Fergus County argus., 1890-08-14
MONTANA NEWS.

shipped from Big TiInlsr 81 far this season.
Peter Walton of Deer Lodge county lost
| about three hundred tons of hay by fire
last week
Billings Is experiencing an egg famine and
fruit oi the hen is being shipped in from
Minnesota.
| The name of the man who shot Gus
Turner at Anaconda is Steve MattIer. son
Of Frank Mattier. Of indianapolis, Ind.
The boom Of the Hotter Lumber com
pany above Great Falls broke last week.
letting 200 900 feet Of logs escape down tho
stream.
John =. Hills one of Montanas early
pioneers and resident Of Meagher county
Ior a quarter Of "a century. died last week
| of heart disease.
Andrew Coy, "a sneak thief, was shot in
the foot by Officer Pickle of Anaconda one
day last week. Coy attempted to run
away from the officer while unie- arrest.
Sheriff Houston and posse Of MissouIa
! county are rounding up Indian thieves and
| murderers in the Flathead country. Nine
have already been lodged in Jail at Mis-
l soula.
There are about :, 800 men at work ON
the Northern Pacific between Missoula.
| Mont, and Wallace. Idaho. and they ex-
pect to complete the forty miles yet to he
built by Nov. 1.
George Fox. an employe Of the Parrot
Ib..NN. III
by the fall Of n spout which, was being re-
paired. Foreman McCool who was assist
| ing, escaped with slight injuries.
| 1t is stated upon good authority that A
A. Whittier has sold his Carpenter Bar and
Placer Gulch claims for S75, 900. The pur-
chasers are said to be st. Paul parties. hut
, heir names are not givsn.-Mining Revie
The Cooper Martin Sheep company WAS
| Incorporated yesterday by Oliver q.
Cooper Henry Mclean Martin and Henry
q. McIntire with a capital stock Of $3.50,
900, Tor the purpose Of carrying on the
business of sheep raising in Choteau county.
The incorporators will lconstit ute the boar
of trustees.
man, WAS cutting hay with "a mower one
day last week, his little girl, aged = years,
came out and sat down in the meadow.
Her father. not seeing her, drove up with
| the machine, and before he knew it had cut
her right leg entirely of about three inches
| above the aukle. Her left arm was also
cut Z" the bone.
Articles Of Incorporation were filed yes
| terday by Frank Flannery. Harry y. scott,
John II. Freeser. Arthur Russell, Napoleon
u. Smith aud William Coates for the incor-
poration of the Monte Cri-to Mining com
pany, the apital stock of which is $50O 900.
The trustees are Frank Flannery, Harry
+. Scott, John II. Freeser, Arthur Russell,
Napoleon B. Smith and W. W. Coates. The
principal office will he at White sulphur
Springs. gs.-Helena Journal.
The boiler of Clark n Si.ers saw mill near
Elliston. Deer Lodge county, exploded on
| the 9TH inst. One man was killed. two
mortally wounded, and ten Others more or
less injured. The mill and lumber were
blown to splinters, and pieces of the boiler
are scattered 400 yards about. The boiler
| "a forty y-horse power, is torn to shre,ls. the
uo'he 'hro"h i'""" 'eet away Ihe eyiin-
"ers o' the engine were thrown u" yards up
| the mountain side. The hind end of the
boiler and fiues were thrown 500 feet back
ward.
Why not produce all the poultry Mon
| tana needs? We have the figures to prove
| that Helena and Butte consumed $50. 900
pounds Of dressed poultry in 1889, for
| which they paid at least $3.50 900, every
dollar OF which went out Of the state. Now
| it is "A fact that poultry thrives even better
| here than in the localities from which the
| shipments were made; then why not put
| all this money in our own pockets instead
"f depicting our cxchequer by sending
| abroad for that which We can produce even