Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-05-11
MONTANA NEWS.

for September goth.
The state encaInpnent of the G.. A. r.
meets in Great Falls this week.
Attorney General Olney has approved
the title to the Hslrna military post.
Anaconda furnished the flag for the Mon
tana state building at the Worlds Fair.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pyth-
las will meet at Helena on the 10th of May.
The militia of Montana will hold a state
encampment at Fort Ellis, near Bozeman,
next fall.
1t is stated President Cleveland will visit
Montana during the summer on a fishing
excursion.
The Castle Reporter, the last surviving
several days since.
A company has been organized at Liv-
i~ngston to construct "A telephone line to the
Boulder district, and Big Timber people
are splitting cotton.
Geo. W. Morehouse, police magistrate at
Great Falls, has committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head with a
3S-caliber revolver. Fear of paralysis is
said to have been the cause OF the deed.
Malta is in anticipation Of a boom this
season. There are rumors that it will be
made the end of a freight division by the
Great Northern, and a survey for a town
site will 500 be made.-Valley County
News.
Charles A. Baker, the Custer county muir
derer who has been under sentence for muir
der in the first in the first degree since last
lall and who secured a new trial, was found
guilty oil manslaughter at Miles City last
week and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
At Kalispell, IN May 18th. Judge Dubose
sentenced Tom Written to ten years in the
penitentiary for killing a gambler named
Butler at Demersville, July 21, 1881. The
two men had quarrcled in "a saloon and
Written went out. returning in a few
minutes with a rifle, when he shot and
killed Butler.
A miner who was sent to the Slogan
country by Bozeman parties to investigate
it's prospects, has written the following
terse letter, which will be fully understood
and the situation appreciated by all west
ern men: Dear Sir: The gamblers are
playing solitaire and the prostitutes are
doing their own washing .''-Chronicle
Latest report is that Hunters Hot
Springs have been purchased by a syndicate
which will pipe the water across the Ie'-
lowstone to commodious buildings on the
south side. where every accommodation
and convenience may be obtained. The
syndicate will lay out IA town surrounding
the hotel, which is expected to rival Hot
Springs, Ark.-Billings Gazette.
\ daring burglary was committed in the
Kaiser hotel at Phillipsburg on the 18th
inst, and about 1925 taken from the office
safe while the parties in charge were but
temporarily absent. No clue has yet been
obtained. but it is believed to Ie the work
oflocal parties, as Mr.. Kaiser, the proprie-
tor Of the hotel, has been generally known
to keep on hand considerable sums of
money.
The seasonio for cattle operationsi is almost
upon the owners in this vicinity, and pre-
para tiOns for the season's work are begin
ming. The big Miner and Kohrs outfits
will soon start their roundups, and for
that purpose a meeting of those owners
will he held in this city this week. Today
j. B. Sturgeon, foreman for Kohrs, and
John Sarvant, foreman for Bloom, came
in from Malta. They were accompanied
by w. G.. Kyle, of the firm of Kyle e Slaugh-
ter, who were among those who brougt in
cattle from Texas last ~year.-River Press.
Capt. Taylor reports that ''Swede OLE
and big Jumbo Kid" two noted char
ucters in Great Falls, came very near
heing drowned on Friday by the capsizing
pf II skiff in which they were pleasure riding
on ~Broadwater bay. The captain noticed
the struggle in the water and went to their
rescue in nothe BOAT and arrived just in
lime TO save the two men from drowning.
Congress should vote Capt. Taylor Il gold
medal for his heroic services in rescuing
people from being drowned in ~Broadwater
hay. He has several OF them on his list
Great Falls Tribune.
The claim agent uf the Great Northern
comp my states that the number of cattle
niiled between Malta and Havre during
the past few months was exceedingly large.
Recently he inspected III hides at Chi
nook, and on Tuesday of this week he in
spected another batch of 2S5 hides at the
same place. The number killed east OF
Havre was far in excess of those killed be-
tween Havre and Great Falls. and was
partially accounted for from the reason
that during the odd weather and deep
SHOWS the cattle would huddle in the deep
| .ttt- uIanu flo raTIr.aI tr,.L u,I ,xar.
often unable to escape the locomotive
For Benton Press.
A case of drowning, under peculiar cir
cumstances, Tuesday morning. is reported
from Chinook, the person being William
Matheson. son III Al rancher living on the
North Fork OF Milk river, a few miles east
of that place. Matheson attempted to
cross the river la a leaky boat near its
mouth, having on board a heavy harrow.
The boat sank until the water was almost
up to the boys shoulders, when it must
have rested on "a snag. His father pro-
cured "A rope, but was unable to throw the
end to the boy. Finally n young man
named Blackstone took the rope and swan
out to the boy, for the purpose Of making
it fast around the boy, but as blackstone
stepped on the boat the supporting snag
gave away. and under the weight of harrow
and men il sank, Matheson disappearing
with it,. Blackstone waited in vain for him
to rise and then swan to shore. The body
OF young Matheson was recovered Tuesday
evening where he disappeared. He was
quite a popular young man, well liked in
the community where he was
River Press.