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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-27
SPEEDILY LYNCHED.
The Alleged Murderers of an Ala
bama Tax Collector Hanged.


When the citizens of Green vile, Ala,
arose the other morning they saw two
dead bodies hanging from above the Court
House steps. Late at night two stran-
gers went to JaiIer Bergainer's house and
told him they had prisoner. He went with
them to the jail where he was met by
mob Of 100 armed and masked men, who ad
hidden behind fence. They dema nded the
keys. The cells of John Hipp ana Charles
Kelly, the alleged murderers of Tax Collec-
tor c. j. Armstrong, of Butler Co unity, were
opened, and both men were take out and
hurried to the Court House yard with ropes
about their necks. Without bel ng allowed
time to pray, they were hanged above the
Court House steps. The mob then dispersed
The verdict OF the jury is that the men were
hanged by uaknowa persons.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-27
COLUMBIAN STAMPS
Placed on Sale at the General Post
Offices

Placed on Sale at the General Post
offices.
The Columbian souvenir postage stamps
have been placed on sale at the various post
Offices. They range in value from one cent
to s.. and each denomination is printed in a
different color. The stamps are much larger
than the ones in current use, and each va
riety bears an engraving illustrating some
event in the life of Columbus.
1t is expected that there will be a heavy
rush of purchasers, not only from profess
sional stamp dealers and collectors, but from
people who will wish to preserve them as
mementos of the quadrenni9l of the discov-
cry of AmericA The little Queen OF Hol-
land will purchase set of the stamps for
her collection.
The idea of issuing Columbian postage
stamps was first suggested by Assistant
Postmaster Gayler, of New YORK City. He
selected many of the designs, AMI his sug-
gestions were adopted by the Postmaster
General.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-27
EVERY MAN d H7s DOCTOR.

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eaching tt does the easily distfn IN f3hed symE
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Fhich viii alleviate or cure. 50S pages profHseIy
Illustrated. The book Is written in plain everyday
inglsh and Ia free from the technical terms whien
ende1 most doctor books vaiueless 20 the gena<-
Ility Of readers Only zoe. postpaid. Gives coL1-
lets analysis OF everything pertaining 70 courtsnE
marriage and the production and rearing OF healthy
amuies: together with valuable recipes and pre-
crfptions explanation OF botanical Sraetice, cor
ect use Of ordinary herbs With his book In tns
louse there 70 n excuse for not knowing what 70
10 In an emergency Send postal notes or post age
Haups Of any denomination not larger than ceaA
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-27

ATTEMPTS to wreck trains on the North
ern Pacific Railroad have compelled the
management to patrol the tracks between
Tacoma and the Columbia with armed men
who have orders to shoot any one seen
tampering with the rails.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-27

fused s. an acre for their lands offered then
by the United States Commissioners.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

not increase the price. Well, IL a
tariff of IL cents reduces the price Of wool,
who pays the tax? II it really lessons the
price it's a good thing. is it not? Laugh
teri 1 fear Mr.. Neal is not familiar with
the messages Of President Cleveland. You
remember his free trade letter OF 1887, in
which he said that the price of WOOL in this
country had been materially increased by
a protective tariff? Mr.. Neal says it has
decreased, and Mr.. Cleveland says it has
increased. Mr.. Neal says that the farmers
get no tariff profit at all, and Mr.. Cleve-
land says they do. Well. Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Neal should hold a joint debate.
Somebody asked the governor if
wool had not gone down in price eve
since the tariff of 1890, and he replied:
We raised the tariff in May, 1890. in the
house and from then until the tariff went
into operation everybody, knowing that
wool was going up, imported it to get it in
under the lower duty and the market WAS
stocked, and the result was that wool went
down because there VAS an oversupply of
it and no demand for il. The law of 1890
went into effect with an increased duty,
and it WAS but a year before it's repeal was
threatened. In that year the price went
up. and stayed up until the repeal of the
law was threatened
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
DO WE NEED MORE FARMERss

The Helena Independent and one or
two other papers have recently been
advocating the encouragement of emf
grafton to occupy the public lands of
Montana. While every citizen desires
to see Montana grow in population and
wealth and while it would be a happy
sight to see farm houses more fire.
quently, it strikes most people that
there is but little at present to encour-
age or warrant any great augmentation
in the farming industry.
TIL fact is there is a small demand
for the products now raised, taken as a
whole. When ranchmen begin to
realize good prices; when there be-
comes a strong demand for all they
raise there will be little necessity for
emigration societies to encourage farm
ing in Montana.
As a matter of fact our ranchmen
must now and for years to come, de-
pend upon a local market for the sale
of their products. The small area of
farming lands, the long haul to eastern
markets and high freight rates render
it impossible for them to realise upon
twelve years the ranchmen of Fergus
county have struggled hard to live,
many Of them finding it necessary to
raise a few head of cattle and horses in
order to make ends meet.
Furthermore, there is a limit to the
variety of products that can be raised
here. Corn and wheat, the cereal:
chiefly relied upon by the farmer:
further east, will never be raised here
for expectation, corn only being raised
in most favored localities.
That farming in Montana within
crease somewhat there can be no doubl
but the chief reliance of those engaged
in it must be in the growth of oul
towns and cities. In TACT the farmers
of Montana more than those of any
other region must depend upon a loca
market for agricultural products.
When Great Falls, Helena and Butt,
have trebled their population ano
tapped the Judith Basin with a rail
road, our agriculturalists will see better
times. There is and enough now un
der cultivation to supply all three o
the cities with farm products. But a
present there is little encourage
ment to test the capacity of the soil
More farmers will not help the situa'
ton. What is needed is more con.
sum ers for what is raised by those now
engaged in the industry.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
Z MEALS GOOSE.

Major Mckinley is conducting a
splendid campaign in Ohio, address
ing thousands two or three times a
day, in some instances. Every speech
wins converts among those who voted
their prejudices last year instead OF
the dictates OF their judgment. He
takes up the sophistries and false
hoods of Lawrence T. Neal and picks
them to pieces as an eagle would a
humming bird. Major Mckinley never
says an unkind word OF an adversary.
Always courteous, he trusts to logic
to win voters. At Dennison last week
he replied to Meals utterances in the
folio wing convincing manner:
Mr.. Neal asks in one OF his speeches hat
the tariff is if it is not a tax? l said in my
speech at Niles two years ago that we by
taking the tariff off sugar saved the Ameri-
can people $50, 900. 900 a year. Well i
did say that and ] helped to do it. You
people have realized it in cheaper sugar.
Ny distinguished competitor does not dis
criminate between a revenue tariff and a
protective tariff. A sugar tariff is a reve-
nue. tariff. 1t was a Democratic revenue
one. and tina was evidenced by the fact
that when / moved in the house to do
away with the tariff on sugar every Demo-
GRAFT voted against it, A revenue tariff is
always paid by the consumer. A revenue
is a tariff put on foreign products that
have no production in the United states.
Then the consumer pays it. Take tea and
coffee; we raise none, and we pay the Lon
don price. wit the duty added. We make
but 10 per cent OF the sugar we use. The
foreign producers fix the price, and what
When we took the tariff off sugar it
amounted to S55, Doc, 900. That amount
was saved to the American people.
When you put a tariff on things such as
are made at home for our own consump-
ton, il protects the American workingman
from foreign made goods and competition
among ourselves fixes the price to the
American consumer. and there has not
been "A thing made at home that has not
been cheapened by competition under this
tariff. Everything has been cheapened but
men. Mr.. Neal says the tariff on wool de-
creases the price. He said that in Cadiz.
always understood that the tariff was
a tax [Iaughterl and that that was added
to the price which the consumers pay.
Well. they have a habit of saying it both
ways. When they are in an Industrial
they say the tariff OF wool in
creases it's price and also the price
Of clothing. When they get into
an agricultural country they say the tariff |
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
RIGHT OF WAY PAID FOR.
The Burlington Will Now Push Work
Across the Reservation.

Tobias Castor, the right of way man
of the Burlington, was in Billings on
Friday last. He met a number of
representative Indians from the Crow
tribe and paid them the remainder OF
the purchase money, some 5 $1,000, for
the right of way over the Indian al
lotments. AS a great deal of work,
bridging, grading and changing the
channel Of the Little Big Horn must
be done this winter, before high water
and freshets make it impracticable, it
is thought that such work will be be-
sun shortly. The promptness with
which the right OF way business has
been settled confirms this view. The
promise of the early construction of
the Burlington system into Montana
is already having the effect of estab-
fishing closer commercial relations be-
tween this and neighboring states. A
representative of the Sheridan, (Wyo.),
Manufacturing company has been in
Billings and has made arrangements
with merchants to handle the flour
of the concern. The Sheridan flour
took II first premium at the Worlds
Fair.-Independent.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

She Dies Very Suddenly at Her Residence in
New York City.

A telegram was received in Helena
yesterday announcing the death at
New York on Thurday of Mrs. w. A.
Clark. She had been sick about a
week, but her illness was not thought
to be serious, and the news of her
death was a real surprise to her Hell
ena friends. Mrs. Clark left Butte a
few weeks ago, going first to the Pa
ciic coast. After visiting various
cities on the sound, and San Fran
cisco, she went to New York. She
had planned to spend the winter in
southern Europe with one of her
daughters. Mr.. Clark, who was over
in Idaho, was notified of her illness n
few days ago, and started on Wednes-
day night for New York.
Mrs. Clark was married to W. A.
Clark in 1869, and went through all
the hardships of the early days. In
recent years she has Travelled extern.
sively, living a great deal of the time
in New York city. She had a most
lovable character and was a lady oil
much ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
THE GILT EDGE ALL RIGHT.
B. A. Ammon, Of New York, Says 1t is the
Greatest Mine in the Country.

"The Gilt Edge is the greatest gold
mine in the country" said r. A. Am
mon, the New York lawyer, who has
just returned from Maiden, while talk
ing to a Tribune reporter. Though
| may look like a tenderfoot, I'll tell
you am not, especially when it comes
to considering a mining proposition.
1 have had considerable experience
with both gold and silver mines in
Colorado and California and / know
a mine when | see one. The Gilt Edge
is u mine in every sense of the word,
or don't know the difference between
a mandamus and demurrer. have
an interest in the townsite of Gilt Edge
and a little stock in the mine and
wish | had more Of the latter. 1t will
make everyone connected with it rich
or l am no prophet. They've got ore
enough in sight to run that 1OO-ton
plant two years. The process OF
treating the ore works like a charm.
never "a anything like it. Here's
two small gold buttons from the Gilt
Edge. I'm going to have them made
into scarf pins for some New York
friends" exhibiting to the interested
reporter some pieces of the yellow
metal about the size OF peas.-Grea,
Falls Tribune.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
The Indianapolis Election.

The city of Indianapolis has elected
Mr.. Denny to be its mayor 10y a ma
jority of about 5000 votes. Mr..
Denny is a Republican. MIR. Sullivan
was the Democratic candidate, two
years ago this very day he was inaug-
urated mayor for a second time, his
majority at the time OF his last cleo
ton being 2,751.
Much more than mere local issues
were involved in the Indianapolis cleo
ton. Congressman Bynnm, who is
somewhat OF "a favorite son" in that
city, left Washington and threw him
self with all his might into the cam
paign. He implored and beseeched
the citizens to consider the bad effect
of a Republican victory upon Demo-
cratic prospects throughout the coun-
try; he entreated his hearers not to
render a verdict that would be con-
strued as one of lack OF confidence in
Mr.. Cleveland's administration. They
heard, considered, and rendered a del
icate and impressive finding against
the party OF which Mr.. Bynum is IA
distinguished representative.
Labor is peculiarly well organized in
indianapolis; better, it is said by
many. than in any other American
city. Two years ago labor was de-
luded into IA belief that Republican
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

policy made the erich richer and the
poor poorer" This delusion was in
force less than a year ago. so that, de-
spite many Democratic votes cas- for
Mr.. Harrison on the ground OF local
pride, the vote of the city was given
to him on his second candidacy by a
very small plurality. The time inter-
vening from November, 1892, to Octo-
Der, 1898, has, however, been full OF
object lessons 20 wage-earners. Thou
sands of men in Indianapolis who in
November, 1892, were earning from
SIS to S25 per week found themselves
without work or wages of any kind in
October, 1898.
1t may be true that the election of
a Republican mayor and a Republican
majority to the city council will not
directly affect tariff legislation in con-
gress, but the Republican majority of
5000 in indianapolis will not be with
out an indirect effect upon the election
of congressman next year, nor will it
be without effect as q solemn finding
of a large jury, OF which wage-earning
men formed a great part, upon the
unfitness of Democratic policy to the
needs of an industrial community.
The vote of indianapolis has been
cast quite as strongly in favor of pro-
lection to American industries as in
favor of better local government
Inter Ocean.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
800 Reward 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased
to learn that there lie at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all it's stages, and h a is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have SO much faith in it's
curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred dollars for any case that it's fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials,
Address, F. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, o.
Efs-Sold by druggists, 75c.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
KILLED Five Bears.

Joseph Lebert and Chas. Mahana were
in town Saturday exhibiting the hides of
two large silver tip bears as the trophies
Of a recent hunt in the foot hills of the
Snowy mountains. On Thursday of last
week a party consisting OF Joseph Lebert,
Elvin Crook, Bert WEIGH. Fred Bean and
Wing started out from upper Cottonwood
creek on a hunt for bear, signs OF their
presence having been discovered during the
summer. They soon found tracks in the
snow and followed the trail with their
trusty Winchesters and Sharps in hand.
In due time the party came upon "A 800
FOUNDER and opened fire. %wounding the ami
NAL but not bringing it down. Thepursuit
now became exciting and a trifie dangerous,
but bruin found no time to rest. The
hunters kept the trail warm over hills and
through the brush. Lebert had the good
fortune to spie the bear at a safe distance
in a thicket and raising his gun gave the
wounded animal a finishing shot.
The following day the party was en-
larged by several new recruits, anongthem
Chas. Mahana of Casino creek. The days
hunt proved very successful, as one old
bear and three cubs were killed. The lat
ter were found on the middle fork of Big
Spring creek while the one killed by Lebert
was back of Tom Moore's ranch.
Mr.. Lebert was offered SEQ for the skin
of the large bear but would not take less
than S25.
Bear and other wild animals are reported
quite numerous in the Snowies this season
and those who are fond of adventure
can find great sport in that range.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

The recent election at Indianapolis,
in which the whole Republican ticket
wal elected by a majority of three
thousand, had more than local signif-
canoe, apparently. Bombastic Bynum,
who came put to Montana two or three
years ago to teach woolgrowers how to
conduct their business SO as to make
money with the tariff removed from
wool, left his seat in congress to take
part in the campaign. He wanted to
carry the victorious returns back to
congress to show that Democracy had
been sustained at his home. But his
cup was filled with gall and NORWOOD.
1t vas u complete rout. Laboring men
who were promised bread have not
been given even a stone, and the scales
are falling from their eyes in all Sec
tions of the country.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

The New York Herald, which is
classed as a Democratic paper but
which frequently exercises a little in
dependence, in a recent editorial says:
at is a curious coincidence that the
Democratic party occupies upon its
Eeturn to power very much the same
critical position before the country as
it occupied when it went out with
James Buchanan. 1t is confronted by
an issue vital to the nation and to its
own existence. And it is prepared to
meet it in the same way it met the
issue of 1860. 1t is split into three
factions, each at war with the other
two, Just as it was when it came out of
the Charleston convention and con-
tinued 10 be until national calamity
followed its indecision and pickering.
AS a minority it has proved itself
strong, alert, resourceful, combative;
as n majority it is again weak, vacil-
lating, disunited. 1t is afraid of its
own shadow"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

Perhaps some OF our readers would like
to know in what respect Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is better than any other.
We will tell you. When this remedy is
taken as soop as a cold is contracted, and
before it has become settled in the system,
it will counterfeit the effect OF the cold and
greatly lessen it's severity, if not effectualIy
cure the cold in two days tina. and it is
the only remedy that will do th,s. 1t acts
in perfect harmony with nature and aids
nature in relieving the iungs, opening the
secretions, liqnefying the mueus and caus-
ing its expulsion from the air cells of the
lungs and restoring the system to "A strong
and healty condition. No other remedy in
the market Possesses these remarkable
properties. No other will cure a cold so
quickly or leave the system in so sound a
condition. For sale by all druggists.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26
GanglRule.

LEwIsTowN, October %, 1898.
EDITOR ARGUS Two remarkable cases
were tried before Justice Mcfarland last
week, and there are facts in connection
with both, with which the should
be conversant.
On October goth w. A. Selvidge was ar
rested OF complaint of S. l.. Bennett on
the charge Of assault and battery. A jury
trial was demanded and a verdict OF not
guilty rendered, and the costs amounting
to S36.SO were taxed against the county.
On October 21st Camille Hogue was tried
on "A charge of assault and battery on the
complaint of Daniel Walton. A jury tried
this case, found defendant not guilty and
taxed the costs amounting to $4,000
against the county.
In neither of these cases was there any
denial CT the assault, nor SO far as we could
judge was there any Justification attempted
in the latter case. Any one who knows
this man Daniel Walton, knows that there
is no more quiet, ;gentlemanly, inoffensive
man in the town. The assault was, ac-
cording to the evidence, malicious, unpro-
voked and a most cowardly one.
The way in which these juries weredrawn
is interesting. A venire was issued
for six jurors in each case, and
placed in the hands OF Under Sheriff David
Scott. OF course it was natural that he
should discover unusual qualifications fol
jury service in his old partner, T.. j. Johns
and subpoena him on both juries. 1t was
| also natural that he should find that tht
gang with which he is in league in en-
deavoring to run the affairs of this com
munity furnished the only suitable ma
terial for jurymen, especially in the case VS.
Hogue, who is a member of that gang.
In this case it was particularly righteou
that Johns should be foreman of the jury
1t is quite proper for him just at presen
to set u good example to other juries il
acquitting criminals. His own trial is no
far off.
The jury in this case was as follows: 7
j.. johns, foreman; Thos. Conway, j
Weaver, NJ. w. Sullivan. George Wilson
Matt Regain.
What do the taxpayers think OF such
travesty upon justice?
How long are we to he subject to tn
gang rule? TAXPAYER.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-10-26

There is still a large run of cattle and
sheep on the Chicago market. 1t was
thought hat late shipments of beef
and mutton would command better
prices but apparently a good many
shippers were figuring the same way.
Week before last some Montana sheep
brought as high as 1925 to $40 but
the market soon took a tumble. But
for the present financial stringency
both cattle and sheep would have
brought fancy prices. Everything is
being crowded on the market as a mat
ter OF necessity.