Fergus County argus., 1890-09-18

Mrs. Day of Salt Lake City is visiting heI
sister. Mrs. James shelton Of Utica.
+. j. Morrison returned Saturday evenin,
from a business visit to Great Falls
over two feet Of snow has fallen in tn,
Belt mountains during the late atino.pher
ical disturbance.
Walter Waddell has finished the erection
of two-story barn ia the rear Of his resi-
dence in Philbrosk
Mrs. John Oats recently erected in the
Philbrook cemetery to the memory Of he,
late husband II haIdsom- marble and
granite monument.
Registration Clerk IIersey ON MONDAY y
opened up Tor official business. and aiready y
ing ballot wieliers.
u. T.. stack, the prominent horsenlan .f
Willow creek, accompanied by his wife,
visited last week with Mr.. aud Mrs. I'D
Moran Of lhilbrook.
Miss Minna Lange closed her school at
i'hilbrook last week. Good-byes we're in
duIged in at the hall in the evening, with AN
accompaniment of bright lights, music and
recitations.
The party of seventeen people Of Daven.
port. Iowa, who have been enjoying for
several months past the hunting. fishing
and climate exceilenrics Of the upper .iu-
dith, returned last week to their eastern
| home.
Ed Hersey, Of T.. =. Hcrsey n Co.. whole
sale and retail merchants Of Philbrook, re-
| turned home Sunday last from a three
weeks business visit to Minneapolis. This
new firm is crowding its shelves and ware
houses with AN endless variety of mer-
chanslise.
Several Of our well known citizens are mt
present taking in the sights and varied
amnsements and liquid splendors of the
county seat all of which is Of course sub
ordinate to their loyal services at the
judicial levses given daily by Judge Benton.
Walter Corwin is enjoying the presence of
IN older brother. Henry Corwin, late of
Kansas. Thirty eight years have passed
since last they met. The present with them
is crowded with tender "reminiscences of
boyhoOd exploits. Mr.. Corwin will spend
the winter ON the Judith.
Dougal McGregor and family on Friday
moved up To the Corwin Il McGregOr coal
mine on Sage creek. A force of men will be
put to work at once and more coal than
ever placed upon the dumps. This fuel 10
very generally used throughout this sec
ton, and the demand this fall promises to
he greater than ever.
The angry clouds of impending winter
have rolled away and the sibilant whisper
ings Of old Boreas have modulated to the
soothing zephyrs Of summer. II was IA |
bold bluff on the part Of the storm king
very serious thoughts in general and per-
sonal yearnings in particular for the win
ters supply Of coal and corrals.
Ensign Sweet Of Utica is making prepara-
tells to the reservation at u point about 20
miles distant from Chinook. Mr.. Sweet, in
company with Mr.. William Hopkins, will
enter extensively into the raising of sheep
and fine horses. This community will be
10th to lose Mr.. and Mrs. Sweet, for they
are held in the highest esteem by all who
know them.
Had il not been for the recent hail storm
the oat crop Of the Judith would hav been
FULLY up to the average. The yield of hay,
however on the same acreage is more than
t hat of last season. Hay is cheaper here
han in any other part Of the Basin, it be-
ing hard to find purchasers at IS per ton.
Already quantities have been sold to par
les at ubet who will make good wages
hauling it tn that point.
The recent storm caught several oi our
sheep men mapping. Cook, Berry x Clark
had about =, 800 head in the foot hills of
The Snowies ON Rock creek. and as they
we're temporarily there no corrals had been
consequently the herder could
not hold them. Mr.. Clark is still out s-v-
.ral hundred head. Near Tibet, where they
iad "A fall Of fifteen inches of SNOW, II man
hundred head.
II seems that some Of. the good people Of
'tca have been aud are till enjoying the
randy celebrating excitement Of IA ''dus-
rick school furse." School was announced
% have commenced on Monday OF last
week. with Miss Edith Da. lid in charge.
rhe school furniture was taken from the
cbo"l house, about one mile fros, the
own proper, and transferred to vacant ,,
Dom near william mson's hotel The oppo- ,
ition demurre,, and II stay Of proceedings
$ now being INDUCED in.
The Judith roundup met at Utica the =
st inst. and smoked together the pipe of I
scord and made bad medicine for the last ,
ime. They expect To- go over the range in
wenty days and gather the remaining
900 head and drive them to the reserva-
ion to join the -, 900 head already gone
efore. The association commenced last
une in the task Of transferring their cattle
'om the Judith Basin to the Milk river
suntrp on the reservation, and have been
I work since and at an outlay Of over
10000. Their drives have crossed the
Iissouri at Judith Landing, and, with the
xceptien Of ferrying IA very few head, have /
iccessfully for.led the entire number with /,
ut the loss OF IA single hoof.
The occurrence Of two political conven- y
ons and the manifestati Of uneasiness a
local newspaper circles, together with a
nall COB Of blood on the once placid face =,
the moon, have contrived t. work up IA
onderful change in the state of the weather :,
he clerk Of the weather, whose politics are
ut known. is evidently trying to stand in
it'll all parties. With us on the Judith il IT
with a rattling hail storm that u
rummed for some time lively tattoo !"
BON the h"use tops and thumped out in
eat shape from between shingles the ac- ol
dust Of two years. About Utica re-
lily ope-half Of the oat crop bit the dust st
I'd many exposed window lights were shat II