Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-10-09

The following sheep sales were con-
summated through Cook & nilger last
week: n. A. Lewis sold 1900 yearlings
TO Andrews & Howe OF Billings at SEES
per head; Geo. Ketchner and W. ID.
Peck of Stanford sold 1000 wethers to
Glendive parties at 81. so and 1000 year.
ling ewes at private terms to Dakota
buyers The sheep will be trailed to
Wibaux, on the Dakota line, where they
will be delivered.
Beginning Monday, Wentworth &
Decker will run a stage to Kendall, as
well as to Gilt Edge. The coaches
leave in the morning, returning at
night, the mail being conveyed on that
line, The Nickel Plate" has long
been the popular Means of conveyance
to Gilt Edge and the service has been
much improved during the past few
months. A share of the business to
the new camp in the Moccasins is
solicited by the line.
The removal of the lagpole which is
situated at the side of the Bank of Fer
gus county is under consideration by
the city authorities and in all probable
ity it will be erected in some other por-
ton Of the city. The pole vas origin
ally government property and was con-
structed at old Fort McGinness at a
large expense and was bought by the
citizens of Lewistown for SIS ON the
abandonment of the post, removed to
this city and placed in its present
location.
Barnum, the Snowman, said: There's
a sucker born every minute" and this
trite saying has been forcibly brought
to the notice of the residents of Carbon
and adjacent counties of Mon
tana by the vagaries of a travelling
fakir who has been working that Sec
ton Of the country. He carried with
him a bottle of alcohol, a berry about
the size of a hens egg which he called
a new species of strawberry, and on
the strength Of this sold a large num-
Der Of plants which we're to be deliv-
cred in the fall. The plants were guar.
anteed to bear large quantities of the
luscious fruit, which the fakir ex-
planned were a cross between a buckle
berry and a wild cherry and for all his
victims know there might have been a
strain of watermelon and summe
squash in this vegetable monstrosity.
Ii it had not been for a resident of Alb
sarokee, who was skeptically inclined,
there is no doubt that a rich harvest
would have been reaped by this enter
prising individual. The skeptic wrote
to the agricultural college at Bozeman
and received a reply which confirmed
his fears and pronounced the whole
thing a fake.
AL Murphy, the Gilt Edge saloon man
who is under $500 to appear at the
next term of court on a charge of as
sault, has jumped his bond and left for
parts unknown. 1t is thought that he
left Lewistown on Monday morning
under a disguise on the Benton coach,
as he was seen in the company of Chas.
Williams, the driver, a short time be
fore the departure of the stage. ''Billy"
Rowe, who was driving the incoming
stage, says that he saw a man laying
in the bottom of the coach when he
passed it at Benton, and the stock
tender who was at that point at the
time says that Williams endeavored To
persuade the passenger to ride on the
seat with him, but could not, as the
traveller had a decided preference for
riding on the inside. As soon as MUIR
phys absence was ascertained, Under
Sheriff Slater sent information TO the
various sheriffs' offices throughout
Montana in an endeavor to head off the
escaping criminal. Murphy is charged
with shooting at and wounding w. II.
Sanborn of Gilt Edge in a saloon row
the charge being assault in the second
degree. The bondsmen are as follows:
Barney Mcdonald, $3.50; W. w. Kim
ball, $3.50; j. d. Waite, $500; William
Clifford, $500, and Mike O'Brien, $500,