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Fergus County Democrat.
Vol. I. No 7.
LEWISTOWN, FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1904.
Price 5 Cents.
ELEVENTH FAIR
GRAND SUCCESS
Splendid Weather and Splendid Attractions IVIade Latest Fair Notable in
History of the Fergus County Agricultural, Mineral
and Stock Association.
Racing the Best Ever Seen in This City-One New Track Record Is
Established-All Displays Were Unusually Fine
Premium List.
The eleventh annual fair given by
the Fergus County Agricultural,
Mineral & Stock Association has pass
ed into history. That it was the best
ever held, not a person who has been
a regular attendant at the fairs in
this county will attempt to deny.
That the people are growing in their
appreciation of a well conducted
county fair was shown by the in
creased attendance over last year
which was considered exceptionally
good. Over three thousand people
passed through the gates during the
three days. The crowd was rather
small on the first day but the largest
crowd that ever assembled at the fair
grounds was present Thursday and
the crowd Friday was but a few hun
dred short ot the big crowd of the
previous day.
Not an accident or mishap of any
sort occurred to mar the excellence
of the entertainment offered. The
weather man certainly manifested a
most kindly spirit. With the ex
ception of a rather chilly atmosphere
on the last day, the weather could
not have been better.
The chief interest ol' the people
present was the relay race, and it
was the hest ever seen in Lewistown.
The competition was keen, most of
horses were always contenders for first
place and many of the delays which
are so tiresome to the average spec
tator were avoided. Good records
were made throughout but the great
race occurred in the free-for-all special
on the last day when Alpha W. went
the mile in 2:10, clipping !» seconds
from the previous record which was
made by Crowley's Lady Wallace sev
eral years ago. Two-ten is traveling
along at a pretty rapid gait, on any
track and is a mark which will likely
stand fora good while.
The relay race was, as last year, one
of the principal attractions. There
were three contestants, Miss Ona Pat
terson who rode last year, Mrs. Ben
Devlvier and Mrs. Marshall Jackson.
Miss Patterson's experience last year
gave her an advantage over the other
ladies when it came to changing
mounts and she also had the better
horses. On the first day she finished
nine seconds ahead of her nearest com-"
petitor, Mrs. Devivier, and 2.'! seconds
ahead of Mrs. Jackson: She widened
the time between herself and her
nearest competitor by J additional!
seconds on the second day and on the
last dav came in with seconds to!
spare. Alt of the ladies rode exceed
ingly well and the difference was iml
the utmost running capacity of ttt^Pj
mounts as the horses were pushed to
the limit by the riders.
The "Guideless Wonder'' also pleas
ed the crowd by her performance.
She went the mile the second day in
2:20 and in 2:20 on the last day. At
that the horse was running under
difficult ies. While out for a trial run
Tuesday she got started off the wrong
way and ran into the road where she
stumbled and felt, bruising her up so
that she could not nearly do herself
just ice.
L. N. Odell, the aeranaut. made
three most successful ascensions. He
is a fearless balloonist and had a good
outfit with him. He had fairly good
weather for his trips into the upper
air and met with nothing resembling
a mishap.
Following are the results of the
races:
Three minute pace
First heat Bert Horton. 1st:
Captain Tex. 2nd: Little Sedgwick,
3rd. Time 2:22:. Second heat Bert
Horton. 1st: Captain Tex. 2nd: Little
Sedgwick, 3rd. Time 2:20.
00-yard dash Fanchon. 1st: Black
Turkey, 2nd: Silver. 3rd. Belay race
Mis> Pattcrvii. iirst: time for three
Hie glad hand and handsome smile,
Irene Desy had four heads of cab
U>' ! aggregate weight of which
;is pounds.
Much satisfaction was expressed by
a * the action ol the lair officials
*** barring all sure thing games and
other gambling layouts from the
ground.
The Power Mercantile and Montana
1 Hardware companies had their special
I' 11 " ddod with articles from these two
popular stores and had the building
| arranged so as to present a most ar
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miles, 7:21: Mrs. Devivier, second,
time, 7:JO; Mrs. Jackson, third, time,
7:44.
Boys' horse race- Ed Johnson, 1st;
Horace Hobensack. 2nd: James Mc
Donald, 3rd.
Special race—Johnnie Simpson, 1st;
Patsy Hatton, 2nd.
Special free-for-all Bert Woodruff,
1st: Ed McDonnell. 2nd; 2:15 class.
Straight Heats—First heat: Bill Bail
ey. 1st; Nona Mills, 2nd; Gold Dust,
3rd. Second heat: Bill Baily, 1st;
Gold Dust, 2nd; Nona Mills, 3rd.
Third heat: Bill Bailey, 1st: Gold
Dust, 2nd: Nona Mills, 3rd.
2:30 pace—Straight heats: Bert Hor
ton. first in both heats; Kitty Le
mond, second in straight heats; Cap
tain Tex, third and Kitty Wilkes,
fourth. Time, first, heat, 2:20: second
heat, 2 : 20 |.
One-half mile running Lady Kee
Yeena, first, straight heats; Fanchon,
second.
Special pace—First heat: Gold Dust,
1st: Nona Wilkes, 2nd; Captain Tex,
3rd. Time 2:171. Second heat : Nona
Wilkes, 1st; Gold Dust, 2nd: Captain
Tex, 3rd. Time. 2:231. Third heat:
Gold Dust, 1st: Nona Wilkes, 2nd;
Captain Tex, 3rd. Time 2:22.1.
Free-for-all special Alpha W., first,
straight heats: Bert Horton, second.
Time, first heat. 2:13: second heat,
2:12: .third heat, 2:10. The last is
both a local and state record.
Special trot or pace Orondo, first
in straight heats: Bernice, second and
Harry Shaw, third. Time, first heat,
2:22J: second heat, 2:31. Three eighths
mile dash—Silver, 1st: Black Turkey,
2nd. Five-eighths mile dash- -Fan
chon. 1st: Lady KeeVeena, 2nd. Col
lege' Maid, the "Guideless Wonder,"
made the mile in 2:23 the second day
and in 2:2(1 the third day. Several
breed races enlivened each days pro
gram. Miss Patterson easily won out
in the relay race, Mrs. Devivier being
second.
Notes of the Fair.
'Phi' candidates were all there with
t ist ic appearance
There was very little if any kicking
against the starting by Reuben Col
lins. Reuben is an old hand at the
business and performed his difficult
task in the fairest possible mariner,
there not being more than one poor
start in the three days.
Lou Myers broke the ice and exliil)
ited some hogs for the first time. His
exhibit consisted of a line Poland
China sow and nine pigs. This ex
hibit was greeted with pleasure by
the many natives of the corn states
of Illinois. Missouri, Kansas,Ohio and
Iowa.
E. 1). Barney of Deerlield, as usual,
! had a big display of vegetables. 11 is
j display contained (>4 entries w hich
j gives some idea of the variety of pro
ducts which can be raised in Fergus
county. Each specimen was almost
perfect. Mr. Barney carried away 11
first premiums and 7 seconds. His
display of celery was especially good,
some of t hestalksmeasuring30 inches.
He had one cucumber which was 14
inches long.
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KENDALL NEWS.
Mr. Metcalf of Stanford is in Ken
dall.
Freeman Akely of Lewistown was
in Kendall Friday.
Fred W. Sheldon of Lewistown was
Kendall visitor on Tuesday.
George Wunderlin spent several
days in Lewistown last week.
Will Nicholas attended the ball in
Lewistown on Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dobson drove to
Lewistown Saturday afternoon.
A. S. Wright of Lewistown and J.
H. McCormick of Gilt Edge are in
Kendall.
E. P. Chandler and J. M. Parrent
went to Lewistown on Wednesday to
attend the fair.
Mrs. Harry Newman, who hasspent
the summer at Boise, Idaho, returned
to Kendall last week.
Messrs. Henderson, McGee and Kel
ly attended the fair in Lewistown
last week.
E. W. King of Bozeman was in
Kendall Wednesday, looking after his
interests in this section.
W. J. Stewart of Spokane has come
to Kendall to accept a posit ion with
the Diamond Drill Co.
Messrs. Greene, and Ira Phillips and
cousin of lltica, were "seeing the
sights" in Kendall on Saturday.
T. Wolf of Spokane organizer of
Independent Order of Foresters, reg
istered at the Shaules Wednesday.
11. I. Shaw went to Lewistown
Thursday. During his absence he
made a trip to his ranch on Cotton
wood.
S. Sullivan, who travels for the In
ternational Correspondence Schools,
made a business trip to Kendall Sat
urday.
.J. A. Drake and wife of New York
city are at. the Shaules. Mr. Drake
is looking after his mining interests
in this county.
The Knights of Pythias will organ
ize a lodge in Kendall on the twenty
ninth of September. All fellow
Knights are cordially invited.
John Jackson, Jr., returned from
Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, lie also
visited Colorado Springs and says that
Colorado is t he only place to live.
Miss Natalie Hendricks went to
Lewistown Wednesday, to accept
position as bookkeeper and sten
ographer with the Power Mercantile
Co.
Hugh Tully left Tuesday for Win
ston where he will accept a position
as engineer at the Iron Age mine of
that place.
Mrs. llershel I!. King and son Ken
neth left Sunday morning for Great
Falls. Mrs. King will visit her sister,
Mrs. Ayer, and expects to be gone
about two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson and daugh
ter, Miss Lone, were in Kendall,
Tuesday, on their way to Lewistown
where Miss Patterson rode in the re
lay race at the County Fair.
On Tuesday. Fleming received
a very painful injury while at work
on the diamond drill. Fleming was
doing some repair work when a loose
fitting fell from the derrick, striking
his knee. He is now out on crutches
and hopes, in another week to be en
tirely well.
A jolly party of school teachers
came to Kendall, Saturday in a hay
rack. They arrived in Kendall alxmt
noon and in the afternoon, went
through the Kendall mine. The par
ty included, G. It. Bevis and wife and
Misses Newell. Remington. Thompson,
Hughey, Stewart. Ituthruff, Dunphy,
Kingsbury. Jackson. Dunlap, Frost.
Fulton, Bates. Noble, llawkes and
Metcalf.
SUICIDE 0E MASON GUDGELL.
Lewistown Young Man, Despondent
From ill Health, Shoots Himself.
Mason Gudgell. the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Gudgell of Fourth ave
nue. committed suicide by shooting
himself through, the head wit h a 45
calilier t'pit's revolver about 4 o'clock
Friday morning. Despondency, re
sulting from long-continued ill-licalth
is supposed to have been the cause of
the desperate art of the young man.
No one heard the shot which killed
Mason, although his mother, father
and sister were in the house at the
time.
Tin* young man had been in very
poor health for several years and not
long since gave his revolver to his
mot her. evident ly fearing that in a
moment of desperation he might do
sonie injure to himself. Mrs. Gudgell
put the revolver away where she
thought no one could find it, but the
son found the hiding place of the gun,
as the one with which he killed him
self was the same that his mother se
creted. Mason was at the county fair
Thursday and seemed in better spir
its than for several weeks.
That night his father was feeling
unwell and had occasion to leave the
house, passing by Mason's room. When
htyreturned he told his wife that 'Ma
son was sitting on the edge of the bed.
That was about 3:30 in the morning.
A half hour later Mrs. Gudgell went
to his room to see if he was asleep.
She found him lying across the bed
with no cover over him. She placed
her hand under his head to place him
in a better position, when to her hor
ror she felt a pool of blood. She
screamed and her outcry brought her
husband and Night Watchman Wal
ter Gooch, who happened to be in
that part of the city. When Mr.
Gudgell reached the room lie found
that his son was dead, although the
hodv was yet warm. No one had heard
the report, which must have hecn
muffled in some manner. The bullet
passed entirely through the unfortu
nate man's head and was imbedded in
he opposite wall.
Acting Coroner McFarland impan
eled a coroner's jury, who viewed t he
remains early Friday morning and
held an inquest at 10 o'clock, the
usual verdict of suicide being re
turned.
The funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon from the Gudgell
home, the Rev. W. A. Winters con
ducting the services, which were held
under the auspices of the liedmen
lodge. Interment was made in the
city cemetery.
Mason Gudgell was born near Cliil
licothe, Mo., 38 years ago, and almost
half of that time has been spent in
the west. He has followed the occu
pation of ranching and prospecting for
several years, and owned an interest
in some valuable mining property in
the north Moccasin mountains. To
his aged father and mother, hi:, sis
ters and qt-hcr relatives and friends
the Democrat extends sincerest con
dolence.
Card of Thanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert 10. Gudgell de
sire to extend to the local Order of
Itedmen of America their sincerest
thanks for the kind services rendered
during the dark hours following the
death of t heir son, Mason Gudgell.
SHOOTING IN KENDALL.
Bill Reed Goes on Warpath and
Wounds Bert Wareham.
County Attorney O. W. Belden
went over to Kendall this morning t o
participate in the preliminary hearing
of Bill Reed, who will be arraigned
before Justice Jackson on the charge
of committing an assault with a dead
ly weapon.
Last Tuesday afternoon about 4:30
Bill Reed and his brother went into
Kendall from the ranch of Oscar
Stephens, where they were working,
and proceeded to hunt up Wilbur
Moore, toward whom they had a long
standing grudge. They found him
working at his trade on a new house
which was being built, and after a few
words a tight ensued and Bill Reed
got decidedly the worst of the encoun
ter. The combative Reed then went
away and remained good until in the
middle of the afternoon, when he
went into the saloon of Reed and Mil
lard. where they had seen Moore en
ter, and said lie was going todothings
to Moore. He pulled a gm. and was
about to use it on his enemy when
Bert Wareham. who happened to be
standing near, rushed in to prevent
Reed from shooting. The two men
clinched and in the scuffle the gun
was discharged, the ball entering
Wareliam's right side and passing en
tirely through his body.
Seeing that Wareham was shot,sev
eral others in the saloon knocked Reed
down and dragged him out of the
place. When t he confusion had sub
sided somewhat it was found that
Wareham had a rather nasty wound
and that Reed was considerably
knocked about. Reed was too badly
injured to lie brought to Lewistown,
Deputy Sheriff Whiteombe kept
: him under watch in Kendall. Both
men recovered rapidly and are able to
lie out at this time, although Reed
still presents a more or less uncomely
appearance.
Accounts differ as to whet her or not
the shooting of Warel.am on the part
of Reed was intentional. Some state
that he was so enraged at Wareham s
j interference that lie shot intention
j ally, while others hold that his shoot
ingot Wareham was entirely acci
dental.
VISITORS TAKE
ALL BUT ONE
Famous Maverick Base Ball Team of Great Falls Proved Themselves
Entirely Too Speedy for the Players From Fergus
County's Metropolis.
HAD TO WORK TOR THEIR VICTORIES
The Local Aggregation Put lip a Superior Article of the National Game
Great Crowds Witnessed the Last Two Contests
Rose Remains Here.
That Lewistown can play base ball
was amply demonstrated last week.
That they are hardly of championship
caliber was also amply demonstrated.
They played live games with the Mav
ericks of Great Falls, probably Hie
fastest bunch of amateur players in
the stall' just now, and though the
visitors took ail but one of t he games
the local hoys made them play (he
game from start to tinish in every
contest. While decisively defeated,
the Lewistown boys have no kick
coming and feel that they gave the
lovers of the game in Lewistown t he
best ball that was ever seen here. All
of the games went off pleasant ly and
there was very little wrangling over
decisions by the umpire. A more gen
tlemanly set of boys never came to
Lewistown to play ball, and when
they left on the coach for home yes
terday morning they carried with
them the best wishes of a large num
ber of friends, made during theirshort
slay here. Rose, the star second base
man of the team, decided to remain
In Lewistown. If he is tierenext-year
he will prove a great strength to the
local team.
The Lewistown wen* visil>ly stage |
struck in t he Iirst game which was
called Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock. Several of the hoys had not
played for over a mont h and none of
them had played sufficient to be in j
any sort of practice. The disadvant- j
age of having never played together
also worked against the Lewistown
aggregation. Some fans thought that
if Lewistown won at all it would
he the first, day as the Falls hoys
would likely he stiff and tired from
their long trip.
If the unbranded ones were any the
worse for their 24 hour ride they did
not show it. They batted, fielded and
ran bases in a dashing manner and
had the red suited ones going from
the start. Boggs twirled a line game.
one that would have won in most in-1
stances, but the saffron-lined support
which the fielders gave him would
have driven any pitcher to the stable,
Stout and Belih were the worst of
fenders, each getting four errors, all
of which had hearing on the scoring
of t lie Mavericks. A rl is Baker, who
is a star on second, was not himself on
third, and Harrington was not look
ing when one or t wo came his way
down the first base line. At the bat
tin' crimsons were equally as helpless.
Young Gaslon. who is about 17 years
old. hut who has a good assortment of
curves and fair speed, had them strik
ing all ways. Much of i lie young fel
low's success was due to the catching
of Whitney, who is alxiut tiie peer of
all amateur catchers in Montana. But
the support which was accorded by
Gaston's men was the chief factor in
winning t lie game. Not an error was
chalked up against t hem, which is go
ing along just a little for men who
play for the fun of the thing. There
is no use in dwelling on the harrow
ing del ails, as t lie score will tell the
rest.
WKDNKSOAI s HAM K.
II.
K.
Mavericks..................hi 14 o
Lewistown..................13 3 M
The second game was different and
one of the linest ever played on the
local grounds, ileese started in todo
the twirling for the Mavericks, hut
lasted rat her quick. He walked two
ini'll, hit one. and these, with two
good, safe hits, put four men across
the plate. That ended the box career
of Mr. Ileesand he traded places with
Whitney, who went into the box.
Whitiiev hasn't anvthing much in the
pitching line but a good head. Hi
speed was nothing terrifying and his.
only curve of any consequence was a
rather deceptive little out, hut by
mixing 'em up and always keeping his
head he practically shut the locals
out, Rogers' splendid home run being
the only score registered against him.
Rogers did the twirling for Lewistown
and pitched the best game ever seen
here. He had excellent speed, great,
control and used Iirst,-class judgment
throughout. He was assisted by as
good support as any pitcher could de
sire. The Lewistown hoys had recov
ered from their attack of stage fright
and went after everything in sight
with a proper vengeance. The play
ing of Donnie at short, Baker at sec
ond and Sweeney at third was fault
less. Nothing went through them.
Boggs put up a particularly good game
in ccul.er field, getting three long ones
and losing anot her when he and Lind
ley collided. The crowd was kept, up
lo the highest pitch of excitement, all
of the time and pulled to a man for
the home team. The visitors man
aged to get two runs up to the ninth,
one of them being contributed by
Stout's wild throw in the third and
the other by a hit and an error in the
til'lh. In the ninth they got one good
hit and a couple of lucky ones, which,
But a pop-up coded the agony
Lewistown walked away with
Maverick scalp.
TIiruSDAY'S IIAMI-:.
| wit h an out, netted them two
j
j Mavericks
Lewistown
runs.
and
one
n. u. i-:.
to
4
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The game Friday morning went to
the Mavericks by a big margin, al
though it was not as poor a contest as
tlic score indicates. Skibe pitched for
Lewistown undGaston for Great Falls.
Skibe pitched good hall up to the
eight h, when the first balloon ascen
|siou of 1 lie day was made. Mr. Odell
; was not the aeronaut, hut instead
j there were nine red-suit,ed Lewistown
j hall players hanging onto the ropes,
Before they had succeeded in disen
tangling themselves and coming to
I earth again the Mavericks had chased
themselves around the sacks. It was
a regular merry-go-round, but the
Lewistown hoys were not there to see
t lie fun.
Tlie hoy-, came in and decided to
make t he t liing as even as possible.
They had not been able lo make more
than three runs, hut went in as if
they intended to tie the score and win
out in the tenth. Gaston's wildness,
coupled will) three lilts, put four men
across the pan, hut that was I he limit,
and the hoys had to he content to see
the boys from the Big Muddy proudly
run off' with 1 he 1 bird of the series.
The feature of this game was the fer
ritic hat ting of Harrington. Twice in
succession lie connected with one of
Gasl on's svv ift ones for home runs,
hot h of t Iiciii being of t he cleanest
sort. The inlield work of the Maver
{IDA \ s UA.MK.
icks was superb in this game,
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Lewistown..................5 7 •>
The Sat unlay game was witnessed
by a large crowd, and alt hough it went
to tlie Mavericks by the score of 15 to
s. it was exciting throughout. War
ner started in to pitch for Lewistown,
hut was not feeling in his old-time
form and retired in favor of Rogers in
the lift 1 1 inning. The visitors had
their hall ing dot lies on and pounded
out 21 hits. Whitney securing live of
them. The Lewistown Inns made a
brave spurt and scored four runs in
the ninth, but they were too far In the
rear to hope to ever catch up.
s \T1HDAY'S liAMK.
Mavericks
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Lewistown
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