Fergus County Democrat., 1908-04-21

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boom.
Billings has a base ball league and
the fans there are beginning to get
real busy.
Folsom, Montana, is to have First
National bank with capitalization
of $25,OOO.
The St. Paul road is building wire
fences along its line in the state to
protect live stock.
The farmers of Terry have organ
lied company which will engage in
the manufacture of brick.
The newspapers of Miles City are
engaged in war with quilts and in
the meantime the public is being
amused.
In Lewis & Clark county this year
$4,000 additional acres of land are to
be opened for settlement and will be
under irrigation.
Because of foul air in the shafts in
the coal mines at Bridger, in Carbon
county, the laborers there went out
on strike last week.
Park county farmers have decided
to engage in the raising of sugar
bets and eventually will make an ef-
fort to have factory built there.
Warden Frank Connolly, of the
state penitentiary, has practically re-
covered from his recent injuries re-
ceived during the attempted jail de-
livery there.
| Spurious dollars are in circulation
in Helena which is in harmony with
the spurious samples of politics
which have been in evidence at the
capital city recently.
| Custer county has opened its DO.
lltlcal campaign early and there are
the usual number who are willing to
feed at the pie counter.
Chicken stealing comes high. Three
men were fined in the police court
in Butte total Of $500 for stealing
four chickens valued at So, the prop
erty Of Mrs. r. ]. Borhis, 3l7 South
Main street.
Billings will be the next meeting
| place Of the State Brewers associa-
ton, that being decided upon Friday.
At the same time the old officers
| were reelected, Henry Mueller being
chosen president, T. ]. Nerny vice
president and Charles Kessler of
| Helena secretary.
There was serious shifting of
| scenery in the canyon at Nimrod
Wednesday afternoon and when the
dust settled it was found that the
track of the Northern Pacific was, for
a distance of Is feet, buried beneath
| five feet of rock and gravel. This
occasioned delay of all traffic on the
first district and the wheels stopped
for about 10 hours.
Congressman Pray is still deter
mined to push the bill, if possible,
through both houses at Washington
providing for a federal building and
site in Billings He has written a
letter to Postmaster Prickett of that
| place saying that he is urging the
house committee on public buildings
to make an appropriation at this ses-
sion to cover both the expense of the
purchase of a site and the cost of
erecting federal building.
A second action has been brought
to restrain the city of Billings from
proceeding in the construction of
sewers. Attorney H. A. Groves, in
behalf of Christian Yegen and Peter
Yegen, filed complaint with the dis
trict court Friday against the city
Of Billings and Nick Hughes, who has
contract for constructing a sewer
extending from North Fifteenth
street westward along Sixth avenue
to Division street, then along Division
street to Custer avenue.
w. P Turner, who lives on the
Marias, about 80 miles north of Fort
Benton, was shot and killed Thurs
day at his ranch. The shooting is
said to have been done by Fred Lari-
more, former employe Larimore
came to Fort Benton later and gave
himself up to the sheriff, but refused
to make any statement. Turner was
an unmarried man, about 30 years of
age, and had lived in Northern Mon
tana for more than 80 years. Officers
are on the road to the ranch to hold
an inquest
with view to keeping the
shipping interests of the state as fully
advised as possible with regard to
changes in freight rates applicable
within Montana, the railroad COM
mission will issue regularly once each
month bulletin listing all changes
IN interstate freight rates for the
preceding 80 days.
This bulletin will be mailed free
OF charge to any address upon re.
quest, the first issue to appear about
May l, 1905"
| The crews WORKING in onnos;te d.