Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-19
MONTANA NEWS.

The boss steer SO far reported this year
was shipped by Nick Bielenberg over the
Great Northern to Chicago. 1t was an
estray that weighed 1,7So pounds. 1t
sold for SS1.lO and Melted the owner
S72.36.
{. A. Crippen, manage of the dining
rooms of the Albemarle hotel at Living
ston, committed suicide on the 14th inst.
Failing health was supposed to have been
the cause. Deceased was so years of age
and an old and highly respected citizen.
Hon. R o. Hickman, state land agent,
while travelling in the Flathead country,
recently, in company with Granville Stuart,
had the misfortune to break his arm and
it is said was obliged to travel 500 miles
before the services of u surgeon could be
procured.
The families OF the outlaws Gay and
Gross, passed through Big Timber recently,
the notorious Ella Gay riding horseback.
They were headed southeast and had moth
ing to say as to their whereabouts, but are
probably planning to join their outlawed
husbands whenever they can safely dare
to.-Gazette.
Jack White, alias Bob Taylor, the only
member of the Northern Pacific train rob-
Der gang who is now at large, separated
from the rest of the party before they
went to the Blackfoot country.
According to Marshal Jackson, White has
been in Great Falls several times since the
train robbery. He says that White for
/ utarlxy xnrEaH ~ a anyhav In tha Sna
River Observation-Disclosures.
The tooth of a mastodon, sxhumed in
st. Louis gulch, about eleven miles west of
Helena, was yesterday brought to town by
A. c. McFadden and contributed to the
fossil cabinet of the state library. The
tooth. while not of the largest size, is
nearly perfect and measures ~ inches in
length by three inche in breadth. The
specimen comes from placer grounds,
showing plentiiully the shells of salt water
origin.-Helena Herald.
East OF Glendive. Monday, the west
bound express of the Northern Pacific. in
rounding a curve, dashed into the hand
car of a section crew working east. Three
men, in jeopardy of their lives, jumped.
tutnDllng TO the DotuOn OF d slxueen-fOOt
embankment, escaping serious injury. The
handcar, badly wrecked, was tossed piece.
meal twenty yards away. Other than
bending the cowGatcher no damage to the
locomotive was sustained and the train
proceeded west on schedule time.-Helena
Herald.
Virtue is not its own reward only, as is
shown by a very beautiful and expensive
gold watch and chain, which is now the
property OF an express messenger on thu
"hold-up' Of August 20, this messenger. by
"A cool-headed stategem. succeeded in saw
ing Tor the company a large sun Of money
which the robbers would otherwise hav'
secured. The watch bears the following
expressive inscription: Presented I,
Hiram Horton DeCamp, Jr., by the North
ern Pacific Express in recogni
) ton of his courage, GOODNESS and sagacity
r Aug. 20, 1S93.'
All the hotels in the Yellowstone Nation
al Park have closed, all transportation
has ceased, and the soldiers and wild an
mails are left to themselves for the Ions
, cold winter that is to come. And IA white
in the park is not to be laughed at. TIL
/, snow falls eight OF ten feet on the level AN
the drifts are sometimes fifty or sixty fee