Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-04-04

our young people should not forget the
Miner, Union Ball to be held in Maiden cn
next Wednesday evening. April 10th.
good time is assured To all Attending. ana
M il j. isr the benefit Of th. new " "rsanized
Union, Their. should be = large attendance
from this place. The Lewistown Brass
Band has been engaged for the "ccasl"n.
The members of the Iewi-town Brass
Bond have engaged John CLANCY ~ their
instruct or, and he has entered upon his du-
ties. Mr.. CLANCY is u thorough musician
having belonged to band in the army,
and there il no doubt the band will make
great progress under his leadership. Thi-
i. manif,sting an interest and enterprise
that our citizens will sndors. and To which
they should lend their assistance in some
iorin.
Road Supervisor lIog,e wishes us To cor
rect the report in circulation thsi he bridgsd
the rriga,ing ditch in front Of Mr.. Hunters
T house. Mr.. Hunter generously contributed
that bridge himself Mr.. Hogu. should not
! lie 40 sensitive us to fault-iinding. Had he
built the bridge il would not have been II
scriou. matter. Mr.. lIosue has started in to
do some good work On our roads, aud his
! efforts will receive the hearty approval al
/ all fair-min,iei taxpayers.
! \ couple Of errors occurred in an item ~
our Grass Range correspondence last week
. The word ''-aco" should have bean loco, y
: bat the chief error was in speaking 81 the
horse disease in that section as being the
same as that brought from Oregon in Mr.
Flowers band of horsss.' The writer prob
ably meant the Fletcher band oI horses. 4
correction is due Mr.. Flowers, as his horses
are free from disease aud left Oregon with u
/ clean hill III health. No injury WAS intend
e,l for any one. but mistake in names il
| sometimes annoying.
| The Helena Journal of March 2? says:
Ticket holders in the .\born Ia ttery should
bear in mind that Tomorrow will he the day
upon which the great drawing is to take
place. As the genial doctor Ii non eat, the
hotel in Des Moines, the deed thereto in
escrow and the mortgage thereon in jeop-
ardy, it il difficult to suggest to the many
anticipants just what they ayexpect. One
certainty of The drawing, however. 10 the
fact that the doct or has drawn ont Of the
game and left nothing behind him hut an
anxious constituency contemplating his
whereabouts.
| Sutherlin Brothers got judgment against
Neagher county at the recent term Of court
for the sum of $3.50. The suit was brought
by the Sutherlins to recover the sum oi
81 $50. the amount of profits due them Tor
printing which the commissions rs had sent
to printers not entitled to it by reason o'
three contracts, covering the period Of six
years, held by the Sutherlins. Judge Bach
held that certain work did not come under
the provisions Of the old printing law, and
upon these items it WAS agreed to carry the
case to the supreme court; but in the q ther
part iculsrs he held it good, and the Suther-
Inns will recover at once the greater part Of
the amount for which they entered suit.
! Citizens of Lewi-town should remember
the school election. which occurs ON Satur-
day OF this week. Two trustees are to be
chosen, and Lswistown is entitled to the
long term member. A good, snterPrising
citizen should be chosen for the place. The
time has csme when some action must be
taken to provide room for school children.
| The church lease expires with the present
term, and it is not at all probable that it
can he again secured at a reasonable figure,
il at all Mr.. Parent informs us that every
seat is now occupied in the school house,
without the primary grade. lie IN of the
opinion that there will be- nearly hundred
scholars by the time the winter term opens.
II not advisable to build u new school
house at this time, then an addition to the
present one will have to be made.
George T.. Judd. who sold his ranch an
Mcdonald creek last fall and went to Cali
forniu, arrived in Lewistown last Thurs
day. Mr.. Judd was not favorably inn
pressed with California, or any part Of the
Pacific coast, for that matter. That 10, he
regards it as "a poor place for man with
out abundant means. The labor market
IL ovsrstocked and the chances for invest
ments with small capital are slim. At Los
Angeles, Cal, he says there were 500 men
out of employ ment and begging their living
when he left there. Oregon and Washing
ton he regards as but little better. At Ia
coma laboring men were working for 81 a
day and were docked when it rained, which
means about half OF the time. lie saysim
migrants are going over the Northern Pa
ciiic by the thousands, and the majority ol
them are perfectly ignorant Of the situation
at their destination. Mr.. Judd says Mon
tana is more prosperous, and better
wages are paid here than anywhere in the
west. lie would advise "a poor man to sta y
west.