White, John Patterson and Arch
White, arrived here Thursday evening,
coming overland from Gardiner in the
southern part of the territory..
SDavid Pattee and son of Augusta were
in town one day this week. Mr. Pattee is
a practical lumber man,and we undeistand
contemplates putting some of the product
of his millupon the market at this place.
Mr. . lark and Miss £st r Griffi
of Sart Coate6, were quistly married at
Fort IeatoR one daye last week. Both I
contracting parties are well known in this i
vidcin a their manyirends wishthem A
a plasantvoya. through life.
eds ilean ystrday morning. He t
was w- Epc1aned by Mrs. Lawrence and s
"as paery overed from the njue he 1
S ecently reco tedv.b `itio h
a.. PWer a h uldeable
w oditcomfo .
THE VILLAGE GOSSIP;
Communicated.
The village gossip has again exerted
herself, and an estimable young man has a
, been slandered. Gossip in its original t
r meaning, is simply to tell idle tales. It
o has been magnified by the acts of man into
r a word, to explain the meaning of which
*t is the object of this article. 9
There exist in this world certain people
whose only thought is to gossip. People
-whose minds are so weak, whose charac
d ters are so feeble, where vituperation is se
,a prominent, that we in justice wonder that c
they ever were created. People, whose
r- only thought.is to injure the fair reputa
itox of some one; to endeavor by insinua
h tions to ruin those who are as far above
n them as heaven is above earth. People
so destitute of all that tends to make this
"casket of the soul" a place worthy to be
occupied by that which may enter the
r presence of God, that we stand amazed t
and say, is this man. People who are as
h venomous as the deadly India cobra-de
capelle, and who should have the same t
swift fate meeted out to them. People t
.e in whose character cannot be found a trace
of common honesty, when the reputation
.e of others is the commodity dealt in. Peo
ple who do not scruple, in order to exhibit
n their woolfish propensities, to fabricate
and publish willful falsehood, to the det
i rimentof some one. People who go about
gathering items of slight slips of the
tongue, and after sufficient have been col- r
lected, these human hyenas take delight
in making all the misery they can.
* What husband, wife, young man or t
young woman is safe when such people
n are well treated and well received? Have
a care, you are nourishing a viper that will
t one day turn and give you so fatal a sting,
e that years must pass before you recover,
if ever. -
f While all are in duty bound as christian
tt men and women, to deal leniently with
the faults of others, still, freal with them
in a quiet way until you are satisfied that t
n they are incorrigible, and are only work
ing harm to yourself and others, then
cool, silent contempt should be shown.
Let him who has been slandered con
tinue in even tenor of his way regardless
of what has been said, and show those
9 who have heard and do not believe. that
Y he holds himself in too great esteem to
notice the pigmy attacking the giant, the
e Liliputians and Gulliver.
e Let us all, therefore, strive to conquer
this soul-destroying trait in our character a
a and endeavor in lieu to do all the good we
can, never forgetting the golden rule, "Do d
unto others as you would that they should
a do to you." X. X.
HEARD FROM AGAIN.
FOnT BEKTON, April 27, 187. 1
Editor of the Great ualls Tribune:
SiR-If you will grant me space once i
more, I desire to correct some malicious b
intentional mistakes which the River Press
has made. This is, howevar, a well known s
trait extensively possessed by the Press
editor. The flip editor of that sheet is
greatly in error when he conceives the 1
idea that the article which appeared in
the TRIBUNE of the 23rd inst., was not
written by the party indicated. The
steamer Rosebud arrived here the 26th
inst., at 2olock p. m. Now, to inform
the public how the jackass, wind-pump
editor of the Press can blow when he is in
good condition (and it is now about his
windy season,) I wish to say thatthe above
named steamer arrived at the Cra-con-du
nez bar at 12 o'clock Monday the 25th
inst., and she was stuck there until Tues
day morning. In t'e meantime she was
unlpaded until she drew only 18 inches
of water. Then steam was put on and the
battle with the bar commenced in earnest;
the water finally cut a slight channel, and
while this work of the water was going
on the whole crew was-set about damrning
the river so as to throw the main body of
water to the boat, when about 4 o'clock a.
m. the boat accomplished the difficult feat
of sliding over the bar. ° Reloading com
menced at once, and about 5 o'clock a. m.
she proceeded toward the so-called
head of navigation, having many grave
doubts of ever reaching there with her
fulln cargo, this being the most difficult
portion of the river from Bismarck to Ft.
Benton. After getting over the Cra-con
du-nez bar, the boat finally arrived in
sight of town about 7 o'clock a. m. She
battled withthlthe.bed- otJh river antil
about 2 o'clock p. m., when she was just
opposite T. C. Power & Bro. warehouse.
Now to show up the Press again in its
windy, wayward course; it says: "If there
had been no wind the boat would easily
havei ne'np from the Shonkin without
putting out a line.Y The fact is the line
had to be used unspainglyfrtom the Shoe
kin to opposite T. C.`Power &Bro's ware
house, where the bot struc;k naviable
Wa ter and pulledispto Mutlphy, Maclay I
& Co.'s warehotuse, a d tance of not less
than a quarter of a mile,- thrugh the:
wiftest water` any W.iee. f the,
Smnin anW this plae, aJoere
knows, without saynesistance of the Ine Z
h is a good sampll o the w 4iy
t *e
River Press. Capt. Todd, 9f course, could wh
report 33 inches of water at the Cra-con- Lib
dn-nez bar after working there so hard to
get over, and I challenge the correctness ac
and truthfulness of the statement made by
the Press, that Capt. Todd said he did not W
have to lighten up at any place; now this
is also another sample of windy balder
dash which I credit to the Press. If Capt. po
Todd made such a statement it was just a bl
joke, and was intended to please his com
pany and the people of Fort Benton, and Re
lastly and most of all the windy pump lar
t editor of the River Press. The Press, of
course, will blow, bray and bellow, but 17!
we have the ass corralled, and a good dr
solid hold of the ears, and boys lets held
on, he is not a very dangerous critter, al- kil
though he looks dangerous, but he has no Pc
e shoes. I -will state that the water here is wE
now several inches higher than on the 20th
ihst., and I will also.make an explanation R.
as to the so called head of navigation, Fa
the arrival of a boat here at this date does
not demonstrate by any means that Fort
Benton is practically the head of naviga
tion. A boat may arrive at the present ro:
time, but that does not demonstrate that thi
they can get here the first or latter part of ro'
August; such has been. in the past the av- la1
erage experience .There are exceptions,
I will admit. in
There was a party here a few days ago wi
from New Yory, having received from one pa
of our most prominentbusiness men a suf- thi
ficient itducement to come here; after ar
riving he found that he had been bilked Sp
t in the neatest manner. Now if anybody to
doubts this statement, I can bring the gen- tio
tleman fourth and if I am not- mistaken tio
you will hear from him shortly in the
shape of a letter published in the leading in(
papers of the east, putting forth his griev- ar
auces and warning the public at large. m<
I congratulate Mr. Fry on his good luck nit
in drawing a snug fortune in the Louisana
1 State Lottery. He's a worthy young man
and will take care of his windfall.
Taking it all in all the TRIBUNE stands
today preeminent, with its character as vei
pure and its tuture as bright as snow. The 1
TRIBUNE is what it was represented fox
wholly, and the balling, braying and 1
squirting of the witq pump editor of the cil
Press will go on record as having a
thoroughly tested wind capacity. en
A CONTINUOuS SUBSCRIBER. en'
BRIEFS.
The striking Milwaukee tailors were
obliged to give in.
The total amount of trade dollars re
deemed to date is $2,243,000.
Life insurance business in 1886 in New
York amounted to $.48,514,242.
Sixteen caS hi Beaver anyon, Idaho,
broke from the engine and went over a
precipice.
Editor Rothaker of the Omaha Tribune
is under bonds, charged with assault to
kill editor Rosewater of the Bee.
Frank M. Scott, the bookkeeper of Web
ster & Co., New York, who embezzlled
$1,450, received a sentence of six years.
Archbishop Corrigan warns the Catho
lic Herald, an advocate of Fr. McGlynn,
that it attacks the archbishop at its peril.
The prolonged struggle between Gov.
Hill, of New York, and the Rerublicaa
senate culminated in a row in the chamber
H. 0. Chowen. C. M. Webster.
Chowen & Webster,
Dealers in Real Estate.
Abstracts of Title Furnished.
Great Falls, - - - - Montana.
CASCADE HOTEL,
Great Falls, Montana.
ntIvall Loted. "od Acoodaoi.
Sets the Eeat Tab1le in te Cit
for th.e MvZoney..
JES3SE L. HENRY, HARRY -E. RANDALL
Land Attorney andNtaory Pnb1ic -sx yeaas ian Ia . &airdsin dm
HENRY & RANDALL,
Attorneys land Cases.
W L Rala te. la Uat
g a I i.= d A es& a . ISpelal
L which may result in an attempt to impeack
-Lieut. Gov. Jones.
Prescott, Kans., has been wiped out by
a cyclone. Seventeen were killed.
A mysterious bomb exploded in Mil
waukee near the Wisconsin st. bridge.
Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin re
port heavy snows. At Ashland trains are
blockaded.
A Washington dispatchto the St. Louis
i Republican claims .that President Cleve,
p land will not accept a renomination.
f An old gray bearded tramp, born in
t 1791 and arrested in Washington for
I drunkenness, isfound to be a Polish count.
Vernon county, Mo., had a cyclone that
killed 15 people and'destroyed 30 houses.
Portions ofjndian territory and Arkansas
were also swept.
The executive committee of the G. A.
R. in session at Chicago sustains Gen..
Fairchild's order restraining posts from
sending their opinions to newspapers.
The Northern and Southern Pacific
t roads continued their arguments before
the commission. Southern New England
roads object to the fourth clause of the
law..
Mr. Scarth, Winnipeg's representative
in the dominion commons, says parliament
° will disallow the two railway charters just
e passed by the Manitoba legislature. If
this is done it may cause a rebellion.
Secretary Lamar directs Commissioner
I Sparks to examine the title of one Greek
r to some of the Turtle Mountain reserva
tion lands, and if correct the whole reserva
1 tion of 10,000,000 acres will be opened.
Prominent citizens of New York city,
including Gen. Sherman, have called a
a meeting for s conference in regard to a
movement looking to the perpetual recog
nition of the birthday of Gen. U. S. Grant.
.OF INTEREST TO LADIES.
Kate Field is a good horsewoman and
very fond of riding.
Illinois has raised the age of protection
for girls to fourteen years.
Five ladies are elected to the city coun
cil in Syracuse, Kansas.
A woman who knows enough to "influ
ence" her husband to vote right, knows
enough to vote right herself..
In the Pennsylvania senate, April 13,
the joint resolution submitting a woman
suffrage constitutional amendment was
finally passed-yeas 27, nays 16.
Immigration Set In.
Five car loads of immigrants arrived
yesterday, with as many carloadsof farm
ing and household utensils and stock, com
prising every necessary article for house
keeping and farming. Their destination
is Minot, whence they will strike out over
the country and explore until they find an
area of public land desirable and of suf
ficient size to give them all a slice, where
they propose forming a colony and begin
ning operations at once as farmers. There
were probably thirty-five or forty families
in the party, and all were cleanly and
comfortably clad, and their general ap
pearance indicating that they had come to
stay and were possessed of sufficient means
to see them through until such time as
they began to realize from their farm op
erations.-Grand Forks (Dak.) Plaindealer.