Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-10

While so much is being written
about peonage in the south, the dis
covery has been made that seventeen
year old girl has been in bondage in
North Dakota since she was two years
old, having been sold by her father for
SIS.
L. w. Katzenstein left for Billings
Tuesday morning to accompany his
wife who was compelled to visit the
hospital at that place. Mr.. Katzen-
stein returned today but Mrs. x.
will remain there until her health is
improved.
Capt. Joe Brown is building stone
residence on the site of the Zook place
on upper Tongue river. The building
is a pattern of the old plantation homes
of Mississippi, and something quite
out of the ordinary for this northern
country, but a very handsome struct-
ure.
w. A. Shriyer came in from Horse
Creek basin, on the north side, Mon
day. Mr.. Shriver informs us that he
will move his family to Billings some
time this week, so that his children
may have the benefit of the school there
He says the range in his neighbor-
hood is quite good.
| Frank "A. Spragg, who has been as
sisting Director F. B. Lintield at the
Bozeman experimental station, was in
Forsyth Saturday. making arrange
ments for the collection of the products
of this county, to be sent to the EXPOSE
ton at St. Louis next year. He left
Saturday evening for Miles CITY and
Glendive where he will make similar
arrangements.
Now that John c. Lyndes is county
attorney we suppose that he will avail
himself OF frequent opportunities to
repeat transaction of his, which oc-
Cured while acting county attorney,
wherein he extorted good round fee
from both the complainant and defend
ant in an assault case and then dis
missed the charge.
The republican majority of the coun.
| ty ommisSioners of Rosebud county
had an opportunity to appoint at least
one republican attorney who is in good
standing before the bar, but being
under the domination of H. r. Marcy,
they appointed one of his dirtiest
henchmen to serve the people of this
country in the prosecution of the crimi-
nails thereof.
AT meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Forsyth State bank last
Monday night the following officers
were elected: J. E. Edwards, presi-
dent; M. Bentall, vice president; E. F.
Meyerhoff, cashier. The board of di-
rectors are J. E. Edwards, C. M.Bair,
F. Philbrick. ]. w. Sweetser. M. Ben
tall, E. A. Richardson and E. F. New.
erhoff.
There is a newspaper in Kansas
whose motto is "Lie, steal drink and
swear" and it is thus explained by
the editor: "When you lie, let it be
down to pleasant dreams; when YOU
steal, let it be away from immoral as
sociates; when you drink, let it be pure
water; when you swear, let it be that
you will patronize your home paper,
pay your subscription and not send
your jobwork away from home. The
Inland Printer.
District court convened Saturday
with Judge H. c. Loud presiding, d.
). Muri cler~ The following cases
were disposed of: The case of GUY VS.
Davis, Northway as intervenor, was
continued until Oct. 6, 1908. In the
case of l.. c. Small VS. James Small.
decree of divorce was granted on
grounds of non-support and cruelty.
In the case Of Thos. Alexander VS. Geo.
Brown, court ordered default entered
and rendered judgment in favor of
Alexander for 1868. 40 and costs. In
the case of Clara V. Austin VS. Lerov
>. Austin, court ordered default enter
ed Tor non appearance. Court adj
Journed to meet October 9th, 1908.
The "Uncle Josh Spruceby" COM
pony, which gave an entertainment at