Fergus County argus., 1901-10-30

| upper JUDITH. lie covered tne ulstrtc'
lying between Utica and Surprise
creek thoroughly and reports that feed
on upper Sage creek is short and that
the range stock is not in the best OF
condition.
J. w. Arnold and Harry NJ. Warral
were arrested last week and charged
with stealing fence posts from Alexan.
der Van Iderstine's lot back of Fifth
avenue. A jury trial was demanded
and took place in Judge Netherlands
court with the result that the men
were discharged.
The following is list Of jurors sum-
moned to appear in the district court
on November IL: ID. c. White, ]. H..
Norman, w. S. Smith, c. A. Nelson,
Theo Gervais, Jessie Pinkley, John
vadnais, Robt. Day, Amos Deranleau,
Frank Pick, Leo Dietziger, j. w. Beck,
L. Harmon, J. II. Elijah, David Hill
ger, all of Lewistown and c. L. Ma
hama, Chas. Pintler, Ed. Cox and VIM.
Deffenbaugh of Cottonwood, II. +.
Dadman, Rockford; Geo. Bachman,
Musselshell; Henry Willis, Elso; Calvin
Bower, Stanford; w. L. Halbert. Hal
bert; C. w. Campbell, Philbrook; Ed.
Beach, Ubet; S. 5. Dalgran, Garneill;
Ward Dixon, Grass Range.
Valentine Gates was taken to Warm
Springs by Jailor Ritch last Thursday
where he will be taken care of until
his mental equilibrium is restored.
Gates is possessed of an hallucination
that many men are seeking his life
which is rather embarrassing to those
in his immediate vicinity and it was
thought advisable to place him in
charge of the authorities at Warm
Springs. In order to defend himself he
is in the habit of CARRYING long range
rifle and six-shooter of big calibre in
the handling of which he is an expert
and as he is suspicious of everyone who
approaches him, it was not safe to lin
ger in his immediate vicinity.
Another wreck occurred on the Great
Northern last woek when light en-
gine coming east ran into the rear end
of the Great Northern eastbound flyer,
killing Fireman w. b. Josselyn and
Brakeman Claude Whitaker, and break
ing one of Engineer Thomas Doan's
legs. The wounded were taken to
Grand Forks. J. J. Hills private car
was on the rear Of the train, occupied
by the porter, who was slightly injured.
This car is built of steel and was but
slightly damaged. Had this car not
been on the rear of the train, many
lives might have been lost. Conductor
Driscoll says the crew on the light en-
CINE did not heed a signal to stop.
George Riggs sold his freight team
last week and left for Great Falls, but
through slight omission was brought
back to Lewistown last Saturday morn
ing by Deputy Charles Hall who
had been sent after him. Before dis
posing of his team he obtained some
supplies from the Power Mercantile
Co. for which John Mattheson went
security. After selling his team he
neglected to pay for the supplies and
when Mr.. Mattheson learned he was
on his way out of the country he swore
out warrant for his arrest with the
result that he was overtaken at Belt
and brought back to Lewistown where
the matter was settled by settling the
bill and paying the costs, which were
S4O.5O.
Charles Sturman arrived from Ben
ton last Saturday with two freight
teams loaded with plate glass for stores
now being erected in Lewistown. The
glass is the largest ever brought to
Lewistown and the biggest panes are
156x1O0 and 156x43 inches respectively.
All the plate glass to be used both in
the Power Mercantile Company's new
store and in the Lewistown Commercial
Company's building arrived at the same
time. The two largest sheets of glass
are for the show windows of the Lew
istown Commercial Company and weigh
2,700 pounds, the freight on them from
Minneapolis to Benton being sls5.
Three cents pound was paid for the
transportation of this valuable load
from Benton to Lewistown, owing to
the great care which had to be exer-
cised in the handling of the glass.
A runaway occurred on Saturday
morning which had little "Billy" Ber-
kins pretty badly scared for short
time but which luckily ended in the
horse being brought to sudden stand
still by hitting his head violently
against a telephone pole on Filth
avenue. The Berkins boy was driving
the horse, which was blind in one eye,
near the Lehman store, when the bolt
that attached one side of the shafts to
the wagon fell out and allowed the
lose end to strike the old horse on the
heels. With snort and kick the
animal started up Fifth avenue at q
gait that would put Cresceus TO shame
and continued its wild carer until
opposite the Lewistown Lumber Co.,
where it was headed off by Mr.. Surpre-
nant with the result that it ran full
force into telephone pole which was
standing conveniently handy on the
blind side OF the old but nervy steed.