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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

Mwssesl Cslasre In the Mack Mslls--Sliss
Charity Msrtis's Traiming IN Boston.

Omaha Herald: This correspond
ence has given some account of the
literary, social and musical culture OF
City, the two clfief business centers OF
the Black Hills. The showing was
conceded to he very creditable tn
towns so new and isolated, \ still
more remarkable record can be shown
for Lead City, considering the circ,,m-
stancts Of population and location.
This is purely u mining town; its
population is about 5000; all of
which is dependent on mining for sup
port.
In vocal music it has made record.
First in the list, by unanimous consent,
must he placed Miss Charity Martin.
This lady was reared here. and THUS
far, in her character of musician. is II
BLACK Hills product The Miners
Prima Donna" the admiring spon-
sors of her art like to term her.
Three years ago the citizens deter
mined that she should have an educa-
tiOn, and expected for fer a career
Accordingly a fund was raised by sub
striptiOn. and she was sent to the
Boston conservatory to study. Good
reports came back from her teachers,
and when she returned last summer
she was received with open arms by
the whole camp, metapliorically and
Ii!usically speaking.
Perhaps there could not be given a
more unpreju,liced and competent
opinion of what she can do than was
recently written by de;idwOod music
ian, after her farewell concert before
returning to her Eastern studies: "She
went from. home with little to com
mend her but force and determinatiO ion
to make the most of herself. On her
return last summer, in "a concert of
which she was the beneficiary, she sur
prised and delighted the whole com
munity. It was conceded by all that
they had never seen such a transfOr-
nation. In two years she had passed
from the crude and spOiled-by- praise
girl OF seventeen to a charming young
woman with a sympathetic voice OF
great power"
Much OF the cost of this musical
training Of the cantatrice is paid by
laborers' day wages "down in the gold
mines, Underneath the ground, where
"a ray of sunshine never can he found, Z"
other than the love of art and se,ise
OF chiva'ry may pour into the souls
of these hardy miners.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09
The Rescue o! a S2arroa.

just before dark sunday pas-er--hy
were attracted To the iluttering of n
sparrow in the globe of the electric
l.ht at the corner al fremont and
Worcester streets The bird M not
possess the instinct To escape Ht the
top whence il entered. bat frInticlliy
cr-lciv"rcd to- free ii-elf by ~tru .,lin.
against tue >ile> TIE purity watch
nI expected every mpm"ut th1' the
current of li.ht would be- let ON. and
felt the horror of witnessing the little
creature perish. \ .entlemln ana
lady, very fl~hionAbiy dressed, came
along and Joined the watching party.
The gcnrlemIn waited but II moment
lie handed hl> cane to the lldy AIth
him, dive~tcl his hanl, of hi- tight
fitting gloves, aui attcmp-el 70 cimlr
the snowy. s.lppory pole. Tue first
three attempts proved futile, and the
elegant clot Ines oi the gentleman -u'
ierai badly "a his grip reiaxel ami !.
~lli back IN terra tirmI. But ~ Ia
hr ~Jjrrco,led IN reaching the top. and
put rins his hand iu-idit the globe-lr
great risk. a. the electric current might
have been turnrl on az thlt moment
he caushf the Ir,ir creature AMI
TOSSED il into the arr. the hir.i lNIn.
AWAY Boston InGeuI.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

Mr.: Blizzard, from the Northwest,
From the hand Of the Dacotahs,
From the hind Of the Missouri.
From the Wild aud howIing prairies.
Where the snow Is piled like mountains,
And the lakes are frozen solid
Now and then comes strolling southw ri
Comes across the Mississippi,
Makes bee line for Chicago,
Paralyxer all he finds there;
Then he scoots ior Indiana
Mr.. Blizzard. Of the Northwest
ScoDts 6cross the IIoosier counties;
Filling an the air with snowflakee,
Freeking every ear he touchee,
Till he strikes our Cincinnati
STRIKES her hard aud strikes her often,
Says the tOMT * to his liking
And he'd like to make visit,
So he blusters up our thoronghiares,
Whistling shrilly down our alleys,
Aud he has no kind 81 manners.
For he goes where he's not wanted,
Pushes into private places.
Pincling ears and slappng faces,
RlOwing skirts with impOlitenees,
Taking liberties unheard of,
Does this saucy Mr.. Blizzard:
lie should go back to the Northwest,
To the land of the DakOtas,
To the land of the Miss Ouri.
We don't like him and don't want him,
And request him to skedaddle.
cincinnati Timcs-Star.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09
COURT CHANGES.
The New Assignment q" which Judge
Bach IL Given Cascade. Dawson.
Chot~su Fergus aud sleaghrr
Counties.

HELENA, Jan. 3O.-C;reat Falls !.
the judicial seat of the new fourth dis
trict, which is composed of the corn-
ties Of Cascade, Fergus, Dawson
Choteau, and Measher. Judge Bach
has been assigned To the district, and
will reside at Great Falls. The full
list Of assignments is as follows: Jus.
tice Newton W. Mcconnell. first judic.
ial district; associate just ice James II
McI.eary, seccnl judicial district
associate justice 'ii;omas C.. Bacl.,
fourth judicial lis, rir;; as.,ciate JUS
tice Stephen DeWolie. third Judicial
district. The dix: ric.s ~. ~ follow,
First district Lew aud ciar'.r. Jefferson
and Beavcrhead counties.
Second district Silver Bow. D,rr Lpl y
and Missoula.
Third district -Gallutia. Madison. Park
Sellowstonc aud Custer.
Fourth district -t'asralr. Fergus, D.tw-
son. Choteau and Mrashrr.
WHEN couRT WILL RE mEID.
Court is to bc held la the fourth district
as follows
In the county of Cascade. on the first
Monday in June and THE first Monday in
December.
In the county Of Fergus ON the first Mon
day in May and the First Monday in
November
In the county Of DAWSON. on the first
Monday in March and the first Monday M
September.
In the county of Chotcau. ON the third
Monday in March aud the third Monday in
September.
In the county of Mra.her. On the first
Monday in April and the first Monday in
October.
The terms in the first district will I,e held
as follows:
In the county Of Lewis aud Clarke, on
the second Monday in April and the second
Monday in October.
In the county of jefferson, on the 6rst
Monday in March and frs. Monday in
September.
In Tie county Of Beaverhead. on the
third Monday in March and the third
Monday in September.
United States courts will lac held at the
same time as the territorial courts, at the
judicial seat of each district.
Horace Il. Buck was appointed repor'c'
Hedges. resigned. Complimentary resolu
tions were passed in reference To judge
Hedges. Col. Sanders spoke in conpli
mcntary terms "f Judge Galhraith, who
retires. TIE teru' fl'cn closed
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

Portland Orcgonian.)

Portland oresonian.l
Gen. Fremont has been received rs
,, ,.,;,.:.. u.
"''" "' ''"~ e
has never been u nero any hour OF ms
life. lie has been u seI.satiOnalist
from tive u,.uiu, hour of his career
,I.,,.i ...;, :, 10 -, l..
''' - '"' "'' "'' "v 49, 80" "'
~as 20 years oI age. VA iohf benton
did not consider Fremont n match
for his daughter. Fremont WAS the
son of an unknown Frenchman and
an obscure. Virginia woman. Benton
.,wnvs denounced him ms IN adven-
turrr' and meyer forp,,ye his SON. iu lay
~, .... ,l,u,j..,i inc nnrrinne with his
daughter. Benton was right. and to-
,lny nt .0 Fremout's record is that of
nm adyeut,,rer. Ills wife has been his
constant conn, ,uiou. h,l,er. conn
..jor. insnirsr and friend. and had il
v.,t hc.n ior h.r Fremont would huv.
been bo,,nce ont of uublic life MANY
wears AGO. lie :. ole Fl. reputation as
an ,xniorcr: he wa. "A conspicuou.
drum and trumlet" h,unb,,y during
,b, .i, II war: the life of t;en. I,yon
N. lost i'm cons,,,ueu.. of his mean
r,.s. jealousy and incompetence. and
IN, nroy,.l ns complr.e "A hunl,ur as "A
so,,i;.r as b,. h,d as n "uotbtin,l.r =
when I,,. ,uno,nc,d himself as "A dis
coy,r,r. tIs,,,,rh he was nothin, but "a
t;ns-ou who rr,pt after the trapper
:, el nione,.r Al "a he was elcc ed
ro-ernor of California, by tine settle lers,
Lus H;,,rroll. in his history. shows Inv
r.corl evidence. th;st he was n com
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09
CAUGHT IN A Big TRAP.



Mr.. Aslop and one OF his men, John
Jackson, were looking around the
rocks one morning after their sheep.
when the latter saw n crevice leading
into n basin in the solid rock. which
was about forty feet in diameter ut
the top and was shaped exactly like
the upper half of AN hour--la-s. He
thought he would 90 down into this
basin and see what it was like, when
he observed another inlet close by
which seemed to offer easier passage.
Jackson walked around the corner of
the rock and brought up very sud-
denly when he found himself face tn
fIce vi II an enormous mountain lion.
Mr. Al-op hip,glcnl to be close
behind hln AMI ronIin- up at this june
tlre shot the hon, which rolled to the
10 tom of the basin and Iii disappeared.
Being auviOa> To secure the hide OF
the lion. n ci,-''n' investigation was
M tdr. AMI il Ms discovered that the
bottom of tile i,i-in was II hole about
twenty feet in ii,mrter. opening into
cavity beneath. into which the beast
had tumblel. 4 rough ladder was
constructed and Mr.. Alsop descended
into this curious cavern, where he met
n slght that fairly paralize,l him for n
moment. lie found himself in the
lower hall of the iCrr-gliiss shaped
hole in the rocks; which carried out
the simile completely. The floor,
which was of solid sandstone, was
forty feet across and the sides >lOpel
upward and inward TO the neck divid-
ing the lower half from the basin
above. As this neck was but twenty
feet wide it will be seen that u person
or animal who fell to the bottom
would he in u rocky room shaped like
an ink-bottlc right side up. II would
impossible for human being or beast
OF any description once in there to
escape without aid. BY standing on
tiptoe it was just possible for n tall
man to reach the roof with the tip of
his fingers and as impossible to climb
out as il would be to scale the wall ci
Holiday opera house backward with
out ladder.
In this cavernOus room lay the dead
mountain lion. but he was not alone
Nine more mountain lions OF the larg
est size, so recently fallen in that their
hides were still whole. lay about, while
the whole was filled from one side to
the other with bones OF every species
of animal ever known on the plains.
They had fallen into the trap formed
l,; Ia s,s;.--ssss@& =
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

I dropped into the treasury office
vest erday and looked at the work kmell
who are engaged in construct ing the
new vault. The treasury looks like "a
tomb. u has great sOmbre columns
down eicl, side of it, and the doors of
its Easements are so cut that they
look as though they were dug out OF
n solid rock. Everything about it is
massive, and it makes me think more
0f HE bank Of England than any OF her
building have ever seen. Il is made
in the shape of Il hollow square, with
wide tiers OF granite walls running
around "a court in the center: !. is in
this cot.rt that tile new vauiIt is beiny
built. Thick walls of brick and ce-
ment rise within, and the vault will
be above and not bclov arOunI. Its
int tcriOr will be cut up INTO cells walled
with iron lattice-wOrk, and the work
men are now riviting the iron bars
composing 1t, together. These bars
must he very strong, as the weight OF
the silver which ~ to he Pvt in tire
Vault Is immense. There was perta-
bile furnace blazing away within the
vault to-day, and four men We're ear
rying red hot rivits and sticking them
through the holes which had been
drilled in these iron bars. They were
tlTeu rivite,! 10y the Fc,indiiig OF II
heavy hammer while "a man held an
iron nlallet against their at the back.
Each oil these lattice-wOrk walls re-
quircs 3, 500 rivets, and il will take
more then 1OO.OOO of these rivets to
fasten the iron-wOrk together. The
vault is to contain SlOO, 900, 900,
which is such an immense sum that
few people can comprehend it. IL will
give some idea OF it to know that its
weight will be 1850 tons. or the
weight of 81. 800 men of 200 pounds
each. Think Of the heavirS; man you
brow and il would take 10000 such
men to weigh as much rs does this
silver. II wouht ;.ks' - freight ears
to carry il, and it would take "a train
n mile and ~ quarter long o transport
it. Its weight would he 80 much that
u lOcOmOi ives could hardly haul it.
and ii these dollars were laid out 50
that one lust touched the other they
would make n line 2.:tJj miles long
Ii they were put into "a ilOOr. edge to
e,lge,, they would carpet ten tunes the
area OF the capitol, or more than
thirty acres, and ii they were piled
one upon another they would reach
much more than SOP times as hi.h
as the Washin.tO on monument, making
"a solid cOitr-:n Of silver more than
III miles hish. 4 million dollars in
silver is no snail quantity. and when
you pack SlW. .WD.WbD into II vault
it has to be ~ strong ~ stone and
iron can make il. r. rob this vault
would bc "a physical int-o>sibility
To tunnel it One would have to 90
Under the whole treasury building,
and would have To drill through IL
floor ri cement aud chilled steel before
he 90, to the coin. The slightest noise
would 5e sure to be heard. and the
movement OF single bag would cause
sn.h racket ~ to bring the guard
'sovn upon him instanr,f No at
tempt ha-. think, ever been made to
rob the Cnseti Sta>c> treasury, and
the safeguards about it ar. 80 strong
that nonr but tl-. cralir-t of men
would think of trying it.-Wn>hir.1c on
Letter to savannah News.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

Did you ever notice u family which
lived as far as practicable strictly at
home and every member OF which was
producer! 1t so you have seen that
family accumulate wealth and honor
and become "a power in the land. So
1t is with II territory. state or nation.
Its greatness depends upon its ability
to live rs far as possible on its own
labor in producing and nanufactt tiring
everything required by it's own people.
Montana is peculiarly favored in this
respect. She has enough agricultural
land to raise everything she needs,
and some to spare; she raises MANY
million pounds of wool and hundreds
Of thousands of mutton sheep annu-
ally; she is one of the finest horse
raising countries in the world; she
raises all OF her own beef and sends
between $4,000 and $4,000 head to
eastern markets; of precious metals
she produces at present twenty-six
million dollars annually, and tile
amount is increa sing yearly; her coal
measures are second to no territory,
state or country of it's size in the
world, and they are just commencing
to Ice developed; her pasture lands are
measured BY hmndre.ls and thonsands
OF sIuare miles. the grtsses OF which
are the most nutritious in the world;
fruit growing, n new industry is begin
wing to assume, proportions which
prove that it will be u success in due
time and that we need not buy dol
lars worth except Of the tropical
kinds. just think Of il: Montana
can produce her own meat, bread,
Vegetables grains, ri all kinds, fruits,
coal. iron. lead, and other base metals,
and 2I,OO0, 900 in gold, silver and
copper. Montana could, if she was
Compelled to, live entirely on what is
produced within her own limits $ and at
the same tinit put by many millions
OF dollars Of her own productions in
cOhl and silver: Is there a territory
or state. or "a country on earth OF
equal size and population that can
show such varied resources River
Press.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-02-09

had starved to death
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1888-04-24

9aS einaise Scilmittel, psl6cS Sus
Slet6 auf bic 3bdti8teit aler bieier Sr8ane,
ipirtt unb has ~regclmdBtse arbeiten berIelben
am fdneQIten ipteper berbeiflbrt, icmtt baS
2eiben on Der @ur5el anSreift uno b~eIetttst,
ftnb bic peltberlbmten
st. fsrnarS strSiffr- pilrn.
} Dteie Yilsn iino nur aus 8fanjenfcHet
3uIammenssiebt unb rpltpmmen fret bon
Suediilber ober anbern ihdblihen ScItanos
tbeilen. @5 reridume baber Hiemane, Der
nit sinem isner geipen bebaftet 1T, rettstti8
su ben ct. Sernaro 8rauter sYiIen
3u 9reifen, tpelfe tets belfen lnp Jtpar pIo
elm Yeriu6 bieS icfort beitdti9en. :
9te at. 8ernaro 2rautersptnett fne IN
Gpptbtten bu baben grei8 netR @sbrautSdutreiluns
IS Gents be S6ahtel, tanf S6ahtsln fur 81 90;
fe frereen au4. scsen Gmpfdns tes BretieS tn baar
peer Sriefmarten trSeno robin IN ben Seretnt9tsu
Staater, 6anata pber europa fret b~ussianet ccn
p. heustaedter & Co. Box 2416. New York CITY.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1888-04-24
fiu6ermunb. &arI5en gu ieiner iu

&in6ermunb. &arI4en gu ieiner iu'
9eubIi4en Gante, pabrenb bieis 9Iumsn
TN @urten beaieBt: vEante, wirit bu audb
NIT elmer @ieBtanne beSOfen?" - Gante:
paber &arl6en, btit ba tot? @esbalb
bsuu9"- vNun, bic Mama iaste neuIid
gum Sapu, bu ieieit etu nettes Yilausden,
pel9es man iebr batsn mIfe."
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1888-04-24

Bis iie reif iparen. 2ebrer: u8ie LANCE
parsn @bam unb gpa i'm Parabieie2
Nun bis - bis - S9iIsr: rSis bic
@epfsl reif pareu."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26
Duties on Clothing and Blankets.

A correspondent is informed that Mr..
Sherman's statement, in his recent speech
that clothing and blankets are as cheap
in the Unitd States as in Europe is not
correct. The tariff tax is imposed on
those articles to enable the American
manufacturer to sell them at a higher
price than the European products of the
same kind could be sold at, and it does
it. 1t is safe general rule, at time
like the present, when the mills are not
overstocked and buyers are plentiful, to
deduct the duty from the wholesale price
of goods to find the price abroad. The
duties are highest on the classes of goods
bought by the poor, because the poor are
the best customers. The list our CORES.
pondent asks for is rs follows: Duty on
hats valued at 40 cents per pound, rs per
cent. valued at so cents per pound, So
per cent. Duty on knit goods worth not
over 80 cents per pound, SS3 per cent. ;
worth so cents per pound aud upward 62
per cent. Duty on woolen goods, dress
goods, &c., worth less than so cents per
pound, S5.5 per cent, worth over so cents
per pound, GA per cent. Duty on blan-
kets worth 80 cents per pound or under,
756 per cent; worth from 80 to 40 cents
per pound, G3.S per cent. worth so cents
per pound or over, 20 per cent. Duty on
cheapest fiannels, 73 4 per cent. on fan.
nels worth from 40 to GO cents per pound,
GS.2 per cent.-BaNimore San.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26
In Regard to Explosives.

The prevailing opinions in regard to
explosives are, in the main, incorrect.
The statement that the main force of q
dynamite explosion is downward will 60
uncontradicted 10 almost eny company
that has not given explosives special
attention. But in fact there is no shoot
ing upward or downward or edgeways
with one explosive more than with
another. They all explode alike, and
the variety of effect is caused by the diff
ference in their power-that is, the
rapidity with which they explode. The
explosive power of powder, which, of all
explosives, is best understood, is about
10000 pounds to the square inch, and
other explosives are measured as being a
given number of times stronger or
weaker than powder. The force of that
explosive is generally believed to be
upward, when, in fact it is equal in all
directions. But it burns slow enough to
allow the air to get out of the way.
Dynamite, on the other hand, explodes
so rapidly the air cannot be displaced in
time to prevent its force downward, being
much greater in proportion than that of
powder. 1t is because dynamite will
break stone beneath it that the people
think its greatest power is in that direc-
ton. To prove that it is not, suspend q
large stone in the air and suspend the
dynamite charge 10 the underside of it.
The work Of destruction will be as com.
plete as though the stone had been
underneath.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26
The Lynching Business.
Spartanburg Spartan

Mr.. EDITOR II sec from your edito-
rails that you are opposed to Lynch Law.
So am 1. Now let me give you a case in
Lamar County, Texas. When I was
there in 1874, this thing had occurred {:
Robert Draper, who had moved from
spartanburg County, S. c., from the
Goucher Greek settlement, was widow.
er, with several children, both girls and
boys. He had little son shot and
killed at the house while his daughters
were at the spring washing. There was
tramp seen at the house and gun
heard to fire aud when the girls went to
the house there was one of the boys shot
and dead. The tramp was hunted down
and found in the woods at night. He
was believed to be the man that killed
the little boy and the citizens were going
to hang him right now. But listen, you
lynchers! There was Methodist
Preacher in the crowd and he prevailed
upon the e1asperated crowd to carry the
man to Paris and put him in the Jail and
so they did. Well, Mr.. Draper was
holding family prayer one night and
prayed earnestly that God would reveal
to him how and by whom his little son
was shot and killed. God heard bis
prayer and little son having gone to
bed before prayer, but not asleep, heard
the prayer and began to cry in bed
When his father rose from his knees he
went to the bed and said "Wbat is the
matterW The little fellow said: "Pa,
killed little brother. We were fooling
with the gun and it went of accidentally
and | shot brother" The citizens went
right to the Jail at Paris and turned the
tramp loose. So I would close this by
saying, "Take everything to God in
prayer" w. II. LIPscoMB.
Gaffney City, S. G.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26

Clerk of the Court of his county and oh.
tain from him c .rtifcate that he or she
is the identical party named in the
original application, and is still entitled
to receive the benefits of this Act, under
the conditions herein required. Such
certificate shall be forwarded to the
Comptroller General, and, with the ap-
proval of the aforesaid Board, the Comp.
troler General shall continue the
payments hereinbefore provided, until
the thirty FIRST day of October following,
or until notified of the death of the party
entitled to receive the same.
Sec. -. Any person who shall fraudu.
lently personate any soldier, sailor or
widow, for the purpose of obtaining the
benefits of this Act, or who shall know
ingly make or cause to be made any false
or fraudulent application or statement, or
by any false or fraudulent statements
procure such application to be made,
approved or paid, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall
be punished by fine not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or imprisonment not
exceeding six months, or both, at the
discretion of the Court.
Sec. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repeal
nd