Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-09-21
MONTANA NEWS.

Bach, Cory Il Co. of Great Falls SELL
ing out their retail business and al the en-
of sixty days will engage only in wholesale
business in that city.
Col. Daniel Searles has been appointed
i'm migrant inspector for the district OF
Montana and Idaho. Bonner's Ferry,
Idaho, will probably be his station.
The state board of pardons has approved
the action of Governor Richards in extend
ing executive clemency to Mike Fitzgerald.
now serving term in the state peniten-
tisry. He was convicted OF murder, COM
mitted November 26, 1883, in Choteau
county, and sentenced to twenty years in
prison.
Sundays Park train brought down a
large grizzly bear securely Gagged and con-
signed to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington, d. C. 1t was reared on the
wild animal preserve under the protection
OF Captain George S. Anderson, and after
being permitted to annoy and intimidate
campers and Others in the National park
until it reached an age TO render it inter
esting to sightseers, was trapped by the
troops amp sent to the effete east.-Living-
ston Enterprise.
Thos. Clary returned today from Chicago,
where he had been looking after the mar
ksting OF a shipment of beef. He informs
US that the train load that left here about
two weeks ago. and of which he had charge.
| made the quickest run on record. 1t left
the Benton stock yards on Wednesday
evening at 6 O'Clock, made a stoppage OF
| twenty-one hours at Crookston, and
reached Chicago at 12 o'clock on Sunday
| night. The latter part of the journey was
by the Burlington route, and the last fifty
miles were covered in forty-seven minutes.
Mr.. Clary struck a pretty fair market, and
estimates that his steers netted him about
S36.50 per head.-River Press.
William A. Taylor, generally known as
shotgun" Taylor, died in San Louis
Obispo. CAL, on Sept. 9TH. He was one Of
the last OF the pioneer stage coach and
pony expressmen of the far west, and was
well known. He gained the sobriquet of
Shotgun" by the expert use of his sawed
OFF, shotgun in shooting stage robbers.
The Helena Herald says: "The deceased
was a well known character in the early
days, and there was hardly a stage coach
on any line in the territory that he had
not guarded as express messenger. His
last position in this country was that OF
guard for Z. G. Maclsy & Co.'s fast mule
train from Helena to Corrine. After that
stopped he left Montana and disappeared
from. public view"
| most shocking accident happened to
the iourteen.months-ol child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. j. W. Schultz OF Midvale, Missoula
county, few days ago. The child was
playing in the front yard when the mother
looked out the door and saw a large bea r
approaching. She screamed and tried to
brighten the bear away, but of no avail.
The bear caught the child in one paw and
ran off into the woods. Calling the father
and telling him what had happened he ia
medistely started after the bear and traced
it through the woods quite distance. but
all he found was one limb of the child and
part OF its clothing. This is the first in
stance in that section OF a bear becoming
so bold as to approach house and carry
| off a child. 1t was thought the bear was
driven to this boldness by hunger. The
parents are Observation-Disclosures
Two or three weeks ago a man named
White was convicted at Billings of horse
stealing and sentenced to the penitentiary.
The evening OF the day he was sentenced,
and while he was in the county Jail, his
brother, G. o. White, and another man,
took advantage of the absence OF the
sheriff to attempt a rescue. They alarmed
a domestic. however, whose cries brought
out the sheriff's wife, and the two women
scared the would be liberators off. Whits
and partner were pursued by posse and
the latter captured. The former, however
got away, and while he returned about .