Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-05-29
G, II. WILLIAMS,
The Leading
Druggist.
Lewistown, nontana.

A very destructive fire started al
Saco, Mont, last Sunday, which, before
1t was gotten under control, burned the
Kraus saloon, Bliss hotel and a large
ice house. Evidence points very strong
ly to incendiarism.
The William English post of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Boze'
man, has secured the services of Chap
lain G. c. Stull of the First Montana
volunteers to deliver the grafton at the
Memorial day services in that city.
The construction work on the stone
building being erected by Barney Mac
Donald on Fourth avenues is progressing
rapidly. The fixtur,s Cor the inside of
the building are being made and will
be placed in position as soon as possible.
The attorney general has declared
that the law passed by the Legislature
of North Dakota at its last session i'm
posing a tax on sheep grazed through
the state in transit has been declared
unconstitutional and will not be en-
forced.
The miners union at Gilt Edge have
planned a big celebration to take place
on June 18th. All kinds of amusements
will be indulgedin and a base ball game
between the Gilt Edge and Lewistown
mines will occupy a prominent place on
the program.
Mrs. Silas Gray, the mother of Silas
d. Grey, died in Kansas City last week
from a stroke of paralysis while on her
way to her former home in Oklahoma.
Mrs. Gray has been residing with her
sister, Mrs. Theodore Grey of Utica,
since last winter.
A Spokane syndicate composed of I.
Hird, 7. b. Garrison, w. I. Clark and
Mart Mitchell. who are all well known
capitalists of that city, have purchased
the Ophir Nest and adjacent property
on ophir gulch, about fifteen miles
northwest of Helena.
j. 7. Clegg received by telegraph, on
May Goth, the sad intelligence of his
fathers death. He was eighty-one
years of age, born in England, and was
one of the first pioneers of blooming
ton, Wis, where he has since made his
home. lie leavesa wife, seven son and
three daughters.
While chatting with Charles Wright
of the Lewistown hotel last week he
mentioned the fact that he had sold
500 worth of pork during the last
three months, beside supplying the
hotel with all the meat that was needed.
The latest sale was sl3s' worth of live
pork to John Borg.
Captain A. Jensen of the First Mon
tana volunteers spent a few days in the
city last week in the interest of the
Great Western Manufacturing Co. He
carries a souvenir of the late Philip.
pine trouble in the shape of a scar on
his wrist, which was caused by a bullet
from a Mauser rifle.
w. J.. Fransham is visiting Lewis.
town and vicinity for the purpose OF
buying horses for army use. A good
price it being paid for the kind of stock
wanted-well broken saddle horses ann
dry mares, weight from 900 to 1856
pounds. Mr.. Fransham was formerly
sheriff of Gallatin county.
Arthur Harvey and W.. L. McFar-
land went out to the. Horse Shoe Bar
ranch last week for the purpose of sur.
veying the big ditch out of Warm Spring
creek, which will furnish the motive
power for the large electric plant which
is shortly to be erected in that vicinity
by the purchasers of the Kendall mines.
A meeting of the management of the
Fergus county fair will be held in the
near future and it is the intention OF
the members of the association to hold
the fair at least 80 days earlier this
year and to endeavor to persuade the
horsemen who own racing stock to
train their horses here and make Lewis
town the starting point of the racing
circuit.
We have recently added to the al
ready large list of legal blanks carried
at this office, the following, used in OBJ
tanning patents upon mining claims.
Affidavit Of $500 improvements; Alb
straet of Mining Property; Application
for Survey of Mining claim; Proof OF
Continuous Posting; Proof Posting No.
tice and Diagram on Claim; Affidavit OF
Citizenship.
The Northern Pacific warehouse al
Glendive, in which was stored 10000
pounds of wool, was totally destroyed
by fire last week. The wool belonged
to Douglass & Dead and a number OF
wool growers and was insured in the