The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-10-21
G. E. Trescott, publisner.
Local and State News.

The Indian fall roundup was
amped at Fishers place last night.
A Brandon man, says the Leth-
bridge News. is preparing to drive
|, 900 head of cattle and 600 head |
Of horses to the yukon.
Louis Leberge, a Frenchman not
very we'll known in Great Falls,
attempted to commit suicide ih that
.ity tits week by cutting his throat
with a razor. He may not die.
charles Fox. the boss four horse
ueamste" of Montana, who is work
ing for E. e. Leech, leu his team
ron away on Monday and ailled
me OF the leaders oy palms the
Wagon over him, II
Frank Lewis, OF Belt, has been
awarded the contract of building
he Cottonwood branch of th,
Sand Coulee railorad. He says he
| will have the branch to the new
camp completed by December 15.
James Gibson and Alex Gillian
were partners In the saloon bust.
ness in Sylvanlte. They quar- e'ed
over woman and last week the
row, ,culmiuateC in shooting scrape
in which Gillian was killed. He
was the aggressor.
The hum of the thresher is heard
from the ranches around to yn this
week, H. w. Yeager came up
from Choteau this week with his
machine and yesterday sinished
work on Ben English,s ranch and
tis to- day threshfng out Cal Per
Linins' grain. Ben says his grain
turned out better this year than
last, averaging about fifty bushels
to the acre.
Myron Burd, who has spent the
summer in and around Fort Steele,
passed through town on Tuesday
on his way to Choteau. He says
that times are rather quiet over
there now, but as soon as the rail
road is built into the country he
expects that there will be a con.
siderable boom. There is any
quantity of mineral there and it
only awaits the opening of the
country to have the mines worked.
The civil service commission has
ordered that an examination be
held in Butte or December 4th fol-
the position of clerk and carrier in
the postal service. Only ciJizens
of the United States are eligible
Candidates for clerk IL ust be ovel
Is years old and candidates fol
carriers must be between 21 and
40 years. Applications must bs
nade ty November 18th to Bert F
Sample, of Butte, secretrry of the
board of commissioners.
The pavilion at Choteau keeps
up its record. Notwithstanding
that last week furnished what wa
almost fatal tragedy in that del
of iniquity, this week has it's tai
of crime as we'll from the sam
source. Like an ulcer spot on
healthy body is this pavilion il
Choteau. Fortunately the peopI
who live in the county know tn
dangers Of the locality and kno,
how to avoid them, but stranger
seem to fall victims every time
, On Monday night in row ther
a man by the name of Hudson wa
SO roughly handled That for tim
his life was despaired Of Anothe
: stranger giving his name as Ros
was arrested as his assailant. Til
sheriff has to be ever on the waite
to prevent crime Of desperat
character from taking place there
But the time will come, howevt
. vigilant he may be, that some Ii
will be lost there, and who wi
then repair the damage? tt
The good people of Choteau shou
see to it that the fair name of T,
ton county is not blotted with
tale of crime eminating from
uu worthy a source as the pavillio
of which all right minded men a
X ashamed