The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-12-09

several milss in their wet habili>
ments, with the thermometer awav
below zero, without getting frozen
is, to say the least, wonderful.
Come and drive dull care away
with round of gaiety On Christmas
eve.
The president could make good
thing space writing for the big
Sunday papers,
1t is not botherlng Mr.. Thorn
what Santa Claus is going to bring
him on Christmas.
Major Mclaughlin is preparing
to give Tommy Wrighta Christmas
box--on the ear.
Shelby is putting on metropoli
tau airs. 1t has two medical
doctors tc attend to the sick and
third is said to be on the way.
John Burke has bought out his
partners interest in the Choteau
and Blackfoot stage line and is
gong to put on so ne new stock.
Skating is now the favorite
pastime OF the young folks while
the older ones sit around the stove
and tell lies about the figures they
used to cut on the ice when they
were young.
Dnpuyerites seem to have strano oe
aversion to occupying nice com
Portable quarters in that Choteau
jail. 1t may be public spite or it
may be local pride, but there is no
getting away from the fact itself.
Associate Justice Horace Buck,
of Helena, committed suicide at his
home in that city on Monday night
by shooting himself with a revol-
yer through the head. No cause
could be assigned for the deed but
that the judge was very nervous
from overwork. sts5.
The First National bank OF
He ena has declared dividend of
ten per cent and now the poor
deluded depositors will be expected
to use this as capital with which TO
accumulate other fortunes for the
same or some other set of pampered
blood suckers.
When the Teton county people
who 60 to the Klondike become
disgusted with the frozen, barren
north they can console themselves
with the thought that those of us
who stay at home are eating three
meals a day with turkey on Sunday
aud that there is enough left for
them too, If they can ever get
back.
The presidents message to con-
gress is characterized, mainly bv
what he does rot say, There no
longer remains doubt, however,
regarding his financial policy. He
is rank goldbug. To the Cuban
ques tion he devotes four columns
OF a newspaper and then does not
outline any particular policy. AL
together the message is as non
commiftal as any that has ever
eminated from the pen of a presi
dent. In this it is masterpiece
of literary ingenuity.
Jessie Mcbride, who was a few
weeks ago arrested on charge of
murder committed at Cando. North
Dakota, last February, has had his
trial and has been acquitted. It
would seem frop the evidence that
a man by the name OF Frank Mich
oil did the killing and after the
dead was done Mcbride came along
and assisted the murderer in con,
veying the body to and burying it
under a pile of manure where it
was afterward discovered On the
following day Mcbride aided Mich
ol in disposing of his horse and in
obtaining money for the purpose of
flight. He also accompanied him
to this country. He found work on
W. K. Flowerree ranch on Sun
river while Nichol, after telling
him he was fool and surely he
would be caught if he remained
fled onward to Canada and is prob
ably in the Klo2dike by this time.
Mcbride replied that they were