Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-08-09
MONTANA NEWS.

through.
There are about 2.OOO. 900 feet O,
lumber shipped out OF Missoula county
every week.
Bozeman is to have u new hotel.
Butte needs one worse than any other
town IN the territ DRY.
The VI. +. church, south, has an or
gan. Ii is called the Montana Meth
odist," and is issued in Helena.
II is rumored that Phil Armour OF
Chicago is to have n branch packing
ana canning establishment at Helena.
The smallpox scare is over. There
were only three cases at the utmost
and the last is entirely convalescent -
New Northwest.
Butte city has voted 5000 for
municipal improvements. For sewers
$4,000, for street grades Sl5,OOO and
for improving city hall $4,000.
Prof Leroy, the tight rope walker.
now IN the territory givineexhibitions,
Is to walk across the Missouri river at
Benton on the first OF September, using
u steel cable stretched from towers as
feet high.
The Amy & Silver~mith Mining com
pany at Butte have leased their prom
critics to the Anaconda company for
one year, with the privilege of two.
The mines have been lying idle for
about year.
Governor Leslie, commandments
oil the national guard of Montana, has
lSSIAI ua,.,pal n..l.<,., n
the territorial troops into camp Mt
Helena on the Goth OF August, to
remain IN encampment for three days.
Hon. \. +. Stevenson. first assistant
postmaster general, arrived i'm Living
ston on saturday last fora four day'.
tour OF Wonderland. lie returned on
Wednesday and continued his Journey
westward to Dillon and other points
and will go east over the Union Paci-
fc.-Enterprise.
Mr.. Watkins, horsepower of Terry.
Mont, had fourteen horses killed by
lightning in one storm recently. Mr..
W. has lost several beside these from
the same cause this summer. There
must be mineral deposits on his range
that attract the lightning with such
destructive effect, or else his horses are
full OF metal and high life.-Stock-
growers journal.
Danutv Sbar;G ,Llo,,
Anderson tool n,a ''f IL, IN "... 'o''',
hunting axcurS;ons On S.., pI,'o',r"'
and succeeded in L;Il;,a ~ tIa'd.s, ,n'
which tha,' J;sn ~ N,''i'S ol,cN Dear
ing on the foot hills between Middle
creek and Cottonwood. The hide was
a little out OF season, but several of
our citizens attest to the excellent
quality of the meat courier.
w.,
e INCOMING Lana ana Cattlecom-
III! 'ii'ai,s, manager, Bur
R," ~, ue',vergi To H. I. Power x
..n, go q. en,er ''a,'oi,; thursday, 500
nv, ""t .i'''u' an" we! VIII DE put
IN m one OF the Power Brothers ranges.
blocky, and look like thoroushbreds |
They are all American cattle. The |
terms OF the sale are private.-.S:ock-
growers journal.
In sno.I.;, 80 a.,
comes ra.a;"a5 H.. a. .e,'"ihap'e IN
lev Zoo m Thos '''r'ii.r III .ne val-
vsor Ina na;l t',,, s'a.s' :n't iast
rron n,dra ,i H. 'a'.'e. ,pr us wheat
ceiyed m the saia va" os s,'ihoseiuen''y re-
Thomas further remarked that IN
Iowa. Illinois and other n,;5,,Ia -, .n
n farmer considered that he wos Jo;na
we'll if the nrodmcts oi III nv f "as "o,i'S
on s or,elnai cost IN ten years
"'s's'er'
We learn that the buffalo bone bust.
ness is quite lively along the line of the
in the Milk river valley. 4
buyer, whose name we could not learn.
has hundreds OF Indians and half.
breeds engaged in gatheing and hauling
them to different stations on therooI
where they are loaded into ears and
shipped east. The gentleman enonoed
N this business made n contract re-.
emily to deliver to one party i'm Chi
ago l35 car loads.-Riyer Press.
"A sheepherder named c. A. Olsen, in
ne employ OF y. j. Bielenberg, was
.l''ed Dy llsh,nlng near Mullan station
pm July 2sth. The dead man was
s nj II mfr, ~ .eTIa e-rGG-
vas carrying J, r;de Will, ha h"i ,
owed for the dov M, I;ai,,,,;.,' III
# ruck him IN ths b.ad , ns,S nau
lis fac,, h,,r,;na orI,;. II pds uo"n
iown his body and nn a Iaa ,aa. ,nelus
me shoe ami naL;n', sa,.n .I hh on
he oronnd ono Of mi;'.,, '..a. no't III; ~
md n half in diametsr ~
'
Charles II. Gould, with w. w, Kee-
IAN Il Sons, OF the Union stock wards
II Chicago, is i'm the city, having re- ,
emily ret ,lrped from the southeast
by an Independent re-
'orter, he said some eighty thousand
ead OF cattle would come into Mon /
ana this season from that section, j
nd some sixty thousand head of beef :
go, " w ~ nc sniPPe,, OUT oi the TER
,or IT." 1917 noni .ne present OUT
81. =, sna u ~. ~ neaIo Vi any cattle
o",s III ironl tne states, anu Dut lew I