The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

gical survey is working north along the
foot Of the mountains, beginning near
the Steel ranch at the Birch creek can
yon. Mrs. Martin and child are now at
and will come to Dupuyer
to remain until her husband com
pletes his work for the season.
The purchase of the G. F. & G. Ry by
the Great Northern has been consum
mated, a deed transferring the property
been filed for record at Great
Falls, last Friday. Tho line will con-
tinue under it's present management
until the road bed is completed as a
standard gauge, which will be or or be-
fore Oct. 80, 1902.
The Jones county calf case has come
to life again, this time in the form Of a
suit involving the sum Of six bits.
The case went to a jury in the local
Justices court last Friday, and the ver-
dict was in favor of the defendant.
Costs amounting to S26.f0 were paid
by the plaintiff, who promptly appealed
the case to the district court, which, in
its wisdom will probably find a solution.
Gust Moser, supervisor of tho Lewis
and Clarke forest reserve, has recon-
merded that the open country west of
Dupuyer be thrown open to settlement.
This is as it should be, for a large
number OF settlers who acquired rights
before the reserve was set apart will be
enabled to secure title to their lands
and can go ahead with some assurance
that their labor will be to some purpose.
Fl. G. Whitford met with an accident
last Thursday evening. He was on his
way home, riding a rather vicious horse
who bucked and fell while crossing the
ditch just above town. Whitford was
thrown violently against the bank OF the
ditch and his collar bone was dislocated.
The injured man was taken to the Hotel
Morton and DR.. Wine reduced the dis
location, so that the patient will soon be
able to attend tn his work.
The circular issued Sept. 10Th by the
Postmaster General, calling for bids for
carrying the mails, states that a contrac-
tor must give his personal attention to
the service and most reside upon or con-
tiguous to the route. This new regula-
ton will shut out the eastern jobbers
who have so long imposed upon the west
and will be welcomed by all communi-
ties. for they are tired of seeing the sub
contractors go broke, unable to pay their
board and feed bills.
Although morally innocent, We Joseph
Sporel, a Glendive man, has just been
found technically guilty of cattle steal
ing and sentenced to one years impris-
onment in the penitentiary. Sporel was
in The employ of John Scharff, a rancher
last spring and branded 10 calves which
were driven to the ranch, dong so in the
belief that all were the property of his
employer. 1t turned out that one of the
calves belonged to another party. Sporel
had nothing to do with the calves except
to brand them asordered by Scharff, but
he was arrested, and now must go tc
prison.
The Travelling Library arrived last
night, and was placed in the drug store
An inspection of the books reveals &
number of we'll known titles, works thai
are considered standards on their par
t%icular subjects and a perusal of which
is necessary, if one desires to be we'll i'll,
formed. The large number of volume.
devoted to up to date fiction, particular
, ly the historical novels, is a valuable
; feature which will be welcomed by al