Fergus County argus., 1901-11-06
Q. II. WILLIAMS,
Drugs
"old people's Day. a, the Me,bodis,

"0ld Peoples Day" at the Methodist
church was an unqualified success
thanks to the excellent arrangement,
made by the members of the church
who took the affair in hand. A large
number Of old-time residents of Lewis
town attended the morning services
held in the prettily decorated church
which presented very interesting ap-
pearance. Graceful festoons of autumn
leaves interspersed with red berries
ana bright colored flowers were used
to decorate the building to which the
old people were conveyed by means of
carriages procured for the occasion.
The services were appropriate and the
singing was excellent and those, in
honor of whom the services were held,
seemed to thoroughly appreciate the
kind attention shown them.
A gentleman from the country had
occasion to place deed on record last
week at the clerk and recorders Office.
His wife's name in full had to be at
tached to the document and the record
er asked him for the required informa-
tion. "Why her initials are NJ. RI
said the stranger. Eyes, but what's
her full name?" asked the recorder.
The gentleman thus usinterrogatedl looked
wise and after taxing his memory for a
while said; Its Mary r., of course
but how could forget II; why its Mary
Regina" Here, wait a minute" he
said, as the clerk was about to afiix the
signature, Il guess l had better go to
the hotel and ask my wife if that is her
name" He returned in a short time
with new enlightenment beaming from
his countenance and informed the clerk
that his wife's name was Margaret.
And they weren't newly married either.
Old-time residents of northern Mon
tana will remember "Tuck" Lambert,
for years a well known character
around Fort Benton and the mining
camps of Yogo aud Barker. The
Seattle papers report the death of a
person of that name while on a trip
with party in Alaska, and the dead
man is supposed to be none other than
the former Montanian. A dispatch
from Dawson to the Seattle Post Intel
ligencer of last Monday says: Fred
Gasch, one of the four Seattlites, and
the reputed original discoverer of the
Forty-mile diggings, has arrived here
and reports the death of "Tuck" Lam
bert, one of his party, on the Kuskok-
win river, last spring. They were on
a prospecting tour. The men had been
making perilous and wearing trip
over the mountains, and were almost
back to the coast when Lambert took
sick and died in half an hour. The
body was sledded to settlement at the
mouth of the Nushagok.
j. c. Hunter was arrested in Billings
last Saturday and held on charge of
murder. Hunter, whose correct name
is said to be Meyers, has been wanted
in Granite county since May, 1900, for
the alleged murder of his son-in-law
A short time ago the sheriff Of Granite
county heard that fugitive was trav-
cling near Billings in a covered
wagon and had two boys with him.
Sheriff Metcalf Immediately came to
Billings, but was unable to get on the
mans trail. Later he learned the
Hunters had passed through Billings
just before he was here and had gone
south into Wyoming. 1t is said that
Sheriff Potter of Red Lodge is now in
Wyoming looking for the man. Satur-
day evening Hunter drove into the
southern outskirts at Billings. He got
out of the wagon at that point and in
structed the boys to leave the team in
a barn until morning and then drive
up the valley west and join him. He
then left the team and came up town
by another route and proceeded TO
make some purchases, intending to
walk out of town and stay all night at
a farm house. He was seen by a for.
mer police officer who knew him and
Deputy Sheriff Sayles was informed.
Hunter was arrested a short time later
on the south side and placed in Jail
Helena Herald.