The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-20
TIE DupuYER aCHNTH n
January 20, 1898,
LOCAL LAYOUT.

Before breakfast try a Manhattan
cocktail at the Klondyke.
Ed. Tanner has leased the Eclipse
livery barn from r. M. Steele and
will hereafter run the business in
his own name,
A letter recently received fir ON
J. W. England, who is visiting in
Texas, states that he will return
to Dupuyer about the first of
May.
The first of the week, at Cho-
teau, Editor Corson, of the M on
~tanian, fell from his bycicle and
broke his leg, just above. the
ankle.
Henry Honung made final proof
Tuesday, before Commissioner
Prescott, on presumption No.11694,
for the lots 1 and 2, and So ned,
sec 80, township 80 north, range 6
west.
Ben English failed to qualify as
trustee for this school district, and
Miss Bean has appointed G. B.
Perkins to this vacancy on the
board, which was caused by the
resignation of H. F. England.
Jeremiah Collins has assumed the
editorship of the Helena indie
pendent, and that paper is greatly
improved in consequence. Mr..
Collins has many friends in
northern Montana who are glad to
see him re-engage in the news
paper business.
Chas. Mustard, who has been in
the employ of J. Manix, was last
week charged with petit larceny,
he having stolen several art lcles
from the ranch he was working.
His trial came up before Justice
Brown. He entered a plea of not
guilty but the evidence vas so
convincing, in the opinion of the
Judge, that a fine of $3.50 was
imposed, which together with the
costs amounted to $50.
Sam A. Miller, the rus tling
cattlman Of Big Sandy, has been ii
the city off and on for several days
He has concluded a oeal in which
he becomes the owner of q large
bunch Of cattle on the upper Maria
and he now has the cattle at Steele
The story is told that Mr.. Mile:
will feed the bovines there unit
the winter breaks, wheE they vii
be taken to the range at Big Sac
dy. A large quantiny of brush i
being hauled in from the rive
> bottoms and it is intimated that
the brush holds out his band Wi
not be taken to Big Sandy unit
spring.-Great Falls Leader.
L. G. Arnett, the Shelby cattI
man, arrived in the city thi
S morning, says the Anacond
Standard, having just %returne
from an extended eastern trir
He.included in his itinerary Chica
go, St. Louis, Omaha and othe
points in Kansas and Nebraska
He is the head of a syndicate whic
has for it's purpose the holding an
feeding of Montana and othe
, range cattle at a point near Om'
ha. Their arrangement is to pic
up range cattle 10 poor conditic
ard by shipping them and feedin
them at a point l n the corn bel
where corn is cheap, a large mai
ry gin of profit is to be made. II
company now has cattle there fro
Texas and Oklahoma with which
% is experimenting and If the test
as successful as they think it CIV
be the company will use lars
is numbers of Montana stock prefe
ably.
A private letter from Spoka
: notes a large deal in ho~rseflesh
that vicinity. 1t states that '
f. Melick, well known to norther
Montana stockmen, has just pu
al chased some 5000 head OF hors
of good grade as a speculatio
He is said to have bought them
a bargain and is understood to no
them for sale at d low figure. 4
49, same informant states that t
cattlemen and sheepmen Of Was
a ington and Oregon are holdil
their stock at full prices, in mo
cases close TO the figures of Il