From Demersville Inter-Lake- 1890-1891
May 16, 1890
Last Saturday Deputy Sheriff Lang, Burt Evans, and Ralph Ramsdell arrived from tobacco Plains with Chuck and Megum, two Kootenai Indians who were arrested for burglarizing stores and cabins at the plains. The trial was to have taken place at Ashley last Monday, before Judge Duncan, but did not come off on account of the sudden departure of the reds. While the Indians were being guarded in the room over Coomb's saloon at Egan, they asked permission to go down stairs to answer a call of nature, and as soon as they stepped outside the door, they bade the guard a hurried goodbye, and made their way without loss of time to their mountain home. At the present writing they have not been heard from. May 30 1890
FOR the past week or more, the wind has blowed and blowed worse than some old prospector over a wildcat quartz lead. W J Sears, one of the oldest of the old timers in Montana, who has lately moved from Beaverhead County, will soon open up a first-class blacksmith shop in Demeresville and we predict for him a big trade. He is a thorough business man and an A No. 1 blacksmith. He is enterprising as well; not one of those two-penny tenderfeet who think more of a copper than a far seeming business man does of his life. |
Mar 13, 1891
A largely attended meeting of the residents of Flathead was held February 24th in the court house to take the sense of the people on the house bill now before the legislature proposing to divide up Missoula into two counties. The meeting was entirely opposed to the hurried manner in which the bill had been prepared and laid before the house without consulting the residents of this valley… The meeting, which was long and lively one, broke up in some disorder. From the spirit of the meeting it was evident that some private scheme was on foot, but the schemers were disappointed. No doubt there will need to be some division made in the future, but the feeling is that this should not be hastily done and without consulting the wishes of all the residents. Independent
Mar 13, 1891-
Geo. Miller’s team got tired of waiting for him last Monday and started for home at a lively gait. Upon reaching the post office they very abruptly left the bob-sleighs, and without damaging the outfit to any great extent, went down the road and across the river towards home, leaving him to follow at his leisure
Apr 17, 1891
Real Estate deals . Last Monday Owen Ownes a Philipsburg capitalist who some time ago bought the Turman ranch just west of town of $1,200, sold the same to the Kalispel townsite company for $6,500. He then came to Demersville and purchased of Dan Hunt the lot fronting the Montana House on Foy street, paying $1000 cash for the same. Arrangements have already been made for erecting a two story building thereon which will cover the entire lot. He and his company have also purchased a lot on Demers Avenue with a new two story building thereon, which they offer to rent. On Tuesday Clifford and Stannard sold six town lots. There is not discount on Demersville real estate.
May 1, 1891
The creators of the new townsite. (Kalispell) have decided to spell it with two l’s with the accent on the last syllable
Cole & Holm have thrown the doors of their new hotel open to the traveling public. The house is called the Union House, and their rates are $1.00 a day
T L Conner, of the Flathead News, is quite sick with la grippe. We can sympathize with our brother O’Conner, for we have had a severe siege of it ourself and on this occasion we would gladly lose our grippe.
May 8, 1891
Last week while some of the Italian laborers belonging to H. Y. Anderson’s party were blasting rock above Bad Rock canyon, a charge went off prematurely and precipitated three of the Italians into the river below. It was thought they were killed but they floated down the stream and landed with no farther damage than a good wetting.
A largely attended meeting of the residents of Flathead was held February 24th in the court house to take the sense of the people on the house bill now before the legislature proposing to divide up Missoula into two counties. The meeting was entirely opposed to the hurried manner in which the bill had been prepared and laid before the house without consulting the residents of this valley… The meeting, which was long and lively one, broke up in some disorder. From the spirit of the meeting it was evident that some private scheme was on foot, but the schemers were disappointed. No doubt there will need to be some division made in the future, but the feeling is that this should not be hastily done and without consulting the wishes of all the residents. Independent
Mar 13, 1891-
Geo. Miller’s team got tired of waiting for him last Monday and started for home at a lively gait. Upon reaching the post office they very abruptly left the bob-sleighs, and without damaging the outfit to any great extent, went down the road and across the river towards home, leaving him to follow at his leisure
Apr 17, 1891
Real Estate deals . Last Monday Owen Ownes a Philipsburg capitalist who some time ago bought the Turman ranch just west of town of $1,200, sold the same to the Kalispel townsite company for $6,500. He then came to Demersville and purchased of Dan Hunt the lot fronting the Montana House on Foy street, paying $1000 cash for the same. Arrangements have already been made for erecting a two story building thereon which will cover the entire lot. He and his company have also purchased a lot on Demers Avenue with a new two story building thereon, which they offer to rent. On Tuesday Clifford and Stannard sold six town lots. There is not discount on Demersville real estate.
May 1, 1891
The creators of the new townsite. (Kalispell) have decided to spell it with two l’s with the accent on the last syllable
Cole & Holm have thrown the doors of their new hotel open to the traveling public. The house is called the Union House, and their rates are $1.00 a day
T L Conner, of the Flathead News, is quite sick with la grippe. We can sympathize with our brother O’Conner, for we have had a severe siege of it ourself and on this occasion we would gladly lose our grippe.
May 8, 1891
Last week while some of the Italian laborers belonging to H. Y. Anderson’s party were blasting rock above Bad Rock canyon, a charge went off prematurely and precipitated three of the Italians into the river below. It was thought they were killed but they floated down the stream and landed with no farther damage than a good wetting.
May 27, 1891
Last Saturday three men from Demersville went to Ashley and filled up on the peculiar firewater sold at that burg. They rode home that night, firing off their guns at intervals, and as a grand finale, rode their horses into Harrington & Lynch’s saloon, where they were arrested. On Monday they again went to Ashley, but this time emptied their pockets of $15 each for the benefit of the school fund.
July 24, 1891
The idea never seems to strike some who drive along the street that if they would keep where it has been sprinkled they would raise less dust
August 14, 1891-
The ranchers are busy cutting hay and harvesting just now, but as soon as the summer’s work is up they will turn out and hang a few of the horse thieves that are infesting the Flathead country. Not a week goes by that horses are not run out of the valley. When caught they will sure enough hang.
90 days on bread and water should be the penalty for allowing a horse or cow to run the streets of a night with a bell on. Hundreds of people are kept awake this way every night and if some man’s cow comes home some morning with some button holes worked through her neck somewhere near where the bell is some of the people will take a tumble.
Last Saturday three men from Demersville went to Ashley and filled up on the peculiar firewater sold at that burg. They rode home that night, firing off their guns at intervals, and as a grand finale, rode their horses into Harrington & Lynch’s saloon, where they were arrested. On Monday they again went to Ashley, but this time emptied their pockets of $15 each for the benefit of the school fund.
July 24, 1891
The idea never seems to strike some who drive along the street that if they would keep where it has been sprinkled they would raise less dust
August 14, 1891-
The ranchers are busy cutting hay and harvesting just now, but as soon as the summer’s work is up they will turn out and hang a few of the horse thieves that are infesting the Flathead country. Not a week goes by that horses are not run out of the valley. When caught they will sure enough hang.
90 days on bread and water should be the penalty for allowing a horse or cow to run the streets of a night with a bell on. Hundreds of people are kept awake this way every night and if some man’s cow comes home some morning with some button holes worked through her neck somewhere near where the bell is some of the people will take a tumble.