Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-06-27
MONTANA NRWs.


tana has commenced.
A fire in Butte on the I4th destroyed
fourteen buildings. Loss, $50, 900.
BaIed hay is nov selling at n cent per
pound $50 per toni in Deer Lodge.
The Major Bmsld lligation is at an end
The Welch interest has been decided to the
company.
The Montana Union railway shops are to
he built at Anaconda, notwithstanding the
protest Of Butte.
The old-timsrs of Gallatin county have
organized a pioneers association. with
ai'en, thirty members.
4 horse race in Anaconda resulted in the
killing of one man and the possibly fatal
injury of tw" Others.
Ii~lena turner's have raised 5000 f"r the
benefit cf turner's and their families win"
suffered by the Johnstown food.
'..h c"-... -,--.i..' -s."t ~ the IN nd
office. has rendered his resignation. IiseA
peets Ia engage ia business in Helena. -
Herald.
Eight murders were committed last week
in Montana, viz: Five in Fergus county.
one IN Deer Lodge county, two i, Silver
Bow county.
Owe, ~ million acres ~ hand recently held
suhjeri I" entry as coal land in Cascade
count, has been made subject 4" entry us
agricultural land.
Mai Martin Mayinnis has gone east to
meet aconrnission at st. Paul, III which he
/ is a mn,ber, to locate the site for n monu
ment IN the field VI Gctt ysburg in memory
of the Unknown dead.
| \ cehificats Of incorporate ION Of the Bill.
lings wsnIsn mills has been filed with Secre-
,arp Walker. Thecapital stock is $50 900
in slriss Of $50 each. The incorp,rators
are ia. Bailey. J. II. Conrad. y. J. sherry.
Fred I. Foster and W. 4. Conrad.
G'esp, kecfe n Co., the contractors for
the .ute branch Of the Northern Pacific,
havr sib-let to Matthews Bros. 4 Kerrick
Of Minneapolis all the bridge building and
staho houses along the road. The mount
of ie.ontraet is SlGo, ,Vo.-IIerald.
Gr't Falls special to independent Paris
''ibo has opened the wool season here by
buyiI 900 pounds of wool from Han,el
Mr.. ii'son paid ~ cents per pound, which
is the ghest price paid for any clip in Mon
tana lis year. The competition was brisk.
II. Mclntire has been appointed by
the g'rrnor as u member of the code com
missi., vice Judge Mcconnell, resigned.
The Iter could not attend tn the work On
aceon, Of press of private business. Mr..
Mclnt. will make an excellent member of
that Idly.
Thoasily decomposed body Sf a boy
was find on the beach At Ran,lall's ISL
and, Nv York, on the 18th inst. IL was
later entitled as the body Of Ezra Iiersh-
field. IN of l.. II. Hershteld. n wealthy
bank of Helena, Mont. II is supposed
the " fell overheard while playing along
the ocks. lie had been spending the win
~ ,,h his mother
'he,xcitcnent regarding the Flathea |
gasna di'coveries still continues. Large |
pa'ies ave gone from Bozcnlan and the |
While cnntry il NOW located aroand the |
'''s'i 'iN''N'fN. Naiiipl's bl ore con |
tim - come in, aud all of them are the
v"pest, hsav" aud iull of lead u is evi. |
denthat this discovery is u rich one.
lioaan Chronicle.
Rroaawater plunge bath is beginning
Z" In mp. II will cost when completed
th-igniiieent sum of SsO,oob. The roof
viii completed this week. The extent Of
thisierprise ran only b- realized by "a
Nisf" the grounds. Progress is being
rnn'n the other Artificial waterfall for
thnfh. \ i;,rg. inrce is still working wn
: ih'oiei, aud ALI o.etl,er . ~ men are EN-
pl'' AT this coming resort Herald.
M,g Journal Col. W. y. Sanders, rep
res'ng the Northern Pacific railroad com
A ts,s,pPeare,l in the edistrct court Friday
amended over 1" the Judge the sum OF
$50, being in sat tisiartiun of the award
nioy the commissioners appointed to
L eon,n ground Tor terminal facilities for
therthern Pacific in Butte, which GOV
.rss,rea of about twent y.six acres. In
adcn Ia this, the compsny has paid I
Mr.. u. Hopkins 81. $50, under "a per
=, sotont ract.
tune II Frank 4. Bradley shot aud l
= kilNiiiiam Ellis ut "a COW ranch thirty
liv,es from ise.l Rock station. A dis
=, pufer the branding Of "a colt was the
rapf the quarrel. Ellis was thirty.
- tbsears of age. formerly from Texas,
ans l'een stock foreman Tor \. ID. Young
% for past year and "a half. +. T.. Brad
leyD did the shooting, has resided in :
=, thshborhoo,l of Dillon and Red Rock I
"A fofpast five years or mere. lie iunns
.. discame TO Dillon aud placed himself
-. in iands or the sheriff.
Eston special to the independent:
NJ W,lake was arrested and tried before
'N Judge Clifford Tor violating the
a sew passed at the last session. Blake
ha00 sheep in his charge belongiug to
a.. 10y, which he had brought here last
n, weom Washington Territory. They
:, webs driven to Miles City and from
thhipped to market. The sheep had
non inspected by "a veterinary, as re-
q,py law, and Blake was fined $3.50
ants Of prosecution. Hon. George H.
T" Cathe father of this law, Ii in the city
ah an opportunity to be present at
pa the first ease tried in the territory.
ldler has a copy OF the Mount Pu- ;.
lad. News, published by his brother. =,
Slider, which tells Of graceful act :.
onart Of the Womans Relief Corps, al
g., OF Texsrkana, Ark. where an. n
y otother, DIR. II. NJ. Beidler, who was i,
tn mayor cf Texarkana, was recently
maj in cold blood. The city had ..
haze portrait OF its dead chief hung in ~
tlshail. where, after the public memo p
n-I rides, the ladies of the Relief Corps NJ
dsd the picture with flowers and pre- Z;
:, saayor Schieker with poem ON the a
vpf the deceased. The event WAS "a
I'd tribute to u brave man and hon ~