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

Lodge having in custody Robert Viii.
cox, who was convicted of forgery the
last term of court.
Carpenter, the photographer, will
have a lot OF photographs of Lewis
town people on exhibition Friday
morning. Everybody is ernestly re.
quested to call and see them and de-
eide for themselves whether his work
here is as good as his samples or not.
Mr.. Carpenter will remain here until
December 10th.
Attention, Ladies, A meeting OF
the ladies of the Presbyterian church
is called for Friday afternoon at three
O'Clock at Mrs. Hanson's to perfect
arrangements for the "Dollar Social"
This unique venture in the social line
will be launched at the Presbyterian
church Tuesday evening next. There
will be no charge for admission. Sup
per will be served at the usual rate of
fifty cents.
Clerk Kelly informs us that a mis-
understanding exists among miners in
regard to the law extending time for
assessment work on mining claims.
This law provides that owners of min
ing claims must file with the clerk of
the county on or before the thirty
first day of December 1894, q notice
setting forth certain particulars and
that they desire to avail themselves
of this law. Miners may procure
blank notices at this office.
In these hard times not q dollar
should be sent out of the country for
goods which are for sale by our local
dealers. You earn your money in
this county and should spend it here.
Because you can buy u piece of flannel
or a pound Of coffee a little cheaper in
the east do not send your money out
OF the county. Patronize home indus
try. Nowhere will you find a better
line of dry goods, groceries and cloth
ing for home consumption than at the
Power Mercantile Co. Read their adj
| vel III thio i''bo VI tiC hhoto
and give them your patronage.
Capt j. V. Stafford, OF Avalanche
Mes CHER county lost his entire grain
crop by fire a few days since. The
captain had just begun to thrash his
oats and wheat, with the aid of John
Nichols threshing crew, when a spark
from the engine set fire to the big stack
OF unthreshed grain, and befo~reniehtfall
the entire product OF a hundred acres
was destroyed. The ranch buildings
and haystacks were in danger of des-
truction for a time or account of the
heavy wind. The loss is placed at
80, 900, it being estimated that 5000
bushels OF grain were destroyed.
DR.. A.. +. KRONER, the well known
dentist, who spent n portion of last
summer in I.ewistown, arrived from
Helena on last Saturdays coach.
The doctor came for the purpose of
locating permanently but as he is un-
able to make suitable arrangements
this fall has concluded to defer NOV
ing his family here until spring. AS
will be seen by his advertisement else
where, the doctor will remain here
three or four weeks and wait on all
those desiring his professional SER
vices. He has adopted a reasonable
scale of prices and guarantees first
class work. Parties suffering with
their teeth should not fail to call on
him at once.
We are informed that "wolfers" are
killing deer and antelope and hanging
their a aside to be used in poi
soning wolves and coyotes after the
time for killing the former has closed.
1t seems almost incredible that after
our lawmakers have taken steps to
protect game in order that it may in
crease, that anyone should resort to
such methods to obtain wolf bait. II
this is done now when there is SO little
encouragement given to wolfers in the
way of bounty, what would be the re-
suit if a sufficient bounty were given
to make the business profitable? How
to obtain bait without killing stock or
game animals may be a question moi
easily answered, yet deer and antelope
should DE spared at all hazards, even if
it becomes necessary to enact more
stringent laws. Poisoning does not ap-
pear to be a very effective way of rid
ding the range of wolves and coyotes.
Why not try some other plan?
Considerable controversy has been
created this week by the action OF Prof.
Loar in putting thirty-two scholars of
the school on half time. The same
action was taken last year and met
opposition from the parents. The
arrangement is that eighteen scholars
of the primary department attend the
morning session while fourteen others
remain at home these, eighteen remain
away in the afternoon and the four
teen attend. This action is necessi-
tated by the over-crowding in the pri-
mary department and the inpossi-
bility of accommodating the thirty-two
at one session. Last year the attend
ance necessitated the continuance oil
tins arrangement but four weeks, for
as soon as cold weather came many
OF the little ones remained at home
altogether and it is not likely to be
different this year. The district is
short OF funds, the teachers ha ving re-
ceived nothing this fall and the teach
ers OF the summer schools, Castle Butte
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