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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-03-28

This platform was unanimously ad-
opted. The report of the credentials
committee was formal matter as
there were no contests and all dele
gates selected at the primary were de-
clared entitled to seats in the conven-
tion.
Nominations for the Office of mayor
were declared in order. Tom Stout
nominated Alderman n. J. Littlejohn
OF the third ward. j. e. Pinkley, al
derman from the second ward. was
nominated by Frank Pick. There be-
ing no further nominations, ballot
was taken and Mr.. Pinkley received
a majority of ten votes and was de-
clared the nominee.
+. +. MacGowan, the present police
magistrate was unanimously nomi-
mated to succeed himself in that pos
ition, his name being placed before
the convention by II. L. DeKalb.
M. ii. Deaton was nominated for
city treasurer by Stout and had nc
opposition for the position. Thiscom-
pleted the city ticket.
Before the regular convention was
called to order, the delegates from
the respective wards held meetings
and selected the candidates for alder.
man for the three wards. The follow
gentlemen were named for the alder
manic positions: First ward-Matt
Weber: Second ward-Frank Mosh.
ner.
This completed the work of the
convention and a motion to adjourn
was carried.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-03-28
Maiden
J. L. Seals spent a part of the week
at FIT. Maginnis.

J. L. Seals spent a part of the week
at Ft. Maginnis.
Tony Rolando was in Kendall on
business last Tuesday.
G. A. Archer went to Lewistown on
business last Wednesday.
DR.. AttiX of Lewistown made pro-
fessional call here last week.
Lumber is being hanled for repairs
on the mill at the Maginnis mine.
Mrs. Anderson spent part of last
week with her husband at New Year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Meredith of
New Year spent Sunday at the home
of e. H. Crabtree.
Johnny Crabtree, one of the infant
twins of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Crabtree.
is ill of pneumonia.
George Bells and W. E. Wilson
were III Kendall last Tuesday looking
over some mining property.
Joseph Bells, manager of the Collar
Gulch properties, has returned from
an extended trip in the east.
j. B. Rosso of Butte came over this
week to assist his brother. Pete with
the work at the Cumberland mine.
X. II. Dorm, secretary of the Globe
Maginnis Mining Company was in
LeWistOWn on business last Tuesday.
The carpenters nave completed the
work of remodeling and erecting an
addition to the house of A. e. Brim-
BILE.
J. L. Stuart is making shipment
of the ore he recently discovered on
the War Eagle to the smelter this
week.
The home of Robert Mcmillan was
destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
The fire had made such headway be.
fore it was discovered that little OF
| furniture was saved.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-03-28

rleht Kind OF men in Office, if elected.
ana shall not be guided by any other
standard. j. E.. PINKLEY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
fast. but in the country the people are

fast, but In the country the people are
hungry, and they live on potatoes, and
hope for aremittance from some men,
Der of the family who Is making moro
than asaliving in good old America.
while the young men and *he girls
are all packing up to- 80 away to the
land of the free, and before you could
get there and get settled down there
would be nobody left in Ireland but
the very old men and women, who
would talk to you Of nothing but the
boys and girls in far-away America,
and whea they found that you had left
America to come to Ireland and en-
Joy yourself, they would take you for
q lunatic and have you sent to an asy-
1um.
"In England you would be all right
if you had money enough to buy an
estate and raise race horses, but II
you won money at the races they
would cut your acquaintance. and II
you lost your money, they would con-
slider you a good fellow until your
money was gone, and then they would
make you move On. In France you
could enjoy yourself until you had to
go to the Kelley cure, and then 1t
would be all off. In Italy you would
have to learn to play tune on
macaroni instrument, and eat cotton
seed oil from America, disguised with
an olive oil label, with every man and
woman carrying a butcher knife; and
in Germany you would have to be on
dress parade, and raise beer stomach
that you would have to wheel around
all up, my advice to you would be to
go to Zion City, give all your money
to Dowie, and take hand-out OF
bread and beans occasionally, and try
to look pleasant"
The bad boy paused. The old
groceryman had listened with great in
terest
"Say," he said, after minute,
"where is your dad going next trip?
Seems as though he would want to
stay at home long enough to change
his shirt" -
"Don't have to change your shirt
when you travel said the boy, as he
slipped an imitation snake into the
side pocket of the old grocerynan's
sack coat. but our next move will
be chasing ourselves around our ma
tive land. Pas going to join the cir
GUS"
"Gee!" said theold groceryman, write
to me, won't you?" 'Sure," said the bad
boy,"I will write you. Good-by. You are
a good thing. Push yourself along"
and the bad boy went out to pack up
for another journey.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
WANTED SIMPLE TUNES.
These Classical Thaags On the Violin
era Too Much for /.
~ 1Ii,,n

a Westport fond father, made his daueh.
ter mad and. incidentally, held up to view
his lack of knowledge Of violin music. His
daughter is q violinist. "A visitor was in
the library, and the father suggested that
his daughter play She Was willing, re-
lates the Kansas City Times. Il. ;.
"Mary's been studying in the east" said
haven't heard her play much myself YET"
:, The girls mother went to the piano in
the next room, and the girl got her violin.
FOR three or four minutes twanging from
the two Instruments was heard. Then
there was halt. It was there that the
fond father made his mistake: -11.
said w sas 1ce but sIR s to %s CLASSICAL
for me-" #E, @r~H4
The girl glanced through the door. Her
face wore q look of disgust.
I've been tuning, father" she said.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
MILLIONS ARE SENT HOME.
Immigrants from gary
Sent Over $48, 100000 in
Ten Years.

The immigrants to the United States
from Austria-Hungary have sent back
to that country in the ten years between
1894 and 1903 more than $48,0O0,000. Of
this vast sum the immigrants from
Hungary sent back $31, 132,0S0, while
those from Austria sent to their rela-
tives $16,9S2,9 In 1894 the amount
sent back by the immigrants Vt both
countries was $1,327,620. This had
grown in 1903 to $10,556,000 in fact,
there has been a steady increase since
1894.
In addition to the sums sent into the
country through what are known in
Austria as "home banks from Amer
lea each year, large amount is remit
ted through American banks without
the Intervention of Austrian or Hun
garian institutions, or In cash or postal
money orders. The entire amount re-
ceived in Austria-Hungary in 1903 from
emigrants that had left that country
for other countries was $32,77S.004
1t is estimated that the Italian immi-
grants in the United States send back
to their homes annually sum equal to
about $30,Q00000 An indication of the
Importance of remittances so made is
found in the business Of Italian postal
savings banks with savings institutions
for Italians in foreign countries. But
the full amount sent into Italy cannot
be kept track Of in this way, for it is
we'll known that considerable amounts
are sent in paper money by registered
mail or are brought into the country by
returning immigrants Fraudulent
banking concerns have caused great
losses to Italian immigrants, both in
this and other countries in the past.
These we're usually run by Italians.
To prevent all this an act was passed
in Italy in 1901 authorizing the Bank
OF Naples to take charge of remittances
from emisrs,nts, thus guaranteeing
them safety and regularity in the trans
mission of their money. This bank has
since established correspondence offices
for the management of emigrant busi-
ness, there being Sc Of these offices at
the close of 1908. A recent bill in the
Italian parliament, providing for the
appointment of resident agents in for
eign countries to manage the remit.
tances of Italians failed to pass.
This immense amount of money flow-
ing into Italy annually from its emf
grants has already had marked in
f1uence in improving conditions of liv-
ing, especially in southern Italy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

her face, and false teeth and plumpers
In her mouth to make her cheeks
plump, and penciling her eyebrows, to
make her look young and kitteny. She
Is the same old lady, and saltpeter
won't save her, and make her young
and crisp again "a piece of human
wilted lettuce"
as he took a piece Of wrapping paper
to wipe drop of molasses off the
bosom of his white shirt, II am one of
the greatest thinkers in this coun-
try, and sit here when there
are no customers in the store,
and do nothing but just think,
and 1t worries me the way things are
running, not only in this country, but
everywhere in the world. Look at
the money that is wasted in these
sham battles, at target practice in
the navy, and this ere attack on
Washington by the army and navy
playing war. Gosh durn it, why cont
we discharge the army, and tie up the
navy to hitching posts, and wait till
a real war comes on, and then rally
from the east and from the west, and
sock it to the enemy" and the old man
took brush and busted on the coun-
ter.
Say, you only think you are think
ing when you get that way" said the
bad boy. "Some people sit and
twirl their thumbs, and say nothing,
and look serious, and have lines on
their faces, and they look wise, and
think it amounts to something, but it
is only indigestion, and when your
stomach does not work, the brain sort
of etfervesces, and when you turn on
the talking switch and say something,
it is like opening bottle of root beer,
cause it is all froth, and when It has
stopped foaming it is nothing but a
wet place on the floor, that smells of
sasparilla. You are one of these root
beer thinkers, with string over your
cork, and if nobody cuts the string,
you finally get sour, and If the string
is cut, it is all over as soon as the
yeast is exhausted. You talk about
the expense of target practice. Why,
nowadays a navy, to be any good, has
to be able to hit fly with a 16-inch
shell, on the turret of battlcship
seven miles away, with heavy sea
on, and the only way is to keep shoot
ing, and then when a war comes the
enemy will keep off the grass. See?
You would like to have our navy
like the Russians, tied up to save ex-
pense, the sailors ashore, drunk, and
the gunners so full of vodka that they
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

THE SAILORS 50 FULL OF VODKA
THAT THEY ARE CROSS-EYED.
lion broke out, we didn't know how
to shoot, but we got there, just the
same"
eyes, in about five years you got
so you could hit a confederate regi-
ment, if it stood still, but you couldn't
hit anybody on the wing" said the
bad boy. "They issued guns to you,
and you looked them over as though
they were to be cut up into :teaks,
and fried, and when you were told how
to shoot, and fired into the air,
the old gun kicked you over, and
kicked you after you were down. and
broke rib, and dislocated a shoulder.
When you got out of the hospital you
wanted to be detailed as company
cook. or nurse in the hospital, and they
could never get you near a gun again
for years, and when you did shoot
again at the enemy, you pulled the
trigger with your eyes shut, and run
away from the recoil, and never hit a
rebel, and 1t took eight carloads Of
lead to kill one man. Now it IS diff
ferent, and the little guns the army
uses don't kick, and they shoot a little
bullet three miles, and when the Lul-
let hits a man he is paralyzed until
the battle is over, and you cave got
to pick out spot on man, and hit
it, or be fined by the sergeant. That
is what it means to be up to date with
an army or navy. You got to hit
the bulls-eye, and not the surround
ing country. The time for hunting
elephants with bird shot has passed,
and you got to blow 'em up with dy-
Mantle, see?
'"The boy who can hit a fly on the
wall with bean shooter is the COM
ing soldier, and you old jays that sit
around and kick about expense of
teaching our army and navy to hit
things they cannot see without a tele-
scope ought to be sent to an asylum
for incurables."
"Now that you and your dad have
travelled all over Europe, and kept
your eyes and ears open, what do you
think is the best place for a man to
60 who is tired of his own country.
and wants to settle down somewhere
and enjoy peace, and quiet, for the
balance of his life, without work, and
no feeling that he is liable to wake
up some morning and find that he is
in the midst Of a war. What coun-
try would you advise an elderly man
to 60 to, who wants to get away from
trouble, and just enjoy every day of
the balance of his life?" said the old
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

d. HUN. GEORGE w. PECK
tE1'%eoverner of Wisconsin. Formerly Ed
Ator Peck's Sum- Author "Pecks
Bad Boy" Etc.)
Copyright 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles)
The old groceryman was in front of
the grocery in his shirt sleeves, with
a watering pot in his hand, trying to
brace up some wilted lettuce that had
seen better days. After all attempts
mad failed and the lettuce laid down
IN its bed with an appealing ,ook, as
much as to say: "Don't inject any
thing, but let me die q natural DEATH"
the old man acted as though he
thought the end had come. He had
just taken off his hat, and was gaz-
ing at his dying patient, when the
bad boy came up, and, with an under
taker look en- his face, he took his
hat and famed the lettuce, and said:
Friends who desire to take a last look
at the deceased may pass in the front
door, and retire by the back door. No
flowers; burial private"
"Now, what you want to butt in here
for, when l am having all this trou-
ble?'' said the old man, as he poured
out the remaining water in the
sprinkler on the dying salad material.
THAT is where the profits go. When
I bought that lettuce at the commits
sion house day before yesterday, it
was bright and crisp, with dew drops
on the leaves, and it cracked When
handled 1t, and look at it now, IS linn
Der as a starched collar at a picnic,
and it wouldn't stand up if it wore
clutches. Gee, but If I had a patent
on something that would keep lettuce
crisp until it was sold, wouldn't want
no gold mine," and the old man threw
the watering pot on the floor, and
sighed.
WELL" said the bad boy, as he tried
a few Strawberries off the top of a
box, trying to rejuvenate wilted let
tuce is like putting false hair, or hair
dye, on an old woman's head, and
putting oriental cream and powder on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Too Vaque

An English magazine tells a court
story. A counsel, in the middle of his
cross-examination, was handed a tele-
gram. "Hello!" he said, as he read it,
"So-and-So has won the Derby"
"Mr. A." said the Judge, sever ely,
1T is very unseemly that in the course
of solemn judicial proceedings, where
a mans liberty and reputation are at
stake, you should be talking Of tbs
winner Of horserace. Er-by the,
way, does the telegram say what was
second and third pm, Y. Tribune -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

man, with a peaceful look, as though
he was seeking a heaven upon earth
well, by ginger, you have got me"
said the bad boy, trying to think Of
the most peaceful place he visited
while abroad. ''The fact, is, we were
not looking particular, for quiet,
peaceful places, but for excitement and
rush, and trouble, and we got it, sure.
I had thought that in Norway and
Sweden one could get plenty Of peace.
sliding down hill in>winter, on skis
and toboggans, but since we got home
I see that Norway has seeded from
Sweden. and they have got to fight, so
l wouldn't go there. Ireland is about
as beautiful a country as one could
wish to be in, but in the cities every
body is rich. and they live high and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 16-It is reported
from Casper, Wyo., that sales of town lots
for the new town Of Shoshone, located on
the edge of the Wind River Reservation
or. the new line of The Chicago & North
Western Railway across the state from
Casper, have been unprecedented.
a1 Bed nug&ef bave dpose %
in short time. Buyers evidently figure
on the growth of the city here when the In
dian reservation is thrown open to settle
ment next June.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
do East via the Nickel Plate Road

do East via the Nickel Plate Road.
Lowest rates via the Nickel Plate Road
and its eastern connections to all points
in Eastern and New England States.
Three elegant through trains daily to
Cleveland, Buffalo, New York and Boston.
Meals served in Dining Cars on the Indi
vidual Club Plan, at prices ranging from
81 cents to 81 90. Also service a la CARTE
Luxurious Sleeping Cars on all trains. No
excess fare charged on any train on the
Nickel Plate Road, and service as good as
the best. For full information regarding
rates, connections, sleeping car reserva:
Agent, ll3 Adams st., Chicago, III.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Room Needed.

You're not going to give up your
coy little flat, surely?" ~
yep; Doctors orders. He insists
that every morning when I rise must
stand perfectly erect and expand my.
chest a dozen times or ."--:Phi]n.
delphia Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
WILD WITH ECZEMA
And Other Itching, Burning, scaly
Eruptions, with Loss Of Hair
Speedily Cured by Cuticura.

Battle the affected parts with hot water
and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the sur
face of crusts and scales and soften tne
thickened cuticle; dry, without hard rub
bling, and apply Cuticura Ointment freely,
to allay itching, irritation and infamma-
ton, and soothe and heal; and, lastly,
take Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the. blood. A single set, costing
most torturing, dis6guring skin, scalp and
blood humors, with loss Of hair, when all
else fails.
If there be any truer measure of man
than by what he does, it must be by what
he gives.-South.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
ire crosa-eved and when the whistle

are cross-eyed, and when the whistle
blows, and they come aboard to get
acquainted with the ship, they be-
come seasick, and can't hit 9 single
cruiser, but have to wait till the en-
envy gets into docks, like Doy shoot
ing ducks. Look at those little japs
Their eyes are put in slanting, and
you would think they would shoot
around a corner, but when they get
braced behind a gun, and take aim,
and pull the dingus, the rolling mill
that they fire at the enemy hits it in
the solar plexus, and anybody that is
alive when the explosion comes jumps
overheard and browns. So we want
to be ready for any enemy that comes
along, cause you don't know what mo-
ment some nation is going to mix"
"But what's the use of keeping
shooting at mark all the time, by the
army fellers?"- said the old man, with
a tired look. :'Now, when the rebel
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

The Bad Boy Visits His Uncle's Gro
cery-He soliloquizes on a Dying
Lettuce Leaf-They Discuss Navies
and Wars-"If You Want to Rest"
Says, the Bad Boy, "Don't Go
Abroad"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
SUFFERINGS UNTOLD.
4 Kansas City Woman's Terrible Expert.
euce With Kidney Sickness.

Mrs. Mary Cogin, goth st. and Cleve-
land Ave., Kansas City, No., says:
"For years I was run down, weak.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

A mans good intentions seldom add to hi
income.-Chicago Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

Don't try to add to your stature b,
standing on your dignity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

lame and sore.
The kidney 60.
cretions were
too frequent.
Then dropsy
pulled up my
ankles n ntil
they were q
sight to behold.
Doctors gave
me up, but I
began q sing
Doan's Kidney
Pills, and the
remedy cured
well ever. since.
by, the first in
;turel1 born"
30 cents a. box.
N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
A Teachers Testimony.

Hinton, Ky, Oct. 3oth (special) 1t
has long been claimed that Diabetes is in
durable, but Mr.. E: j.. Thompson, teach
er in the Hinton school, has pleasing eyi-
dence to the contrary. Mr.. Thompson
had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney
Pills and is cured. In statement he
makes regarding his cure Mr.. Thompson
says :
II was troubled with my kidneys for
more than two years, and was treated by
two OF the best doctors in this part of the
state. They claimed I had Diabetes and
there was little to be done for me. Then
l started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
what they did for me was wonderful. It
is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills
that l am now enjoying good health"
Many doctors still maintain that Dia-
betes is incurable. But Diabetes is kid
ney disease, and the kidney disease that
Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has yet
to be discovered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

One way to improve the memory is to
assume for moment that you have every
thing you want.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

keep your eyes wide open on the life
road" says a Billville philosopher. "but
be sure that the fellow ahead of you
cont blind you with the dust" ATLANTA
Constitution.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
(E3-1aoverner Of Wisconsin. Formerly Ed
1tor "Peck's Sum-" Author "Pecks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

On this laud this year has been produced up
wards oftwenty Eve bushels of wheat to the acre.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

It is also best Of grazing land and for mixed
farming it has NO superior on the continent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

gives absolutely FREE
to every settler One
Hundred and Sixty
Acres of land in West
ern Canada.