Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-01

trict: Children under six years of age
males, lib, females, los. colored 2, tptal
ego; between six and twenty-one years %
age. males, ia, females, 14T, total, 321.
total number OF males, 2SS, females, 253
total of all ages and sexes, al. or an in
crease OF about ZOE over last year.
From parties down from Maiden VI
learn that Bowman and Anderson TIN
companions of Washburn, nave returnc'l
home safe and sound with II wagon Dad %
deer. They hunted two days and "a night
for Mr.. Washburn and finally discovering
his tracks leading toward TT. Maginnis,
came to the conclusion that he was safe.
One of the boys was compelled to build .
fire and spend n night on the prairie, Blu
finally located the camp.
Miss Laura Place has sent in her resigna.
ton as teacher OF the higher intermediat,
department of the Lewistown school. Il
take effect at the Christmas vacation.
Miss Place ca me from Kansas last summer
and has during her brief service as teacher
made many warm friends in the schou'
room. She has shown herself possessed OF
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patrons OF the school regret her decision.
Mrs. Oscar Helsing has been retained by
the school board To succeed Miss Place.
An exchange says: Recently a minister
was heard to remark that "A NEWSPAPERS
that told the truth could not be "A pecuni
airy success. The minister who will at al.
times and under all circumstances tell the
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dead. rnighgt not occupy the pulpit NOR.
than one Sunday and in some cases might
find it convenient to leave town. The press
ana the pulpit go hand in hand with thu
whitewash brush and pleasant words man
ufacture little virtues into big ones. The
pulpit, the press and the grave stone arr
the great saint-making triumviratc.'
Postmaster Gray aud n. j. Knne, wbo
went TO Helena as witnesses before the L.
). court in the stage robbery cnsc, returned
home last Friday evening. lIaslcr WAS in.
dicted, hut the date of his trial not beinG
definitely determined upon, M-ssrs. Gray
and Kane returned home. Monday they
received "a dispatch summoning them T." ~
turn to Helena at once. They left ou
Tuesdays coach much to their di=plra-ur,
as the trip is not a pleasant one in IN,
winter time. There can be little doubt.
however, about the conviction of H"~lvr,
which will rutitle Mr.. Kane to $500. Misc
Ella Knowles will defend the accused.
Speaking II the progress made in obtain
in. the Montana exhibit for the Worlds
Fair. the Great Falls Leader remarks: "A
few men have done about all tho work.
The Others appointed have either accom-
plished nothing at all or have carried out
some subordinate red tape. Prof. .. &,
Morrison, of this city has prepared "a SPLEEN
did exhibit from the Judith Basin and from
all through that country. He is now do
ing a similar service for Neihart and Bar
ker, work which was delegated to some
body else months ago, but which was lett
untouched until the mining men of those
districts raised something akin to n roar
Martin O'Brien. a citizen OF Neihart, for
merIy OF Great Falls, was shot dead in a
saloon by Charles Wooster on Thanksgiv-
ing day. A coroner's inquest was held and
facts brought out which showed it to he a
Cplu bibpItu uTutT ~ IpiitH t'iifr -
respectable parents living at Fairbault,
Mimi. Wooster was placed under arrest.
O'Brien, while acting as an officer, arrested
Wooster some time ago, and the latter
held a grudge against him. \ dispute arose
over "a faro game and Wooster made some
slurriug remark about O'Briyn which
brought on the shooting. There was II
Nh, rlaG NT,nstar Who Eya1 naaF NofInp
and Fit. Maginnis a few years ago, and who
is well known by some of our citizens.
Whether it is the same party or not we
are unable to state. He was not considered
IL very bad fellow.
A shooting scrape took place Saturday
ia the Big coulee country and in cunse-
quence one man lies at the Big Timber
hotel under the doctors care while the
other is fleeing from justice. The princi-
pals in the affair are Thomas Cunningham
and a Mexican sheepherder named John
Marscarnso, and the way it occurred, hc-
cording to the story of the Mexican, is as
follows: A few weeks ago Cunningham and
another man spent the night at the cabin
where the Mexican has been herdinga band
Of sheep for George Simmons. A game OF
poker was proposed and played until
nearly daylight, with the result that at the
end OF the game Cunningham owed the
Mexican seventy dollars aud refused to
pay. A quarrel then ensued Cunningham
threatening to return later and kill the
Mexican. On Saturday evening while the
Mexican was driving the sheep to camp
Cunningham appeared armed with "A rifle.
The Mexican, seeing Cunningham had tho
drop, old him to shoot, but Cunningham
failed to do so, until aftera few words. the
Mexican walked away to turn the sheep
and had got a distance of about fifty feet
when Cunningham shot. the bullet striking
the Mexican in the groin. Cunningham
then made his escape. Dr. Moore was sent
for and upon his arrival extracted the bul.
let and had the patient brought to the Big
Timber hotel where he is now resting easy
and may recover. This occurring ia Vel.
lowstonc county Sheriff Ramsey was mott
fled and arrived in Saltwater Monday ON
his way to the scene of the shooting, but
has not as yet captured Cunningham, who
has probably, being well known in TIA,
north, ZONE into the southern country.
He has since his arrival in Montana borne
IA bad reputation, and it will be remembered
was sent to the penitentiary "a few year,
ago from Park county, for stealing a hors,
from w. Il. Franklin, oi Melville.-Big Tim
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