Fergus County argus., 1900-08-15

j. Frank Sage, of Maiden, was in
Lewistown yesterday.
The Rev. II. +. Robbins will preach
morning and evening at st. James
Episcopal church, Sunday August 10TH
All are cordially invited to attend
Confirmation instruction will he held
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday after
noon at the church at : p IN.
The new telephone line with New
Year was completed yesterday morning
and the line is now open for business.
Through the courtesy Of Manager War;
we were permitted to use the line for
few moments yesterday and conversa-
ton was as clear as modern inventions
allow.
A very amusing incident occurred
among the Chinese residents Monday
evening, somewhat resembling the Box
er uprisings in the celestial empire.
James Sheridan was the victim, though
it appears that he deserved all that he
received. Sheridan went to the Joe
Fem restaurant and secured meal.
for which he refused to pay, or Mt least
did not. In the alley few moments
later an encounter occurred. Cries
brought AL. Bebb to the scene and he
found two Cinnamon pounding Sheridan
with all their might. Fearing that the
assailants had weapons. Bebb pulled
them off, but when he saw they were
unarmcd and learned the cause of the
trouble he let loose his prisoners and
the attack began afresh. Sheridan got
hold of queue and pulled with all his
strength. The Chinaman. got strong
grasp on Sheridan's whiskers and for
few minutes the air was rent with cries
of murder" To the onlooliers the
sport was all that could be desired
About . a. m. Sheriff Shaw was sum-
moned on the information that a China
man had been murdered, but he found
nothing to substantiate the story,
though the entire settlement was great
ly excited.
Will Hopkins has limited amount
of game which he is willing to dispose
of, but the price paid for the bird was
too high TO warrant any margin in sell
ing. In fact one grouse will cost him
S2j. at least-that will depend ON what
the justice of the peace thinks about
the case. Peter Weydcrt has several of
the same priced grouse. The gentle
men were of the party which went to
Flatwillow last week on fishing
excursion. They say that these partic-
ular grouse got in the way of the teams
and it was necessary to kill them in
order To proceed on the road, but Game
Warden Frye thinks differently and
Saturday he informed the gentleman
that he would be in town Wednesday
and would he pleased to have them
meet the prosecuting attorney at the
Justices office. When the party pass
el Mr.. Fryes ranch he warned them
not TO use their guns, but il was un-
needed and the violators of the law
must pay the penalty. This, we be-
lieve, is the first catch made by the
game warden. 1t has been reported
for months past that half breeds were
killing deer in the bad lands. but the
breeds seemed too willy for the officer
Frank Samples, one of those who re-
turned Monday night from Cape Nome.
tells an interesting story of his exper-
fences. lie left on one of the earliest
boats, hoping to reach the gold fields
before the rush set in. but was delayed
by ice so that he did not get to the gold
fields until after many of those arrived
who left Seattle weeks after he had
sailed. He was seventy-two days on
the water. Twenty days were spent
under shelter of an ice berg and as
much longer in trying to find way
out of the ice. During this time Mr.
Samples said he was amused in chasing
seals and walrus on the ice. Forum
ately the ticket which he had purchas-
ed included board while in transit so
that the delay cost nothing additional.
but it was decidedly Disappointing. He
says the beach is covered with machin-
cry that has never been claimed, the
owners finding that they could do
nothing with ii. This is being covered
with sand and washed by the tides. lie
made journey of - miles inland and
found every foot of the ground stalted.
Last winter il seems the Cape Nomers
had nothing 10 do but plant stakes.
Mr. Samples said that many there
were when he left who had gone there
with considerable money, but were now
finding IL hard TO get meal and he
predicts that before winter the govern
meDt will have to furnish transporta-
tion homeward or many will die from
starvation. Every boat returning has
a full list of passengers. The trip has
benefited Mr.. Samples greatly and he
looks better and is heavier in weight
than ever before.