The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-11

County Commissioner Connolly is t
making preparations to enlarge his irri Y
eating plant, and for that purpose will /
construct two large dams for reservoirs, 7
this spring. AS will be seen by the Y
notice to contractors in another part OF t
this issue, the work will be done by con- I
tract. 4
Sheriff Ia. Tor and deputy sheriff jeff
cry have returned from Deer Lodge :
where they placed the recently con-
.victed prisoners under the sheltering
folds of Tom McTague's famous military
cloak. The officers came up from Cho-
teau yesterday and will remain here a
few days.
The supreme court has declared the
law changing the name of Deer Lodge
county unconstitutional as the legisla-
ture has no authority to change the
names OF counties. Under this decision
the two counties made from old Deer
Lo &c will be Deer Lodge and Powell
counties. /
Frank Lewis started for the east
Thursday. He had with him 200 horses
and he expects to pick up so more at
Fort Benton. 1t will take ten men to
handle the bunch and it will probably
take them two months to make the
round trip. 1t is MIR. Lewis intention
to dispose of the horses in North Dakota
and neutrality-suspicious..
F. r. Steele, father of the late Robert
M. Steele died at Choteau, last Saturday
after a few DAYS illness with the grip,
which he could not withstand on ac-
count of his advanced age. The sur
viving son and daughter have the SYM
pathy of all in their two fold bereave-
ment.
There is little doubt that the
Younger brothers will serve out their
life sentence in Minnesota for the North
/ field bank robbery. A bill to parole.
them was passed recently by both houses
of the legislature, but the governor re-
turned it to have some defect remedied
when the house indefinitely postponed
it by a vote of 50 to so.
i, Frank Smith who was pursued by
Deputy Sheriff Joslyn Of Great Falls into
the mountains on the coded strip, but
managed to leave there six weeks ahead
of the officer, was ca ptured a few days
ago by a police officer at Kalispell, and
was taken to Great Falls where be will
l have a preliminary examination on the
18th inst on the charge of stealing
: horses from George Houk and Others
;. across the line.
Daniel N. Miller is build ing an i'm
proved post driving machine, at Jacot
Lauffer's ranch. Mr.. Miller has been
, operating a post driver of his own inven
= ton for several years, and MS experience
has suggested a number of improve
rs ments, the value of which he will soor
a be prepared to demonstrate. The new
r. machine promises to be so simple il
construction and operation that a tel
"a year old boy can run it, and will worl
10 equally well on level or billy grounc
e. driving 500 posts per day.
The business portion OF Augusta wa
destroyed by fire last Thursday morn
ss ing, entailing a loss of 100000. The fir
he originated from the acetylene gas plan
n. in the =. G. Adams Mercantile Co.'S
20. building. The Adams Co., Bernard
saloon, Viewers saloon, Manix's saloor
Smiths store, the Odd Fellows parapt
e~rnalja, and four dwellings were destoy
:. ed, Insurance was carried covering abou
> one third Of the total loss. The Adam
:. Co., saved a part of their stock and wi
immediately rebuild.
he Sheep Inspector j. F. Patterson &C
1g, back today from the eastern emo OF tn
he county, where he has been dipping 4,7C
,ed scabby sheep belonging to Ed. Bentel,
ZEN Cow creek. Only one band is in vel
Dad shape. Geo. Hornback's shee
Law located on the eastern slope of Cher
Mr. Patch ridge, are slightly infected, b'
an. will not be dipped until after lambin
of hand patching being the treatment f
,si the present. Mike Ridenback s shee
and those of the Mpls. & Mont. Co, a
~quarantined, but have shown no signs
scab as yet.-River Press.
re- We regret to state it, but tho fact is u
Id dlsputable, that the wood piles of u