Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-02-18

lIt County DOdtd vi appraisers, consist
ing Of the assessor, the chairman of the
board OF county commissioner and J.. Z.
Murray. were in session Monday and Tues
day and part OF Wednesday. The board
finished the appraisement of town prop
erty and small tracts adjoining, which is
nearly the same as last year. The board
adjourned until Thursday OF next week, in
on agricultural and grazing lands in Id
joining counties, that they may be b to
get a Uniform rate.
Rev. +. 5. Payne arrived in town last
Friday from Jackson county, Kansas. and
will take charge of the NJ. +. church at this
place. Mr.. Payne held union services in
the Presbyterian church Sunday evening
and a large number turned out to hear him.
Mr.. Payne will he welcomed by the Metho-
dists for it is many months since they have
had regular services in their church. He
will make Lewistown his headquarters and
preach every Sunday morning and evening.
Some time during April the gentleman ex-
poets to return to Kansas for his wife and
four children, who will come to Montana
to remain.
W. w. Watson was in town Monday on
business for the Midland Telephone com
pany. Mr.. Watson informs us that the
toll will probably be TWENTY-FIVE cents for
ten minutes conversation after securing
your party, fifty cents for twenty minutes,
and 81 for an hour. Also that it will cost
no more to send a message to Helena han
to Cottonwood as connections will be made
from Big Timber with the Helena and Liv-
ingston line. These rates seem very low
and it il quite possible the company will
decide to place them a little higher. Work
on the entire line is progressing satisfac-
torily.
Sheriff Sullivan left for the Warm Springs
asylum yesterday with the man White who
was adjudged insane at an examination
held last week. Attorney +. w. Morrison
accompanies Mr.. Sullivan as far as Hell
ena, where be goes on professional business,
to he absent until the first Of next month,
Mr.. Morrison may return by way of Fort
Benton, remaining in that place a day 81
two, If not pressed for time. In this con
~nectfon Mr.. Morrison informed us that
Edgar q. Worden, an attorney and stenog
| rapher, would arrive from Helena early
next week to become associated with hin
ia the practice OF his profession. Mr.
| Wordeu has II family, which will ndoub
make their residence here eventually.
Attorney +. w. Morrison having beer
frequently urged by friends to become q
candidate for the iudgeship OF the 10tl
judicial district on the Republican ticket
requests us to announce hat he is not &
candidate and positively refuses the use o
his name in that convention. Mr.. Morri
son feels that he could not sacrifice hi,
rapidly growing practice for a place on tn,
bench, while his health is too precarious tc
undertake the journeys required Of a iudg'
of this district. The many friends OF Mr.
Morrison in the county, both in and ont o
the Republican party, will reg ,et his de
cision in the matter. Mr.. Morrison is il
every way qualified for the place, and wer'
he to receive the nomination would b,
| elected beyond all question. No doub
Choteau county will have an equal voic'
with Fergus in the selection OF "a candidate
for the iudgeship, and we understand Hon
T. NJ. Pierce stands "A good show of secur
ing the support of Choteau county Repub
Leans for the nomination.
We are in receipt of a circular issued b.
| the publication committee of the Montan'
IrrigationC Convention. I~nconformity will
a resolution adopted by that convention
the proceedings are to be compiled ant
printed, the cost of so doing TO he borne b.
the counties of the state pro rata. 1t
-proposed to furnish ZOO copies and tn
cost is placed at 81 500, making 500 a
the subscription to be raised by eac
county. Says the circular: at is pre-
posed to deliver to the party or partie
designated by each county delegation, 30
copies of the proceedings. 1t is propose
to embrace in the publication the presen
status of irrigation in each county OF tn
state. The value of that information a
an advertisement of the resources OF eac
county cannot be overestimated; thereiort
it is urged that the data for your count
be compiled and sent to us at the earlies
practical moment, together with any SUI
sestions that may occur to you bearin
upon the comprehensive nature of th
whole work" The circular further say
the work cannot be fully entered upon III
til the necessary funds to defray expense
incurred are assured. Those who feel II
terested in this matter can hand in thei
subscriptions of 81 - to F. Z. Wright an
he entitled to five copies OF the proceeding
when printed. Parties having any stati
ties regarding irrigation that would be {
value ia the work are also requested t
leave the same with Mr.. Wright. 1t seem
Ia us that the convention made a mlstab
in not adopting some more direct and SIP
eitic method OF collecting the amount a
srssed against each county. The way {
get money or statistics is to make it SON
once special business to attend to the co
lection of the same. Left To voluntary a
4 tion the matter is apt ia he overlooked {
forgotten. No doubt the amount assesse
against this county could he easily raise
if some one would take a personal intere:
5 in the matter, otherwise we fear it will c
. by default.