Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-02-18

Kelly and Moulton pay cash for
bounty claims.
Read the advertisement Of the Ju'
dith Hardware Co.
For Sale, by Kelly & Moulton, 16O
acres Of land on East Fork.
Mems overshoes 81 a pair-d'Autre.
mont & Warden, Main street.
For Sale, by Kelly & Moultoa, new
Z room frame house in Lewistown.
Send 40 cents in stamps and we will
mail you a copy Of the World almanac
for 1908.
Home rendered lard is the best
at the Lewistown Meat & Provision
Company.
When you want coal go to j. l..
Beebe, the agent for the Black Dia-
mond Coal Co., at the Bank of Fergus
County.
w. Messner, the Utica cattle man,
was in Lewistown on business the last
three days of the past week.
John d. Single, a we'll known stock
man from Grass Range, made a bust
ness trip to this city Thursday and Fri
day.
Thomas Howard of the lower Ar
mells country, came in the latter part
CT last week after a big lot of supplies
for his stock ranch.
Those who thought that the ground
hog didn't know anything about it
have undergone a change of opinion
during the past week.
You can ecure horse blankets,
robes, skates, fancy chinaware and
bob sleds at greatly reduced prices at
the Judith Hardware Co.
e. II. Crabtree, assays, examinations
and reports. Mining properties listed
for sale. A good list of %undeveloped
properties now offered on reasonable
terms. Cyanide propositions a spe-
cialty, Lewistown, Mont.
In their recent crusade against gam
bling the Billings officials made an
agreement against the green cloth men
whereby the latter were to pay into the
city treasury a stipulated sum each
month. The charge now is that some
body has been making away with the
money and there is likely to be some
thing doing in the Yellowstone vii.
lage.
The new Bright building now in
course Of construction and adjoining
the Electric building on the corner of
Main street and Sixth avenue, will be
occupied by E. H. Crab.ree and y. L.
Coodspeed as soon as the building Is
completed which will be about March
Is. Mr.. Goodspeed will carry on a gen.
eral engineering business and Mr..
Crabtree will conduct a mining and
real estate business in connection with
his assay office.
Contrary to the usual custom of set
ting the dates for holding county in
stitutes in the autumn after schools
have commenced, State Su~perintend-
ent of Public Instruction w. w. Welsh
has set the dates for holding the in
stitutes this year during the spring
months. The Fergus county institute
is the last one to be held in the state,
coming on May 1923. This will be
about the last week of school and,
therefore, very convenient for the Lew
istown teachers.
The preliminary hearing of John
Disraeli, charged with horse stealing,
held before Justice Mcfarland Fri
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Disraeli
testified that the horse with which he
as charged with stating, was loaned
to him by Plant, the complaining wit
ness, and he was told to trade the
horse off il he had a good opportunity.
This he finally did. trading it for a
mule. The mule was either stolen or
strayed away from him very soon af-
forwards and before he had an oppor-
tunity TO deliver it to Plant, as he
W saw it any more. His story
sounded plausible and as against the
testimony of the complaining witness
which was not at all convincing,
County Attorney Belden did not feel
like carrying the ase to the district
court so by order of the court Disraeli
was allowed 10 go.