The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-09
Bob Burdette, the famous humor-
st lectured in Butte last week. ,a

They had a big cooking main there
last week.
The Wicklow Postman, in which
John L. Sullivan is the drawing
card, was played in the opera
house in the Falls last week.
A. Valley, the stage driver
between here and Blackfoot, went
to Choteau on Saturday on busl4
ness. During his absence Fred
Waltman is driving the coach.
6. A. Spraagg went to :Choteau
last Friday and has not yet return
ed He was to have come back on
Monday. His blacksmith shop has
been closed since he went away.
Thomas Clary, of Fort Benton,
has purchased train load of two
year old steers in Oregon. They
will be delivered early 10 the spring
and are said to cost $3.50 per
head laid down.
Morphine Frenohy, who was ar
rested last week in Great Falls for
coming and passing counterfeit
dimes and quarters, was acquitted
out of pity for his depiorable cons
dition from the use of the drug
from which he gets his nick name.
German brewers have contracted
for $500, 600 tushcls of Montana
barley from next seasons crop. The
barley grown in this state is gaining
world wide reputation and the time
is coming when it will be a great
source Of revenue to our agrcuI-
G turalists.
A e. Upton, who has charge of
the Butte and Anaconda race
courses has returned from trip
east and south in the interest Of
= the Montana circuit. He is en-
thusiastic over the prospects and
; SAYS that there will be better
ueets on those tracks this year
. than ever before
s Tony Grilenberger, formerly of
q Dupuver, but nova police officer
, in Great Falls, tried to arrest a
" big bully who was creating dis
n turbance and in the scuffle he got
"a bis arm broken and his shoulder
m dislocatcd The bully will be tried
,. in the district court on a charge OF
1t resisting an officer.
N Contractor Burgy refuses to
e proceed further with the construc-
Z tion OF the new school building at
y Choteau until an estimate of some
II thing like 81, coo is allowed by the
y school trustees. The ontractor
y claims the architect employed by
y the trustees is incompetent and has
y made changes in the original plans
J. and specifications that necessi.ates
" the expenditure Of ihore money
le than he can afford under his con-
Il tract. The matter will probably
be taken into court for settlement.
Meantime the building will stand
~ partially completed until the con-
~ trovcrsy is settled in some way
Anaconda Standard.
=. Congress is about to strike a
severe blow at the divorce industry
in the territories. A bill has passed
"i the house and will get through the
:" senate requiring Il years residence
in any teri itory before parties can
enter suit for divorce This will be
Il a hard blow at unsuited couples
"a who by three months sojourn in
I'M Oklahoma could get united at small
expense and in double quick time.
in What is Oklahoma's loss will be the
rs DakotAs gain, for as yet in those
at states only a six months residence
is the essential. With the passage
y OF the bill there will be notable
,ll falling off in the divorce colony, for
or all of which some people will feel
IT. grateful and many others uugrate>
n, full.
Ike The Legislature of Utah ha!
passed bill abolishing the offic'
as of coroner. This is very sens:bl
IS. reform. 1t would puzzle anyone tc
tell why that medieval survival ha
been permitted to exist so long
The chief function. that of holdin.
inquests on the dead, can be tette
performed by the nearest justle
of the peace. The only other dut
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