Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-05-17
MONTANA NEWS.

Billings is to have a broom factory
"Micky" Slavin has beer run out of
Bozeman as a vag.
The Rocky Fork mines are now run
ming night and day.
The plant for the Deer Lodge cream
cry has been ordered.
The Coxey Home Guards of Butte
now number over l 1000 members.
The wagon bridge across the Yellow
stone at Billings will be completed
within q month.
The Populist state convention has
been called to meet at Deer Lodge,
Monday, June 25.
W. A. Talmage has sold out his in
terest in the Yegan-Talmage Mercan-
tile company at Red Lodge.
The Great Northern depot at Havre
was totally destroyed by fire one day
last week. Origin of the fire unknown.
The contract for building the east
ern p~enitentiary at Billings has been
awarded to II. J. Shaffer for 500, 1884.
Work will begin as soon as the con-
tract is drawn up and signed.
At Livingston the jury in the Bloom
murder case returned a verdict of
murder in the second degree, fixing the
penalty at fifteen years Imprisonment.
At the first trial Bloom was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
and the penalty was fixed at imprison-
ment for life.
The Massachusetts & Montana Gold
Mining company has filed it's articles
OF incorporation with the secretary of
state, the incorporators being VIII
liam y. Pemberton, G. w. Sproule,
Preston ii. Leslie and f. ID. Weed.
The company will do a general mining
business in Jefferson county and have
an Office at Butte. The capital stock
is placed at $4,000, 900.
Capt. George S. Hoyt, tine assistant
quartermaster detailed to take care
OF the construction of Fort Harrison
has publicly called for bids for the
construction of some of the post
buildings. Bids will be received up to
June IL, 1894, at IL o'clock noon.
rNhA II.1S ta for throa oAfo ~ double
officers quarters, the same for non
commissioned officers, a double bar
racks. ~storehouse and bakery, a guard
house and a stable, all brick, and a
scale house of wood. Bids will also
be received for furnishing the plumb
ing, heating and gas apparatus. The
plans may be seen in the quartermas-
ter's Office in Helena.
1t is learned from Glasgow that
Thomas Wherry, who shot and seri-
ously wounded Lem Branson at Malta
n few months ago and who jumped
his bail bond and fled to Wyoming,
has been taken back and is now in
jail at the county seat of Valley
county. 1t will be remembered that
the governor of Wyoming refused to
honor a requisition for Wherry some
weeks ago(but after a lengthy cores
pondence bet ween the executives OF
Montana and Wyoming the matter
was amicably arranged and Wherry
delivered to Officer Garland, one of
the bondsmen of the absconder.
Wherry will be tried at the next term
two counts, that OF jumping his bail
and assaulting Branson with intent
to kill.
Work on nearly all of the placer
claims of the Clarke's Fork is sus-
pended on account of the high water.
II. w. Darrah and Henry Reams at
their last cleanup got $3.50 worth OF
gold dust for Is days work for two
men and a team and a scraper. John
Bush cleaned up $500, equal to S12 a
day, for the same kind of an outfit.
Work on the bars Of the river will not
be resumed until after high water. 1t
has been demonstrated that good
wages can be made on most Of the
bars by men who understand the
work. Some miners got too much
slant to their sluice boxes thinking
that the fine gold would sink the same
as in the old-time diggings. AS a con-
sequence they did not succeed and left
disguised. Other miners have gone
there expecting to find rich dIggings
like those of former days and ofcourse
were disappointed. 1t requires plenty
of work and good sluice boxes to
make it pay and loafers had better
not go there.-Red Lodge Picket.
Nearly all women have good hair though