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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

n. p. lmislund and John Ross. the
Republican candidates for county com
missioneIs, are taking well with the
voters, as it is generally conceded
that they are we'll qualified for posi-
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

The Republican party has enforceu
the laws against trusts, resulting in
the smashing of scores of combinations
in restraint of trade. That party in
congress has enacted additional legis.
lation for further strengthening the
great public service corporations. 9th,
ers may promise and mouth about
what they will do to the trusts, but
the Republican party has record of
facts accomplished in the just regula-
ton of these corporations. So, in the
light of what it has done in the past,
calling attention to what it is doing
now, and making plain to every one
what it wants to do in the future, the
Republican party feels that it can with
confidence appeal for the support OF
thoughtful. progressive, American
voters.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

Miss Lena B. Newell, the Republi-
can candidate for county superintend.
ent of schools, is in every way we'll
qualified for the office As a teach
err in the Lewistown schools she has
met with great success. Miss Newell
has had excellent educational advan-
tages and is highly recommended for
her scholarship and her natural tai
ent as an instructor, by President H.
H. Swain of the State Normal college
at Dillon, and Prof. w. G. Bagley,
formerly of that institution, but now
superintendent of the training depart
ment of the State Normal school of
New York. These gentlemen are very
earnest in their endorsement of Miss
Newell and there can be no question
that if elected she will conduct the
office in a highly satisfactory manner.
The voters can do no better than to
give Miss Newell their support at the
polls.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

The Democrat is fast becoming yer
liable and active mud geyser" In
its abuse Of Billy Neill. The opinion
of number of Democrats on the Rock
creek bench as to Mr.. Malcolm's fit.
ness for county commissioner would
be interesting reading.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

For Representative in Congress
CHARLES N. PRAY.
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
HENRY c. SMITH.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

That Democratic meeting at Moore
reminded some of the old-timers pres
ent of the winter of 1857.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

In the coming election there are
township as we'll as county officers
to be elected and the voters will have
to exercise care in choosing good men,
For justices of the peace of Big Spring
township F. e. Rice of Moore and
Edward Brassey of Lewistown are the
Republican candidates. Mr.. Rice is
a most competent man to administer
justice in our neighboring town, while
no better man could be found for that
office in Lewstown than Edward Bras
sey. who is now filling that position
by appointment Mr. Brassey had
experience in the office in years
gone by, has the necessary know
ledge of law and is a fair and
impartial Judge in the discharge OF
his duties. 1t is an office of grow
ing importance in Lewistown and MI.
Brassey is equal to all of it's require
ments
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

Every Republican should see that
his name is on the registration books
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

A vote for Charles N. Pray will not
be thrown away
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

LEWISTON n. MONT. Oct. 10, 1906
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

All the same there are plenty OF
Democrats throughout the county who
will not vote for B. G. White for state
senator. When not a candidate for
office he has no use for the Demo-
cratic doctrine of free trade and free
raw materials Nearly every Demo
crat in Montana and Fergus county
adheres tenaciously to the tenets OF
the Democratic faith and they would
rather support a consistent Republi-
can than Democrat who has taken
the opportunity to ridicule it's card1-
free raw materials did for Mr. White
as told by himself.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19
WILSON HEATER

10 80 after new gods in every cam
palgn. 1t does not have to propose
some new nostrum. 1t does not have
TO array one class of citizens against
another. 1t does not have to appeal
nor infiame his passion through DEM
aGogic appeals. 1t does not have 70
play upon ignorance. but simply ap-
peals to reason. That is all it has
done in the past and is doing in this
ampaign-buoyant in the expectation
that the appeal will not be in vain
when addressed to the understanding
and best judgment of the intelligen
voting population Of the nation.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

Published Every Friday by
JOHN NJ. YRO0MAN, Editor and Proprietor
RkLSEY R. WATSON, Business Manager
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

The Republican party does not have
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19
OF wool went to Billings this year
and last simply because there were

OF wool went to Billings this year
and last simply because there were
no reads into this city or what were
laid out We're impossible from lack of
attention. is the merest rot, a false
hood manufactured out of nothing,
simply to work up prejudice in Lew
stown against Billy Neill, Republican
candidate for county commissioner
and member of the present board
The wool that went to Billings was
tributary to that place. In any event
everybody knows that the roads are
as hard and dry as bone during the
wool shipping season, and it is not
ulHlcult TO get to any part of the coun-
ty. But this is on par with every
other subterfuge used against MI
Nell. It is proof that Billy Neill is
strong man before the people, one lii
whom taxpayers have every conf
dence
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

Replying to a paragraph in the Ar
gus stating that President Roosevelt
has made it plain that he needs a
Republican congress to carry out the
work he has begun, our contemporary
INDUCES IN the following humor:
Had it not been for the Democrats,
Ben Tillman and Joseph Bailey, in
the last U. S. senate, the work OF
President Roosevelt in one conspic-
uOus instance; IN the regulation of
railroad rates, would never have been
begun" President Roosevelt was
never unmindful of any help he got
from the Democrats. The party lead
ers were obliged to give their support
to the measure or be forever damned
by The American people. however
much they hated to see a Republican
congress and president get the credit
for such legislation. To secure the
passage of the bill, however, the pres
ident had to rely upon Republican
was openly charged by the president
was openly charged by several Wash
ington correspondents with seeking
to bring about the defeat of any rate
legislation, which he denied with var
ious kinds OF epithets, but which. in
the light of his connections with the
Standard Oil company in Texas, seems
eral Republican senators toward the
bill did not reflect the sentiment OF
The members Of the party in the sen
ate nor throughout the country.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

tons on the board Neither OF the
gentlemen has ever sought or held All
office in the county during his long
residence here. Neither did they seek
a nomination in this instance 1t went
to them without the asking on tneir
part. Everybody who knows John Ross
Of Denton knows him to be good
citizen and neighbor. broad-gauged
man, who, if elected, will serve the
people of the northern and northwest
ern part of the county alike, as ne
will all industries in that region. The
voters of this county have generously
and righteously conceded a second
term to an officer who has served
them well, and for that reason they
will give their support TO Billy NELL.
With NELL, Imislund and Ross COM
prising the board the affairs OF Fer
gus county will be in good hands.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19


Governor Toole might have vetoed
the Objectionable feature of the rail
road commission bill-namely, the
section appointing the commission, and
let the rest of the act stand. He could
then have named the commission un-
der the constitution, and the people
would have been saved hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Why didn't the
governor do it? Governor Joseph X.
Toole is not a friend of the peop,e
and he made the fact known when he
held the railroad and warehouse com
mission bill until the legislature had
adjourned and then vetoed it. He
knew that the measure, if returned
to the law-making body with his veto,
would have become a law over his
protest, and in order to serve the rail
roads, he waited until the members
We're safely home, and then killed the
bill whose principles for years he
has ampioned.-Helena Record
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

OFFICIAL PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19

The people of this county want
well-balanced, level-headed men in the
legislature, not men who simply nave
the gift of CAB and who would take
up the time of the session in talking
to the galleries. Henry VI. Rae, Rufus
Thompson and Alexander G. Greene
would be alert to promote the best in
terests of their constituents, not on
ly in the performance of their legisla-
tive duties but in voting for a Repub-
lican United States senator who would
support President Roosevelt instead
of opposing him. All Of the beneficial
legislation that has come to Montana
in the past twelve years has been
the work of Republican congress,
a Republican president and Republi-
can representatives from this state in
Washington. If the people of Fergus
county want the good work continued
without check they should vote for
Messrs. Rae, Thompson and Greene.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
SHOWN NEEDS OF NORMAL.
L.spislators-eiect Are Advised That
School is I~nadeuuate,

Schoot Us indoeQuates
The several members elect of the
state legislature visited the normal
school of Spearfish at the invitation of
President Cook, who wished 10 i'm
press upon them the necessity for in
creased appropriations for this inst-
tuition. Those who were present were
Senators May and Cooper of Lawrence
county, Representatives Shaw and
Pennington of Lawrence, Jones OF
Custer, Stokes Of Butte and Hare OF
Pennington.
The party spent two days mt Spear
fish and inspected the entire school.
Its equipment and its method of work.
Attention was called to the fact that
the enrolment Is larger than that of
any other similar state institution, and
the facilities for handling nearly 500
students are entirely inadequate. The
appropriation for the teaching force
and other employees is only $14,8 800 q
year, and It has been necessary to In
crease this to SIT, 800 by using the To-
cal fund. Several of the buildings are
incompleted, and 1t would take at least
SIS 900 to finish them. 1t was shown
also that numbers of students desiring
to enter had been unable to gain ad-
mittance because of lack Of room.
The library Is inadequate and b be-
coming more congested each month
by the large additions OF books.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
THREE HOURS IN ICY WATER.
Ferryman, Marooned on Bar, Attempts
to Wade Ashore.

10 VduS SNofiSICs
Ole Anderson, an employee OF the fer
ry company at yankton, had an un-
pleasant experience, and n that he
Is not apt to repeat until warmer
weather. He had taken a couple of
passengers across in a skiff and was
returning to the Yankton side. Tho
ice in the river was running heavily
and it forced the frail craft in which
Anderson was rowing upon a sandbar,
where all of his efforts to release 1t
were in vain.
Anderson did not like the idea OF
spending the cold night marooned in
the middle of the river and he decided
to attempt to wade ashore, the water
along the bar, which extended to the
South Dakota side, not being deep.
1t was bigger undertaking, however,
than Anderson had calculated upon,
and for three hours he fioundered In
the icy cold water, which sometimes
came as high as his armpits. He
fought his way through the foes of ice.
but when he finally succeeded in
reaching shore he was so chilled and
exhausted that he could scarcely walk.
He managed to drag himself to the hut
OF a fisherman near by, where he was
taken In and cared for.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27

A seven-headed commission is OF course
a clumsy executive Instrument. We
should have but one commissioner with
such heads of departments and other Of
icers under him as we may find neces-
sary. We should be expressly permitted
I oemploY the best engineers in the coun-
try as consulting engineers.
/ this paper with a map
showing substantially what the canal win
be like when il is finished. When the
built df they are built as at present pro-
posed there will then be at both the Pa
cifc and Atlantic ends of the canal two
great fresh-water lakes, connected by a
broad channel running at the bottom OF a
ravine, across the backbone of the West
ern hemisphere. Those best informed be-
lieve that the work will be completed In
about eight years; but il is never safe
to propheSy about such a work as this,
especially In the tropics.
OF the success of the enterprise / am as
well convinced as one can be of any en-
tcrprise that is human. IL is a stu
pendous work upon which our fellow
cOuntrymen are en-
Confident of gagged down there on
Ultimate Success. While we should hold
them to a strict ac-
~countability for the way I'm which they
perform il. we should yet recognize, with
frank generosity, the epic nature of the
task on which they are engaged and its
worldwide Importance. They are doing
something WnlCn VIII REBOUND lmrneaS-
urably TO the credit of America, which
will benefit all the world, and which will
last Tor ages to come. Under Mr.. Shonts
and Mr.. Stevens and DR.. Gorgas his
work has started with every omen of
good fortune. They and their worthy as
sociates, from the highest to the low
est. are entitled to the same credit that
we would give to the picked men of a
victorious army: for this conquest OF
peace will, in it's great and far-reaching
effect, stand as among the very greatest
conquests, whether of peace or of war,
which have ever been won by any of the
peoples of mankind. A badge is to be
given to every American citizen who for
q specified time has taken part in this
work; for participation in 1t will here
after be held to reflect honor upon the
man participating just as it reflects
honor upon a soldier TO have belonged TO
a mighty army In a great war for
righteousness. Our fellow-countrymen on
the isthmus are working for our interest
and for the national renown In the same
spirit and with the same efficiency that
the men of the army and navy work in
time of war. II behooves us in our turn
L, do all we can 70 hold u their hands
as.d 10 aid them in every way to bring
their great work to a triumphant conclu-
sion. Theodore Roosevelt.
The White House, Dec. IL, 1905.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
Ex-NuN rs SET r E
Al Second Hearing Of Case Woman 10
Found Of Sound Mind.

Agnes Grosser, the ex-nuR, commit
ted TO the asylum at Yankton two
weeks ago, has been set free, the
county board OF insanity taking that
action. Friends of the woman, led by
Father Link, of the Catholic church.
raised such a storm on hearing of her
commitment that the board agreed to
a second hearing. Hon. c.. II. Dillon
was retained by the defense and many
prominent citizens, including eight
leading physicians OF the city, all
swore to the woman being perfectly
sane. She accordingly vas set at lib
erty.
The case is attracting wide attention
and 1t is believed will result In radical
changes in the state statutes relating
to insanity procedure. 1t has been the
custom to represent a person accused
of insanity by an attorney, and many
claim a person up before the authori.
ties on such a charge ought to be en-
titled to all the protection given a per-
o charged with an o~ffense, civil OF
criminal. Some states summon a
jury, and this, with an expert doctors
testimony is required to commit to an
asy .um.
The winters legislature, now sosn
to convene, is likely to be called upon
to look into this matter.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27

twenty-one charges of dynamite. On the
top notch of Culebra cut the prism is
now as wide as it will be: all told. the
canal bed at SS!s point HIS now been
sunk about 200 feet below what IT origl-
naily was: II Will have to be sunk about
100 feet farther. Throughout the cut the
drilling, blasting, shoveling and hauling
are going on with constantly increasing
energy. the huge shovels being pressed
up, as If they were mountain howitzers.
into the most unlikely looking places,
where they eat their way into the hill
sides.
1t is not only natural, but inevitable,
that a work as gigantic as this when
has been undertaken on the isthmus
should arouse every
Critics and species of hostility
Doubling anu GrrIiclsm. me
Thomases. new and so irving
vast, that 1t would be absolutely out OF
the question that mistakes should not
be maze. Checks will occur. Unforeseen
difficulties will arise. From time 10
time seemingly well settled plans will
have to be changed. At present 25.UOo
while the number will be doubled. In
such a multitude it is inevitable thar
there should be here and there a scoun-
laborers lack the mental development TO
protect themselves against either the
rascality of Others, or their own folly,
to devise a plan by which they can in
va~iably be protected. In a place which
has been Tor ages a bywOrd Tor unhealth-
~fulness, and with so large a congregl-
ton of strangers suddenly put down and
set to hard work there will now and then
be outbreaks of disease. There will
now and then be shortcomings in admin
istration; there will be unlooked-for acct
dents to delay the excavation OF the cut
or the building of the dams and locks.
I have investigated every complaint
brought to me for which there seemed
to- be any shadow of foundation. In
two or three cases, all of which l have
indicated in the course of this message,
I came 10 the conclusion that there was
foundation for the complaint. and that
tha methods of the commission in the
respect complained of could be bettered.
In the other instances the complaints
proved absolutely baseless, save in two
or three instances wnere they referred
to mistakes which the commission had
already found out and corrected.
Sc much for honest criticism. There
remains an immense amount of as reck-
less Islander as has ever been publisheds
Where the slanderers are of foreign
origin I have no concern with them.
Where they are
slanarre-s ard Americans, feel
for them the hearth
iipeicrB. est contempt and
Indignation; because,
in a spirit OF wanton dishonesty and
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
WANT $4,000 FOR WOLVES.

Bounty Advocates Talk Of Doubling
Figures Last Presented In Bill.
The wolf bounty people, after get
ting through a bill at the session two
years ago, doubling the annual wolf
bounty appropriation, bringing 1t up
from $1,000 to $4,000, are now talking
of asking for 500, 900 at the coming
session. The $4,000 was secured az
ter a fight, in which the repeal Of the
whole law was advocated, and II the
larger amount Is asked 1t is not i'm.
probable that the law will be cut out.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
THE PANAMA CANAL
Presidents Message to Congress Predicts Com
plete Success of the Scheme.
Denounces Unpatriotic Slanderers and Praises
Work of Diggers.

Washington, Dec. f~7.-President Roose-
welt sent three messages TO congress to-
day, dealing respectively with the Pana
ma canal, the public land laws and the
personnel of the navy,
On the Land Laws.
In his message on the public lands the
president urges the repeal of the timber
and stone act. demands the radical
amendment of the desert land act; urges
the repeal of the communication clause OF
the homestead act, all of which he de-
clares now serve to turn great tracts of
land over to spectators and corporations.
TO prevent the fraudulent acquisition OF
the public lands. the president says he
has directed the secretary of the interior
10 allow no patent to be issued to public
lands under any law until, by an exami-
ration on the ground, actual compliance
with that law has been found to exist.
For this purpose an increase of special
agents in the general land Office Is
uI gently required. The president believes
that there should be provision for leasing
coal, oil and gas rights under proper re-
strictions.
Transfers of the national parks from
the charge of the secretary of the interior
10 the secretary of agriculture is recon-
mended.
The power to create national forests by
proclamation should be extended to In
dian lands, the Indians to be paid the
fbn value Of land thus taken.
Navy Personne Bill.
The president earnestly recommends
early consideration of the naval person.
mel bin. saying that, should ii be enacted
into law, it will cause officers on the sea-
going list to reach the grade of captain
at forty-eight and rear admirals at fifty
ave, and Will assure their serving seven
years in the grade of captain and seven
years in the grade of rear admiral, thus
enabling them to become thoroughly skill
full and efficient in these grades. The bill
also establishes the grade of vice admiral.
On occasions of official Importance, of
international council, or Of combined
naval action, the interests of this great
nation demand that our naval representa-
tives shall rank as the equal of the naval
representatives of other powers.
The president says that If the proposed
plan of promotion is carried out 1t will,
as compared with existing laws, make a
saving of more than S5,O00,0O0 during the
next seven years.
The principal part of this saving is
made by stopping the voluntary retire
ment of young lieutenant commanders
with the rank and pay OF commanders
upon the retired list.
The president is firmly OF the opinion
that unless the present condition of the
higher commissioned personnel is recti-
fed by judicious legislation the future of
the navy will be gravely compromised.
The Panama Canal.
che Isthmus of Panama, going over the
canal zon1. with considerable care; and
also visited the cities of Panam and
Colon, which are not in the zone or under
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-27
LAND BUYING CONTINUES.
Agents Are Worried for Fear Snow
May Deceive Purchasers.

Notwithstanding that the ground is
covered with a light fall of snow.
land buyers are coming in nearly ev-
cry day and are being driven out over
the prairie In search of homes in the
vicinity OF Miller. Sales are being
made almost daily. The land agents
are considerably concerned for fear
they may by some mistake sell the
homeseekers land with gumbo or
stone on it, but so far they have man
aged to pick out quarters for the new
conner without these Objectionable
features, but II the buyers continue
to come and must have land after the
snow gets deeper they will have 10
buy at their own risk.