Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-05-03

George Manning is reported to be
saving $50 per ton from ore at a
Cone Butte property which he is oper-
ating with the aid of an arasta.
CAPITOL COMMENT.
Budget From the Washington Cores.
pondent Of the Argus.
Special Correspondence.
1t seems that everybody, of all par
ties-when congress is out of ses-
sion-is enthusiastic for statehood.
Rider Haggard thinks that America
"is land of loud noises" Mr.. Hag-
gard ought to visit us during cam
paign.
Some of the trusts are busy ode
Tending their rights" A good many
of their rights are the peoples
wrongs.
Ex-Mayor Mcclellan says the Demo-
cratic party needs a sound doctrine.
What kind of new yell would Mr..
Clellan suggest?
Just as Oklahoma is hoping to real
ly secure statehood, Carrie Nation
has decided to quit Kansas and to
move into that territory.
Russia's expressions of confidence
in Rojestvensky are not shared by
the marine insurance agents, if their
boosted rates are any indication.
General Coxey is bankrupt. 1t will
not be SO easy for him now to gather
an army of unemployed for the pur.
pose of marching on Washington.
The American coffee habit consists
in sending abroad for 81 million dol
lars worth of coffee berries, which
will brew 1,350,O00,000 gallons Of cot
fee.
The country has been thrown into
spasm of uncertainty at the state
ment that Representative GrosvenOr
of Ohio is thinking of retiring from
politics.
After two days of incumhency OF
his new office, Mayor Dunno, of Chi
cago, is announced by Colonel Bry'
an as 'the greatest mayor in the
world"
J. Pierpont Morgan and Senator AL
drich both called on the King of Italy
the same day. That monarch may be
excused if for the next two or three
weeks he walks with an extra strut
Advices from Colonel Watterson al
Monte Carlo state that call gambling
is low and vulgar" The Colonel must
have been up against it. 1t is hoped
that he provided himself with a re
turn ticket.
| 1t is noted that most of the orators
at the recent Democratic dinner talk
ed with the greatest volubility of the
past of the Democratic party. The
logical inference to be drawn is tina
there is no present to it.
AS spring advances gaily the la!
of the hen is heard again. mingled
with the joyous utterances of the
blue bird, the chickadee and the mod
est tweet from the barn caves of thu
hirundo erethrogasta horreorum.
President Smith, of the Mormon
church is being scored for having al
tended a prize fight in Salt Lake
Mr.. Smith got in the habit of wit
Messing rough and tumble scraps il
the senate committee on the Smoo
hearing.
A Chicago University professor az
vises us that it would be much bette
for the country if the Rocky mOur
tains ran east and west instead c
north and south. This will prol
ably be left, however. to the regula
session of congress.
The Sultan of Turkey has agree
to pay seven million dollars of tn
French claims. All the details an
the terms of the payment have bee
arranged for and agreed upon an
the only technicality that is lackin
now is the payment of the money.
1t seems that the beef trust peop
are Directing to the secret servit
work of the government. Some tim
ago several trunks full Of incrimina
ing papers were unearthed by tn
government agents, and the presel
protest against further active VOL
would indicate, if anything, that thel
is considerably more concealed.
The new Panama canal commi
sion is getting down to business ar
proposes to begin rush work"
was concluded the other day to pu
chase a number of modern powerf
locomotives for carrying off the di
excavated in the digging of the
cuts. These locomotives are to
three times the hauling capacity
the small engines now used.
Everywhere in his western trip Il
president-who as soon as he IL
Washington laid aside official form
ity and became Mr.. Roosevelt-h
avoided not only partisanship but {
en- politics in his speeches, and the
have been remarkable as expressio
of warm good fellowship and lit,