The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-01-25

have at last made up their minds to test
the case in court, to expand if possible,
which is very wrong you know.
Ed A. Matthews is in from st. Mary's
and from the way he haunts the depot
about the time the passenger train gets
in we conclude he is expecting a valuable
consignment of Calico by express. The
Mayor is very sanguine of the future
greatness Of the Copper camp, and
thinks that many locations will be rich
producers next Summer.
A gentleman with his girl started on
the way rather late the other night to at
tend a party on Cut Bank. Since he
was in that neighborhood last, Uncle
Jake and others have been doing con
siderable fencing and the pair became
entangled in a net work of barbed wire
which effectnally barred further progress
toward the place of entertainment. After
driving three long hours in the vain at
tempt to find a gate, and getting up to
his hip pockets in a creek which he was
prospecting for a crossing, the driver
opened the organ which he was taking
along as an accessory to the orchestra,
and played, "What are the wild waves
saying" while the girl held the reins,
after which the pair wended their way
h~omeward, with thoaghts too great for
utterance.
1t is a sure sign of a mans popularity
when his friends and neighbors remem-
Der his wedding anniversary in a be-
coming manner, especially when a de
cade has passed since the knot was tied.
This applies to Mr.. lhos. B. Magee, and he
and his wife will long have occasion to
remember the wooden reception rendered
them recently by their neighbors. and
the unique tokens OF esteem presented
by guests. Loads Of wood, wooden hash
bowls, clothes pins, rolling pins, fence
poles and posts tooth picks and furni-
ture galore, were a few of the gifts,
enough OF each and every variety to
make q formidable collection. Now Mr..
Magee is thinking that he will have to
build an addition to his dwelling to &C
commodate all the additions to his pos
sessions.
There is a runor in circulation that a
treaty is being formulated whereby the
nuch-wedded chiefs and head men of
the polygamous Blacifeet nation will
shortly sell to the government all that
portion Of their reservation lying between
the Cut Bank river and the boundary
line. OF course the finest sheep and
! cattle ranches in the west are numerous
on this strip, anil are but little used by
these wards. Vast deposits of coal are
known to exist thereon, and the ex-
~ceilently watered range and hay mead
oWs are exceptionally fine, but to obtain
this valuable tract by treaty with these
+ bigamous people would be awful to con
+ template. It would be patting them on
the back and saying go do 50 some more.
and the Demmies would faint.
The Acautha made us say that the
/. Great Northern well near Carlow was
down 100 feet and that there was over
, that many feet OF water in it. Did you
! intend to say it was full and piled up in
! a frozen column for a couple Of hundred
{ feet above ground? Well that might
pass in an ordinary winter, but when, as
/ at the present time one spends the even
l ing with open doors, without fires, and
no lights on account of the swarms OF
. flies and mosquitoes now so prevalent.
l we fear that the public will deem the
= item a fabrication. It should have
stated that ITO feet of we'll contained
Y over 100 feet of water.
B3EvITIEs.
A brilliant Aurora was visible Satur-
S day night IA bright light in the south
n Saturday evening was thought to be
a caused by a prairie fire No one is per
mitted to keep a chicken on the Forest
reserve -. Mr.. Jones of Blackfoot visited
: Cut Bank during the week..-.W What has
' become of the literary association?.. -.
Tidings have been received from Mr..
and Mrs. Collins Anderson that they
> are enjoying their honeymoon in Chip
pena Falls Wisconsin. When a good
chinook is wanted hereafter some one
please suggest that Sam Dunbar go tc
Browning on runners 1t is stated
that a Republicanclub will be organized