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7V' ;. A7WrimappliffillIalSW -7•11 E \'\‘ • . 4111111P111.111117111111.11111.w.\.\..\ • The Columbian. PIIIILIIINED CT .71\10. W. PA.CIC. A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTEDTO THE INTLRESTS OF TIIE FLATHEAD REGION. TERMS OF t.lUEISCRIPTION, BY MAIL: Thrine Dollars per N ear I.. any P.O. Address. If Paid in ‘111V31)('/. V2.:n1 per Year. Six Mont in advance,$1.50. Three MeitIls, in advance, if) Cents. Single copies IS cents. TIIK COLUMBIAN invites its patrons and friends to send items of all kinds regarding improvements, and occur- rences which are of intereit to the people of the Flathead. Address all letters to TIIE COLUMBIAN, Columbia Falls, Mont. NNTFil'in AT (411,VA/111A VALLS INVOToFFICE AS SECOND CLASA MAIL MATTES. ALL AM - ERTL-HMI BILLS PAYABLE rile 1ST OF EACH MONTH. THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1891. WORTH READING. An Offer You Cannot Afford to Overlook. It is at this time of the year that people select their reading matter for the coming winter months and for the coming year. The publisher of THE COLUMBIAN can offer rare inducements to reading people for the next few months. To every person sending $2.50 we will send to their address Tile COLCM- BEAN from receipt of order till January 1, 1893. For $3.23 we will mail Tux CoL- UNMAN and Si. Imui4 Weekly Globe - Democrat from receipt of order till January 1, 1893. For $a25 we will send to any ad- dress Tne COLt7MRIAN and the Chicago Weekly Times until January 1, 1893. For $4 we will send you THE Coi..- rmmAx and the Helena Weekly lade pendent front receipt of order until January 1, 1893. Look Herd! Don't you want to semi cnie or more copies of the Ils!jdral Ciesumui AN to your friends in ..., ?..th'iTiCtates? If so you should lose no time in sendin g the name and address to this office. The Ilin,tosv COLUMBIAN Will be mailed from this office, post paid, to any address in the - United States at TEN CENTS per copy. Herr Bandmann's Silo seems to be a much greater Success than his Ham- let. Glasgow, Chinook and Minot are division points on the Great North- ern, and Kalispell wants to be just The want will likely be like them. filled. The farmers of the Flathead valley should make an investigation of the :sugar beet industry. Undoubtedly this soil would make the crop a bon- anza. The west lost one of its very best him* when Senator Plumb died. John J. Ingalls is a small man com- pared to Plumb, and a most pro- nounced demagogue. - - Columbia Falls' apportionment for school purposes, made by the county superintendent is $750, enough to give this city a first-class school for nine mouths of the coining year. The report is out that the czar of Russia has subscribed $50,000,000 for the relief of his starving subjects. It is hoped the report is true, but we fear official returns will knock six ci- phers off the reported sum. - - - - Columbia Falls is the railroad town of the Flathead valley. That is not all. It has coal, timber and water power. In these three resources it stands alone. It will have the busi- ness and consequently the railroads. The report that the Northern Pa- cific has let a contract for ties to a Columbia Falls firm seems well founded, and indicates that the line will be built early next season. The line from Columbia Falls to the coal mines has been located. Twenty-five Chinamen were sent from San Francisco to China the other day. Every one of them had been smuggled across the lino within one month. And the officers say ten got safely across while one is caught. At that rate it will not take long to wake this government to the neces- sity of stopping the filthy stream. -------- Montana did not cut much of a fig- ure in the committees of the United States senate. Likely Montana will be ignored by this congress in more ways than one. Old \Economy Hol- man\ is chairman of the house coin - mm tee on expenditures, and the pub - lie buildings so fondly planned for Montana will not be heard of. has been amicably adjusted. ' Such reports are due to the efforts of cer- tain federal officials to make the pub- lic believe they earn their salaries. The manner in which Christmas was observed in Colmnbia Falls stamps this as the liveliest and most progressive 9 -months -old city in the country. The spirit of progress is shown in every enterprise, whether it Is' a Christmas tree, church fair or the building of a road. Columbia Falls' neighboring vil- lag.. will celebrate the arrival of time Groat Noll tient railroad to -morrow ---- if it. arrives. It takes more than free whisky, alkali water and bull beef to make a town. Columbia Falls has the resources while its neighbor has the t law art ides 'mentioned. the absence of ' , Miter Pare or the Colum- bia Falls CiPhIM,,infl, his Wire j8 i n c harge o f the editorial helm, and candor compels the statement that the paper shows much improve- ment under the lady's mana g ement. Mrs. Pace was formerly telegraph editor of the Helena Jennie', Butte Inter -Mountain. Correct. The editor has returned and would suggest that the Inter - Mountain editor brighten that paper by getting married. The Butte papers assert that a set- tlement of the great Davis will con- test is being arranged: This contest is one of the most celebrated of its kind, and has a number of features that make it interesting and exciting. It has been a great advertisement for Montana, as the millions in dispute were accumulated entirely in this state. The estate is valued at more than $12,000,000, and although worth fight- ing for is worth more if the contest, is compromised. Lawsuits chew largo holes in big estates, and the attorney - at -law waxes fat. Columbia Falls has had the Great Northern railroad, with its traffic for one week. New goods have arrived, aud the annoyances of shipping will soon be a tradition. Merchants of the city have takeu the advent of the rail- road in the proper light, and those who buy their goods in Columbia Falls are receiving the benefit of bet- ter prices than can be offered by any other town. This change of prices must be made gradual, as any one can see. This city will always sell goods cheaper than any other town in the valley for many reasons. The lumbering industry of the valley cen- ters here, and the demand will always be greater, and the farmers will have a better market for their products than at any other point. In addition to this, the railway charges on freight. are less to Columbia Falls than to any other point; they will always be so. Hence this city will be the sup- ply point of the valley- -not alone of the valley, but for the Tobacco plains country, the coal mines and the fer- tile valley of the North Fork. A lim- ited nun!ber of stores at other points in the valley will no doubt do a good business, but the heavy buyers of the valley are doing their trading here, and a market that is goad for large buyers is also good for small consum- ers. The splendid now bridge, the abatement of ferry delays and dangers will aid in bringing a large umnber of the substantial farmers of the east side, to this, their natural market. LESSONS FROM LIFE. Head Mistress ----Miss Balfour, I saw you kiss that Tarleton boy. What is the meaning of that? Sweet Girl Undergraduate -I can spell it, Miss Grayson, but I can't de- fine it. Mrs. Bloobumper -What long hair that college professor has! Bloobumper --Yes, those are the Yale locks you have heard of. Haberdasher -Yes, sir; what di you wish? Hoffman Howles-I want a dozen of those turn -down collars that stand up higher than the stand-up collars. At love I never heard her scoff, Thou g h Cupid yet has mad:, no proffer: She never would remark. \Come off,\ But doubtless prayeth thus: \Come offer.\ THE TWINS. So like are we that people say They can't tell me from Jim, But I can tell us any day - I'm me, and he is him. \I have lost my heart,\lie whispered, Gazing in her lovely eye; But the maiden coldly answered, \Why don't you advertise?\ \Why do you suppose Royal Wor- cester ware is marked with four Ws?\ asked one china connoisseur of another. \I s'pose,\ remarked a 10 -year -old nephew who had overheard, \the man that marked it stuttered.\ EVERYBODY STOPS AT THE WINDSOR DEATII OF THE OLD TEAR. Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily si g hin g; Toll ye the church bell sad nod slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a -dyin g . Ohl year, you must not die: You came to us so readily, You lived with its so steadily, Old year, you shall not die. lie lieth still, he sloth not move; Ho will not ROO the dawn of day, He bath no other life above. Ile g ave 1110 a friend and a trite, tree love, And the New Year will take them away. Old you., you nmst not eo ; Si, lon g as you have Is.en with es, Such joy inc hay, soli* with us. Old year, you shall not go. He froth:el him bumpers to the brim, A jollier year we shall not see. But thou g h his eyes are waxing dim. And though his foes speak ill of him. He was a friend to me. Old year. you shall not die ; We did so lau g h and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. Tennyson. A Tale Worthy of Mulhatton. An interesting yarn comes from Asia -which you can believe or not as you see fit -that a party of explorers in an interior range of hills recently found an immense cave which they penetrated for a long distance and suddenly came upon the ruins of an ancient city of beautiful aspect. Gold and silver coins found indicated that the inhabitants had flourished about 200 years before the Christian era. It was further stated that the city had been laid out with no particular at- tention to regularity or system. The houses generally were two and three stories high and contained urns, vases and implements of a good quality of workmanship. It is not known whether it is Jules Verne's \Journey to the Center of the Earth,\ or that anonymous production, \A Strange Manuscript Found in u Copper Cylin- der\ that is being pirated by the Asiat ics. Main & Co. for groceries. Louis Schorn, CITY BAKERY. First Avenue West: J. M. GRIsru, P 110P Il En ill Barber Shop AND BATH ROOMS. Conlin -Miller Block. 'CON HOlCIA THOS. H. WHITE, Late of Vir g inia City and Butte.) UAB I I - A.• • NOTA.FLY PLTEIL•10. COLUMBIA FALLS, - - MONTANA. Next to Windsor Hotel. L. A. FARMER, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Estimatcs Fornislind on all Kinds of hidings. Flans : at : Romilablo : Office over Postoffiee. C01.1' MEGA FALLS, : MONTANA. MILLER & WHEELER, HEAL ESTATE Law, Conveyancing, Insurance and Surveying. Offices in Conlin -Miller Block, • Columbia Falls, Montana J. E. MILLER, GALEN IL WHEELER, Attorney -at -Law and Notary Publis. U. S. Derity Mineral Surveyor. WHO Carries the Largest and Best Assortment of Hard- ware, Stoves, Crockery,Tin ware, Etc., in the Flathead? There is not a Man, Wo- man or Child who cannot answer this. We Have Just Received Our THIRD CAR OF STOVES and It was just Six Weeks Longer in Getting Here than We expected, and They MUST BE SOLD This Fall, and They Will Be Sold, if Low Prices Are Any Object. In Addition to This We Have Received Large Invoices of Hardware, Guns, Ammunition, Cut- lery, Saws, Axes, Rope, Tackle Block, Tinware, Granite Ironware, Lamps, Glassware, Crockery, Etc., and They . Must Go if Cheap Prices Will Sell Them. WE ALSO HAVE THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS TIN SHOP In the Valley and Carry a Stock of PIPE AND FITTINGS and Are Prepared to Do Any Kind of Work in that Line. To come and see us is to buy, as we can save you from 26 to 50 0 /0 on anything you want in our line. Thanking you for your liberal patronage in the past, we remain, Yours Respectfully, THE MISSOULA MERCANTILE CO., DEmERsvi„E, MONTANA. Vt.2. 0 41A&WM-Mfe.:& r l 1\S'a tWKer L_ TI \AV.; c411' \Af . grk\ qI4 RAMSDELL BROS. HEADQUARTERS FOR D RY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS I SHOES, G ROCERIES, HARDWARE, HAY'GRAIN. We are Now Prepared to Make Prices Lower than Ever Before. Call and Examine Goods Before Purchasing, COLUMBIA FALLS, .-•••••• - MONTANA. - 11 , s7,4&WfmeizetituL - Fiiim.aved THE MODEL DRUG STORZ A Lar g e and S,leeted Stock !•-•ps cnly the finest q uality of PURE AND FRESH DRUGS ' WINES', LIQUORS EPA MRS. Patent Medicines and Chemicals. :•! 31P,Fil7 \The Arcalle 3 - Perfumery and Toilet Articles,---- \WetYour Wh de istle\ at The Arca, Fine WilleS Mid Liqunrs fr:3 itiodicinal 11o, Is The Proper Advice For All to Tobacco, (Jigar:4, Stai ioliery. 1 Everything in 1 )ruggists' Sund1'i('s.1 . re'Prescriptions Accurately Compounded. Night Calls Promptly An- swered. i COLUMBIA FALLS, I 4. .T. I )0 NAI,I )SON , I prop. Taylor, Oli — v — er Follow. JAMES HOLLER, PROP. First Door North of Postoffice. ?MONTANA. P. .J. WA_ I ,S1-1, - - HOUSE HOUSE - PAINTERS - SIGN THE DELTA SALOON, PAPER ANGEIZS. Columbia Falls, . Montan.a. ITIO - U SE I Nucleus Avenue. We Carry our own stock of Paints, Oils. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS \Tarnishes and Wall Paper, and are Pre- pared to do all work without delay. AND CIGARS. MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. COLUMBIA FALLS : : MONTANA. NO1111E111 RW 1 1101101131 rig °nut TIE VRilgy _ 01.1EP.A.INTIT. Columbia Fa1b-4, : : Montana. STOCICI-101_,DMR,S: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, BUTTE, PARROTT COPPER CO., BUTTE, FRASER a; CHALMERS, CHICAGO. Find Ave. West. - COLUMBIA OFFICERS: PPESIDENT. JAMES A. TALBOTT, Bern; VICE PRESIDENT, L. C. TRENT, SALT LAKE; TREASURER, ANDREW J. DAVIS, Burn: SECRETARY, FRANK LANGFORD, COLUMBIA FALLS. OWNS AND 01: 2 1C.RA.MES: LANDS, MILLSITES, WATER POWERS, TOWNSITES, COAL, LUM- FOR SALE BER, MINING AND INDUSTRIAL McDonald & Bartleson. Props. This House is New and has been Newly Furnished Throughout. It is the effort of the Management to keep the Valley House up to the highest Standard. The traveling Public will receive good treatment. RATES REASONABLE, FALLS. EDWIN SINGLETON 11 1 1•11•11.11•11•11116 There is no \troublebabreen whites and Indians in the Flathead coun- try,\ as some of the state papers as - smart. There was ii inieunderstowling , 1 . , to Itommedery ii b oa, hilt Ohr mat ter COLUMBIA FALLS. - II }IOWA R1) II A I? Ill 19n1t. , no..o.MEWM1111•••••••••• ENTERPRISES Ill the Hand aM Kootenai 0 111111Es, IN ANY QUANTITY. Ileenner• tors fr., 551 r..0 ref %, - 5.41•11 11•••• •ft•I • 113:11 VI rirart. ii.,on Vi t .4121, WOW INIrWr Soo. l.oe.4 in your ewu I. Ad- lty, obovoyet you How II , Oh wt.*. I: We Han !M. _ H•lt. Cite • at In epee* Onto. or on tbothoo. Vett LA , '\ , \fr. 'I . BTU? ‘ t 4 g•., 1•1:1•Ht. gear
