The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-10-14

aoed.
Tue Fergus county fair was a
marked success.
Frank Leech and his bride came
b mr on Monday and are stay ing
temporarily st E K, Leech's place
while their own house is being tit-
ted up.
Since the advent of the hoboes
shipped in by the Great Northern
to u eat Falls petty crimes are the
daily order. aud there is fear tha,
some OF great Importance may
occur atany time.
The Anaconda company is en-
gagged Improving the water works
of that city The present reser.
voir, which has "a capacity of 5, 900
900 gallons will be enlarged to hold
%, 600, 600 gallons.
A. b Hamilton, ac mplnied by
ais daughter Ella: passed through
own on Sunday, going to their
home on Cut BAuk. Mr. Hamilton
is n)vi lg h 5 g,oi> n n CnDJeiu
y his new nom, VII .r,. he SAYS ht
viii soou have the pfettiest place
II Teton county. =
Gus Momburg. who few years
,go was shot in the eft hip, has
gone to chicago for treatmen t.,
The bullet could never be located
oy the local doctors. and the wound
30 hurt him that a, times he was
laid up for days and weeks together.
This week 3. M. steele received "a
letter, from Gus saying that h,
expected to soon be cured. The
ouIlet was lodged against the other
alp and the trouble IS that the bone
IS decayed where the bullet passed.
At the auction sale held las
Friday of James Canpbell's ranch
aud chatteIs everything brought d
good price except the ranch. 1t
Was knocked down to John T,
McLane for the sum Of $135 Mr..
Can pbell, as soon as he got his
b lSiress Strengthened up, left on
he north coach on his way to the
coast, Ell route to Alaska. He
will probably remain in the coas,
towns until spring, when he will
60 up on the first boat to the land
of gold.
Thos. McGovern has now his
Dig ditch out of Birch creek COM
pleted as far as the old store
This s;heme is a good one and
when completed it will cover 5000
acres of government land as good
or better than any in Teton county,
The ditch is being built large
enough to carry suffic, mt water to
irrigate this tract. The ditch will
be we'll advanced toward compile
tion before the frost sets in. When
water is thrown on this land there
will be no more desirable location
for home in Teton county.
The columns Of a newspaper,
however local that paper may be,
should be open only to articles OF
public interest. Items of news of
this character are always welcome
in a newspap ,r Office and no one
knows oetter than a country editor
how TO appreciate them. OF fcourse
an editor should have an extensive
personal knowlelgA of p3ople as
possible, but he cannot be expe. TED
to be conversaut with all the petty
differ'nces g of the people of the
county in which he resides. Hence
it may sometimes happen that ID
correspondent mly, by some Gun
ningly worded item, work off a
personal spite to the injury of some
better citizen. For instance a
correspondent at Blackfoot may
thus impose upon an editor IN
Choteau, but it is u glaring breach
OF newspaper etiquette aud can
eminate only from a very unreliable
source, to say the least. Yet when
ap editor fails in that most essen
tial attribute, the power tC
distin guish reai news from petty
scandal, he has mistaken his call
ing and sh puld step down and ou
to max way for competent non.