Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-05-26

| Col, j.. ii. Rlce, VINO mas recently
returned from a trip to Oregon and
adjoining states, reports stock cattle
scarce and high i'm that section. He
also finds the sheep interests OF Ore
gon degenerating into scrub stock,
and diminishing I'm numbers. The
shearing season has been on In
Wyoming the past few weeks. wool
sales ranging for n most part at
from IN to liz cents.-River Press.
JOS. Stiles, eldest son of Cyrus
Stiles, il visiting his parents and
Stiles was a resident of Lewistown
for a short time about six years
ago, but has since beef employed on
Pacific coast and in the Touring mills
of st Paul. He had not seen his Sis
ter Mrs. White, since she was a small
child and SO arranged his visit as to
spend a week in Lewistown before
her departure for Denver.
Cattle, sheep and oats are up but
no shopkeeper in Lewistown has
been instrumental i'm their advance.
Some things that have gone down:
County drug contracts, physic-
ians' prescriptions, and all drugs
and chemicals that have no stated
price. e. H.. Williams, it is admitted
by everyone, WAS the cause of their
going down. His increasing trade
T., .ra rraf 80 tha ahDva DaaI
his advertisement on this page.
Assessor Croft. who returned to
town last week, after three weeks
absence i'm the western end of h
county. reports that Indications
poin to a slight decrease in the num-
Der of cattle from those assessed last
year, and about the same number of
sheep, though owing to the raise In
valuation, the sheep assessment will
he considerably greater than that of
last year. The total assessment will
probably be about the same as 1896.
A special dispatch to the Anaconda
Standard from Washington announ-
ces that the resignation of Mai.
Steele, Blackfeet Indian agent, has
been requested owing to serious
charges which have been preferred
against him, and that Geo. b. Nc
Laughlin, formerly sheriff of Choteau
county, will be appointed to the
position. 1t had been thought that
Mclaughlin would receive the ap-
pointment as United States deputy
marshal.
w. w. Johnston, commercial agent
of the Burlington railroad at Bill
lngs, was in Lewistown Saturday
evening accompanied by II. b. Segur,
formerly of Atchison, Kan, but who
soon succeeds Mr.. Johnston at Bill
lings, that popular gentleman hay
ing been promoted to the position of
commercial agent at Beatrice, Neb.,
the headquarters of the company.
The gentlemen had been visiting the
Basin. They were entertained by A.
w. War; while i'm LewistOwn.
Owing to the accident to Doe"
Frields, foreman of the Judith Cattle
Co., which prevents his riding, that
gentleman has resigned his position
and been succeeded by Elmer f.
Briggs, of Highwood. "Doc." will
give his attention, ut least for the
present, to his own cattle, which
range on the Shonkin. His admins
tration of the company's affairs have
been entirely satisfactory and j. II.
Mcknight, manager of the company,
expresses regret that Doc" has
been compelled to resign.
d. C. Austin called at this office
last week and requested that we
draw the attention of the public to
alleged unlawful acts of the Lewis
town school board, Mr.. Austin
claiming that the board had given
away school property, had erected "a
temporary school house at n most
i~ncOnvenient point In the district and
that certain members of the board
had pecuniary interests in the trans
actions. After investigation we are
unable to substantiate the allega-
tions and II Mr.. Austin can prove his
assertions he has full in the
courts.
Mrs. John Campbell of Wolf creek
received a telegram summoning her
to San Francisco to identify the re-
mains of her brother Capt. Martin
McCrae and his wife and family. who
had persisted In a wreck on the Paci-
fic, where Capt. McCrae had sailed
for many years. This ia the third
time this sad news has been carried
to Mrs. Campbell, heretofore being
based only on rumor, but this time
the bodies have been recovered and
| there can be no doubt but that the
entire family is lost. Capt. McCrae
is IA cousin of j. NJ. Campbell of Lewis
town, and Mrs. McCrae visited rela-
tives i'm this section i'm the winte of
1890.
A few evenings since one of our
citizens discovered that the drain at
his home failed to perform it's func-
tions and he thought he would insti-
tute an investigation to ascertain
the cause of the blockade, the while
being suspicious that a certain small
boy had cast something into the APP
erture at the top. Upon opening
the box a rare selection of curiOs
met his gaze. Among the chOcie
collection of bric-a-brac found I'm the
fiume was ten clothes pins. a coarse
comb, a tin whistle, a tack hammer,
an egg beaten, n monkey wrench, a
tin can and three bOulders. Naviga!