The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-07-20


z. Z. Burton, of Burton, has purchas-
ed SOB head OF cows from A. H. Arnett.
j. A. Porter, who has recently returned .,
f1om visit to Wisconsin, has aceeSted -
position on the Acantha.
For Sale twenty-five or thirty tene
OF good hay. j. w. McKN1GH~~
Dupszsr -
Kingsbury is headquarters for eyerx...
thing in the line OF general merchdn-.
disc.
Kingsbury's line of boots and s3osss
can't be beat
First class job printing at T&E
ACANTHA Office
See that fine new line of mems gloves
rat Kingsbury's. They can't be beat.
When in Dupuyer put up your team
with Ed Tanner at the Eclipse stable.
A fine line of shirt waists and dres
skirts have just been received at Kings.
ouTy's. Call and.examine them.
Surveyor M. S. Ie.ling, who has
charge of the work on the big irrigating
canal under construction by Conrad
Bros near Dupuyer, reports satisfac-
| tory progress on that undertaking.
When complete, it will be one Of the
| biggest plants of it's kind in the west
About 515 miles of the canal have been
excaVated, leaving some II miles to be
finished. The canal is % feet wide at
the bottom, will carry four feet of water,
and will irrigate about 100000 acres OF
land River Press.
Last Monday afternoon, at the saw
mill, Fred j. IIolbrook escaped death in
\ manner that borders on the miracu
ou'. In pullin G out the "key log in the
jam above the falls, in some manner his
loot was caught between two logs and he
was swept down with the tim Der, over
the falls, which are over thirty feet high
into pool of water twenty feet deep.
Fully one hundred logs fell all around.
and On top o! him, bat he escaped with
only badly bruised leg He is now at
the Hotel Morton where he is receiv ing
medical treatment.
William Vannette, who was Injured on
the Fourth by his horse falling with him.
die at the residence OF DR.. Titus lass
Friday afternoon, and was buried here
last Sunday. The funeral services were
conducted by Rev. A. W. Hammer and
0Tnra hall in fbo
brother Flaw, James Hendry, who is.
employed as an engineer on the Grea5
Northern, was the only relat i've present
ne arriving from GLASGOW a couple of
hours before the funeral. Everythinr.
that human skill and frienely hands
could do was done in his behalf, but of no.
avail His Injuries were Of such a nature
nat deasa WAS olly a question of few
days.
Frank B. Jones, the well known stock
man, living on the lower Dupuyer, was.
seriously and probably fatally injured
afternoon. He was with the
8 roundup and had roped a horse for
4 companion and was leading him out of
5he corral, when the animal reared up
on him crushing him TO the ground,
in partial dislocation of the.
irst and second dorsal verte5ra. Mr..
Jones was at once taken to the home ofC.
B. Perkins and DR., Tits Was summoned
rom Dupuyer and DR.. Gordon from
Great Falls. Leaving the Falls at four
o dock on special train, the doctor
arrived at the bedside OF the sufferer at
-leVen. Today assisted by Dcs. TITUS
and Cord, thorough examination was.
made and but slight hopes ara enter
tanned for his recovery.
Last Friday afternoon, near the.
bridge that crosses the Blacktail, on the
Joseph Hanson, OF Mont
pelier, Idaho, who was travelling with a
party Of MormonS, was struck in th3
back OF the head with a bolt of lightn-
ing, and remarkable a5 it may seem, ho
still survives to tell the tale The scalp,
was laid open for about an incn and a
half and his clothes were set on fire.
His wife, who was sitting on the wagon,
seat beside him was not injured in the
least, but bravely set to work extin guish
ing the fame1. The injured man was
taken back to Ro5are and DR.. Tit s: M;
moned. His woun1s were dressed an1
today the raty I; FEel through town.