Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-11-29
MONTANA NEWS.

A large cinnamon bear was caught
in a trap at Sixteen Mile creek, Gal
latin county recently.
The State Board of Canvassers will
not meet to v the State returns
until the 18th of * month.
The upper Basin hotel in the Yellow
stone Park, a three story frame struc-
ture, was recently destroyed by fire.
John Washington, a colored man
held for rape at FIT. Benton, hanged
himself in the county Jail on the 23d
inst.
By the end of next season the Great
Falls & Canada road will have been
changed from q narrow to a broad
guage.
Butte police are preparing for a visit
from slack, the Stranger" who re-
Gently murdered three women of i'll
fame in Denver.
1t is estimated that the apple crop
OF Ravalli county reached 10000
boxes this year. Last year it was
only about 1000 boxes.
VIM. B~allenger, OF Nye, Mont, who
is "A years of age. killed a silver tip
bear on the saltwater recently. The
animal weighed 900 pounds and meas
ured seven feet nine in ches from tip to
tiw.
In Meagher county the Rel ublicans
elected two candidates-C. W. Hill,
clerk and recorder, and William Nc
was carried by Democrats and Popu-
lists.
Big Timber has organized a "Sweet
Grass County Club" for the creation
!, of a new county. The officers elected
!, one H.O. Kellogg president, f. c. Hale,
secretary, H. Bliss and J. A. Hall vice
presidents.
3 Governor Richards will grant a fur
Their respite in the case of Black, the
Kalispell murderer, whose postponed
execution was to have taken place.
last Friday. Arguments on motion
! for a new trial will be made before the
supreem court December B.
DIR. Parberry drove Il flock OF old
ewes and "a few weathers to Big Tim
ler recently for shipment, but did not
like the market returned them to his
ranch neal Melville, where he has
/, a.antal ohal. aa mill u,;,ta. Thar,
e with a view to selling in the early
q spring market.-Husbandman.
The widow of the late Senator
Hearst has made q generous donation
to the city OF Anaconda, in memory
4 OF her late husband. 1t is for n pub
lie library and 100 600 is the princely
sum given. A magnificent building
4 which will be a model of architectural
2 beauty is to be erected, the designs
e being now in the hands of an eminent
u architect.
The Montana Central is doing a
$ booming business in Shipping coal tehse
days. They are handling about 35
8 cars n day from Belt, 8 cars from
. Arlington and 125 cars a day from
Sand Coulee. This would amount to
nearly 5000 tons of coal mined daily
J in the two coal camps OF Belt and
. Sand Coulee. The railway officials
, state that these figures, enor
nous as they are, will be futher in
creased as soon rs they get more
cars.-Tribune.
o River Press: A band of 1000 NUT
ton wethers, purchased by C. H
e Merrill, from the Chamberlin Live
stock company, were brought across
the river last evening, and will tomor
row be loaded at the Fort Benton yards
for shipment to Chicago. II. II. Hor
\ ton, of Grafton, and Fred Garad, o
Libby's ranch, will take the sheep to
Chicago, after which Mr.. Horton goes
to New York state, where his wife il
quite i'll. The varying prices OF thu
r mutton market this year was illus
trated two weeks ago, when the sheer
OF Mr.. Merrill and Mr.. Poole, the lat
|, ter of Stanford, were put on the mar
ket, a few days apart. Both were
good bands, shipped from the judith
basin, and while Mr.. Poole's sheer
. netted a trif1e less than one dollar
e per head, the sheep OF Mr.. Merrill
a few days later, Melted S2.45 pei
head. During the season now almost
n ended, the mutton market has beer
e the most unreliable OF any ofthe stocl
markets, and the men who netted
over $500 per head played in biz
J. luck.