The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-28
OF General Interest.

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Thomas d. Long and Fl. D. Moore
have exchanged official positions. Mr..
Long becoming register OF the state land
Office and Mr.. Moore assistant attorney
general.
Zenas E. Evans, father of Mrs. Marcus
DAILY and Mrs. j. Ross Clark, wife of a
brother of Senator w. A. Clark, died at
Anaconda last. Friday. He was 70 years
old and came to Montana many years
ago.
Contracts for furnishing the United
States army with nearly a million
pounds of meat for use in the Philip
pines have been awarded to Chicago
packers by Capt. W. L. Alexander, pur-
chasing commissary of the department
of the lakes. Supplies include nearly
10000 pounds OF bacon packed in var
ious ways, $4,000 pounds of corned beef
1900 pounds of ham and 10000 two
pound cans of roast beef.
Internal revenue officers have raided
an alleged illicit distillery in the base
mcnt of the s~even-story tenement at I'll
Eldridge street New York. Herman
Lowenstien, the landlord, and, Joseph
Levy, the %janitor have been arrested and
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Shields who held them in
$4,000 bail each for examination. Two
stills were found in operation, each new
and capable of turning out $50 gallons of
liquor a day. In the basement $500
gallons of mash were found in various
stages of fermentation.
The late Senator Davis is quoted as
saying: each year every local news.
paper gives from $500 to $1,000 in free
lines for the benefit of the community in
which it is printed. No other agency
can or will do this. The. editor, in pro-
portion to his means, does more than
any other man, and IN all fairness he
ought to be supported, not because you
, like or admire his writings, but because
a local news paper is the best advertise
ment a community can have"
Frank Howard, foreman of the LII
ranch of the Lake & Toombs Cattle Co,
Q on the lower Yellowstone in Dawson
!, county, shot and killed Speck Marsh, a
COW boy, during a general row at tho
8 ranch last week. Before being killed
Marsh wounded Dick HARRISON and
> Smith White and was about to fire at
L Howard when shot. Howard, who went
to Miles City aud gave himself up, is well
known in northern Montana, having come
+ to Big Sandy to work for Men amara &
MARROW when they bought the nm cat
tie 10 Valley county.
{ The Korea, which was launched last
Saturday at the Newport News Shil
C Building compary's works. bears the
). distinction of being mp to date, the lar
gsst steam vessel ever built on this side
) of the Atlantic. With a length of So
Il feet four inches and a beam of 63 feet
she will displace $4,000 tons on a draft o
" II feet. Some idea of the size of the
Korea ma. be derived from the fact tina
- HON VIC TOP W the poILon Vi lHe oar
bull is a distance OF 10 feet, while thu
L distance around her rail is nearly
quarter of a mile. STE is to be fittec
70 with engines OF 5000 horse power suffi
% cient to propel her at a speed Of from Il
to 20 kEots an hour. The Korea will ac
~commodate 1850 passengers, of whom
200 will be first class cabin passengers
W She is Edesigned for the Pacific Mai
Steamship company to ply between San
y Francisco and HOnokOno