The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-09-21

that the foot hills of the mountains are
not suitable for winter ranch for stock.
and has selected site on Two Medicine
below the La Breche ranch where the
male bovines will be herded and fed dur
ing the next winter. This is an excellent
location and hay will be provided in
large quantities for the animals.
The Willow creek scnool has lately
received a five hundred dollar piano.
For some time past the singing has not
been accompanied by instrumental
music, and the new acquisition is highly
priced by all.
An insane man dropped in on the peo-
pie of the Agency, in search of lawyer
saying he had been shot and had five
bullets in his body. He was directed to
the police house where the blue coats
provided him with good accommodations
in cell.
The railroad camp of contractor Grant
has no medical attendant, and it appears
as though he expected our Agency
physicians to treat the sick and repair
| the injuries of his motely crowd of men.
This camp is made up of an Inferior
class, dirty foreigners, vicious hoboes
and worthless characters and every one
will be glad when the work is finished
and the outfit moves on.
Curly, Robinson the restaurant man
of Shelby, paid Blackfoot visit last
week for the first time in several years.
He was surprised at the growth of the
town, and not being accustomed to the
perils of city life hastily departed the
next day after arriving.
The other day there were over hun
dred beer cases filed with empty bottles
piled up in front of the depot at Black
foot, circumstances which would
naturally lead stranger to believe
there was place Of liquid refreshments
near by A travelling man in search Of
work who hoped he wouldn't find a lob
sized up the pile and asked bystander
where the jag shop was. When told that
there was none within twenty-five miles.
he looked confidential and whispered.
blind pig then" When assured that the
town was strictly dry in spite Of appear
ences his establishment was only equaled
by the disgust depicted in his coun-
tenance.
How many have noticed the represen-
tatiOn Of the Goddess of Liberty on the
eastern wall Of that great mountain
called Going to the Sum-" which lies
back of the upper St. Mary S lake? This |
IS an irregular patch of snow which in !
August Of every year assumes a strilzino.
likeness to that noted lady. The Crecian
Golfers, the classical forehead, aquiline
nose, the rounded chin and well set neck
are strikingly PLAIN and easily recognized
by any one when pointed out. Some
people aver that it represents the Virgin
Mary, and say that the beautiful lakes
IN that vicinity were named St. Marys
for this reason, but it would be lust AS
appropriate to call her Calamity Jane
IN as much as the future Black hills Of
coppery richness lie SO contiguous to her
snowy features. Any how, year after
year, thewonderful face with the kissabla
mouth appears and grows more vivid as
the summer approaches fall, until the
early storms blot out and cover the
image only to reappear the next season
as dist net a hefO-a
STRAWS
j. B. Monroe and Geo. Cook are outin
the mountains with a party OF tourists
Mrs, Hunsberger and son Gus have
moved from Blackfoot to their Milk
river ranch. Quite a number Of
ranchers have gone to Midvale for wood
which they will ship down on the rail
road Trains containing from 900 to
1850 tons of freight are running pretty