Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-04-26

der to get to q railway line. The
Arlington stables must be a poor
apology. for The team hired 10 these
gentlemen would disgrace a breed cart
and the buggy was better bound with
wire than iron.
While at Havre last week Rev. Ed
wards invited the pastors to Lewis
town for the fall meeting of presby-
terry. This will be some time during
september and will bring to the city a
number OF clergymen from the north
and vest. Lewistown will be pleased
to receive these gentlemen and enter
tain them in the most appropriate
manner.
Oscar Johnston has rented the old
poor farm" on the Teton, and which
is now owned by VIM. Harrison--'Old
Sol OF depot fame. Johnston intends
putting the entire farm i'm oats to sup
ply feed for his stock on the stage line
of which he takes possession on July
LIST. VIM. Cecil left for the farm this
week and is now engaged in seeding
the same.-River Press.
DIR. j. ii. Willard will lecture at the
Presbyterian church tomorrow, Fri
day, evening under the auspices OF the
Musical Assembly. The subject is
.Rest and Pain" The assembly have
prepared several music Al selections
and Prof. II. j. Loar will read. These
lectures have been very well attended
during the winter and it is safe %
that this will be no exception.
1t must be painfully apparent to
bulldozer Ammon that he sized up
some OF our people entirely wrong.
His game of bluff did not work in every
instance. Over at Gilt Edge the smart
Aleck was blowing about his word be-
ing as good as his bond, when a party
standing by interposed: 'It's not
deuce high, sir; not deuce high" The
great bear killer Immediately subsidized.
Thomas Shea arrived from the east
on Tuesdays Billings coach. He
shipped a bunch of horses to Dakota
last summer where he disposed of
them and then made a visit to his old
home at Galena. Illinois, the first time
in Chicago for Big Sandy, but upon
reaching st. Paul found the strike on
and was compelled to take the North
ern Pacific.
Fred H. Foster, a prominent attor-
ney and the present mayor OF Billings,
and c. NJ. Bair, a leading wo%olgrower
of Yellowstone county, spent several
days in Iewistown during the past
week. They were on private business.
Mr.. Bair is the gentleman who is on
cerned in the legal battle with the
First National bank OF Billings over
the property of II. j. Martin & Sons.
Several of the leading attorneys OF the
state are retained in this case which is
set for trial early next month.
Hogan's division OF Coxey's army
passed through Big Timber Tuesday
evening about 10 o'clock, stopping
there about three-uuarters of an
hour. They took an engine and six
cars at Butte, two cars at Bozeman
and five at Livingston. There are
seven engineers and two operators in
the army. The Northern Pacific SEM
a dispatch telling them to look out
for the regular trains. A message was
sent in reply telling the n. p. to keep
their trains out of the way and they
would not be bothered, that they
were going right through. There were
about 600 on the train. Regular
trains are delayed on the N. p. owing
to the "wild" train of the army.
E. p. Chandler was in town Friday
last, being called to examine a man
charged with insanity. The examine
ton proved that Eli Wills and the
man Petermann, though both knights
of the buck saw, are not entirely
friendly. Wills has a daughter and
Petermann has a longing for the fair
maiden and not having been invited
ticipate in some recent festivities took
the warpath. Eli had Petermann ar
rested for insanity, though it did not
entirely develop on the examination
whether the irate father believed the
longing for the daughter or the resent
ing oil insult afforded the stronger
proof of insanity. The man was dis
charged.
j.. H. Charters of Grass Range was
in town first OF the week. The recent
burning OF his store at that point was
correct as published last week,
though at the time it was hardly cred
tied. The fire took PLACED late at night
after all had retired and is thought to
have caught from the fiue as no other
cause cal well he assigned. Mr.. Char
tiers places his loss, according to last
invoice at $4,000. The insurance is
$4,000, held by the Hartford and
Firemans' Fund companies. An ad-
justor is expected from Helena this
week. Mr.. Charters has had far more
than his share of bad luck during the
two past seasons, but he believes
that sit is a long lane that has no
turn" and is not discouraged.
The Ladies Aid Society received a
call for aid from Gilt Edge the first of
the week. Many families are reported
as actually in need of food and cloth
ing. Those suffering had waited pa
tiently until it was seen whether any
work could be obtained at the mines,
but now that it is a settled fact that