Fergus County Democrat., 1906-08-07
SILK waist sale. Lehman's

FRANK stephens of Fort Maginnis
was in town for several days last week
Mr.. j. c. Armstrong of st. Louis,
Missouri, was registered at the Hoff-
man House Saturday.
We must close out our summer
millinery this week. Lehman's.
Charlie Meredith, the New Year as
sayer, was 4 visitor to the city the
latter part Of the week.
Less than two dozen silk waists left.
Get your choice. Lehman's.
Richard Eddy left Thursday for Hell
ena in response to a telegram telling
of the very serious illness of his sister
Money to loan on first class rancn
property. f. f. MacGowan, attorney
at law
j. I. Wunderlin attended a meeting
of the directors Of the Citizens Bank
Of Moore yesterday.
II. G. Eggleston and j. Silversmith,
two commercial men of st. Louis, were
registered at the Hoffman the latter
part of the week.
Mrs. Edward Sherwood left yester-
day for St. Joseph, Mo-, where she
will visit relatives for the remainder
of the year. That city was formerly
the home of Mrs. Sherwood.
j. II. Danils, the Kendall restau-
rant man, was business and pleas
ure visitor to the city Saturday and
Sunday. He did some "manful root
Ing" for the Miners in the ball game
Sunday.
II. NJ. Calkins, Jr., son of the general
freight agent Of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railway, arrived in the
city Saturday evening and was met by
Pete Rosso who took the young man
out to the Judith mountains for a
month or six weeks. The elder Calk-
ins is one of the heaviest stock holders
in the Cumberland Mining company
who own the mine Of that name.
Bells brothers, who have been work.
group, located in Chicago gulch, Ju-
dith mountains, last week struck q
good body Of cyanide ore which assays
$500 per ton. A contract was let by
the Bells boys who have the property
under bond and lease, for a 120-foot
tunnel and it was in this tunnel 20 feet
that the strike was made. 1t was re-
ported last evening that another strike
Of much higher grade ore has been
made, and If such is the case, the pres
ent leasers will push the work Of ex-
ploration with all possible rapidity.
d. f. Smith, right-of-way agent for
the Great Northern railroad company
arrived in the city the latter part of
Mr.. Smith recently piloted a party of
Minnesota farmers across country from
Billings to Great Falls, stopping for a
day or two in this city. He says that
they were exceedingly well pleased
with the country and that they will
certainly bring their families out just
as soon as they can locate some places.
The men with Mr.. Smith were making
the trip in behalf Of about 100 Mime
\ ,z1
out for two successive seasons in that
state ana have decided to east their
fortunes in Montana.
j. j. Southwick of Great Falls ar
rived in the city Saturday about noon
known in the Cataract City as the
"Battleshp Oregon" The machine is
twenty horse power Winton and is
capable Of covering the ground at the
rate of thirty to forty miles an hour
although Jim says that he seldom
speeds her up above the twenty-five
mile notch. 1t is the intention Of Mr..
SouthWick to locate in this city with
his big bubble and go into the pass
enger business, taking sight-seers
around over the country, visiting the
camps and surrounding towns and
make himself generally useful. He be-
licves that Lewistown will support
such business and he is going TO give
it a trial.
While drifting from the bottom Of
the Winze in the Barnes-King mine,
large cavern was encountered that
bore every evidence OF former habita-
tion, and is thought by those who are
familiar with conditions in the North
Moccasin mountains to be the ancient
home of Tom Riser. AS nearly every
one n ferg1s county knows, Mr.. Riser
assisted materially in the placing of
the ores in these mountains and that
he had a complete set of maps showing