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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
James McMillan's Assignment.

The assignment of James Mcmillan, the
and fur dealer, of Minneapolis, does
not appear to involve the corporation.
As some OF our woolgrowers do business
with the house the following statement of
affairs may be of interest:
M~INNEAPoLIs, Minn.-James Mcmillan. of
Minneapolis, has made "A voluntary assign
ment of his property to NJ. C. Fletcher.
Mr.. Mcmillan was in the hide and fur bust
ness until a short time ago, when his bust
ness was transferred to a corporation
known as James Mcmillan & Co. The as
signment does not affect this corporation.
Mr.. Fletcher estimates his assets at $780,
o and liabilities S25O,O or his liabil.
titles so per cent are foreign creditors and
40 per cent Minneapolis people.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
MAKE NO


The school board of this district
meets again Saturday, when definite
action will be taken in the matter OF
selecting a principal and teachers for
should consider well the obligations
and trust imposed in then. There is
no other local Office in the gift OF the
people so sacred and far reaching III
its benefits as that OF school trustee.
The fact that it is not a salaried Office
detracts nothing from its Importance.
1t is the aim of every community to
select men who are not dependent
upon salaries for their services and
who are so absorbed and interested
in the welfare of schools, that duty
and the consciousness of faithful work
is ample compensation. This being
true, self-interest, prejudice and favori-
tism should be cast aside for the pub
lie good.
Enough has leaked out of the pro-
ceedings OF the last meeting to throw
distrust upon the coming uction oil
the board. There is evidence of a
combination to foist incompetentcy
upon the people OF this district
through the influence OF friends aud
relatives. We trust a majority OF the
board will stand as firm as a rock
against such methods. Their first
duty and allegiance is to the people,
who have confided a trust in them.
This school district is not obliged to
support anybody's relatives, and
positions in our schools must not be
treated as a sinecure for the purpose
OF affording some one employment re,
CARELESS OF qualifications.
Gentlemen, the future of Lewistown
depends in a great measure on your
action next Saturday. You can in
vite people here from a distance to Sc
cure the advantages desired for their
children, or by your action you car
tell them to remain at home and edu,
cate their children as best they can
This is a wealthy district and the
funds ample to provide as good a
school as can be found in the state
Ii we do not have such the blame car
only be attached to you. Give us a
principal trained in his profession, a
man who has dignity and force o
character, and who will command the
respect of scholars, and you will have
made a great stride in the direction o.
an excellent school. The subordinate
places should be filled by teachers who
take pride in their work and are not
ashamed OF their calling. These
things the people of the district ask
and will expect.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
CUTTING RATES.
The Great Northern 10 Setting a Lively Pace
in the Rate War.

CHICAGO, June 22.-TheG Great North
ern today made another cut in trans
continental rates as follows: From
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to
Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver
and North Pacific coast points, S25
first class, and SIS second class, to
be effective June 25, and will apply in
both directions. The Northern Pa
cific lost no time in meeting these rates
and will put them into effect on the
same date.
The Great Northern also decided to
place on sale, commencing July 1,
3.000-mile tickets, good for a year,
for S75, the tickets to be good over
the entire system, the Sioux City &
Northern, and over the Canadian Pa.
cific between Neche and Winnipeg.
The Western Passenger association,
which is greatly disturbed by the ac-
tions of the Great Northern, will meet
June 81 to take suitable action. The
opinion among general passenger
agents is that the Union Pacific will
not enter the fight, preferring rather
to abandon its Montana business.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

\ New York VI teran, having learned
that Grover Cleveland was taking treat.
meut for obesity, gratuitously offers
the following prescription in the New
York Press: "Will you kindly permit
me to suggest a remedy which, | think,
will have as good an effect as it had in
years past in the cases of thousands.
My remedy is a s%oiourn at Anderson
Vile, ia, or Florence, S. c., for say,
six months and on the same diet as
was furnished TO the union soldiers.
If he will only follow this advice We
will guarantee a cure in his case"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
MONTANA NEWS.

The late cave in the wickes tunnel has
been completely repaired.
The people OF Helena are eating Texas
watermelons Several carloads have ar
rived there.
1t is reported that Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
with a syndicate of army officers, has pur
chased a group of mines in the Boulder dis
trict and will shortly put a large force OF
men to work on the properties, which con-
sist of the Syndicate, Mammoth, Golden
Age and Bessie acknowledgements.
Work will soon be begun on the new tun-
mel Of the Great Northern railroad at
Stevens Pass, Wash, where the line is now
carried over the Cascade mountains by IA
switchback. The tunnel will be 1878
feet long, being one of the longest in the
United States The east portal is $3.50
feet above the sea level and the west portal
$3.50 feet; the highest elevation of the
pass is nearly 1000 feet above the level
of the tunnel. The tunnel will be 16 feet
wide. % feet high, and will have to be
lined with brick through it's entire length, it
is expected. The estimated cost is 50, O0O,-
900
r. c. Lamoure and Edward Purvis were
drowned in the Yellowstone river at Laurel,
on the 10th inst. Both men were employed
in handling the ferry boat and while max
ing a crossing the BOAT swamped in an
eddy, straining the cable until it gave way.
The men jumped from the boat into the
water and being Unable to make any head
way against the swift current were drowned
before aid could reach them. Chas. Alb
shire, a passenger, remained with the boat
until it struck a pier of the railroad bridge
a few hundred feet below and capsized. He
was fortunate enough to secure a plank
and after floating nearly a mile below sue
ceeded in reaching shore safely.
j. j. Miller, a prominent sheepman on
the Marias, met with a terrible misfortune
last Saturday. He had just concluded the
shearing season and the entire clip of wool
was stored in the outbuildings. all but ten
sacks which had been sent to the railroad.
In some unaccountable way, but supposed
to be the work OF an incendiary, fire broke
out in the outbuildings and in a few minutes
everything was consumed. Not only was
the years clip of wool, upon which the
sheepman depends so much. destroyed, but
every particle of machinery and farm uten-
sils about the place were licked up by the
%devouring element. Mr.. Miller has the
sympathd of a host of friends in his mis-
fortune.-Teton Times.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

that orders are falling, off that imports
have greatly increased, that the future
looks not only uncertain, but positively
gloomy. They do not all know the
reason, but they know the fact. We
are having hard times. Capital has
been hit first. Business men who are
perfectly solvent find themselves un-
able to collect what is owing them or to
borrow money to carry on even a re-
stricted volume of business. The atti-
tude of the administration on currency
has greatly increased the public dis
trust and made a bad situation worse.
Every one knows that a tariff for reve-
nue. only means the largest possible in
PRODUCTION of foreign products and
manufactures and a corresponding de-
crease in the demand for like products
of American soil and shops. That is
why business halts and shows so little
recuperative power. Everybody is cur
failing. Those who receive wages by
the day or week must in time feel the
strain that as yet concerns chiefly the
capitalists, small and large. Before
business ~revives / look for a readjust-
ment of wages and some pretty severe
economies. Nothing but immense cap
ital, great organization and small wages
will enable the American manufacturer
to put himself on a footing of equality
with the foreigner"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Are you insured? II not. now is the time
to provide yourself and family with a bot
tie of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy as an insurance against
any serious results rom an attack of bowel
complaint during the summer months. 1t
is almost certain to be needed and should
be procured at once. No other remedy can
take it's place or do it's work. 20 and so
cent bottles for sale by w. w. Dewitt,
druggist.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Dave Hilger estimates the loss to the
woolgrowers of Fergus county this year
owing to the condition OF the market
and light weight, at 100000, while
others place the loss at $4,000.
Owing TO the severe winter the staple,
as "a whole, is not up to its usual
standard of excellence. This loss to
woolgrowers means n curtailing of ex-
penses all around, economy and a
tightening of the purse strings of a class
who have heretofore been liberal in the
distribution of money. Between DEM
ocratic ascendeucy and the elements
one of the greatest industries In Mon
tana has received a sever blow.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Owing tu the decision on Sunday
opening If the Worlds Fair, the Meth
odists threaten TO withdraw their ex-
hibit. Chief among the objects of in
tercst is mn old clock once owned by
John Wesley, while the Methodist book
concern have a display of bibles and
other religious books. IL these are
Withdrawn the fair will probably close
abruptly as there are hundreds of men
and women who would walk backwards
hundred miles to see a g~ilt-edged,
iighly embossed bible and John Yves
lcy's clock. q, how sad,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
VIEWS OF SENATOR EDMUNDs.

There is not an ADLER or more con-
s~eryative statesman in America than
ex-senator George +. Edmunds of Yer
mont. Though out of politics he is a
close observer OF passing events. He
WAS interviewed in New York the other
day 10y a Press reporter, and when
asked to what did he attribute the pres
ent general business decentralization, he
said:
First, to the success of the last
Democratic national platform. AS
Stunning thedeclaration OF that platform
to have been honest and that the presi-
dent and congress would carry it out,
the development of every business
affected by the tariff has been brought
abruptly to a standstill. Many bust
ness men know that their trade is bad,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

When n campaign is on, Senator
David B. Hill smells the powder from
affair and runs for the battle. He
stumped Ohio last year in n way that
kept Mckinley worrying and the Re
publicans majority was cut down to
less than three thousand. This year
he will return and if the Democrats put
up the right man for governor, Senator
Hill will give splendid assistance in Sc
curing his election-Independent.
The appearance of David b. Hill
anywhere except in the slums of New
York, ought to call for strict sanitary
regulations, for if their is a dirtier dem
agogue in the United States, his name
is unknown.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Higher Rates on Stock.

The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern have advanced rates to st.
Paul and Minneapolis on live stock,
including sheep, cattle and horses
from Montana and North Dakota
points west OF the Missouri river.
These rates are made on a cores
ponding basis of advance as the rates
recently advanced by these lines to
Chicago from the same points.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

a few months ago Mckinley was
pronounced Il dead duck by the Demo
cratic press. Now the party in Ohio is
trying to bride some m to run against
him for governor. The people are be-
ginning % discover that the medicine
they took last fall is worse thar the
li-eusp.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Sheep for Sale.

A choice band of LOGO high grade four
and five years old Merino ewes, with 1850
lambs. They are well wooded and one of
the best bands in Fergus county. To go
after shearing. Can divide the band il de-
sired. Fifty to seventy-five thoroughbred
Spanish Merino ewes included. Also three
thoroughbred Cotswold rams and forty
three grade Cotswold-M erino rams, two
years old A. w. SToDDARD,
FIT. Maginnis, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

1t is said that President Cleveland is
TO adopt the Schminger treatment, by
which Bismarck's extreme obesity was
cured, and that il consists of dieting
rather than medicine. He will be as
thin rs one of his state papers by the
time he has had several bouts with sill
yer and wrestled with the McKinley
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

The great American derby run in
Chicago on the 24th inst, was won 10y
Bouudless in $50. There were fifteen
starters and the prize was $4,000.
Buundle,s is owned ny Jim Gushing
and was ridden 10y Garrison. Seventy.
five thousand people witnessed the
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Several Chicago ladies who claim to
lie art critics have discovered thai
Montaua's silver statue is b~ow-legged.
% his is probably owing to the fact that
her limbs are made of the white
product Of the Silver "Bow" mines.
The dear girl is true tonature and Mon
taua. The Chicago spinsters should
glance at their own feet and not be so
hypcrcritical.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
The Fourth on Beaver Creek.

The people of upper Beaver creek are
making preparations to celebrate the
Fourth of July. The programme will con-
sist of literary exercises, songs, speeches
base ball, foot ball, w~heelbarrow race, sack
race, potato race, croquet n walking the
rope. A big circular swing and stand will
be erected. Free Dime for all. Come and
have n good time.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Recent discoveries have demonstrated that
all The organs of the body are under the con.
troll OF the nerve centers, located In or near
the base of the brain. and that when these are
deranged the organs which they supply with
nerve fluid are also deranged. When IL is re-
membered that a serious Injury to the spinal
cord will cause paralysis OF the body below
prevented by the injury from reaching the
paralyzed portion, IL will be understood how
the arrangement Of the nerve centers will
cause the derangement OF the various organs
which they supply with nerve force.
Two-thirdS OF chronic diseases are due to
the imperfect action OF the nerve centers at
the base of the brain, not from q derange-
ment primarily originating in the organ it
self. The great mistake of physicians In
treating these diseases Is that they treat the
organ rather than the nerve centers which
DR. FRANKLIN MILES, the celebrated spe-
cialist, has profoundly studied this subject FOR
over 20 years. and has made many important
discoveries in connection with II, chief among
them being the facts contained in the above
statement, and that the ordinary methods of
treatment are wrong. All headache, dizzi-
ness, dizziness. confusion, pressure. blues.
mania, melancholy. insanity, epilepsy, st.
Vitus dance. etc, are nervous diseases no
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervfne is due to the
fact that it is based on the foregoing principle.
DIR. MILES RESTORATIVE NERvISE Is sold by
all druggists on q positive guarantee, or sent
direct by DR. MILES MEDICAL Co., Elkhart.
Indr on receipt OF price. 81. per bottle. six
bottles for q, express prepaid 1t contains
neither opiates nor dangerous drugs
Sold by W, n, McGinness. Lewixtou,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Fine Line Of Fireworks at Lehman's.
Sizing EN- Up.

Miss Mabel want a 1-cent stamp
for this letter.
p. o. Clerk-A 1-cent stamp won't
carry a letter.
Miss Mabel know they didn't use
to, but l thought these big new ones
would.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

A cyclone visited Perry, Kansas, on
on the 22nd inst, killing ten people and
destroying an old stone house formerly
occupied by John Brown, located on
the banks OF the Kaw river.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
TROTTINC STATIONS.

The undersigned will stand the following
t~rotting bred stations at his ranch, one
half mile below Lewistown, for the season
of 1873
DIVORCES, 17996-Standard under rule
6, registered in vol. XI, trotting register.
By Dispatch, 4ISO; he by Onward, 1411;
he by Geo.. Wilkes, 519; he by Handle
tonian, 10. First dam OF DIVORCES is Lady
Lake, by Col. Hambrick. 5SO5, by Die
tator, 113, son of Hambletonian, 10
Second dam Lena X, by ID. Monroe Sos,
son of Jim Monroe. $50 DIVORCES is a
bay. 16 hands high, fine feet and legs and
good action. Foaled 1856. Raised by
Col. r. z. Pepper & Son, Frankfort, Ky.
will stand at $40 for season.
ZoDAoK, Standard under rule 6, regis
tered No. 1872, t~rotting register; bay
stallion, 16 hands high, good action 10
lack is by Bishop, he by Princeps, he by
Woodford Mambrino, etc. First dam 10
rayda c., by Cavalier, he by Hamlet, he by
Volunteer, he by Hambletonian, 10. He
is a strongly bred Hambletonian. He will
make the season at S25.
GEN. MILES will stand at SIS for the
season.
The usual return privilegeswith all OF the
above horses if mare proves not to be in
foal, if horses are living. Service fees pay
able at end Of the season.
We will be pleased to show our horses to
our customers.
Call on or address,
d. NJ. CROWLEY,
Lewistown, Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

1t is really refreshing to see the Great
Falls Tribune jump on to Secretary
Carlisle with spiked boots, owing to the
~lutter's TRADE against silver. a year
ago Carlisle was II Democratic saint in
purple robes. so, what a fall was
there, my countrymen,''
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Strayed.

From my ranch on Warm Springs, one
year ago last August. one dark bay mare,
branded n on right hip; may have year
ling colt with her. Ten dollars will
be paid for the return of the two or infor-
nation leading to their recovery.
F.. L. CoLvER,
Maiden. Mont.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Parties applying for a divorce at
Butte last week averred that they neve
agreed but twice in anything, and that
was when they got married and in the
matter Of getting a divorce.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Where is that Montana orator that
talked about the de~sirability of Mon
tana wool for "mixing purposes?" He
probably ''mIxed" his drinks and hasn't
sohered up yet.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

Carry the news to Massachusetts,.
Montana has twice as many men as
women in the make up Of her popu-
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Sl75, a Week

Is spent in New York city for tobacco. A
fortune spit and pulled away. II you are a
victim of Drunkenness, Morphine or To-
bacco habit, read the large advertisement
of the Ohio Chemical Co. in this paper.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

United States Senator Leland Stan
ford died at his home at Palo Alto,
California, on the goth inst.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Notice.

Mr.. John Burke has recently set up a saw
mill on the Upper Judith, four miles from
w. II. Babcock's ranch. He is ready to
fill orders for lumber OF all dimensions on
short notice. Good roads to and from the
mill.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29

PUBLISHED WEEKLY By
John N. vR0OMAN, : Editor 8 Proprietor.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Is famous as a
Cure for severe colds.
Famou as a
Preventive of pneumonia.
Famous AS a
Preventive and cure for Group.
Famous for the relief it affords i'm case oI
Whooping cough.
amor as a safe aud pleasant
Medicine for children.
Try it. 80 cent bottles for sale by w
w. De Witt, druggist.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the Seat
of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.

No mystery has ever compared with that OF
human life. 1t has been the leading subject
of professional research and study in all ages
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
Dissolution of Co-partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the co-part-
nership heretofore existing between Drs.
w. F. Hanson and s. b. Stone is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. DIR. Han
son will collect all of the %accounts and pay
all of the debts OF the late firm.
w. F. HANSON,
S. Il. TONE.
Dated May 81, 1898.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-06-29
fergus County Arpna.
PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY.

LEwIsTowN, THURSDAY, June 90, 'os.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-02
NOTED NEGRO HOTEL MAN.
James Wormiey, OF Washington, Who
Was Once Caterer for a Club.


james Wormley was a famous col
ored man who made a fortune of $780,
600 in the hotel business and left it to
his two sons, says the Boston Trans
cript. Wormley's hotel is still one of
the famous hostelries of the country.
Wormley was at one time caterer to a
club. Then he began doing catering
on his own account, and opened q lit
tle place on l street, opposite the Ar
lington hotel. The fame of his sup
pers spread, and his place became tho
resort of some of the most famous men
in the senate and the house n genera
ton ago. Charles Sumner was one of
its regular visitors. Wormley was al
ways very much attached to MI, Sum-
ner and when the great statesman died
it was Wormley's hands that laid out
tho remains and prepared them for
burial. One of Wormlcy's regular
patrons was Samuel Hooper, q MEM
Der Of the house from the Suffolk dis
trict, Massachusetts. He lent Worm
ley the money to build Il hotel in
Washington. The fame of its table
spread far and wide, and a supper at
Wormley's was ono of the experiences
which every visitor to Washington
thought he must not miss. There are
other hotels larger than Wormley's
and more %rcsplendcnt now, where the
table is even MS good rs any that can
be found in New York, but Wormlev's
still maintains lis reputation. 1t is in
the hands of James Wormley. Jr., to
whom his father left it. His brother,
w. Fl. A. Wormley, who was for a time
in partnership with him, is n caterer.
His wealth is estimated ut $40. 000.
1t was said Of the elder Wormley
with whom a white man could talk
without the consciousness that he wa
talking TO Il negro. However indie
pendent he may be, there is au air and
manner about the negro resulting from
long service which makes him seem
conscious of the fact that he is q negro.
A generation or two hence this may
disappear; it cannot be c%radicated in
n shorter space of time. But Worm
ley was an exception to the rule that
governs his race. His manne WAS
simple and unaffected, but unmistak-
ably natural and independent. His
friends were rs often white rs black,
though his intimates were necessarily
all of his own race. He had a great
many white friends i'll the south.
When "Bob' Odds was sent north by
Jefferson Davis as commissioner from
the south for the exchange OF prison
ers Wormley got up as iino q dinner
as he could, had it packed in a basket
with several bottles ii wine and took
it down to Fortress Monroe. There he
presented it to Odds. II knew YOU
hadn't seen Il square meal in a long
time" he said. Tho gift was very
welcome.