The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-09
LOCAL LAYOUT.

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that the Robare school shall be
allowed to continue. Good for
them.
A certain young lady in this
vicinity is learning to play the
mouth organ. She is now spoken
OF as the "fairest flower that
blows"
Miss Grace Vance, who has been
visiting with E. E. Leech and
family for . few days, left on the
coach Thursday for her new home
in Seattle.
We were pleased to see the genial
co~untenance of Hank Norris on our
streets this week. He IS down
from the St. Mary's lakes and re-
ports everything as prosperous in
that region.
Raphael Morgan, who was spoken
of in this paper as being confined
to the house by an attack of sciatic
rheumatism, is still suffering Sc
verely. He will 60 to the hot
springs in Calgary, N. W. T., as
soon as he can make arrangements.
Marysville Mountaineer: "The
goldbugs say that congress can
make a law to pay the gold miner
$40 an ounce for gold, but that it
is impotent to make a law to pay
the silver miner 1929 an ounce for
silver. To sheol with such argu-
ment!"
The thermometer has ranged
this week all the way from forty
degrees above to forty degrees
below zero. The winds have also
been getting in their work, having
switched from the balmy chinook
to a veritable blizzard. W. r
having"weather'with a vengeance.
Mr.. Jansen, the blacksmith at
Fl. Shaw, passed through town on
the 7th, with three Indian scholars
who had ran away. One more is
still un%captured. He reports the
school at the old fort as in a thriv-
ing condition and numbering nearly
ITS scholars, who are being edu-
Gated into the white mans method.
TheFparty of surveyors engaged
at work in the. Big Blackfoot, sup
posedly in the interest of the Great
Northern, are reported to be still
pushing ahead as rapidly as cir
c~umstances will permit. One e
port is that President Hill is plan
ming to branch out and stretch a
line through Missoula and the Bit
ter Root range to tap the Idaho
gold belt and the Palouse country,
but up to date it is only guess
work at the best. -Missoulian.
The scheme of raising water by
the centrifugal pump process at
Priests crossing will be completed
this season, and all the land lying
between that point and Ulm station
will be irrigated. Ulm and Corson
have already completed the dam
which is said to be the burden OF
the expense of the enterprise. The
introduction of this pump into this
section will stimulate farming in
this county. 1t is d process which
is used in Colorado and California a
great deal and is far cheaper than
the gravity process where the
banks Of the streams r high
Sun River Sun.
JUST before Senator Power left
for Washington he said to Helena
Herald correspondent that he stuff
cred from no pangs of disappoint.
ment because of the senatorial out.
come; that he should conclude his
public duties in a serene state OF
mind, and at the close return tc
the management of his large bust
ness affairs, giving them more OF
his personal attention than he had
for years past been able to by rea-
son of the public demands upon
him. Senator Powers record at
Washington has been one of honor
to himself and state since he en-
tered public life.
Owing to the misunderstanding,
or perhaps it may be termed an
understanding, existing between
Capt. Cooke, the agent at Piegan,
party of the first part, and L. G.
Hofius, clerk for H. A. Kennerly,