Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-07-13
MONTANA NEWS.
The Big Timber Mercantile company
made an assignment last week.

The Big Timber Mercantile company
made an assignment last week.
George l.. Carey, cashier of the Living.
ston National bank, abscondrd on July 1
with S22 600, causing the bank to close its
doors temporarily. Carey was last seen in
Butte.
A crowd of abont forty Neihart miners,
caused by the gold bugs to become tramps,
passed through Great Falls last night on
foot. en- route for the Dakota wheat fields.
They were orderly and have money but
are saving it.-Grrat Falls Tribune.
Hon. W. A. Clark nf Butte has purchased
"a residence site, 10 by $50 feet, corner
Fifty avenue and nth street, New York.
paying therefor nearly a quarter of "A mil
lion. The superstition is that he intends
to build a palatial residence in New York
aud make his permanent home there.
Great Falls Tribune At "A meeting of
the board OF directors of the First Nation
al bank held Monday, T. +. Collins handed
in his resignation as president and A. Z.
Uickerman his as cashier. An election i'm
mediately followed and A. NJ. Scott was
made president and Gold T.. Curtis, cashier.
Mr.. Scott will enter upon his duties at
once.
The salaries for presidential postmasters
for the state of Montana for the year be-
ginning July l, have been readjusted as
follows: Anaconda, $4,000 to 50, 200:
Billings, $1,000 to 81 500; Boulder valley,
81 200 to Sl,1OO; Bozeman, 81, to
So, 900; Butte, 50 . to So, 900; Castle,
! 81 900 to fourth class; Fort Benton,
81, POO to SI,1OO; Great Falls, S2,4OO to
81. 800; Livingston, $4,000 to $1,000;
Miles City. S1.700 to 81 600; Missoula,
81. 400 to $4,000.
A six-legged strong, large and healthy,
lamb was dropped by a eve belonging in
Henry Browns band in the lake Basin this
spring. Henry locked the youngster along
with Others and says it is as strong as any
lamb in the band. It's two extra legs are
on the hind quarters hanging loosely from
the TANKS aud are curiously turned wrong
side before. The extra trotters do not
seem to worry the lamb any and it will
undoubtedly reach maturity. Mr.. Brown
purposes to exhibit the freak at the county
fair.-GaZette.
w. L. Nichols and II. J. Chittenden have
levied an attachment aggregating S23.
2Il.65 against the Henderson Mountair
Mining Il Milling company, owners and
proprietors of the Alice T.. mine and cyan
lie mill at Cooke. The attachment is lev
led for the purpose of recovering the above
mentioned amount for merchandise SOLD
the company and for money advanced fol
freight on milling machinery. Upon TIN
issuance Of the attachment papers ON Fri
day the firm of Nichols Il Chittenden as
signed in favor OF George l.. Carey.-Chron
icle.
Some weeks ago n big. raw boned, freckle,
faced, long haired individual, in II prime
Albert coat, arrived in this city and ad
? vertised "A lecture. lie was asked by
Chronicle man if he was the celebrate,
Collyer, OF New York, but promptly sail
that he was not. He knew the elder Col
yer intimately, however. He claimed to b
; a preacher of New York and although tn
Chronicle representative siz,d him up IA
fake he deli yered one of the best lecture
4 ever listened to in this city. TIL secret {
; his success as IL lecturer is now divulged b
> = Spokane paper, which says that he ha
/ memorized several oT DE Witt Talmage'
] sermous and with the aid of II natural ora
%torical ability delivers them of hand bel
! ter that even Ttlmnge can do.-Huzema
! Chronicle.
Mrs. q. y. Hartley and Mrs. +. f.. lIicE
/, rrnell, two ladies uf MissuuIa, were browne
i ia Lnlo creek ON July 9th, about twent
4" miles from that city. With their husband
and "a young lady visitor, Miss Mar
Thompson. they had gone To the creek f.
a week. outing. Near their camp then
was IA big log stretched across the strear
and by it the whole party safely crosse
n the stream in the morning. The men ,
Y the party went off fishing and warned III
y ladies not To attempt to cross the streaI
!, until they came back as they considere
The log bridge dangerous. The two ma
ried women, thinking themselves eapabI
d of making the crossing, neglected the war;
ing and attempted to walk the log. The
slipped and fell into the stream and wei
e carried into deep water and drowned
Their bodies were recovered later. The r,
II mains were taken back to Missoula.
Great Falls Leader: Editor III. Il. Mi
a chell, of the Neihart Miner, came in on til
y Belt Mountain train Tuesday. lie tells u
that the enterprising citizens of that cam
, have erected a monument to Grover Clev,
land. They did not feel like going to tn
expense of marble or bronze just at pre-,
ent so "a figure of the stuffed order was in
provised, the material being cheaper an
e | d, 3 tha .a.na tina ,,Ara f,,nraoa;ya 90 al
o sentiment prevailing in that camp at til
: present moment. The old postofice wa
; used as a pedestal upon which to place til
figure OF the adverdupois prophet. The er
%v:ronmenr was also supplied at small cos
and consists of a beer keg placed upo
either side upon which rest bottles tina
have hitherto contained the amber fluid
The stuffed figure has been given an air. c
! ~contentment and composure and tn
hands are occupied by a fisbpole so tina
: the president is represented as busily Ell
gagged in his f~avorite amusement OF iishin
from the street below regardless OF SUI
r%oundings. The fall in the price of silve
came at IA time when Neihart was just b,
ginning to have permanent producers. Nj
Mitchell says that a great many unmal
r ed miners had saved money from thei
wIges and are in comparatively good eli
cumstances considering the suddenness {
the blow. On the other hand some hal
families and the loss of employment I
them is a very serious matter. There wa
no warning SO that they could make othe
arrangements. A great many who do no
lave will go to prospecting and some wi