Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-05
The dances given Wednesday and Thurs.

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the music was especially spoken of by the
dancers. Mrs. Ray served a good supper
each night but unfortunately ran a little
short of ~victuals the second evening.
On Monday last Guy Norman had Frank
Stark, known as the Soldier Sheeny," ar
rested on the charge of lea wing town to es-
cape paying n room and board bill amount
ing to about $40. The ''Sbeeny'' before
lea wing town old a number of his asso-
ciates that he had $50 in his possession,
but when searched at the Jail all that was
found was one dollar in silver and a bottle
OF whiskey. However on Tuesday one OF
his friends settled the matter by giving Sc
curity for the amount due Norman and
Stark was released
At the fair last Thursday DIR. Stinson
made a wager of So with Tom Conway and
placed the stakes in the hands of Tom
Palmer. When Doc. had won, the stakes
had been confiscated and Palmer said he
was broke. Doctor Stinson placed the
matter in Attorney McGowan's hands and
charge of larceny. The defendant was
game and prepared to fight it, but Tuesday
settled with Stinson and plead guilty. The
costs amounted to about $40 which
Palmer also rustled.
This is but the first of October, but our
troubles with the Montana Stage company
have already commenced. There can be
no possible excuse for the delay OF the Bill
lings mail on Tuesday. A gentleman re-
turning from Buffalo creek passed the stage
near Trout creek at $50 p. M, and said
one horse was SO near starved and in such
condition that he could not tighten the
traces and the other little better. They
were not overloaded, having nothing but
mail and the roads were good-perfectly
dry. When the conveyance left TIBET three
passengers refused to board it and hired
teams to bring them through, coming up in
two hours. The driver said that he should
have to stop and feed and must have done
so, because he did not reach town until
Wednesday IN corning. Such a mail service
is positively abominable and those respon-
sible for the crime against dumb beasts
should be looking through bars.
Saturday morning Kitty Lee, one Of the
fallen feminines- of the town, while on a
drunken jaunt with a ~sheepherder named
Ernest Haverman, attempted to enter the
Day House dining room. The clerk inter
fered and a row commenced which for ours.
ing and fighting has not been exceeded in
our midst. Deputy Sheriff Nichols came
and tried to arrest the woman but had a
much tougher character han he thought.
With the help of the jailor she was gotten
into the sheriff's buggy and taken to Jail.
Haverman was tried Saturday and spends
eleven days in jail as a result. Kitty took
some days to cool off and was not tried
until Tuesday, receiving a fine amounting
to SIS including costs. The most dis
graceful, though somewhat amusing part
of the proceeding, was that when arrested
the woman had the under-sheriff's hat on
and it was ascertained that this superior
officer had been carousiDg in the woman's
company a large part OF the night. Had
: the cause of the incident been sought he
would probably have been found in a
drunken state secreted by his associates in
filth.
} They liked to ride fast but were some
? what particular as to the conveyance and
drew the line at a three-wheeled blackboard
. Particularly with a team OF bronchos and
Charlie Maloy as driver after aday's sport,
The fun occurred Wednesday when five
: passengers climbed into Maloy's vehicle
--a -a-a ..inina ta ride tn town from thu
fair grounds with him. The start was
good but a little too fast and when it can
| to going off a cut bank one wheel, which
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e converted into an uncertain quantity. Al
one spoke after another started skywart
= the three passengers in the rear rolled off
but not so with those on the seat. They
e had all the nerve required and as Charli
piled the whip to his already crazed ami
mails and the axle struck fire on every rock
a they Rugged tighter, Charlie admonishini
them to keep their seat. But when tn
t speed did siacken the nerve OF the victim
vanished and they alighted, anyway to ge
:. out. No, we don't care to ride; we ar
y stiff and need exercise" Maloy and on
man drove to town at "a 3-ininute gait an'
n into the stable as they started ON tire
g wheels.
One of the important matters to receiv
y the attention OF tine incoming DOdTu q
e county commissioners, is the proposition
for a new road from Lewistown to Gil
d Edge. This subject il already receiving tn
s attention OF citizens of both places, an
persons well acquainted with the topo
graphy of the country through which it
y intended the road shall be built, say tina
Re the distance between the towns can b
shortened two miles or more and "a yer
easy grade secured, and the road can /
kept in good order at a small cost con
=, pared with the present expensive highway
and the cost. OF construction Will be n
greater thar the amount that would be r.
quired to keep the present Travelled road j
/, repair. Some of the enterprising citizen
of Gilt Edge are anxious for the road, an
nave announced their willingness to col
tribute literally toward it's construction
and tighten the cost on the taxpayers
the county. There can be no doubt br
business men of Lewistown will heartily CT
th operate in furthering the project which wi
rn make the new gold camp of the Judit
70 mountains more easy OF access. The pr
re posed route is up Whiskey gulch and acro'
r the divide. The only costly portion OF Il
IN road will be at the summit. Those VIII
IN have examined the route say that an e
ce cellent road can be built for less than tw
p thousand dollars
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