The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-16

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certificates must pass examination
before the board before they will
be granted to them. The reason
assigned for this action is that the
certificates granted by many east
ern colleges are no, good.
Trains on the Great Falls &
Canada railway now arrive at the
Falls at As p. NJ. and leave there
Z at 4:1O p. m. A traveller may
leave Dupuyer at noon and, going
via Choteau and Collins. be in the
Falls the following p. m. in time to
transact considerable business bes
fore closing hours. He will stay
3. one night in Choteau en- route.
An Anaconda Standard reporter
who has kept record says that
in Montana within the last six
years there have been ITO cases of
homocide, of which AZ were in
Butte, and III cases of suicide, of
which As were in Butte. There
were besides these II found dead,
of which 80 were in Silver Bow
county.
1t is claimed that very valu-
able discovery of gold has been
made on the Missouri river about
eight miles IRON Cascade. Two
Scandinavian miners found it and
one has gone to Chicago for ma.
chinery to develop it. He had
with him 1913 ounces of gold in
nuggets and dust, which they took
out within the last six weeks by
a very primative method.
The Hope mine at Basin was
being prepared for shut down
, last week. The last shift was on
2 and had nearly completed tI-"orS
3 when the hoist u~~- o'soo'ered TO
3 he on f-~~~There were seven men
3 m the mine and they all perished.
!, Their names we're John Buckley,
; Pat Buckley, Martin Sullivan,
6 Hughey M'Kewen, Barney Wall,
A Will Belden and Ed. Macarthur.
+ + The origin of the Gre is not known.
4 Ex-Governor Joseph K. Toole is
5 said to nave become q populist in
4 utter disgust with democratic
. promises aud performances. He
x will lend strength and respectable
9 ity to any party with which he
2 may be identified. He was always
3 the brainiest democrat in the state
and his detection will be great
blow TO the party of free trade and
no wages. Just now the gentle
= man is not an active politician.
y He is lawyer with a large and
" lucrative practice and legal repre-
sentative of the Northern Pacific
railroad. How he can be corpor-
' alton attorney aud a populist at
o, the same time--but the, either can
I'd be anything!-Butte Miner.
a' Governor Richards has signed
the following Arbor day proclama-
ton In pursuance of the law l
hereby designate May 18th, 1896,
or as Arbor day and recommend the
X observance thereof by the citizens
of Montana. The law has wisely
,r- set apart one day in the year to be
ed devoted to tree planting by patri
ge otic citizens who recognize the
value of such adornments to this
=, present and future In no sectior
= of the country can the custom o
" Arbor be observed with more pro
,,u priety and with better results thai
in Montana, l trust the publi
schools will commemorate the oc
casion in the usual manner, an
-, ~ that great benefit will result t
the state from the universal obser
-, vance of the day
and Among the bills that have pass
cd the house recently the one fc
the relief of the settlers on tn
Fort Assinniboine reservation is {
special interest to the people
Montana. 1t confirms the title
about $50 settlers to their home
;, '",' and settles the right of Homestead
ers to locate about 375, 900 acre
under the public land laws. Viii
this is only an act of justice, it
) ol proper to say that it could nc
on have been secured but for the az
Win tive work of the Montana deleg
lay ton in congress and the gentieme
pro- are entitled to congratulations Il
mill the success that has crowned the
efforts. 1t is easy to introduce