Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
MONTANA NEWS.

More gold retort and dust is being treated
by the Helena United States assay office
this year than for any year for the past
decade.-Herald.
The Montana building at the Worlds
Fair which the Montana commissioner
said cost $4,000, has been offered for
sale and one man bid 5000 for it.
The Helena land office has rendered n de-
cision in favor of the settler in the indem-
nifty land contest case of Lamper VS.. the
Northern Pacific. Lamper settled on the
land in 1877 and last spring the railroad
company accepted it among it's Indemnity
lands.
We earn that John A. l.. Snyder OF the
Musselshell, who was SO seriously injured
by his team running over a high bank last
summer, has had an operation performed
in Detroit, Mich, by which he is cured OF
his paralysis, though the operation nearly
proved fatal.-Billings Times.
Skillen s livery stable at Chinook caught
fire Wednesday morning of last week and
was burned to the ground. Ten head OF
horses, some saddles, harness and rigs
were destroyed. The loss is about $4,000.
1t was the worst fire IN the history Of Chi
nook and for a time it VAS feared the
whole town would go.
A. W. DIV ell mysteriously disappeared
from his home near Virginia City recently,
says the Madisonian. His dead body was
found on a trail last week 10y two boys.
Investigation proved death was due to
natural causes. He was an Alder gulch
pioneer, 80 years of age and arrived in
Madiso county about 1865 6
At Kalispell the grand jury has returned
indictments against Sheriff Joseph Gang
ner and Jailor McGown, charging embezzle-
ment. Bonds in the sum OF S1,5O0 each
were given. Judge DuBose, i'm charging the
grand jury, called attention to certain
charges alleged against the sheriff and his
jailor, and the indictments are the result.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Josephus
Hamilton versus the Boston & Great
Falls Street Railway after a
trial lasting three days, brought in a YER
dict for plaintiff with 100000 damages.
The case is the result of a collision in
July, 1892, between two cars, on one OF
which Mrs. Hamilton, who is the wife of
the sheriff OF Cascade county was a pas
senger. She was thrown to the ground
and received injuries to her spine. The
jury was out less than half an hour.
Among the riders who helped bring the
Green and Fields cattle from Milk river to
the Shonkin range was Jack McElwaine,
now a resident OF Chinook, says the River
Press. Jack was one OF the youngest and
best scouts in the army during the Indian
troubles in the 7O's, and was with the
seventh cavalry under Custer in June,
1876. Two days before the massacre OF
Custer and his command on Little Big
Horn, McElwaine was dispatched to Fort
Riley, but for which occurrence he might
not be punching cattle at the present day.
He left this evening for Chinook.
One day last week while hunting in Idaho
gulch, says the Madisonian, Frank Metzell
killed what he supposed when he first saw
it, was a huge mountain lion, but which
proved to be different from the species oil
that animal usually found in the Rocky
mountains and was probably a puma, al
it's form and color conform nearer to that
of the puma than either the mountain oil
jaguar. He was a monster beast, measur
ing seven feet from tip to tip and 22i
inches around the arm, close to the body
Frank is having him mounted. The speci
men will be a rare one. The brute hac