Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-04-20
MONTANA NEWS.

Jas. A. Murray of Butte has offered
twenty acres Of and for the school OF
mines. The property offered is worth
about 5000
The Montana Press association will meet
in annual session at Anaconda on May II.
The association contemplate a trip in a
body to the Worlds fair.
At Fort Keogh on the 18th inst. just as
the evening gun was fired, Rose Martin. in
the employ of Captain Thorue, passed in
front of the annon at a distance oil twenty
feet. The heavy grains Of powder struck
her in the face and TORE it terribly. Whether
her eyesight is gone the doctors cannot
say. She came from Germany only five
months GO.
Dr. Herbert Holloway, state veteri.
marian, has gone to Denver. He went to
attend an annual meeting OF the state vet
Urinary surgeons, called under the auspices
of the Colorado sanitary board. The oh.
iect is to arrange a method OF examining
cattle from Texas and New Mexico. Colo.
RADIO, Montana and South Dakota will be
represented at the meeting. Wyoming de-
ciines.-Helena Herald.
General Agent Langley of the Montana
Central, received yesterday IA lot of admis.
sion tickets to the Worlds fair. They re
semble the old 50-cent shinplasters, save
they are printed on heavier paper. They
are of different colors, some having a pic
ture OF Columbus, Others OF Lincoln. Others
of Washington and still others OF Pocahon.
tas. They are single admission tickets,
each worth 90 cents, and quite IA number
were sold acknowledgements.
Godfrey DeMers, who shot and killed
Jas. r. Dilworth at the latter's ranch
south of Red Lodge two years ago, tried
for murder and acquitted by "A Park county
jury, stopped off in Livingston one day
last week while en- route from Anaconda to
Red Lodge. He emphatically denied the
statement published in the Herald and
copied in the Enterprise TO the effect that
he (DeMers) was in an insane asylum
Enterprise.
An elegant and unique chair is hat pre-"
scented by the Ladies' Columbian nssocia'
ton of Yellowstone county forthe Montana
building. 1t was constructed by Georg,
Soule, taxidermist, and cost an even hun
dred dollars The legs are elk in skin and
hoof. the arms and back being mad o.
first an antelope horn, then a buffalo horn,
IL mountain sheep horn and steer horn, al
beautifully polished and matched at the
sides. The upholstering is all in buckskin
The chair is on exhibition at +. III. Lees
Gazette.
w. b. Slaughter, a well known cattle
man, formerly of New Mexico and Texas,
and who last fall placed a lot OF Texas
cattle on the Milk river range, is evidently
not discouraged by the terrible losses o.
the past winter, but is making arrange
ments to try it over again. For a couple
of weeks past Mr.. Sla tighter has been in
Texas. preparing to drive a large herd ol
young steers from the rocking chair
range in the Panhandle, to Montana.
These cattle are to he started at once, that
they may reach Valley county early enough
to get in good condition to enter the winter.
River Press.
The site at Billings for the eastern peni.
Tertiary building has been selected by Gov.
Richards, Secretary of State Rotwitt and
Attorney General Haskell. the state board
of prison commissioners. The location
selected lies near the county fair grounds
and embraces between fifty and sixty acres
which has been donated to the state.
Nearly one-half the ground contains un'
limited quantities OF tirst-class building
stone. BY direction OF the commission
five acres were staked off to De surrounded
by a substantial wall. inside OF which the
prison will be built. Water Tor irrigation
will be supplied from the townsite com
pany's fnrty-inile irrigation canal, and Tor
domestic purposes by the Billings Water
Power company.