Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1886-09-09

Prairie fires Hsbsiding.
The assessment roll Sf Lewis .snd Clarke
county will foot up about SS,o00,00O.
Five six Of the twenty-threc delegates
from Silver Bow county attended the dem
ocratic territorial convention.
The product Of the Cgur d'Alene mines
gold. silver and lead -isestimated to exceed
n million of dollars for the season Of 1856.
The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
for the third week IN August. are $245.-
$50, an increase ~ S19.91G over cores
ponding week Of last year.
The gang Of prisoners now in the Helena
cred, not excepting the famous Edmonson
gang. There are about twenty Of them.
A cattle king bought plug Of tobacco mt
Chotcau last week and rendered $1,000
bill to he changed. 1t had the effect of
temporary paralytic stroke ON the town.
Warren Toole, of Helena, and Judge
strevelle Of Miles City, represented Mon
tana lawyers at the meeting of the Ameri-
can Bar Association at Saratoga ON the
goth.
The Helena Fair Association this year
made about 1000 dollars over and above
expenses. This sum will bc devoted to the
liquidation Of the mortgage debt Of over
81, 900 on the property.-lndepcndent.
The Powder River cattle company at
tempted last week to drive n herd Of
three thousand cattle into the territory
withour-. road-brandng them, and was
stopped ut Great Falls and made to pay
"a heavy fine.
The Northern Pacific will have forty
miles more Of the Cascade division finished
| and ready for government inspection octo-
ber /. This carries the line to the Ellen
berg coal fields, and opens the market to
500 or 900 tons Of coal per day.
1t is reported that WV. Anderson, esli.
tor Of the BOseman Courier, Is the knights
of Labor candidate for delegate in congress.
II is further said that the full strength Of
the Knights Of Labor vote is pledged to him
and that he will accept the candidacy.
On Monday. Judge McI.eary tclcgraphed
to his family to meet him at st. Paul on
the 18th inst. With them he will return
to Billings and remain during the session
Of court, when all will come to Bozeman
and he domiciled in house yet to procured
chronicle,
The allotment Of land to the Crows will
be made in the proportion Of 100 acres to
, each head of n family, and 80 acres to 9th
ers. John q. Walker. Of the District o.
Columbia, and Roll Sanders, Of New York
will make the allotnents in severalty-
Gazette.
When the Logan train pulled out Of Liv
, ingston yesterday, Il. Z. Waters of Bill
ings, stood upon the platform and narrow
ly escaped being chccred by the crowd oi
the suspicion that he was the Sucker stat
senator himself. 1t was close call for !
speech
/, In an interview with Con kohrs, of tn
: Pioneer Cattle company, who was IN tow
I during the fore part of the week we iearne'
i that il is the company's intention to shi
n 800 head Of beevcs this fall, and thes
= will be the best ON their range and mostl
= 4-year rolds.-Sroekgrowers Journal.
D ". L. Spaulding, of Spokane Falls,
= building the new road for the CGur d Allen
J. company from the Mission to War,lnei
Bridge timber and lumber is to he supplic
by j. l.. Bailey, also OF Spokane Fal'
i The purpose of Mr.. Corbin and associate
s. is to have the road ready foroperation no
;. later than Observation-Disclosures
Mr.. l.. r. Villenaire, agent for Joh
II Mcguire, Montana's celebrated theatrici
e manager, is in the city, arranging for til
Il opening of the new Billings Opera lious'
II ON the sth and 9th inst. II successiul o
this occasion Billings will he added to I'll
Mag,lire circuit, and the citizens will bcnei
u by having an opportunity Of hearing I'll
n celebrities whom Mr.. Mcguire secures.-Gi
, zette.
Delegate Toolc says that under the ne
> law restricting special territorial les,latio
= Montana can now make IA loan of over Ia
y "A million dollars-inuch more than 81
y will need while she remains a 'crritor,
" Counties and other municipalities are a
lowed to incur n debt of five per cent.
the taxable property, which would aple'
's to be all that taxpayers ought Ia he ask
~ to stand.
'" dutch John" with ). Deutsch surye
ing party, while engaged at work on Il
divide between Trail and Strickland creek
was bitten by rattlesnake. lar
amount of whskcy was given the Nictil
= without apparent effect, aud after tying
~ silk handkerchief ON his leg above the bit
- he WAS hurriedly conveyed To l-islnssto
" where Dr. Alton has placed him GA +
way to recovery, hronirle.
Adiutant General Cullen, of Govern
Iiauser's militia stan, obtained the sisii
of the bond to the chief Of ordinance To I
United States, which is security for I
:, one thousand stand of arms that IL to
!; issued to the Montana militia. The bo
:, is conditioned in the sum of So
signed by Mr.. W. A. Clarke, Of Butte, "a
Mr.. w. u. Conrad, Of Helena, and was Il
nd proved by Judge Wade. 1t will he 4
.u. wartled immediately and the rifles will !
nd rive shortly thcreafter.-lndepende
oil W. IL. Green, the tunnel contractor,
Ir- forms us that last saturday the headir
is met in tunnel No. ON the Montana q
as trail, aud daylight is now let through
ry the first time one of the rocky ohstractio
oil n the Prickly Pear canyon. This tunl