Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-05
MONTANA NEWS.

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placed an additional passenger
in service between st. Paul and Port
land.
The shaft house of the Iron Mask mine.
near Townsend, was burned Wednesday OF
last week, being a total loss OF machinery;
fully covered by insurance.
The line OF the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone completed to Bozeman, and
now the Bozeman young nan can talk
over the wire to his best girl in Helena.
The Great Falls opera house, which has
been closed for several months, will reopen
shortly under the management OF John
Mcguire OF Butte, his lease covering July,
1894.
A. J. Davidson's warehouse at Helena,
which was filled with buggies and farming
day of last week. Loss between $1,000
and IS, 900.
Montana, Marcus Days famous horse,
came in last Tuesday along with some new
English mares and colts. Montana's rae
ing days are over and he will go in the
stud.-Bitter Root Times.
Mrs. Matt Anderson is nov engaged in
writing sketches of representative pioneer
women, for publication in the Courier, says
| the Bozeman Chronicle. The lives OF these
ladies make very interesting reading, es-
pecially in the hands OF Mrs. Anderson.
The highest price paid for Montana eat
| tie this season has been realized by the
Standard Cattle company OF Fort Benton,
who sold 53 head averaging 1880 pounds,
at S4.35. The bulk of the sales ranged
from $3.50 to $3.50.
The National Park bank at Livingston
resumed business on the 25th ult., with
S31, 900 on hand in excess OF all present
liabilities. At the close OF business for the
day, the deposits had exceeded the days
Withdraw walls nearly $4,000.
NJ. A. Meyendorff, for seventeen years
melter of the United States assay Office at
Helena, has been removed by President
| Cleveland. The notification which came
Saturday last is dated September 10. M
successor has yet been named.
On Monday, the 25th ult., Judge +. b
Waterbury, an old and respected resident
OF Anaconda died suddenly at the home oil
his son in that city. Judge Waterbury
was n Montana pioneer and had ex'
perienced the mining excitement in Aide
gulch and other places.
Manager Kinkel OF the Manhattan farm
has forwarded by express a large amount
of barley in the sheaf to W. II. Sutherlin
! ~ oh ,,a af Tho Nantana uri.nlfnral aN.
hibit at the fair. This grain will be made
into an artistic bower aud will add to the
beauty OF the Montana exhibit.
The Touring mills at Columbia Falls and
Kalispeli AVE suspended operations and
there is no market for grain, though crops
are reported to be abundant throughout
the Flathead valley. LAUNDERING opera
tions have also ceased, and the outlool
for the winter is not f1attering.
John Leary, a wealthy cattle owner anc
a pioneer of the Flathead valley, died tn,
22d ult. OF heart disease. He was over &C
years of age and had prospected all ovel
Montana, locating in the Flathead vale,
thirteen years ago. He was a s~tpekholdei
and director of the Conrad National banl
ana owner OIL u large amount Oh lanu ant
cattle.
Mrs. NJ. f. Cowley committed suicide il
Butte the 25th ult., by shooting herself il
the left breast near the heart. She wal
from Toga, Pa, and was married to Alex
Hamilton there. She either left her hus
band or was divorced and joined fortune
with Cowley and came to Butte. Cowle.
was brutal and beat her so frequently tina
she left him. The woman's former hus
band, three sous and two daughters ar
living at Meacham, Pa.
John Wilson, Horst Keenan, and Jane
Morgan, three horse thieves, were brough
into Billings on Monday Of asst weel
charged with stealing horses of Wilkerson
Mains & Renwiek. They were captured il
Wyoming. and fearing summary iustic
there, waived requisition and returnet
voluntarily with the officers. They wer
arraigned the same day. waived every for
mality, pleaded guilty and were sentenced
to five years each in the penitentiary
They were hoboes who were tired of North
ern Pacific box cars. This is considere,
speedy Justice.