The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-01-05
THE DUpuYER RCHNTMa
January 5, 1889.
LOCAL LAYOUT.

Rev. Lauren Kufus visited with
relatives and friends on the Burton
bench curing the holiday week. ID.
John Gray has gone to Great
Falls and Belt, where he will visit
with "the boys" for a few weeks.
Sir VIM. Cox has been on the
sick list for several days, but at
this writing is considerably better.
Deputy United States Marshal
Wall, of Helena, was in town the
first of the week on legal business.
Mrs. W, H. titus is contemplat.
ing a trip to their ranch near
Kibbey, where she expects to
reside until next summer.
Dan Fahlman, who is employed
by J.. B. Long, the sheep buyer,
near Great Falls, was trausacting
business 10 Dupuyer on Saturday
OF last week.
The interior of ]. W. Meningitis
new oftice--the old Acantha build.
ing-has been painted ard COW
presents q very attractive appear,
ance.
One of the most liberal contrib
utors has requested the Acantha
to inquire: What has become of
the $40 or more that was moi used
to purchase presents for children
last Christmas? :"
William Cowgirl and J. A. Van
Buskirk are in Helena this week,
where they were subpoenaed as
witnesses in certain alleged
illegal fencing" cases. They are
expected home the latter part oil
the week.
The year 1899 promises to be an
exceptionally prosperous one for
Dupuyer. We do-not think we are
drawing on our Imagination at all
when we say the town will more
than double in 'sizeJin the next
twelve months.
Carl Harris and wife will leave
here tomorrow morning by private
conveyance for the county seat
where Mrs. Harris will visit with
relatives for a few days. while Mr..
Harris goes to Great Falls to look
after business interests,
Harry Martins preliminary
examination, which was held before
Justice Beaupre, at Choteau, last
week, resulted in the prisoner
being bound over to the district
court in bonds of SO, 900. He was
unable to furnish this and was
remanded to the custody of Sheriff
Hagen.
W D. Jones has beer a business
visitor at Great Falls and Helena
this week. 1t is reported that
Senator Carter wishes to recon-
mend Mr.. Jones for the position OIL
lnCian agent at the Blackfeet
reservation, and as the senator was
in Helena this week it is probable
that there is considerable tt nth il
The report. We hope so, anyway.
The Acantha does not believe
there is any truth iii the report
printed in the Northumberland
copied in some of the state paper.
lin which it was stated tina
George B. Mclaughlin and two
companions had been murdered BY
the Indians on the trail returning
from the Klondike. It will b.
remembered by our readers tina
Chas. Barber, of this place, re
turned from a trip through the
Northwest territory two or three
months ago, and reported having
met Mclaughlin, @bout the frs
of July, a couple of hundred miles
north of Edmonton, and over two
hundred miles off the trail to the
Klondike. He was alone at this
time-having left the party he
started out with-had grub enough
to last only two or three months,
and said he intended to push
through to the Smokey river
country where he hoped to find
employment as a miner. 1t is not
probable that he turned back and
started for the Klondike with only
grub enough TO last so short a
time, and If he did it is hardly
nOSSihle that he cnuld nick IN