The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-23

Frank Leech left on Monday on
a trip to Iowa. They say he will
not return alone.
Chas. B. Cartwright was up from
the Marias to-day and was a well
come visitor at the Acantha office.
Charles Parsons, head push on
the Parsons. Taylor ditch on Birch
creek, IS laid up this week with a
sore hand.
Miss Eliza Schwab, of Helena,
niecs of A. L. Hoy, who is visiting
her uncle at Raymond, was in town
on Monday.
Eb. Rose, of the e sheep firm,
of Rose and Davis, of Pc dera,
was in town this week looking
of ter business.
The surveyor the coded strip of
the Blackfeet reservation was COM
pieted this week and the papers are
likely now on their way to Wash
ington.
B. P. Gallagher and party,
of Great. Falls, passed through
town on Tuesday on their way home
from a months outing at St. Marys
/ lakes. ....@~--, -
w. D. Jones returned home on
Monday. He did not hear of the
fire at his place until he saw the
report 10 the Acantha. There vas
no insurance on the building.
The Marias school opened or
Tuesday with Miss Gallagher guild
ing the young ideas. Several
children are moving in from the
surrounding country to attend
school there, this winter.
Dan Sullivan two week ks ago was
thrown from a horse and had two
ribs broken and one fractured.
Last Sunday he was thrown again
and sustained other severe injuries
which have confined him to his bed.
Clerk McGill has concluded tax.
ing the census of school district
No. 2. There are 1872 children
between the ages of 6 and FL and
SO under 6 years of age. This
makes a total Of 275, an increase
of 81 OYER last year.
Henry Weimer has two men en-
gagged developing his coal mine or
4 Birch creek and will deliver coal t.
= any persons needing it this winter
= The tunnel is now in twenty fvt
feet and the further in they go the
: better is the grade of the material
On Sunday an employee of thu
Fort Shaw school struck town II
pursuit of five girls who had rur
o away FROM the Fort Shaw school,
g He conferred with Deputy-Sherif
q Gardiner here, and as that office
had 20 seen them he concluded t.
return. On the way between her
9 and Bynum he met the five truant
q making ali haste to the reservation
" on foot. He took them ali bacI
n with hun, they having had a littl
walk of about 40 miles for thei
" health.
y Joe Kipp is engaged cutting
IF trail into tie mountains and j
e breaking about fifty head of horse
re for the purpose Of establishing
4. transportation line for the benefi
y of miners, prospectors and other
l. who will flock into the new miherf
. strip. Evidently the best way TO
n those who have no pack outfits t
'e get in will be to go to Blackfoot b
train and take the proposed trans
q portation route Into the ~nountain
IS as it will be the most direct line.
An experienced prospector, VIII
is well known ss a conservate tall
Is er, and who has been over the stri
;. about to be thrown open told
reporter recently that there wa
" no danger OF all the good niners
- claims being taken up at the frs
- thrush. The country is too exten
y stve and rough to te thorough
) prospected in years. He says tina
in the north end there are liable t
-. be developed some OF the best cor
p-, p@s iu me 40, III, Wide ia.
" Their south, IN tut vicinity of Tw
'r Medicine, there will be found goi