The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-03-18

Pat Holland, of Bynum. at
the St. Patrick celebration
in Dupuyer yesterday.
Misses Daisy and Pearl Wetzel
Of .Biat kfcot, are the guests #
Mrs. j. w. Mcknight.
Will Hagerty, Levi Burd, James
Whitus and Chas. Buck snd wife,
Of the Agency. came over and at
tended the dance in the city hall
last evening. They will return
today.
Charles Fl. Foot and Charles W.
Pomeroy, of KaIispell, have Termed
q partnership for the purpose OF
practicing law. Evidently this is
" continuance of the partnership
formed by these gentlemen while
Pomeroy was on the bench.
The manager Ct the Choteau
telephone company intends coming
to Dupuyer in a few Gays to try
and let our people interested in
having a line built from here to
the county seat. We hope he will
be successful. as Dupuyer needs
better communication with the
outsid4 world.
On account Of snow the Great
Northern is having considerable
trouble running trains. In the
Dakotas the STOW /, three or four
feet deep on the level, and the
rotary is kept running constantly
to keep the track clear, In Mon
tana it is not quite as bad, but
between Blacktoot and Kalispell
it is not uncommon for trains to
get hung up" in a snow drift.
The ball in the town hall in hon
or of st. Patrick last night was
we'll attended by people Of the
town anG vicinity and from Black
foot and Raymond. The musi1
was good and it was not until
daylight that the jewellers went
home well pleased with their
evenings pleasure.
The reports published in many
OF the state city papers regarding
the great losses of cattle ii
northern Montana are grossly
misleading. At least in this
section the storms of this winter
have not been attended by any
material loss of stock. However
it may be in the eastetn part o
Choteau county. Teton county
stockmen will fare no worse thi'
than other winters.
Much interest vas manifest il
the Corbett- Fitzimmons fight il
Dupuyer and when the result o
the mill was brought to town to
day it was greeted by Iusty cheer
bv Fits hackers, while the Corbet
men tried to look as if they did no
5 care. The word received said.tha
: Corbctt had the best of the fgh
until the 14th round when Fit
knocked him out with a blow o
the stomach. Not oAly was none
bet, but horses, wagons, guns
Watches and regulations wei
staked. Even whiskers were take
as collateral. One man will pa
e fifty cents a shave for a year be
0 cause he could not pick the WHINE
e Word reached here this wee
that J. A. Moulton died on the Ct
inst. at Phoenix, Arizona. M
Moulton taught the public scho
n in Choteau for two years, but ha
: to resign owing to bad health. 4
D then went into the sheep bushes
+ in.company with Chas. Medicinal
: on the Teton. His friends pc
p suaded him to become a candida'
e for school superintendent last ia
t al d he was defeated by q sma
majority. His fell disease, COZ
S sumption, kept growing worse an
he left for California with the hoI
that that climate would recupera'
I his fast failing health. 1t was tt
p late. Upon the advice of his do
n tors he went to the higher altitu(
n of Phoenix. There he died. III
news will be received with genuiI
sorrow by his many friends
Z Teton county. He was a native
n.4o r,ooIo hut had bppn