The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
Reservation Racket.
Kipp, Mont, April Is, 1899.

stabbing going on of late.
During the past winter The official
thermometer registered below zero OH
81 days, and the snow fall amounted to
$40 inches, considerably below the nor
NAL, but there is time enough to have
this deficiency made up yet.
"Bacon Rind" is taking "A collegiate
course in tile round house preparatory
to assuming charge of that Institution
when Supt. Shortliff goes on his leave of
/ absence.
Owing to the fact that many of the
cattle belonging to parties here have
wander ed away south and east, an adj
ditional outfit will be sent out this
spring for the purpose Of gathering and
returning them. This force, in charge
of a competent fOremln. will work south
to Sun River, down to the Missouri, and
eastward toward Benton, thence work
ing the Marias and Teton country. A
representative or two will also he sent
10 work IN The Big Sandy and adjacent
country, Jimmey Douglass and his
boys will attend to the branding nearer
home.
J Henry Haines, erstwhile assistant car
repairer at Blackfoot, has resigned his
position and returned to his first love
telegraphy. He has been assigned an
Office in Dakota and will move his
family there next week.
A man who las been prospecting in
the Laird river country came from there
this winter and reported generally. that
George Cook, WHO went with the Nc
Laughlin party year ago was shot and
killed by an Indian last fall in an alter
cation oyer horse. Today Mrs. Cooke
| received a letter from her husband, say
lag lie was alive and well, very home-
sick, aud would return in September,
There are two mere of the party to be
killed yet, Parsons and Bum. Murphy
was reported drowned, Mac. had been
eaten by cannibles, and now.an eye wit
ness of the murder of Cooke turns up.
An enterprising Indian is going to
fence pasture containing nine square
miles this summer. He says he has to
ride so much to gather his cattle to-
getler, that it keeps his wife busy half
soleing the seat of his pants, and thinks
he will teach his stock yankee trick,
when he gets them into his big field.
A young man out hunting horses re-
t1Srelv To- Blaekfuats stating that there
was big war ship anchored down in
the neighbornDod of Carlow on the
Willow creek flats, but having no small
boat he was unable TO approach near
enough to identity her. Wrong, away
off wrong you were young fellow. That
was our suburban residence you saw in
the midst OF a great lake caused by the
overflow of the stream. IL beats all
what fabrications some folks can get up
out of a trivial affair.
1t is rumored that Thos, B. Magee is
about to sell out aud is thinking serious
Iy of moving to Georgia, his former
home. He is not satisfied with sum.
mer's supply of snow drifts around his
domicile you know, and wants to go
where they'll call him Majah, by CAD,
sab.
w. II, MatSon is improving a fine
ranch on lift Current, near the future
copper plant. Its natural plrk, in
closed by high mountains, and is held in
twenty acre tracts under the mineral
laws by himself and other members of
his family. At no distant day this will
prove valuable location,
The Young Piegan buck named Good
Young Man who was recently arrested
for criminal assault upon Mrs. Plenty
Young Bear, has evidently out grown
his early Sunday school training or for
gotten the commandment which saws.
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours
Wife, One of your nice, quiet men,
you know.
George Cobell has just returned from
Swift Current, and states the snow from
llinkles ranch up to the place where
mining operations are in progress is so
deep that the roal is impossible, and
that persons going in or out, have to
travel on snow shoes.
Billy Ellsworth, who is interested in
the new strike made by Harris Bros, is
spending "A few days at Blackfoot. He
states that the workmen are making
good progress in the tunnel, that the cut
is now in the lead over 2 feet and with
the present prospects he would not be
surprised to find a width of thirty or
more feet. There are as vet no indica-
ttons of a hanging wall, and the ore
grows richer as they so in both in copper
and gold.
With the round house full of dead
engines, the side tracks covered with |
freight cars, and no trains running either
way, Blackfoot has been dismal
enough place for week past.
Two bridges went out east of here and
heavy land slide in the mountains sus-
pended all traffic until Saturday when
trains from the east began to come in.
We were surpsised to run up against