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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
NEW bARNES=KING
r FILES ARTICLES
Big Deal is All Closed Up--Transaction Attracts
Much Attention in the Mining World.-Will
Have Beneficial Effect--H History of Nine

The sale of the Barnes-King to a
group of Amalgamated capitalists is
still the leading topic of discussion,
both here and at Kendall, and the
transaction has attracted attention all
over the country. 1t is the biggest
single mining deal ever made in Fer.
gus county, and all agree that it's in
duence will be strongly felt during
the coming year. It has attracted at
tentiOn to the mines in this locality
in a way that nothing else could have
done. and will be followed by a period
of the greatest activity that Kendall
has ever known. The investment will
bring others and those owning ground
at the camp are, in several instances,
encouraged to go ahead with develop
ment.
Articles OF incorporation.
The new concern will be known az
the Barnes-King Development com.
pany, and articles of incorporation
were filed with County Clerk and Re-
| cOrder HaZen yesterday. The corpor.
alton is to exist 40 years, and is or
ganized to carry on a general min
ing and milling business. The capital
stock is placed at $2,000.000, repre-.
sented by 100000 shares having a par
value of IS each. The directors are
H. Carroll Brown, of Baltimore; J.
c. Lalor, representing the Daily estate,
of Butte; ]. M. Girard. w. T. Hark-
ness, of New York City; A. J. Camp
bell, w. w. Cheeley, J. E. Corette
and G. F. Kelley, of Butte.
| In a column review of the big tran
saction, the Butte Miner gives the
following history of the big producer:
Great Producer.
According to the expert reports, the
mine has produced gold bullion to the
amount of $1.527,126.37 between Sep
tember /, 1901, and April 30. 1906
During the same period it paid $547,
800 in dividends, an average of $12,
600 per month. The total tonnage o1
ore mined and milled during the same
period was 255.58S tons, giving an av
erage of 21O tons per day for the mill
The average yield per ton was $597
and the average cost per ton, includ
ing the cost of development, was $3.50
1t is estimated that above the Do,
tom of the present workings there
are 4O0,281 tons of ore ready to b
taken out, the estimated profit upol
which will be $1,26S,S90.77. The est
mated value of the machinery and i'm
provements upon the property is $121
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
TRIAL ASKED
in SHERMAN CASE
j. c. Huntoon Files His Bill of Exceptions in Sup
port of Motion--Prepared to 60 to the Su-
preme Court--The Alleged Errors.

Attorney John c. Huntoon has at
last filed his bill OF exceptions on mo-
tion for a new trial in the celebrated
Sherman murder case. The record
makes a volumn of 257 type written
pages, and in it Al errors are assign
ed. 1t is expected that the matter will
come up for argument before Judge
Cheadle the first week in December,
when County Attorney Roy E. Ayers
and 0. w. Belden will appear for the
state. Mr.. Huntoon is to be assisted
by eminent outside counsel. Should
the motion be not granted, it will be
Immediately carried up to the su.
preme court.
Noture Of the Errors.
OF the errors assigned, 18 are on
the admission of the exhibits. Most
of the others are on the admission of
testimony, it being alleged that the
court erred in admitting the testimony
of the witness Atkins as to the confes-
sion; in refusing to strike out testi-
mOny given by Sheriff Slater with ref
erenco to the mask found in one of
the defendants alleged caches; in ov.
erruling objections to questions asked
Witness WINS as to conversations had
with the defendant in which the lat
ter made his confession; in Overruling
an objection to the question asked
Witness WINS as to whether Sherman
said anything about being pressed fol
money; in overruling the objection tt
question asked Witness Bennett as
to what kind of money Sherman pair
in settlement of bill; the same a.
to question asked Witness Knight
in overruling the objection to ques
tion asked Witness Sf1verthorne a
to a conversation with the defendant
in overruling an objection to ques
ton asked Witness WINS as to wheth
er Sherman made any explanation a
to the stories he had told duplicating
others.
Other errors assigned are on the re
marks of the court made in the pres
ence of the jury; eight errors in tn
instructions of the court and tn
courts refusal to give certain instrut
tiOns requested by the defense. Fina
ly, ii is set out that the verdict wa
contrary to the evidence. Some {
the matters mentioned in the origins
notice of intention to move for a ne
trial are entirely omitted, as the re
erence to alleged misconduct on II
part of the jurors, and newly discove
cd evidence.
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HEARST HAS HAD ENOUGH.
Yellow Boy Says He Will Not be 4
Candidate Again.

San Antonio, Tex, Nov. 29.-Wil.
liam Randolph Hearst, recently candi.
date for governor of New York. was
here at noon today for a few minutes,
on his way to Monterey, where he
has mining interests. He is accom-.
panied by the members of his family,
In discussing his future course in ref
erence to politics in New York, eh
said:
Il shall never again be a candidate,
However. l shall continue to reside
in New York and advocate and sup
port the principles of reform which
l have always stood for, but these
principles are now sufficiently under
stod by the general public for it to
be no longes necessary for me to be
a candidate.
You probably know it is by no
means pleasant to be candidate. I
am glad in the future it is to be my
privilege to stand for the principles
Of government which l have always
advocated without being a candidate
for office, and on that account attack
ed with bitterness"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
GRAVITY sYSTEM NOW IN OPERATION

Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the
water from the new source of supply
was turned into the city mains and
the gravity system is now in opera
tion. Just as soon as the weather is
favorable, the mains will all be flush
ed out and the liquid from the big
spring will re:ch the consumers, un-
adulterated by any of the old water.
The pipe line from the spring to the
reservoir is about six miles long, and
it works perfectly, the plans of City
Engineer Otto F. WasmansdOrff hay
ing been followed to the letter, and
the result proves that his calculations
were all just right. For some weeks
past, the work of putting in the pipe
has been done under the direct sup.
ervision of representative of the
city, Alderman Sloan being chosen for
this task by the mayor and council.
The created portion of the pipe line
has not been covered yet, but this
will be done at once. There are some
leaks, but they are less numerous
than was expected, and will all close
up within a few days. Contractor N.
j. Littlejohn has performed his work
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
GUILTY OF MANsLAUoHTER.
Verdict Of Great Falls Jury in Taylor
Murder Case

GHat Falls, Nov. 29.-Shortly be-
fore o'clock yesterday afternoon. af-
ter deliberating for nearly 25 hours,
the jury in the case OF the State VS..
John E. Taylor, in which the defend
ant was accused Of murder in the
first degree for the killing of William
c. FADE at Sand Coulee last May. re-
turned verdict finding the defend
and guilty of manslaughter, and leav.
ing his punishment to the discretion
of the court. The court Immediately
remanded the prisoner back to the
custody Of the sheriff. stating that lie
should be brought into court again at
$3.50 next Monday morning TO receive
sentepce. The punishment for man.
slaughter is from one to ten years in
the penitentiary.
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Lehman Against Hirsch.

The civil case of Charles Lehman &
company against Carl Hirsch ct al
was tried this week, and the jury gave
verdict for the plaintiff for the
amount claimed, $289, with interest
and costs. The defendants were form.
erly engaged in the restaurant busi-
ness in this city. and opened an ac-
count with the plaintiff, which was
continued after the Hirsches had in
corporated. The defendants endeav-
Ored to show that the balance was
due from this corporation and not
from them individually. Blackford
& Blackford represented the plaintiff,
while County Attorney-elect A. B.
Haywood, of Helena, appeared for the
defendants.
Suit Over a Horse.
The case of w. G. Bauley against
A. J. Slough was tried before jury
Monday, and was stubbornly contest
ed, although the ownership of horse
was the only thing at issue. 1t ap-
pear that a considerable time ago, Mr..
Bauley leased his ranch to one Dear
con, and later Deacon traded one OF
the plaintiffs horses to H. o. Ware
ham, who sold the animal to Mr..
Cannon, and the latter, in turn, sold
it to Mr.. Slough. Mr.. Bauley claim
ed that this first sale was without
his consent, and H. o. Wareham, who
was really the party in interest,
claimed that the plaintiff ratified the
trade. The doubt was resolved in IA
vor of the plaintiff by the major
! ity, three jurors not concurring in the
verdict. r. Won Tobel represented
Mr.. Slough.
The case of j. P. Chan against l..
p. Slater, as sheriff, is now on trial.
In this action, which was tried once
before, something like $1,000 Is in.
volved. The real party in interest
opposed to Mr.. Chan is the North
west Thresher company, Of Mime
sofa
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

495.84, making; the total availabel as
sets $1,390,386.61.
The existing conditions, as stated
in the report indicate that with de-
velOpment work the reserve tonnage
may be greatly increased, and that
with an enlargement of the mill to a
capacity of 400 tons day the divi-
dend may be doubled.
The property consists of twenty-
three claims and fractions, all of
which are either patented or ready to
be patented, covering an area of about
two hundred acres, situated on the
east slope of the North Moccasin
mountains, in Fergus county, about
The company also owns the Lincoln
ranch in the Judith mountains, on
which there are 100000 feet of un.
cut timber and a sawmill.
Rock Formation.
The formation of the country
throughout the North Moccasin range
of mountains is principally porphyry
and limestone, the central and higher
parts being porphyry, and the slop-
ing sides limestone. The claims are To-
lated entirely within the limestone,
though but a short distance from the
contact between the limestone and
the porphyry. On the companys S
ground the bedding plans of the lime
stone formation are found dipping to
the south and east at an angle of
about twenty degrees from the hori-
ZOntal.
The vein in which the ore bodies are
found appears to have been due to a
assuring along and parallel with the
bedding plans of the limestone. The
foot wall of the vein is limestone and
the hanging wall of black shale
varying in width from foot in some
places to fee feet in others.
The shale carries good values in
some parts of the mine, and above
the shale is bed of sandstone ten to
twenty-five feet thick. Above this is
rlestone again. The ore is mo
or less a brecciated mass of limestone
greatly altered and softened in some
places, and in others holding to the
original form of the limestone.
The Workings.
The property is opened by mair
vertical shaft $50 feet deep. There
are two open cuts or large pits, and
$1,000 feet of tunnels, crOsscuts
raises, wines and slopes. The work
ings are well timbered. The equipmen
consists of geared hoist, an air com
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
REPORT Of THE COUNTY TREASURER

Lewistown, $l,120.35; high school,
$9S1.S2 district school library fund,
$447.53; state fund. $2,691.42; state
bounty fund, $147.90; stock inspection
and defective fund $114.37; stock in
demnity fund, 1886; sheep inspection
fund, s28.40; state stock bounty fund
$854.93; fire fund, $52.35; estate fund
$25.65. Total, $101 1858.
The receipts during the month were
from the following sources: Taxes
81 ,640.30; licenses. $2,958: county of
ficers fees, $510.85; other sources
$295.08. Total, SIS, ,404.23.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

ple.' He asserted that he does not
blame his judges, and though he bows
to their will, and feels that it is final
for him. says:
Il am equally certain that it is not
final for the church. When the great
tribunal of free thought has decided
this contention, the men who admins
ter the church on earth will conform
to this decision"
Having let go of the Temporary
and unstable interpretations of the
creed" he declares that he holds more
firmly to the gospel.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

The report of County Treasurer E.
P. Chandler for the month ended Oc-
tober 81 shows total in the funds of
$1Ol, $685. The disbursements dur.
ing the month amounted to $1O,839. 10,
and the receipts for the same period
were $15,404.23. The balances in the
various funds were as follows:
General fund, $3O,583.97; contingent
fund, $9,227.72; road fund, $4,753.76;
poor fund, $4,572.14; protest. $1,27l.-
35; sinking, $27,724.60; institute. $16l..
As; general school fund, $2,062.43; dis
trict school fund, $15.103.73; city Of
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

The first case instituted in this
county by government special ag.
ent to secure the cancellation of des-
ert land entry has just been decided
at the local land Office, and the de.
cision is against the government and
in favor of the entryman. The en-
try in question was that made b.
Leon H. Drake, the land being in Sec
tion s, township IL north of range Is
east, which was assigned to Phoebe
M. Perrine on January 26, 1903. Spec.
ial Agent Edgar s. Foley reported on
the entry and recommended that
it be cancelled on the ground that IT
was not desert at the time OF entry
and that the entryman had not done
the necessary reclamation work.
The case was heard by the register
and receiver of the local Office on Aug
ust Is, the government being repre-
sented by Special Agent Foley and
the entryman by David Hilger. There
were two questions involved, the first
being, was the land subject to desert
entry at the time or filing, and the
second was the work of reclamation
done.
The register and receiver say in
their decision:
The Decision.
The case thus presented is clear
as to the first question. 1t has been
held that the degree of productive
ness after irrigation does not neces
sarily determine the right of entry. II
the land is, in fact, desert, irrigation
of tract while held as a pre-emptiol
claim by the entryman will not de
feat his right under the desert land
act when substantial reclamation re
manned to be affected after the orig
inal entry. We think the reported
cases are clearly distinguishable from
the case at bar. In the unreportet
case of Robinson VS.. Pirrie, it was
held that what had been done is o
little value to the claimant or of no as
sistance to him in his purpose O
permanent reclamation of the land
That the water in the bitches on tn,
land was not available to him; tina
to permanently reclaim the land h,
must acquire his own water right. So
also, with the case at bar, it was nee
essary for Phoebe N. Perrine to &C
quire water rights, which she did, b.
purchase OF The -:chts Of Straw, wa
had constructed this so-called Stray
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
Read the Argus for the news.

Franklin syndicate by William +.
Miller, was released from Sing Sing
prison last Monday. Ammon was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for not less
than four years and six months. He
served all but six months of the min
imum of his sentence
Ammon declared that he was an in
nocent man and that he was going to
work to prove it if it took twenty
years.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

v. H. Membrun, Of Dolphin, was in
town Saturday, registering at the
Shaules.
William Eltien and ]. S. Mate both
Of Utica are in town stopping at the
hotel.
Guy Norman was in from his Park
ranch Wednesday.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

Six massive Turkish Rockers in
tended for Lewiston Fnrniture Co.
Lewiston, Idaho, received by us in er-
ror, We got them at half price Just
the thing for Xmas presents. Call and
see them during the sale. Lewistown
Furniture Co.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
Suburbanite in Bio Luck

Suburbanite IN Big LUCK.
Did you hear of the servant girl
Backlotz took out from the city with
him the other day? It's marvellous"
said Subbubs.
"Marvelous?" queried Gilman.
"Shes going to stay, eh!"
"Oh, better than that! he induced
her to buy the place for only few
hundred dollars less than he paid for
t."-Philadelphia Press.
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orchestra.
Thanksgiving night there will be
a masquerade ball at the opera house,
which from the many handsome cos
tunes in preparation promises to be
a swell affair.
K. Mclean is stopping at the
shaules from Lewistown this week.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30
AM MON is FREE.
Man who Once Operated Here is Out
Of Jail.

New York, Nov. 29.-Announce-
ment was made today that Lawyer
Robert A. Ammon, who was convict
ed in June. 1908, of receiving $50. 800
of the three-fourths of a million dol
lars stolen from the victims of the
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-30

For job work In any line. neatly
executed, call on the Argus job office.
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Continued on seventh page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20

NFORTUNATELY there is little diff
Guilty In writing upon so fruitful a
topic as the above, so fruitful indeed
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to realize that within the last half century
this feature Of debauchery has been en-
tirely eliminated from the other terrors OF
the sea. Few indeed are the ships in which
liquor forms any part OF the agreed rations
outside of vessels of the royal navy OF
course, and nowhere has the spread of
temperance been more marked than at
sea.
Some of the later tragedies Of the sea
have taken hold of the popular Imagination
and will always hold their place In sea
stories Not because Of the magnitude Of
the disasters. but because human suffering
being non-cumulative there is just as much
tragedy in the loss of a schooner with q
couple of hands on board as In wreck OF
liner where the deaths run into hundreds
Still, certain of these shpwrecks have I'm
doubtedly the spectacular element about
them which Will always appeal to the hui
man mind, and of these during he last CEN
fury perhaps none can compare with the
wreck of the Birkenhead with her lines or
soldiers drawn up and calmly awaiting the
end, while the mariners were laboring to
save the women and children as the doom
ed ship was being steadily ground to frag
ments upon the Jagged rocks. Next /
should place the Atlantic, stranded In
snow storm upon the awful IRON bound
coast near Cape Race, Newfoundland; with
her hundreds of helpless passengers in thin
nightgear clinging to the rigging and there
frozen to death. while those VINO essayed
to reach the shore were dashed to pieceS
on the rocks by the tremendous violence of
the waves. But the loss of the City of
Boston Of the old Inman line fills one
with the horror that always accompanies
the unknown A grand ship, staunch, well
bound and ably commanded. she disap-
peared while on her voyage between Liver
pool and New York and trace of her
mas ever been discovered. The simplest
theory of her loss Is that she collided with
an iceberg in thick fog and sank with
all hands, the whole agony lasting but
few minutes. True fearful storm did
rage over the North Atlantic at about that
time but that is not sufficient to account
for the loss of so fine ship.
THE loss OF the London IN the bay of
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palace. the Marquis of viana, the English
ambassador. the first gentleman Of the
Princess Henry and the two grandees in
attendance on the bride.
When that business Is finished, Cardinal
Sancha. assisted by the head chaplain of
the palace and the bishop Of Sion. will pro-
coed to the ceremony OF the "tomar los
dichos>" The betrothed couple will kneel
before the cardinal, each placing the right
hand ON the volume of Holy Writ and the
left over the heart. They will repeat for
mula. Of which this Is q translation: I'm
the entire possession Of my mental faculties
and making use of my free will. swear by
the Holy Gospel to give my hand as hus-
band Tor wife) to-(here follows the name
Of the bride or bridegroom)- promising to
fulfill faithfully all the obligations which
marriage imposes on me-"
The obligations which Spanish law I'M
pose ON Spanish queens are quantity simple
and In striking contrast to the bewiiderins
life. They are embodied In two reS<ripts.
That OF Alfonso x, called the sage, orders
the queen to procure for her lord and hus-
band as many children an possible" The
rescript Of Philip II orders the queen and
her ladies to devote themselves tt, the
preparation OF bandages for woundett SOL
diers whenever war breaks out In which
law Is concerned 1t will be seen thsre Is
nothing to prevent the Queen OF Spain from
leading the simple life. but everything else
b dead against It.
On the day Of the wedding, June q the
military bands o& MAdr1d Will be early astir.
They win first gather In front OF tia royal.
palace and sound the rcveifle Then they
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two fires, being savagely beaten on deck
and no less Savagely ill-treated below, so
that to their normal condition of body
might be fifty applied the dictum of Isaiah,
Full of wounds and bruises and purifying
sores-they have not been closed neither
bound up, nor modified with ointment" OF
course many of them died and were flung
overheard without the slightest inquiry into
the manner of their death. No man cared
for these luckless sons of the sea-
The peculiar feature of the sea tragedy
on the grand scale of which constantly re-
ours In the stories of shipwrecks in the
early past nineteenth century is the mad
rush to the spirit room, the broaching of
rum-casks and the subsequent conversion
of the mariners into howing tiends who
went down quick into the pit in a state of
madness. This horrible side Of sea trag-
edy is hardly ever absent from our early
sea fiction and undoubtedly 1t added i'm
mensely to the romantic interest of such
stories. It is therefore a good thing for US
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the mercy of the skipper and mate, men
who, while undoubtedly honest and brave
as well as good seamen there is a differ
ence between a good seaman and n good
navigator, though it is difficult to explain
to lands folk) We're as undoubtedly drunken,
merciless brutes to whom cruelty toward
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those in their power was the only method
of exercising that power with which they
were acquainted Their favorite remark
was that they were law and God In blue
water and unhappily they behaved as If
that were true Sadly enough, the beat
en-, starved. overworked apprentice grew up
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Scratch.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Now" chuckled Billiard, after making
a hard draw shot. that's what I call
CLEVER ~.
Huh" snorted Hilfard, as he chaiked
his cue. .'you carry an accident Insurance.
policy, don't your
Yes: whx?"
well. you could collect on that shot"
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in spite of his treatment, to be man and
took his place able seaman In the
fo'c'sle until he too could rise to the quar-
ter-deck, he practiced the same brutality
upon his fellows, only step beneath him,
as he had been subjected to. The result
was that the wretched lads were between