Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-10-09
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The Boston and Montana company
will erect another refinery at Great
Falls in the near future. The plant
will be located on the north bank of
the Missouri in the vicinity of Rainbow
Falls.
Supplies for the Kendall postoffice
passed through Lewistown Monday
and j. NJ, Parent, deputy for Mrs.
Grant Robinson, postmistress, is now
ready to do business. Letters for Ken
dali 10Y require a two-cent stamp,
same rs for any other out-of-town Of
fee. Correspondents will do we'll to
remember this. For some time letters
bearing a one-cent stamp and marked
"Kendall" have been sent to the camp,
but this practice ceased Monday.
The two wheels which were taken
off the city scrapers about a month ago
were found last week in the big sand
pit toward the Casino by three boys
who were digging in the sand. The
boys who found the missing city prop
erty were Jimmy Littlejohn, Claude
Polly and the Gordon boy. The reward
which had been offered was for the APP
prehension Of the parties who stole the
wheels, SO the juvenile discoveries were
given a dollar apiece.
According to official figures, the mum :
Der of cars of cattle shipped from the
country tributary to the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific roads this
year, up to October l, was 2,49i,
or averaging 22 head to the car
about $1,000 head, against 1850
cars or over 100000 head for the
whole of last year. The shipping sea.
son is open, however, until the first
week in November, and while the show.
ing of last year is not hoped to be
equaled, a considerable amount of ship.
ment is looked for.
r. ID. Redmon, a prominent horse
buyer of Livingston who bought two
carloads of horses of c. b. Nolan re
Gently and gave his check for them,
evidently forgot that it was necessary
to have cash on deposit in order to
check against it successfully, as the
check was returned unhonored. Mr..
Redmon represented that he was going
to ship the horses to Bryan, Ohio, but
consigned the same to Winnipeg, Can
ada, says the Townsend Star. Sheriff
Pool has been busy taking steps to
catch the fellow and will do SO il pos
sible.
The successful candidates at the re.
cen medical examinations held at Hell
ena are as follows: Wm. A. Glasgow,
Missoula; w. f. Paterson, Belt; Chas
Pixley, Missoula; j. III. Irwin, Havre
Frederick Treacy, L~ewistown; r. G.
Monahan, Butte; d. S. Mackenzie,
Havre; A. W. Corner, Butte; Bertha X.
Mackle, Butte; j. f. Blair, Butte; 7. ],
Maloney, Helena; s. M. Souders, Red
Lodge; ID. j. Donohue, Glendive; ii. f.
Brethour, Hamilton; Austin l.. Ward
Boulder; w. w. Taylor, Butte; II. E
Houston, K~alispell. DIR. j. +. Grinsteat
of Forsythe was refused a license to
practice, on account of unprofessiona'
and d~ishonorable conduct during the
examination in using a "crib" to assist
him in answering his papers.
The receipts of gold and silver at the
United States assay Office during Sep
TENDER shows a good increase as com
pared with those for the same month
of 1900, both in the grand total and in
the production of Montana. The fig
ures are: Montana, sl47, AGO. 10, an in
crease of over $4,000 over September
1900; British Columbia, s44,507. "a; othel
states, SIC, $50. 90; total, s20s, 797. 26, al
increase of over SO, 1000 over the sam,
month of 1900, says the Record
Among the counties of Montana, Lewii
and Clarke still holds the lead with
total of s37, 567.61; Madison count,
comes next, with $40, 499. IA; Fergus i
third, with sea, 444.13; then Park
with Sill, 1927. 80, and Deer Lodge will
$40, 1898.
After serving in MANY official capac
tiles during his long residence il
Montana and having considered him
self a native-born American for nearl,
two-thirds of a century, Judge Murra,
discovered last week the possibility o
his being an alien an applied for nat
uralization papers. The judge ha
been corresponding with the daughter
OF his deceased sister, who reside in Cal
~ifornia, and during the correspondence
they mentioned that they had hear
their mother say that Judge Murra.
and herself were born in Ireland. Tn
judge was but an infant when h
crossed to America with his parents
who died while he was yet a child, an
he was under the impression that h
was born in Maine. To place the mat
ter beyond doubt and to thorough
n satisfy himself, Judge Murray apple
for naturalization papers and has theI
in his possession.