The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-03-30
News Of the State.


I The annual meeting of the Mont
stockgrowcrs association will bf
held in Miles City, beginning
April 18th.
Red Lodge, the capitol of Car
bon county, will shortly vote on a
proposition of bo@ding for
system of waterworks.
| Washington, .4arch 24.-A post
Office has been established at Home
stake, jefferson county, Mont.
Rosey Garrity postmaster.
The Democrat Messenger OF
Missoula reports a case of small
pox as existing in that city, and
vaccination is progressing.
John r. Patterson, sheep in
spector for Choteau county, has
been called to the vicinity of Chi~
nook to inyesti1 al some cases OF
scab.
| Major Kelly, who during the
Spanish war was in command OF
Fort Assinniboine, has oeen retired
from the service of the United
States army.
Several fest of excellent copper
is said to have been strucE on the
main fork of Boulder, about five
miles east of Princeton. causing
great excitement.
On account of the shutdown at
Belt, eight Montana Central crews
have been laid Oft, 1t is expected
that they will be put on work
trains within few days.
], B. Long, who buys sheep in
northern Montana, is now shearin 2
by machines at his feeding lots at
Sycamore, Ill. The machines are
/ operated by steam power.
The capital stock of the Mont.
Smelling company, a concern own
ing stock in the silver smelt,
er at Great Falls was today reduced
from 5, $50 to $50 shares,
The city Of Billings is to have a
fine free public library, the build>
ing for which will be donated by
the widow and the son OF the late
frederick Billings, for whom the
town was named.
Gov. Smith has honored the re-
QUESTION of Gov. Richards OF
Wyoming for W. E. Cunningham,
now under arrest in Miles City,
who is wanted in Crook county,
Nebraska, for horse stealing.
The governor has vetoed the
medical bill, which denies the right
of appeal to anyone examined by
the state board of medical examino
ers, and who, in the opinion of the
board, is not entitled to practice.
Helena, March 24. W. B. Sands,
Mary Sands and others today in
corporated the Snake Greek Canal
Company with capital of 200.
The company is incorporated for
the purpose OF building an irriga-
tion canal near Chinook.
Butte telegram says the United
States grand jury returned in-
dictments against DR.. J. L. At
kinson, surgeon; and Frank A.
Hunter, CLERK at the Fort Peek
Indian reservation for soliciting
campaign funds for the 1896
election.
The trial Of Joseph c. Hurst ac-
cused of the murder of Sheriff
Domiuick Cavanaugh on Friday
evening, Dec, %, 1898, which b. g
gan at Glendive Friday, March 10,
continued until last Monday after~
noon, when it was given to the
jury, which brought in a verdict of
murder in the first degree
1t has been a pretty tough WIN
ter, not alone in Montana, but
everywhere in the united States.
The south and east have suffered
more than the west, because OF
their unpreparedness. But the
wonder of it all is that stock on
the western plains suffered 50
slightly. Well posted men place
Montana's loss of sheep and cattle
at but little above normal. .-Boze>
man Chronicle.
State Treasurer 7. e. Collins
has delivered $4,000 of capitol
building bonds, the remained OF