Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-08
MONTANA NEWS.

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outfit went to L. II. Herschfield, for
sci 900.
In the trial Of John Northrup, charged
with killing Dan Durgan. at Horr, on Sept.
10th, theiury disagreed and was discharged.
The case will come up again at Livingston
during the January term OF court.
The John Ebaugh, who Was arrested for
completely in the train hold-up at Malta.
is said to be the party Who lived near Hal
bert, this county, and who figured in a.
domestic scandal aboat two years ago.
A beef steer that beats the Red Lodge
ban ner steer is one that was shipped this
fall by County Commissioner VIM. Wright
and tipped the beam at 1910 lbs, selling
at S4.4O in Chicago.-Big Timber Pioneer.
The United Statee grand jury at Helena
has returned an indictment for murder in
the first degree against James I. Collins,
for shooting and killing his former en-
ployer, Edwin Reed, on the Little Big Horn
river, near the Crow reservation on Octo-
Der 9Th.
A mountain lion raidcd one of the cor
rails of the Cannon ranch in the Chestnut
valley region, Cascade county, recently,
and before his savage work could be inter-
fcred with clawed and bit to death eighteen
head OF sheep. The animal made good his
escape to the neighboring hills.-Herald.
The case OF Jew Jake, who shot Marshal
Treat, Joe Lessard and Walter Marks at
Great Falls n little more than II year ago
comes up in the district court at Great
Falls this week. All the persons shot by
him have recovered; but Jake is short one
leg as the Treat having returned the fire
with effect.
A Livingston special to the Bozeman
Chronicle says that Tommy Gavin. barten-
der for Frank White. was shot and instant
ly killed on the LIST inst. by a pimp and
rounder named Charles Bloom. The citi-
zens were greatly enraged and talk OF lynch
ing Bloom was freely INDUCED in. No par
ticular RS of the shooting given
r.. J. Martin is setting a good example to
stockmen in his endeavor to rid the range
of coyotes. Some time ago he offered "a
bounty OF SO for every wolf or coyote
hliltu Oh ~ lang. iouos hS 10 III eo"h
within fifteen coyote skins which cost him
S150, and he paid the money cheerfully.
Were a special tax levied on the stock in
terests to increase the state bounty to SIS
"A head on these destructive animals it
would he economy, as wolfing would be so
profitable IN business for u year or two
thai the wolves would soon he extermi-
nated.-BilIings Times.
1t is generally understood among those
i'm a position to know hat when the Hele-
ma Journal starts up (the exact time, how
ever, is not known) John B. Reed will be
the editor-in.chief and manager. while l..
III. Hershield will be the principal hacker.
A. b.. Keith will be the editor of the Stock
Journal and Geo. F.. Boos superintendent
of the bindery. The Journal Publishing
company's store will not be re-opened, it
is said, Mr.. Hershfield devoting his ener-
gies to the ~wspap The fact that Mr..
Reed is negotiating with Mr.. Hershfeld
was somewhat of a surprise to the Helena
friends OF the Butte gentleman, as he was
believed to be SO welded to Butte and the
Inter-Mountain that no inducements from
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the big camp. However, it is said IA hand
some salary will be guaranteed and an in
terest in the paper as well. A week ago it
was pretty generally understood that Capt.
Jas. H. Mills, United States internal reve-
nue. collector, would be the Journals edi-
tor in case it started up again, but the me-
%gotiations in that direction are now said
to be oif.-Independent.
Russell, the cowboy artist, is at present
stopping in this city. He is a modest and
unassuming gentleman, and to look at him
one would not suspect that the products OF
his brush would create such a demand.
His pictures are typical representations Of
western life Indians, cowboys, horses,
cattle, deer and other wild animals being
depicted wit "a truthfulness that have
brought ready customers for his works be-
fore the paint was dry on the canvass. He
has will him a collection of Indian relics,
collected by him at different trading posts,
and they form IN interesting study. In
this assortment can be found the toma-
hawk and scalping knife of the bloodthirsty
savage, and the rudely fashioned knife OF
the nomad gaily beaded pouches, war
clubs and other paraphernalia dear to the
wandering tribe who once roamed unmo-
Tested through these regions. Mr.. Russell
has had a very large collection OF relics at
times, but his proverbial generosity did not
permit him to keep a memento a visitor
would express a desire to possess, and he
has given away the larger portion of the
curios gathered during the years OF his life
on the range and in the studio.-Great
Falls Leader.
This morning, as the ~west-bound passen-
ger train, Conductor Flanagan, pulled
into Fort benton depot, an Immense black
tail deer was seen lying upon the pilot OF
the engine. 1t was a very large buck with
huge antlers, and in answer to our query
the conductor informed us that the train
had struck "a band of black tail near ASSN
aboine. and thrown that one securely on
the front of the engine: also that he in.
tended to take it int Great Falls just as
it lay when killed. We can't understand
it,. For more than a year past we have
vainly tried to get n shot at a deer. bsar
or even an antelope; but in vain. We have
been hunting the state over, from Two
Medicine Lake to Glasgow, and from the
Yellowstone to the Sweet Grass hills. Did
we get a deer? No, we never even saw a
live on. We nave hunted all through the
Bear Paws, right in the gulches and on
the mountain sides where other men saw
bears by the armful, and every night we
returned with a fool hen or a headache. |
But here is a ticket puncher, a common,
but unassuring railroad conductor. who
never dreamed OF hunting any larger game
than the essential paste board of travel;
and he is the enforced recipient of the
finest buck ever mortal man lays eyes on.