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Master and Solicitor in Chancey,
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Miners, working Hours Gut Down.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1-All the collieries
of the Philadelphia and Reading company
today reduced the hours of labor in the
mines in order to restrict production.
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GEO, O. CARPENTER, ROBERT L. MERRIAM. .JR
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Rooms At Chelsea open Thursdays and Saturdays.
At So Royalton Tuesdays, No. Brookfeld Wednesdays
One Cabinet 60 cents. Duplicates as cents.
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11tz0awey Mnd COWnSe11Oa at Lam,
Master and Solicitor in Chancery. Particular atten-
ton collections and practice in New Hampshire and
Vermont.
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Body Of laborers

has sO'a II16 work in repairing the
walls, to1l 6rable portions of which are
dilapifated Great excitement reigns in
Peki4 and the authorities have some fear
of Popular uprising. The closest watch
is maintained for signs of intended dis
turhance
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Hours until a. m y to p m. Saturdays until ?.
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BRADFORD SAVINGS BANK e TRUST CO.,
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collections. and does general banking business,
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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Co.rIIre Lee1s to Censunpt ptisn.

Kemp,s Balsan will stop the cough at once
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Insurance .4ue2atS,
Bradford, VT
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Bismarck and DR.. Koch.

Poultney Bigelow in Harper's Week
ly: Bismarck is quoted by his Bos-
well Busch as saying: ''But for me
three great wars would not have been
fought, $4,000 would not have been
killed, or their parents, brothers, sis
ters and widows put on mourning, and
yet that is what | have done, with
Gods help" If Bismarck, for doing
this, still finds admirers OF his career
ast'war Minister" what affection will
not be given to one who preserves not
$4,000 lives i'll one lifetime, but S00,-
600 perhaps every year. The import
ance of DR.. koch's discoveries to his
countrymen alone may be measured
by recalling that in forty years Prussia
alone lost 343, ,953 lives by cholera.
The average number OF deaths by con-
sumption every year in Prussia repre-
sents 81 $50. In the German empire
the average number OF deaths every
year from Tuberculosis OF the lungs"
is 100000 people. In Berlin during
the ten years from 1878 to 1887
there died from consumption alone
39, 1882 people, Berlin and New York
being about equal in population.
These figures are eloquent testimony
to the Importance of DR.. koch's dis
covery, particularly so as the ravages
OF this disease are in many other coun-
tries greater still than in Germany.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
sUBJEcTING THE LION.
Prof. Darling Says the Human Eye Theory
Is All Nonsense.

/ asked Prof. Darling what truth
there was in the general theory that a
lion can be kept in subiugation by the
mere power OF the human eye, says a
writer in contemporary. He said it
was all nonsense. Lions, he averred,
were held in subjection through fear.
They are afraid of human being. A
lion born in the jungle stands in
greater fear OF man than a lion born
and brought up in captivity, for the
reason that to the captive lion the
human figure becomes familiar, and
the element OF fear springing from a
strange and unusual appearance does
not operate. Darling turns his back
on the lions in the arena without any
hesitation, and the lions are just as
well behaved when his back is turned
on them as when he is looking at them.
1t is all right, however, he says, to
keep your eye on a lion, just as it il
entirely proper and necessary to keep
your eye on any dangerous enemy OF
opponent, simply because you want
to know what an antagonist proposes
to do. He says, however, that there
is nothing OF the sneak about lior
at all. If he means to attack you hs
gives you fair notice. The other pop
ular idea, that the taste of blood in
creases the ferocity OF the lion, hs
says, is founded in fact. 1t is pretty
dangerous for lion to bite you, ever
by accident.
| 1 asked him, also, If it was unusua
among lion tanners to cut the claws o
lions or to pull their teeth. He SAID
that the old-time lion tanners used tC
cut their claws occasionally, but it wa,
impossible to pull their teeth without
breaking their Jaws, as the teeth wer,
so long and so strong and so firmly
imbsdded in the bone. He had neve
attempted to cut their claws, for tn,
reason that lions did not like to b,
disturbed by manicuring, hated to b,
mastered as already mentioned, anC
the effect OF such proceeding was tt
make them more ferocious than other
wise they would be. He said he haC
no doubt that lions occasionally sui
fered from toothachs, because he ha(
found decayed teeth in their cage
that had dropped out of their jaws
But he had never heard of lions under
going dentistry of any kind, OF an,
steps ever having been taken te pre-
serve their teeth. As to their health
the measures he took were rather pre-
ventative than curative. They wer
subject to lung troubles, and did no
usually live to be more than eight o
nine years of age when in captivity
When at liberty they possibly livesi Il
be 25 or 80 years old.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
A PHYSIOLOGICAL MARVEL.
George Burns Has a Heart on the Right
Side.

Surgical skill aud medical science
have furnished no more striking figures
than the strange blending of the ma
tural and artificial in the person of a
1SO-pound man who arrived in Phila-
delphia from Trenton yesterday on
his way to Washington, says the Phil
adelphia Inquirer. When he told his
story to Officer Coogan, of the Penn
sylvania railroad, and Special Ralston
of the Twentieth district. they opened
their eyes in blank amazement and re-
fused to believe until he proved by
documents and dexhibitionwhat strange
claims he made.
The freak-for the man can be called
naught but a freak-who is going
through life with half the physical ne
cessities required to sustain existence,
been less than half a man, though
weighing nearly two hundred pounds.
Burns is war veteran, who lived
through thirteen weeks of terrible pri-
walton in Libby prison and was for
years an engineer on one oil the White
Star line steamships.
1t was while he was filling the same
Office on the United states vessel Essex
that the accident happened which,
after he had recovered from it's effects,
left him the strangest monument to
American medical skill that has been
discovered to this day In 1854 the
Essex was wrecked. Burns was down
in the engine-room and after the terri
BILE crash was literally picked up piece
by piece from among the machinery.
He was taken to the Bellevue hospital,
in New York.
After months of treatment he was
discharged, but there was mighty little
of the original George Burns left. His
skull was trepanned. Not a rib re-
manned on the right side of his body,
every one being sacrificed to the neces-
stiles OF his case, which was life or death,
with long odds in favor OF the latter.
The right elbow bone was in the bone
box at the hospital. Burns did not
breath out OF natural windpipe,
but through silver tube performed
the Office, and to this day hecan move
the silver pipe about his throat at will.
Stranger than all, his heart does not
beat from the location usually occu-
pied by the human heart, but it sends
the blood through his system and
gives life from the right side ofhis body.
The fieshy part OF his right leg is
composed OF five different graftings of
foreign flesh. The appearance OF Burns
can be imagined, and heis regarded as
a marvel OF human tenacity to life.
After his discharge from the Bellevue
the trepanned skull troubled him and
he came to this city to Hndergo an OPP
Grafton under the hands OF DIR. Agnew.
A silver plate was made to put over
the injury in the skull, and after some
daring surgery was INDUCED in the op-
Grafton was pronounced successful.
Burns was practically a new man and
has enjoyed good health ever since.
When it is said that he is only tivefeet
five inches high and weighs 1sopounds
it will be seen that he is robust and
stout. He draws 81 week from the
Engineers Beneficial association,
which goes to the support OF bis chill
dren.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
A CHINESE SOLDIER.
He Served During the War and Is Still in
the Army.

Chicago Special: A local paper has
discovered a Chinaman serving in the
regular army. He is an enlisted man
in Company III of the Fifteenth in
fantry, now stationed at Fort Sheri.
dan, near Chicago. His name on the
roll is Edward Day Cohota, but he
says all of his original name he can re-
member is Moy. He was born in
Shanghai forty-two years ago. When
quite young he was taken as a cabin
boy on the ship "Cohota' of Boston.
Capt. Day took the boy to his home
at Gloucester, Mass, and gave him a
common school education. When the
war broke out the Chinaman enlisted
in the Twenty-third Massachusetts, in
fantry and served through the war,
receiving an honorable discharge in
1865. Soon after he enlisted in the
regular army and has remained in it
ever since. Talking with reporter,
Moy said he had always been treated
in the kindest manner by his officers
and comrades. When he leaves the
army he proposes to claim citizenship
and the right to vote, on the strength
OF his long and honorable service dur
ing and since the war.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
SULLIVAN TALKS.
He Will Give slavin IS, 900 to Stand Before
Him Six Rounds.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-John l.. Sullivan
says Wakely and Lynch, who arrived
from New Orleans yesterday, laid be
fore him a proposal to fight Slavin
The proposal, he understands, comes
from Slavin's friends in New Orleans
Sullivan's reply is that he will give
Slavin 80, 500, or S5, 900 if he prefers
it, II he will show that he can stand
before him (Sullivan) for six rounds
with five-ounce gloves
Sullivan will meet him at any place
as soon as his present engagement will
permit. He will fight no more bare
fist fights as he doesn't wish "to run
up against the law again"
Sullivan says Corbett, Kilrain and
Slavin are calling themselves cham
plon. What he wants them to do is
TO settle the matter among themselves
and then he will fight the winner.
James j. Corbett, of San Francisco,
met Sullivan for the first time to-day
and expressed great admiration for
him. Asked if he would fight him,
Corbett asked why he should, adding
that there are a number of men for
him to whip before he thinks OF the
worlds championship honors.
"1f Slavin wants to fight" said Cor
bett, ''why don't he fight me? am
he is a blowhard who is
talking principally because he knows
Sullivan's hands are at present tied.
If ! am successful in my coming meet
ing with Peter Jackson, shall 60 to
England and make him fight, or expose
him as duffer.''
Sullivan, when asked about Jackson,
said: ''Oh, don't consider him. He
is out of it as far as | am concerned"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
LAND ENTRIES CANCELLED.
The Government Reserved the Ground for
Reservoir Purposes.

The land Office at Helena has received
from the general land Office at Wash
ington about fifty orders OF cancella-
| ton. In all cases the cancellations
are on lands that the government has
reserved for reservoir sites and on
which entries were made subsequent
to October 2, 1883. On that date
congress passed and the president
signed billproviding for reservations
OF land for reservoir purposes. The
lands, however, were not especially
designated by the act, the law being
general in its character. By the act
OF August 80, 1890, the selections
made for reservoir purposes after
October 2, 1888, were confirmed and
the land set aside. The entries now
ordered cancelled were made between
October 2, 1883, and August so, $50.
The general land office now decides
that the reservations mentioned in the
act of August 80 last, dated back to
October 2 OF the year 1888, thus can
ceiling all entries made in the mean
time. The local land Offices did not
know that the reservations had been
made until July 8 and Aug. of last
year, and are therefore not respon-
sible for the inconvenience which has
been entailed on those making entries
prior to those dates. The lands thus
ordered reserved are held for the pur-
poses OF the Belt mountain reservoir
system, the Musselshell reservoir sys-
tenn, the Box Elder reservoir system,
the Judith river reservoir system, the
Shonkin creek reservoir system, the
Sun river reservoir system, the Wolf
creek reservoir system. Those who
have their entries cancelled are as
follows:
Choteau county - Catherine Con-
nelly, Hans. j. Olsen, Edward Zingel,
Thomas G.. Dews, Edmund II. Cook,
w. f. Mulvany, Colin c. Crawford,
Charles Shoemaker, James McCarty,
Marion o. Hawkins, Michael Clancy
and Frank r. Fuller.
Cascade-W. f. Alternately, Louis
Fette, Joseph Thiegand, Edward j.
Barny, John ID. Hughes, John X. Cast
ner, Amanda Cammack, Frank Saul,
Charles Ainsworth, Valentine Saul,
John III. Saul, Fayette Hail. Thomas
p. Graham, Joseph Halbach, Thomas
Nj. Babbington, Aaron Rason, John
Nj. Williams, Alex. Macallum, Maggie
+. Griffin and Nicolas Shaffer.
Meagher-Ellen Woodward, WV.
Flaty, Merritt c. Harrington, Lewis
Madison, Felix q. White, Edward G.
Holdsay, and George w. Grubbo.
Fergus-Charles NJ. Baldwin, George
Nj. Fraziers, George II. Clark and
Henry Kuckett.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Buffalo Herds a Half Century Ago.

think can truly say that | saw in
that region in one day more buffalees
than have seen of cattle in all my
life. | have seen the plain black with
them for several days journey as far
as the eye could reach. They seemed
to be coming northward continually
from the distant plains to the Platte
to get water, and would plunge in and
swim across by thousands-so numer-
Gus were they that they changed not
only the color OF the water, but its
taste, until it was unfit to drink; but
we had to use it. One night when we
were encamped on the south fork OF
the Platte they came in such droves
that We had to sit up and fire guns
and make what fires we could to keeI
them from running over us and tram
pling us into the dust. We could hear
them laundering all night long; the
ground fairly trembled with vast ap
preaching bands, and if they had not
been diverted wagons, animals and
emigrants would have been trodder
under their eet.-Gen. John Bidwell il
Century.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
..s6,176,5oo
The Strongest Man in the World.

The champion strong man OF the
world, Louis Cyr OF Quebec, is in New
York city with view of finding a foe
man worthy of his steel. 1t is his first
visit to the metropolis, and he is being
lionized in athletic circles. The Que
becian has the record OF having lifted
3,529 pounds OF pig iron without any
artificial means, although he has bare
ly passed his stwentyseventh birthday.
He tips the scales at 364 and stands
feet 10Y inches in his stockinged feet.
His chest dimensions are 5Sh; b;csps,
21k; thigh, 81; calf, 81; waist, 40.
He has issued a challenge to the would
be Samsons of the world for any sum
from 81 900 to $4,000 side in the
following feats: Holding out the eheav-
lest weight with one hand, lifting back
weight without harness, and lifting the
heaviest barrel with one hand and
shouldering it. Cyr has put up $500
as an evidencethat his challenge means
business.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Testing Their Courage.

"One time, IN order to test the cour-
age of Bengal tiger and a lion," said
well known Snowman, 1--WE placed a
shooting cracker in the respective
cages and fired the fuses. As soon as
the fuses began to burn they attracted
the attention of both animals, but in
widely different manner. The lion
drew into a corner and watched the
proceedings with distrustful and un-
easy eye. The tiger, on the contrary,
advanced to the burning fuse with firm
step and unflinching gaze. On reach
ing the cracker he took his paw and
began to roll it over the floor, and
when it exploded beneath his very
nose he did not finch, but continued
his examination until perfectly salts
fed. The lion betrayed great fear
when he heard the report OF the ex-
plosion and for quite time could not
be coaxed out OF his den. Cincinnati
Times-Star.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Money for Montana.

In Secretary WINDOWS deficiency es-
Inmates just sent Congress appropria-
ton of $35, 900 is recommended for
deficiency in the Office OF ofSurveyor Cen
sral of Montana. The Secretary makes
this note of explanation in connection
with these recommendations: This de-
fiency estimate for clerk hire is sub
mitted as necessary owing to the return
OF surveys under thirteen surveying
contracts aggregating s32, 800, ,involv-
ing preparation of a large number OF
town plats for the Surveyor Generals
office, duplicate plats and transcripts
of field notes for the General Land
Office and triplicate plats for local land
offices. Also for preparation of con-
tracts to be awarded under the un-
usually large apportionments, $75, 600
tor surveyors in Montana out of the
appropriation for surveying public
lands during the fiscal year, together
with the necessary special instructions
and diagrams to accompany each con-
tract. The appropriation per act oi
July IL, 1890, for clerk hire in Mon
tana during the current fiscal year is
inadequate to the service.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
The Fastest Mile.

The fastest mile run by a railroad
train was made in 4Ol seconds.
The record for the fastest mile made
on skates is 2 minutes IL 3-5 seconds.
The fastest mile made in rowing in a
single boat took 5 minutes 1 second.
The fastest mile ever made by a
running horse was run in 1 minute
35 seconds.
The fastest mile by a man on a try
cycle was made in 2 minutes 40 2-5
seconds.
The fastest time on snow-shoss for a
mile is recorded as 5 minutes 393,
seconds.
The best time for a mile by a man
on bicycle is recorded as minutes
20 4-5 seconds.
The fastest mile ever made by a man
swimming was done in 26 minutes 50
seconds.
The fastest mile ever accomplished
by man walking was made in min-
utes 20 seconds.
In running the fastest mile made by
a man was accomplished in 4 minutes
12k seconds.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Southern View of Silver.

England coins silver money for India
and Egypt. She buys the bullion at a
discount and then coins it at gold
value for her Eastern dependencies.
She imports two-thirds Of her bread
food, and one OF her most important
industries is the manufacturing and
handling of cotton. Silver has now
been demonetized in the United States
for seventeen years, and during each
OF those years England has saved and
the American prodcuers of wheat and
cotton have lost on an average at
least S125, 100000 on their crops
Atlanta Constitution.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
MoNTANAAT THE TOP.
Her Mines Produce More Silver and Gold
Than Any Other State.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1O.-The an
nual report OF Wells, Fargo g. Co. OF
precious metals produced during 1890
in the states and territories west of
the Missouri river, including British
Columbia, shows the following totals:
Gold, S27 ,156, ,916; silver, S62 $780,
s31; copper, $50, ,569, ,O92; lead, S11, :
500, ,571. The products OF the several
states and territories and Mexico and
British Columbia were as follows:
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29

Sanso-"Every time I play poker 1
| feel like Ishmael."
Rodd-"Why?"
Sanso-"Because my hand is against
every man and every mans hand is
against me."-New York Herald.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
The American Queen.

Watts-Have a cigar?
Potts-No; am just going to sup
per. Your wife doesn't object to your
smoking, does she?
Potts-No; but the hired girl does.
Indianapolis Journal.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
AnArab Saying.

Remember, three things come not back:
The arrow sent upon it's track
1t will net swerve, it will not stay
Its speed; it flies to wound or slay.
The spoken wsrd, SO soon forgot
By thee; but it has persisted not
In other hearts 'tis living still
And doing work for good or i'll.
And the lost opportunity,
That cometh back no more to thee.
In vain thou wespest, in vain dest yearn,
Those three will nevermore return.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
Gold. Silver. Total.
Butte's Metal Output.

The following figures will show the
total value of the copper, silver and
gold produced from the mines of Butte
alone during the year 1890:
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-29
wooL-sroRINc FACILITIES.

Judith and Wolf Creek county will hnd
the point to haul their wool, whether
desiring sell or ship.
Others seeking locations will find the route via judith
OF
PRICES Also blacksmith shop at Landing
ssrORDERs BY MAIL GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION