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Show MONTANA NOTES. Butte uow has only three saloons with female orchestras. The female must go. The supply of "home-raised strawberries" straw-berries" has given church socials an impetus never before known in Montana. Mon-tana. The Northern Pacific railway company com-pany have placed on their through trains to the Pacific a lot ol elegant day coaches. General Passenger Agent Fee of the Northern Pacific states that the company com-pany will carry 65,000 second-class passengers to Montaua and Pacitic coast points this season. The Butte Inter-Mountain fiendishly claims that tho stores of Helena do not open until 10 ft'clock in tho morning aud close at 8 in tho afternoon, with an hour at noon for lunch. Emma Rowo got $2o00 last week for falling down an unprotected shaft near Butte three years ago, and now every Massachusetts old maid in Montana is constantly in search of "unprotected shafts." El'a W. Pemba now handles the mail at Bowen, Beaverhead county. She is composed of tlie material of which excellent ex-cellent wives are made, but no common "jay" need apply as Ella will not throw up a 00 position for a $!20 man. Captain MeGowan, writing from Puller Springs, says: "This country is a perpetual 'outburst of silence.' The thermal springs of the Ruby seem to be all that could be desired, and their curative properties have not been exaggerated." ex-aggerated." . Robert Dauce, a famous globe circler, will settle in Helena. Dance, who has been in all countries and ought to be posted, is authority for the statement that "There is no country under the canopy of heaven in which a man that's dead broke can recover' his fortune so quickly as he can in the United States of America." - Government work on tho roads in the National park is increasing. A largo force of men is engaged in building a road along Yellowstone lake, which will be continued over the divide to the upper geyser basin, which, when completed, com-pleted, will add materially to the pleasure pleas-ure and comfort of a trip through that portion of the park, and opcu up to tourists the Shoshone geyser basin, which has only been accessible heretofore hereto-fore by means of saddle horses. |