The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-13
Reservation Racket.

ACC~AsNAS
the agency to assume charge and dig
cut any Philippians that may be con-
ceaed in wood piles
J. B. Monroe has just returned from
New Mexico where he has been chaper-
oning an eastern party of three on
hunt for arantuas, dark eyed senoritas
and mescal. that liquid viii h causes a
four days jag.
The wedding dance of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mains at the Browning hail last week
wa grand affair. with an attendance
of nearly 200. The music was divine. !
| The ladies wore the sweetest smiles and
the cavaie We'd with each other in
graceful attentions to their fair partners.
A petition is being circulated request
ing the push to appoint Major Allen,
who formally was agent, to fill the vac
ancy caused by the death of Captain
Fuller. The woods are full of can
didates for this rlace.
A Chinaman has a laundry at Brown
ing and wishing to advertis. his business
had an attractive sign painte stating
that LII Hung Chang or some other des-
cendent of Confucius ran a ishee
house there Not long since an in
spector, visiting the agency, discovered
the Mongolian's shingle, and promptly
decreed its removal from sight.
Johnny Mestas has ordered big sup
ply Of wall paper from PhiIade lphia and
will travel from place to place prepared
to do anything in Incline Of hou.e dec
Grating required. There is good de-
mand for this class Of work and we hope
to see Johnny enjoy liberal patronage.
The wood supply at the agency has
proved INSULT ,ient and force of mon
have gone to Bear creek, west of the
submit, to load several cars with logs
which will be shipped to Durham and
there worked into fire wool.
A. B. Hamilton. so long a prominent
p rsopage in Montana, has gone to
Alaska. Few men have Sd many we'll
wishers as AL in his under aking 50 long
a journey at his time of life, and every
! body hopes that fortune may not only
smile but grin out loud upon him.
Mayor Ed Matthews, Of st. Marys
came in with the Babies last week
Ed has been appointed postmaster at the
copprropolis and his duties are 50 oner.
GUS, that rumor says he has engaged an
assistant, who is fat, fair and forty
who's duty it will be to bake his
aapjack5, thus relieving his honor
from culinary work.
The latest addit ions 10 the aggrega
ions Of organized labor is the Soutl
Pieg Wolf Trust. The object of this
grasping monopoly IS to capture gray
wolf pups, close herd them until afteI
Nov. 1st, when they will be slaughtered
in order to secure the five dollar bo lnty
This is menace to the laboring classes
of our fair state and we call upon tht
press to donounce this giant octopus
and the people to rise in their might ans
strangle it in its infancy.
Rev. E, S. butcher is being ment oaed
as the next agent and is enjoying qu te
a boom, He would make good agent
Tor lie is built on the lines OF s rength
and activity, is a vigorous exponent oI
muscular Christianity AMI would prob
ably insist on subordinate employees " it'll
honorable records.
Last fall, when it was time for winter
to begin, some one sugges ed that il
would be tie proper caper for Sam
Somes' Pct grizzly bear to retire and hi
bernate for few m onths so Mr.. Somes
procured a long pole and proceeded tc
retire the bruin, After a h I'd days
work with much shooing sundry punch
es and considerabI vehement language
which would not look well in print, h
!, at lat persuaded the cantankerous
brute to go into its den where it has
been in dark brown study for the pa
five mon hs. Winter has hung on like
a continued story AMI there have been
no signs Of conclusion until someone
happened to think of the immured bea",
so petition was preserved to Mr.. S
signed by all the influential citizens of
Blackfoot, praying lhaE the bear be
prodded out OF its lair. This was done
immediately, and the resu was a fine
chinook within three hours, which has
done much 10 remove the snow and
restore public confidence.
D F, Hagerty has servered his tribal
rights and quit us. He is now exposed
to tie wiles of city life, and we fear that
our Daniel has gone into den of lions,
but if he fails we expect to see linn d.
it grace ully, as is custom when the
band plays Maggie"
Last fall gentleman from Dupuyer
visiting Blackfoot was invited to take a
hand in a poker game which some
fellows, not having the fear of the law
in their hearts, were indulging in and.to
$ mako it interesting few beans were in.
: troduced The gentleman was prone {
: no threes or a couple of pairs every
lime but the other fellow alway, haC
the same, only their rank was q littl
: higher until at last the guest was brnk