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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
JOBS IN PANAMA.
Your Uncle Samuel Wants a Lot OF
Good Men for Eight Years.

Good Men for Eight Years.
The local board of civil service ex-
aminers yesterday announced that II
would conduct examinations on the
18th of next month for the following
positions on the Isthmus of Panama,
under the isthmian canal commission:
assistant civil engineer, at 5000 10
$225 per month; instrument man, at
SITS per month; transit man. at $3.50
per month; level man at 800 to $l25
per month; rodman at SIS to $50 per
month; chain man. at $50 per month
helper. at $50 per month: surgeon, al
$3.50 per month; pharmacist at 5000
to $1,000 per annum, with board and
quarters. those retained after one
year to be paid 1925 per month; train.
ed nurse, male or female. at $50 per
month. with board and quarters ,
clerk at SIS 10 $125 per month; book.
keeper at SIS to SIPS per month
timekeeper, at $50 to $125 per month.
It is announced that rhe construc'
ton of the canal will probably require
eight years. Medical attendance,
medicines and hospital care will be
furnished free. and pay for 80 days
sickness will be allowed. Quarters wiz
be furnished to all at about s per cent
of the salary. Free transportation to
and from theisthmus will be furnish
ed. Each employee will be allowed
leave of absence annually for six
weeks, and he and each member OF
his family will be given a rate of SIS
each between New York and Colon
and $40 each between San Francisco
and Panama,
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
BOYS AS ~SHOPLIFTERS.
Small Boys Of Town Make Practice of
PurIoininq Small Articles.


Ahe merchants of the city have been
suffering from the depredations of
small boys for some time and large
numbers of small articles have been
stolen from the stores. The practice
Of taking these articles finally became
so widespread among the smaller boys
of the town that the business men
were forced to complain of it to the
city marshal. One store lost a large
number of small bottles of perfume
and toys of every description. An
other lost silk handkerchiefs and a
dozen Or more mouth harps. Toys
seemed TO be the great temptation to
the boys and they have taken things
at every opportunity. The merchants
have been unable to watch their
stocks, as 1t has seemed to be nee
boys have been caught red-handed
and made to turn over what they had
purloined.
Marshall Bebb last week arrested
Two or three of the principal Offend
ers and after giving them a good
lecture he let them 90 with the adj
monition not to repeat their perform.
ances or something might happen
which would be worse than a lecture.
The parents of the children should not
allow them to go to the stores un.
accompanied and thus be thrown in
the way of temptation. Many OF
them are too young to realize the ser
ious part of the mateer and have been
led into the practice by copying after
larger boys, who should know better,
The merchants are DESTROYS that nc
names be given this time, but If the
practice continues something Of a
more serious nature will have to be
done.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
LEWISTOWN
IMP PROPONENTS
Continued from page One).

Alex. Mcleod erected two cottages
on upper Juneaux street. which cost
IN the n~eighborhood OF $3.50 each.
lhey are small three room houses.
Kane & Boone were the contractors.
Charles Mcdonald has built two cot
tages on Broadway which stand for
an outlay of close to 81, 500. Johnson
d Pratt had the contract for putting
up these houses.
Z. Z. Jeffries put up two cottages
which cost him $1,000 and are very
artistic in appearance. The contract
Tor building these cottages was given
to Johnson.
Johp Hovis erected for himself a
large frame house which cost him ST.
O0O. II is situated near the Catholic
church.
u owned by Mr.. Dundom, Jno.
Lewis and others have been erected
In the lower part of town and they
are all OF excellent appearance. Mr..
Dundom's house cost something like
s2,5OO and that of Mr.. Lewis $4,000.
Stone & Long have built a number
OF houses in various parts of the
town, the work for the most part
being done by Joe Scott, and the cost
running from a few hundred to ST.
900.
John Laux built for himself a story
and a half brick house on the hill
which cost complete SO. 500. 1t is a
very pretty house and one of the
most artistically designed dwellings
in the city.
The residence built for Halsey R.
Watson by Mcdonald Bros. is a very
pretty one and the cost of construc.
ton was $1,750. It is a story and a
half frame structure.
Mr.. Holman has erected a two-story
stone residence on Sixth avenue which
cost $4,000.
Frank Pick and Edmund Wright
have residences in the course OF con
struction.
There have been many other houses
built in the year but 1t would be i'm
possible to give a complete list. In
many instances 1t has been impossi-
BILE to find out the names of the con-
tractors and the cost of the buildings.
In some instances the cost has been
Appropriated by comparison with
other buildings of like dimensions and
features. The total cost of buildings
in the city, however, is approximately
what is given in this article. One
thing that should be noted in regard
to the building that has been done is,
that houses are still at a premium in
Lewistown and there are none stand
ing vacant but are spoken for long
before they are completed.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28

During the coming year the
Argus will be continuously
improved, as in the past and
you cannot afford to be with
out it. - - - - -
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
UnparalleI Flight of Carrier Pigeon.

Utica. n. Y, Dec. 21.-An exhaust
ed carrier pigeon, which had on its
leg a tag. inscribed "A. c. y. 1885,"
has been found at Doleyille, Herkimer
county. Adolf c. Harm, a pigeon fan,
cier. lived in Doleville until a year
ago, when he went to New Doleville
in southern California, taking his pig
cons with him. II is supposed the
bird is one of his flock which return
ed TO its old home. Such a flight
however, is unparalleled.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
How's This?

We offer one hundred dollars re.
ward for any case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known +.
]. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able TO carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WAI.DING, KINNAN d MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo' u
Halls catarrh cure Is taken inter,
nally, acting directly upon the oloou
and mucous surfaces OF the system
Testimonials sent free. Price ioc per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills Tor consti'
patton.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28

you say, what could we do with IL II
II was developed? In answer would
say That the Northern Pacific railway
mas 10 keep on hand and in service,
locomotives aggregating over 25,OOO
morse power just 10 help push their
rams over the Bozeman, butle n
Garrison hills. If electric railways
We're built so that the grain and pro-
duce OF the Gallatin and Flathead val
leys could be hauled 10 the railroad
and the people could be carried as
passengers, IL would absorb nearly TO-
900 horse power. II all OF the grain
mat is raised in this county we're to
De milled here before II was shipped,
IL would probably take 10000 horse
power more. II all of the residences
and store and office buildings IN the
county were heated by electricity, as
is now being done in some parts OF
the east. 1t would use up $4,000 horse
power more. And if the paper mill
at Manhattan was to adopt electric
power, and If the vast onyx quarries
north OF Manhattan were to open up
and put in electric saws for cutting
and polishing onyx. and IL the ashes
o mines south Of Bozeman we're
opened up and run to their full Ca
pacity, and IL two or three beet sugar
factories were to be built here in the
valley, the same as they are being
built In Idaho just south of us. we
could use every particle of that pow
er right here in The county, and boy,
the field is open for you, there is no
reason on earth why some OF you
boys who are listening TO me should
not be the men in the lear future who
will work out the details of convert
ing natures bountiful right
here in Gallatin county to the uses
and comforts of mankind and to the
honor and glory Of yourselves.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28

Our arrangement with the
publishers of the Inter Ocean
expires January10th and can
not be renewed. After that
date the two papers will cost
you $3.50. II ~ II
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28
A Frightened Horse.

Running like mad down the street,
dumping the occupants, or a hundred
other accidents, are every day occur,
rences. 1t behooves everybody to
have a reliable salve handy and
there's none as good as Bucklen's
Arnica salve. Burns. Cuts, Sores, &c.
zema and Piles, disappear quickly un.
der its soothing effect. Csc at Delzell
Drug Co. Blu.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-12-28

When you want a pleasant purga.
tive try Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. They are easy to take
and produce no nausea, gripping or 9TH
er disagreeable effect. For sale by
all druggists and dealers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

s.
university has resigned to accept a
position with the University of Wis
consin.
The drug stores of this city have
given up their permits to sell intoxi-
eating liquors and agreed not to APP
ply for renewal in the next two
years.
The. next number on the lecture
course is dorado Taft. the sculptor
who will be here Wednesday. Janu-
airy 10.
Miss Edith Snyder returned to Chi
cago yesterday to resume her studies
at the art institute.
John Cox has been appointed over
seer of the county poor farm.
N. w. Huston of Fort Scott, Kan,
is in the city for a two weeks visit
with relatives and friends.
Miss Gertrude Campbell of Milton
was this city last evening.
C. A. Besser was in Ottumwa yester-
day on. business.
Chas. Hurts of Oakville spent Mon
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
} NEIGHBORHooD NEWS
oOOOOOOO0OoOOOOOOOO
Charlton.
CharNQn.

Charlton Jan. Mr.. and Mrs B.
F. Bates returned Tuesday evening
from two weeks visit in Chicago
with their daughter, Mrs. Mary Kuhns.
Just previous to their arrival fire
had been started in the furnace at
their home and this caused an explo-
sion which was supposed to be caused
from a frozen pipe Which kept the
water from circulating. AS a result
of the accident the water put out the
fire, which probably saved the build
ing from taking fire. Aside from a
scare and slight damage to the fur
mace there was no further damage
did.
Frank Nelson returned to Rock
Island yesterday to resume his studies
at Augustana college.
This week is the Swedish week of
cottage prayer meeting. Each night
a meeting is held at the residence of
one Of the members.
Mrs. VIM. Burgett of Oakley visited
with her brother, a. C. Rebel, We'd
nesday
j. W. tastes Of 1ndianola. is SPEND
ing the week with his many friends
here.
VIM Gaitin was passenger yester-
day for Red Oak.
Miss Bessie Bruce returned to her
home III Mt. Ayr today after weeks
visit with her many friends at this
/; place.
Mrs. w. A. Willis of Lacona. was
in the city yesterday on shopping
| expedition
Miss Anna iaNelt delightfully."- en-
| tertained number of her friends yes
| tcrGiay afternoon.
Mrs. d. Q. Rock of Oakley was in
/ the city yesterday for a visit with
| friends.
! Harry Lewis Went to Russell yes
! 1terday TO spend the week with his son
Z. c. Lewis, and family
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
day at the Gates home on North Maj,

day at the Gates home on North Mali
street.
DR.. Hunt and Frank Price were in
Burlington yesterday.
Mrs. VIM. Waugh is on the sick list
this week. -
L. Fl. Bailey of Warsaw, Ill, is visit
ing friends in this city.
Dr. Fairfield of Anderson, Ind. left
yesterday after a short visit with old
friends in this city. i,sss
- s. Van Vleet of Sumpter, Oregon,
is visiting his brother, VIM. Van Vleet,
of this city. IL
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
s1oo-Dr. E. Detchon's Anti-piure.Io

may be worth to you more than 500
If you have child who soils bedding
from incontinence OF water during
sleep. Cures old and young alike. 1t
arrests the trouble at once. 81. Sold
by w. w. Ennis, druggist OttumWa, u.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Cross Lanes.

STOSS LdItCSs
Cross Lanes, Jan. Ed Kremer
and family went to Batavia Tuesday
evening.
Johnnie Hughell visited at Mr.. Hidy's
for several days recently.
Frank Cook was caller at A. Hes
toms Sunday.
Protracted meeting commenced at
Cross Lanes Sunday night.
Misses Eva and Annie Walker were
visiting in this neighborhood a few
days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brawnes are
the parents of daughter.
Mrs. Bertha Heston made a trip to
Libertyville Tuesday.
Mrs. Emma Heston was sick a few
days with congestion of the lungs
Mrs. Sarah Fuller was a visitor in
this vicinity few days.
Ralph and Ada Long were holiday
visitors in this place.
Tommy Walkers house burned down
Saturday night. Most of the furniture
was saved by the neighbors. Mr.. Wal
ker was absent and the fire was not
discovered until it was too late to
save the house.
Milton Stevenson visited his mother
last week who has Improved so much
that she is able to be around again.
2 Frank Campbell, who has taught a
very satisfactory term of school at
Cross Lanes, will close his school Fri
day with Il very interesting program.
Mt. Pleasant.
Mt Pleasant, ian. PROF. H. w.
Hurt, formerly Of the high school here,
mas accepted . nosition in the Oska-
!oosa high school.
Iowa Wesleyan University has open
ed up for the winter term with sew
eral new students.
Professor Hanawalt, former profess
.sor of mathematics in. Iowa Wesleyan
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

fsua within 10 to IA days = nav n.y.
to cure sing
mild and successrul
treatment IS
other
and hat the treatment
special method OF my
Ihave cured
patients for them You VINO
that have not cured you con
me 3
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Selma.

Selma, Jan. REV. Kyons opened
series of meetings at the Methodist
Protestant church on last Sunday
night.
A. B. Adams made business trip
to Keosauqua Monday.
John Baldwin moved to Eldon Mon
day. A. G. Warner will occupy the
house vacated by Mr.. Baldwin.
Welborn Walker will soon have his
new house completed.
The Looney Brothers have opened a
coal mine on the A. H. Hinkle farm
near Selma.
Vane Overturff returned to his home
at Des Moines Monday after isit
with his grandmother. Mrs. j. F. Ov-
erturff.
Elmer Walker, who is attending the
commercial college in Ottumwa visit
ed relatives here last week.
Quite number from here are at
tending court at Keosauqua this
week.
A number of young people spent an
enjoyable evening at the Gardner home
east of town playing finch.
John Harper of Fairfield was a bus
mess caller in town Thursday morn
ing
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Il = Is a
riage licenses yesterday: Joseph
Cherrington, aged 80: of Hooking. and
Miss Sina ]. Potter, aged %, of Plea
santvile; J, Forney Draper. aged 40
and Miss Mollie ~. Spencer, aged 80,
both Of Albia They We're the first
marriage licenses issped in 1904
j. FL. Johnson of Delphi Ind, who
has been visiting his son, j. c.. John
son of this city. for the last month
returned to his home in Indiana yes
terday.
Wayne county, who have been spend
Weyne county, Who have been spend
Z ing the holidays at the parental III, S
Atchison home near Avery, left on No.
3 this morning for Their home near.
Lee Rove, who has been quite sick
with typhoid fever, is reported as a
little better this morning.
DR.. r. t. Bartram and Attorney j. T,
Clarkson We're in Ottumwa yesterday
on legal business.
Hon. N. z, Kendall left for Des
Moines yesterday evening.
D. V. White of oskaloosa was in
town on business yesterday.
A. j. Yount of Belle PLANE was
transacting business in Abba this
morning.
D. NJ. Colgrove of Atlantic was in
Abba on business this morning.
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Eldon.
Eldon, Jan. Mrs. Clete Hinkle
and sister, Miss Grace Griifiths, re-
turned home yesterday after a plea
SAINT visit with friends and relatives
i'll Chicago.
Mrs. Clara Heinz and son Milo
returned from visit with relatives in
Cttumwa.
Miss Anna verrnilya of Uunionvile
returned home after a visit with rel
etives in this city at the home of w
Miss June cremer left Tuesday for
Kansas City, where she will visit
friends.
Mrs. E. Walker left Tuesday for
Ottumwa, where she will visit friends
| and relatives.
Mrs C. Stevens of Washington has
returned home after a visit with Ell
don friends.
Mrs. Fl. Gobble and daughter, Miss
Flossie, left Tuesday for a visit with
friends in Washington.
b. Hinkle of Selma, passed through
Eldon Tuesday for Springfield, Mo,
to look after some property interests
there.
]. E. Houghland left Tuesday TO,
Ramona, Mo. on business
G.. G. Sparks was an Ottumwa Wis
| itOr Wednesday,.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Pulaski,

Pulaski, Jan. 7.--Al Powers and wife, of
Bloomfield, visited at the Dr.. Shelton home
Tuesday.
Walter Creech left Monday for Des
Moines where he will resume his studies at
the Drake university.
c. w. Ramseyer returned to Iowa City
the first of the week where he Is studying
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Abba.

Abba, Jan. 1.-The clerk of the dis
trict court issued the following mar
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25
STICK TO THE TRUTH.

The county commissioners are careful
to keep we'll within the bounds of truth
when talking to visitors who are look
ing toward California and any stranger
who is induced by them to go to that
State will find things as represented.
Many who come to inquire are skepti-
cal at first when told the wonderful
story of CALIFORNIA; productiveness
and the ideal conditions that wait the
settler there, but they usually become
convinced that all is as told them. The
knowledge that large holdings in Cali
fornia are being opened UP to small
farmers is becoming generally known
among Eastern tillers OF the soil and
is helping the State great deal in
it's efforts to attract settlers.
Thomas Hatch. who is in charge of
CALIFORNIA; forestry display, is becom-
ing quite a we'll known character at
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25
SHE WILL STRAIGHTEN OUT
MORALS OF WICHITA, KANS.
Carrie Nation Issues Appeal to
Mothers, Wives and Daughters
10 Join Her in Crusade.

TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 24.-Carrie
Nation has issued a long appeal to
the mothers, wives and daughters of
Kansas to join her in a crusade. In
part she says;
4 have frequent appeals from poor,
heartbroken mothers all over TO come
and help them save their sons, but
from no place have had as many as
from Wichita. Ksns.
Last week two agonizing appeals
came TO me that I cannot turn a deaf
ear 10, and I am now resolved to can
eel my dates and by the help Of AL
mighty God go TO that awful city of
death and murder. I now ask all
women over the State and elsewhere
10 meet me there on the 2sth of Sep
TENDER, Wednesday of next week.
Bring your hatchets with youi I will
pay the railroad fare Of those not able
and see that you have a place re-
served for your stay while there. Now
this appeal is made TO the gentle, low
ing Christian women. whose hearts
are breaking with sympathy for the
oppressed. those whose dear ones are
being destroyed before their eys."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25
KILLS HIMSELF A YEAR
AFTER WIFE'S MURDER
Chicago Man Keeps Vow He Made
When Robber Slew Helpmate
for Her Money.

CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Having de-.
clared that he would not live more
than year after the death of his wife,
Mary, who was murdered for her
money in her home by Louis Pezant on
September Is, 1903, John Spilka, on
the first anniversary of the murder,
committed suicide by strangling him
self with a handkerchief. His body
ha- just been found in a dwelling
where he lived in seclusion. Spilka
last was seen on Sunday, the anniver-
sary of the murder. and from the con-
dition of his body physicians agreed
that he must have ended his life on
that day.
Pezant, the murderer of Mrs. Spilka,
was hanged April 10 of this year. Mrs.
Spilka was attacked by Pezant in the
hallway of her home and robbed of
$242. which was concealed in the folds
Of her clothing. She was struck re-
peatedly on the head with a heavy
stone and her body was carried to the
garrett