Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
C HAPPENINGS.

Flies are not troubling stock much thes'
days.
Thermometers varied as much this week
as timepieces.
A great many Thermometers iroze up
Monday night.
The prospects for harvesting an ice crop
are greatly improved.
Wrap stove legs with flannel this weather
to prevent ehillblsins.
L~ewistowu should he supplied with some
facilities for extin. uishing fires.
George VI. Stone, of Philbrook. spent n
couple Of days in town last week.
Major Richards came up from the lower
Judith last Saturday, returning Monday.
Thermometers got down SO low first Of
the week that some people would not
notice them.
Rev. Largent will hold services at the
court house next Sunday morning and
evening at the usual hours.
f. L. Moore has rented Joseph Mason's
saloon and has opened up with a choice
stock OF liquors and cigars.
This last cold spell is very severe on
stock. A number OF dead animals are re-
ported along Big Lasino creek.
Forty-three degrees below zero last
Monday morning-an eastern sample oil
weather M-ontanaians do not enjoy.
A very pleasant hop was given by the
Judith Social Club last Friday evening.
About forty-five couples were in attend
ance.
Rufus Smith cam in from John Fo-
garty's ranch last Saturday and returned
Sunday. The storm king has no terrois
for Rufus.
q. f.. Bennett desires to extend his hearth
est thanks to those who by their noble
efforts saved his building from the flames
last Friday mornint.
People of Monarch and Baker have sent
a long petition 20 S+ntator Gibson askint
hun to have their part OF Measher county
annexed to Cascade.
Jersey Moran was over from the mouth
of Maide gulch Monday. He started iuI
home Tuesday, with the thermometer
thirty-iive below zero.
Job work of every description neatly exc
cuted at this office. Send IN your orders
tor bill heads, letter heads, note heads, cir
culars, cards, pamphlets, &c.
Mrs. Chas. L. Powell was brought in from
the Moccasin mountains last week suffer
ing from IA severe illness. She is nov at
Dr.. Hunson's and showing signs ofimprove-
ment.
W. ii. Culver has received "A postal card
from the May Davenport Burlesque com
pany asking for dates in June or July.
Bald heads are already engaging front
seats.
The North American Review Tor Febru
airy will contain an article by Senator
Hansborough, OF North Dakota, entitled,
why Immigration should not be Sus-
pended
The old, lumpyiawed bovine that
has frequentcd back alleys during the fall
aud early winter succumbed to the cold
this week and its spirit has gone beyond
the milky way"
Cyrus Stiles left for the east last Thurs
udS HibEHiHs oh oib WIN
the Lewistown electric light plant. He eX-
poets to he absent about six weeks and
will see everything pertaining to the plant
on board cars before he starts home. Mr..
Sly les hopes to have the dynamo in opera
tion early in June.
Workmen engaged the past week in cut
ting ice from the CONCEALED overflow OF Big
Spring creek above the city came upon a
curiosity in its way. Solidly imbeded in
one # the crystal blocks lay IA salmon trout
which measured fifteen and "a quarter
inches in length. The scales Of the finn.
prisoner, representing the varirgatea tints
of the rainbow, presented a marvel ui
beauty.
Prof. Abram Hogeland desires us to cor
rect an impression that the Lewistown
children nave done nothing towards
raising money for the Childrrn's Home AT
Chicago as taken in hand by the Worlds |
Fair board. lie has on hand $3.50 with "a
strong probability nf increasing this within
n lew weeks, aud which H. subject to the
order of the local committee. Inasmuch
as the children were asked /" give but five
cents thCH thls eno"s an diin'sl uulNcEedl
response.
Captain Stafford reports that Meagher
county ranchmen are suffering IRON the
Expectations of wolves upon their herd~
and hucks. AT the captains ranch east OF
the Belt range the timber wolf il m"sI
troublesome, many calves having been
killed. A few days ago thecaptain trapped
for these brasts so boldly Invading his cor
ruls and caught IA big one. He has II stag
hound that eau outstripih he ~tleetest coyote.
aud has caught many "A one ANA killed it.
Helena Herald.
Major c.. ; Richards, the bard OF Sag
creek. in from his ranch This week and II
guest of the Le~isto~n hotel, tells to his
aIwsys-williIg listeners that while crossing
mt the lower ford of the Judith, which has
frozen entirely over in many places during
the recent cold snap, he saw sitting upright
on its Launches, fast to the ice, an enur-
nous elk. the animal in attempting tn
cross bad evidently lost it's %foothold, be-
ca me "a prisoner to the damp ice. aud con-
cluded To wait for the June thaw.
The largest ice gorge seen on Spring creek
within the memory of the oldest inhn hi
tants formed abuut one mile above town
Monday night aud Tuesday backed the
creek up for several miles. The water over
flowed both banks and Wednesday morn
ing threatened to submerge part Of the
town. All cellars north of the stream and
cast of Main street were filled and the lower
floors of several buildings in water. Paul
Morase built a levee around his property.
while Others tool similar precautions. The
O overflow crossed Morase's field and spent
itself in n shallow coulee near the Judith
Roller Mills. Skating over the field was OK.