Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-08-27
MONTANA NEWS.

Jay Gould visited Butte and Anaconda
last week.
kslispel has a population of GOO, and it's
citizens think of Incorporating.
Hon. Walter q. Gresham and a party of
Chicagoans are camped on the shores Of ST.
Mary's lake enjoying themselves with rod
and gun.
The Great Falls football team goes over
to Lethbridge. September 10th. to play a
series OF matched games with their Cana
dian cousins.
1t is said that n stock company has boon
formed at Neihart with a ca pital OF S2O,-
600 for the purpose of erecting a new hotel
at that place.
At Butte on the vi inst. a teamster
named Babb fell from a wagon while haul
ing wood and was instantly killed. One of
the wheels passed over his neck. The team
ran away.
&C. Rice, the wool press expert. ha wing
closed up the wool pressure business at Bill
lings, left yesterday for Helena. The wool
press paid big this year, about 81 900 for
two months work.-Gazette.
Colonel f. F. Nettleton, OF the agricultu-
raj department at Washington, was in
Helena last week. He is the chief engineer
OF the artesian underf1ow investigation or
dered by congress-, and has been engaged
for some timei in hunting for basins OF water
supply that would be available for arte-
sian wells.
There is some talk Of an extra daily train
between Great Falls and Helena. This
would be a great accommodation to the
public, as the travel between these points
is daily increasing, and as the roads to
Barker and Neihart will soon be in running
order, it would enable persons having bust
ness in these camps to make the trip in one
day.
Gov. Toole has appointed H. 5. Howell,
formerly OF the Helena land office, adiu-
tant-general OF the Montana militia. vice
Samuel r. Douglass, resigned. Mr.. Howell
is n member of the G.. A. R., having served
| with distinction in the late war. He en-
tered the army in 1861, and rose from a
private to the rank Of captain in 1864,
| and was mustered out in July, 1868. He
came to Montana in 1866.
Hon. Alfred Meyers, the Shields river
magnate, stated that the board of stock
commissioners, OF which he is president,
had decided not to bunch the estrays to-
gether and ship them east, but that the
sale would take place in the respective dis
| tricts where such animals had been round
| ed up. They will be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder. All animals thus
| sold will be vented with a horizontal bar
on the right iaw.-Helena Stock Journal.
The Princeton College scientific expedi-
| ton. consisting of Professor Scott of the
geological department., Mr.. Magic, professor
| of physics, and Messrs. Butler, Golfer, Ste
venson, Horsford, Jefferson and Bennett,
| of class OF 1899. with w. c. Morrison Of
| Great Falls as geological and typographi-
| cal guide, arrived on Smith river valley
| Thursday last and are engaged in unearth-
ing fossils from an old lake bed between
this place and Fort Logan.-Husbandman.
A tramp that had been put off the trains
| on the west end until he became weary,
was walking leisurely down the track in the
vicinity Of Big Timber when he spied a line
| repairer up a pole and II v~elocipede in close
neighborhood. Mr.. Bum makes a sneak
on the velocipede and is clear out of sight
and going east at "a two minute gait before
there is any chance of discovery. The bum
followed No. z i'm and out of Billings, and
was not molested until he had reached
Custer. There he was deprived Of his mo-
tor, but was not otherwise punished. The
line repairer never did know how he lost
his velocipede, and thought the wind had
carried it away.-Gazette.
The editor of this paper, accompanied
| by his better hall and Mr.. and Mrs. Almon
Spencer, made a visit to the Princeton
scientific expeditions camp on Spring creek
Tuesday afternoon, and were treated by
Prof. Scott to al inspection of the curiosi-
ties he is unearthing. Among these were
| the bones of the rhinoceros, the camel, the
three-toed horse, the ancient deer, the
great grandfather OF our present bovine
species. We saw the horses skeleton being
taken from the deposit, and ventured to
ask how long it had probably been there.
The professor, however, would not under
take a guess, but suggested that it had
been a great many years. Some OF the
| specimens are very rare and valuable, and
Prof. Scott is highly pleased with his re-
| searches. -Husbandman.