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its principal branches above it, and Iho boot of ita timbers Jar to the north on ita head' waters, with its coal mine*, easy of access, good in quality, and in such quantities that railroad builders will find it to their interest to seek for a route to itc,. Mi ners must haro timber forthelrmfnes, and coal for their smelters, and no- whoro can thoir wants be better sup plied than^from her inexhaustible' Tho building of the Great Northern THE WORLD AT LARGE. Isaac B. Sawtelhvthe murderer of his brother, Hiram, at Rochester, N. . H , in Fobruary, 1890, died of apo plexy in prison. One hundred and sixty-one deaths were reported duping tho 24 hours in New York, 14 of which were from grip. < The Messiah craze has broken out afrosh amongJhej Cheyennes and Ar- npahooa at Fort Reno, and no little anxiety is felt. ■Tlfe marriage of Miss Rachel Sher- s man, daughter of tho late General W. i T. Sherman, and Dr PaulThorndyko, f of Boston, was eolemizod at Washing- 1 ton. y t v ' { Patrick Egan, nephew of tho minis- h tor to Chili, was arrested for seducion e at Spokane while at the altar to bo S married to a widow, the mother of the w girl ho is alleged to have ruined. ti The leader of the gang who robbed 8 tho Adams express agontat Glendalo, ti Mo, together with a female accom- T plice, are under arrest in San Fran- ti deco, and tie capture of the remain- n der of tho gang seems only a matter ti of time. Tho leader is Adelbert D. t< Sly, a noted ex-Missouri convict. “ David B. Hill’s term as governor ex- h The Northern Pacific Engineers Fin ishing Work on tho Line to Columbia Falls. Numerous Happy Gatherings Indi cate the Disposition Toward So cial Enjoyment. Monday tho Northern Pacific sur veyors who havo boon running the lino from tho coal mines of tho North Fork to Columbia Falls, reached the city and sot thoir stakes through totvn. Tho lino strikes tho city at the northeast corner, where it crosses the Great Northern track, and goes di- i timber and mineral belt. Already ' the surveyors for two great railroad systems are in tho field and seeking an outlet to the west and north, and ere many months we may expect to 1 see thlee lines completed through the valley. Tho benefits dorived from the Great Northern, but 16 days old in our city, is already felt through tho efforts of our genial and obliging Superintendent Green. There has ar rived for our merchants several car loads.of goods besides tho material for.tho construction west, and this over a now roadbed, much of it not surfaced, with no snow shods or plows to assist in removing the great quan tities of snow that has fallen into tho mountains. I dare say that rou can not find on any road of tho same length—250 mUos a more obliging, courteous class of men than is to bo found'here from our superintendent through the entire roll. * Columbia Falls at the very gate of a country so rich on tho east, with such inexhaustible stores on tho north, with tho undeveloped water power at her feet, a country of equal 1 extent on tho west and as rich as that 1 already referred to and of which in ' some future letter I will write, with ‘ good agricultural volleys surround- , mg her which will more than supply > tho local demaud be it what it may. < with railroad companies looking for < SAFETY GUARANTEED, An Association Through Which Loaas Are Made and Payment Assured. The demand for a company that would and could, through its officials, give accurate information regarding her treasures of lumber and coal to enrich their corjjorations, with the great influx of immigration which will accompany thoir building and i try. J. j . K ennedy . To New Comers. T he C olombian is Burely befriend- 1 ing people who contemplate moving 1 to the Flathead volley by warning ’ thorn against an ondeavor to bring with them the furniture, etc, neces sary for house-koeping. Tho ship ment of such articles is simply a waste of money from the fact that all such articles can bo purchased here cheaper than they can be ship- pod in less than car lots. Then it is now when purchased here, while household goods nover escape the de struction of transfers and freight handling. The merchants of this re gion ship all goods in car lots, and consequently can supply new comers cheaper than household articles can bo shipped-. The Christinas Tree Funds. Tho committee having in charge tho Christmas tree make the following report of expenditures; rivers, rising in tho snow-locked fast- uesses of tho graud old Rockies, all of whose banks are serrated by deep coulees and bad lands for tho protec tion of tho herds that wander at will on their banks, while on the bench lands and on the sides of theso cou lees is found all the choicest grasses, and in great abundance. Cast your eyes a littlofarthor to the north and you will find tho Milk river wnich completes the quartette of rivers xr__« ___ .j. ___ ._ l ‘ ____ i c ______ . At Tbv M oon Dnif «1or« too .... »*» Por work wh I movlns orcu It B There yet remains about $25 that was subscribed but uot paid in. The money will bo used, for charitable purposes. Tho money may be left at T he C olumbian . M bs . M. Mnocn. THE. FAMOUS BAD HOCK CANYON, T ^ O MILES FROM COLUMBIA FALLS. GOOD HOTELS. This City is Well .Supplied with Hotels and Restaurants. Columbia Falls Is amply provided with hotel accommodations for all who come. The magnificent Hotel Gaylord is tho finost structure in the Flathead valley. Its arrangement is modem, and will bo ono of the noted resorts of tho Flathead region. It was erected by tho Northern Inter national Improvement company at a cost of $30,000. The Columbia hotel is a building that would be creditable to any wost- Your Holiday Gowns. Tho Misses Marble and Krueger have opened dressmaking parlors in tho postoffioo building. Artistic cut ting and fitting will bo found to be Ihmr era city. It is three stories, with twenty-five rooms, brick vonoer, and was completed early in tho summer. It is owned by Coombs & Lewis, two of tho best known ___ — men in tho valley. -XLrfjSgl The Valley hotel X — is conducted by ado, but that has not boon definitely settled as yet. Officers of the clubhavebeenelec- ted as follows: Impiraeit Company, OFFICERS: President, James A. Talbott, Butte; Vice-President, L.C. Trent, Salt Lake; , Treasurer, Andrew J. Davis, Butte; Secretary, Wm. EeatCColidnbia Falls OWNS AND OPERATES: j Lands, MiUsitee, Water PowenvTown- j sitos, Coal, Lumber, Mining and , Industrial enterprise* < In the FEATHEAD and KOOTE- ‘ NAI COUNTRIES. J good patronage. It is centrally located and has eighteen Hi rooms. In addition there are a number of first-class restaurants among them the Windsor, tho Eaglo and tho Ar- This Company will Exam ine and Report on Loans and Securities, and is a Medium through which Non-Residents may make Safe Investments, t All Loans Made Through ( the Company are Guaranteed, l Married. Thursday evening December 81, by Judge. J. E. Lewis, Walter E. Walker and Clara Maudo Lyons, at the resi dence of tho bride's parents. Tho groom is one of tho prosperous and well-known rartchraen of the east side. Tho bride is one of tho accomplished yoang ladies of the east side/ T he C olumbian extends congratulations to the happy pair. cade. At any of the houses named the Btranger wiU be treated in the best manner and at moderate prices. | Address all Communications, Colnklt Ltai aid Iirstmt Co. n - ____ ________ _ . r r i ) THZ C olumbian R cachcs ' THE COLUMBIAN. S econd y e a r . TIS TRDLY GREAT. Observations In the Flathead Valley and Vicinity by a Montana Pioneer. The Coming Country is Described, Its Resources and Elements of Prosperity. Botwoon tho 49th parallel on the north *and 46th on tho south, Duluth ou the cast and tho Puget Sound on -the west is contained tho country of tho future, not tflbc.outdono by any thing, by any soctiqn in this or any known country oiijflu x g t o y ■ . The oastora portion, jrieS in- copper, coal ; and lumber, with * *' ' * producing far more than the local de mand consumes, is too well known to nood any description farther than the design of this article—to attract at tention to the coming country. Lying west of this great rich belt is :he ncrioulhiml Bolt. »t nmwint. Ihn 1 the agricultural belt, at present the greatest wheat producing country in the world. Ita possibilities cannot be realised by the present generation, when time and wealth with thoir mag ic fingers shall havo encompassed the breadth of the land, and where now tho soil house or the rude cabin stands, shall rise a fino farm house, and all ovor tho cheerless and troo- leos expanse will be groves surround ing the houses for their protection from the winds, and adding their j shimmering green to tho beauty of tho fiolds of waving grain. Wind mills will ovory where stretch high their mighty arms to the breezes, bringing to tho surface the great un derlying seas of water, which shaU make tho country a veritablo Eden. Marching westward in this groat empire wo come .upon tho grazing land, with its broad expanso a'”’ countloss herds and docks feeding its bluo-joint, gramma}, buffalo and bunch grassos, than which thoir are none better, sweeter, more nourishing in tho world. One ofTEegreat phy sical features of the continent is the water-shed of tho west, which crossos our state, and in which is found tho sourco of most of the great rivers of tho Mississippi system. No section of country of the same or lesser ex tent is so woll watered as is our own Montana, with her romantic Medicine (Sun) river, her Totou, with its nu merous and countless bad lands form ing one of tho best and most thor oughly protected sections of. country for stock in the state; her Marias with ita many smaller urisis— Depuy- i\r TlircK OilI.Rlt.lro fIVn Kiwltiliin COLUMBIA FALLS, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892.-EIGIIT PAGES. NUMBER I. - OUR GREAT STATE. Jeny Collins has sold out his inter- it in the Great Falls Tribune to a syndicate of citizens and retiree from the management R. W. Cooley will be the now manager. Mrs’. Hugh Galen, mother of Mre. Thomas H. Carter, died at Helena. The physicians of Missoula have organized the Missoula County Med ical Jgpciety. Secretary Rotwitt and Attorney General Haskell superintended tho salo of somo state land at Missoula wWh brought $28,000. About six ires were sold. Alien Hay, an old-timer, staicidcd by shooting himself in his cabin at Deweys, Beaverhead county. John Ryan, in Deer Dodge peni- teuriaiy for a short term, severed his throat with a knife while preparing potatoes for dinner. John Gleason got fivo years for set ting fire to hay stacks near F ' THE LOCAL GRIST. :ms of City News and Go* Gathered Into the Colom bian Fold. The Goings and Comings' of Pcople-- Tho Railroad NovfeDoIng'Busl- ness in Columbia Falls. Doing a Regular Business. Columbia Falls is now providod with a station agent, telegraph oper-. atorand all the' appurtenances tor the it has tho benefit of the rains that fall near the foot hills of the eastern slope. There was shipped from this valley over the Great Northern to the Chicago markets this season four and one-nhif million dollars’ worth of cat tle, one and one-half millions of wool, 10 million dollars’ worth' of mutton The ladios on tho sick list are still under tho doctor’s care. Mrs. G. H. . ............. „m u l Ul mulwn' Wheeler is confined to her home, sheep and four hundred thoiu^d N e l*» Willoughby and dollars’ worth of horses, and yet there is room for more. As history repeats itself, so does nature in her workings. On the slopes of the mountain range skirting this great plain and in its Talleys is found timber equal in quantity . and inexhaustible as on the eastern limit o f the section destined to be the “fu ture” of this country; and in its rock- ribbed sides are rich deposits of gold, silver, iron, copper and coal; unde veloped, except where tho steel road has threaded ita way into the very door of the treasured wealth. Tfils rich expanse of grazing land is broken by numerous spurs in the Rocky range, many of which have been reached by the great business life- giver—railroads—and are sending out from thoir inexhaustible stores groat quantities of silver, gold, copper, lead and coal, to utilize which great smel ters are being built near the mines, or in cloeo railroad connection on some of the great streams whose un developed, unchained power—the in genuity of man haS made practicable —is needed to give the momentum to tho hoavy machinery, and has also been found more eo • • steam. Tho breaking of t h e _________ __ this section of the Rockies by tho building of the Great Northern will open up oouuUnss mines for the re- woodman s ax will make the moun tain slopes resound and the fallen monarch of the forest must find a place to be utilized, and no place on the west slope has more natural ad vantage than Columbia Falls. Sit uated as it is on fhe main river with ,mT; This city is the only place m tho Flathead valley wnero (he rail- a way company is doing a regular busi- V ness. Plans .for the depot are now on.- exhibition and the work of « the handsome structure will be t menced at an early day. Goods are arriving over tho railroad in good con dition and traffic is -fully up to aH de mands. For all commercial purposes- the railroad company is making Col umbia Falls its headquarters. New Industries. Although tho new year has jusG' fairly commenced, there are raany^ on foot for new enterprises in. this city. Among the most important is tho establishment of a large brew.- , ory and a patent roller flouring mill. Tlie brewery enterprise is so woll. un der way that plans for the structure havo been drawn and an order placed for the manufacture of special appar atus. The flouring mill project has been in course of preparation for the past few months and the probability is that the first spring building- weather will 6eo active work on both enterprises. Mountain View Nates. >«ul»r Corrwpandoneoof TurOoLVMBMSt, .- A basket party was heldmUFair-, view school house ou December., 29th. by tho Temperance Litorary Society,. A bountiful repast, recitations and,, singing were features of the ereoing- Dancos were held at the homo of,. Hiram Richards, on Christmas ovo ’ and on New Year’s eve. Both proved Thirty couples were pros-, eat New Year’s eve. The music was , furnished by Harrington, Richard*, Bradloy and Walters. __ « , William Turn has sold his ranch,, commonly known as the Burns place to J. Peters, for $1,200. Ac**, Dr. Seawright of Demereville was in town Tuesday. William Rinehart has moved from Kalispell to Hill, where ho is holdih/f’ down a good ranch. A boy arrived at tho residence of. Francis Tetrault Sunday. The happy . parents are receiving congratulations. You should send at least ten copies. of this week’s C olumbian to friends in. It contains tho informa tion they want in reliable and concise ,n\ ------------ 3 George P. Martin, tho woll-knowt! jeweler of Demereville,' was ' ip tho: city Tuesday. He will in a few days go to California for tho - winter and visit the “old folks at home.” The loggers are pleased with tho weather and are moving tho hoariest, timbers, with perfect ease.. There is }thing, in Flathead winter weather i displease tho most particular. It, as near perfect as weather can be. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kennody are. permanent resident*, of Colom bia Falls, and are temporarily douie- ciled in tho C. Y. Reeder residence. . They contemplate the erection of an^ elegant home in tho early spring on tho Kennedy addition. Under the Salary Law., Tho supremo court of Montana has ruled that the law of 1890, placing . county officers on a salary system, in. constitutional. The officials eonJe*£ od it on the ground (hat the legists-
