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Fergus County Democrat.
No. 19 LEWISTOWN, FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA, TUESDAY, DEC. 20, 1904. Price 5 i
JMINS FINALLY
FORCED TO QUIT
Compelled to Loosen His Illegal Hold
on the Lewistown Democrat, Which
Is Out of Business.
JUDGE DISCHARGES THE JURY
Extended Term Finally Ends-DeWitt
Loses—Mining Cases Settled
Out of Court.
.Judge Cheadle last Saturday dis
charged the jury who have been here
for over a monthdisposing of the large
numBer of cases which have piled up
since the last jury session. Much bus
iness was done during the term and
several casesof importance were finally
settled.
One of the most important cases on
the docket was that of Barnes vs.
.lohiis, involving possession of the
Lewistown Democtat and damages
for the unlawful detention of the
planti by Johns. The case was called
Friday and at 12 o'clock that night,
the jury brought in a verdict in favor
of Barnes. The jury ordered the
plant turned over to Barnes, the
rightful owner and in addition gave
him $275 for back rent on the proper
ty and $10 damages. Barnes sued for
$2,300 in all. Johns is now entirely
out of the newspaper business in Lew
istowu and the Fergus County Demo
crat. is the only democratic paper in
the county. -1 olios really suspended
publication the first of the present
month as he saw that there was no
use of trying longer to hold on.
Th© case of DeWitt vs. Morose was
decided last Tuesday evening in favor
o f t he defendent. The suit was on a
note, the principal of whicli was $1,
4.19.20. The note was given in 1893
willi interest at 15 per cent. it. was
signed by Paul Mora.se and Martha
Mora.se. his wife, by their marks.
There were no witnesses to the marks
and all of the trouble has arisen over
that failure, as the defendent, Martha
Morose, by her attorneys, denied sign
ing felie note. DeWitt brought suit
and was given judgment by default
for the principal and interest in Feb
ruary, 1903. The court, however, set
aside the judgment, was taken to the
supreme court but the plaintiff's
transcript did not contain the bill of
exceptions and the case was sent, back
here for trial. The second trial re
sulted as given above.
The cases of Riser v.*>. Stuart et al
and Riser vs. Long et at were settled
out- of court last. Saturday. Some val
uable mining property was involved
in this case. T. J. Walsh and M. F.
Gunn, two prominent attorneys of
Helena were in the city as counsel in
these cases.
ED WRIGHT WILL BUILD.
Lets Plans For a Fine Residence on
Lot on Third Avenue.
Edmund Wright, clerk of the dis
trict court, last week tot the contract
for the erection of a tine residence on
his lots on Third avenue. Washington
streeet end Boulevard. George An
derson was the lowest bidder for the
work, his bid being $3,759 exclusive
«f the heating plant and plumbing.
'Pile work of excavating for the new
building was started Friday and
building operations will l»o vigorously
prosecuted so far as the weather will
permit during the winter. The plans
for t lie new residence were drawn by
J. 11. Kent the Helena architect.
Tlic bouse will tie a two story frame
wit 1 1 a basement, and will contain 9
rooms exclusive of the laundry room
in t lie basement. It will lie heated
by hot water and will contain all of
t lie conveniences of a modern residence.
Mr. Wriglit expects to get into his
house early in tlie summer.
FILES ACTION FOR DIVORCE.
Mrs. Mamie McGee of Gilt Edge De
sires a Legal Separation.
Mrs. Mamie McGee of Gill Edge
lias tiled an action for a divorce from
her husband, Thomas McGee, also of
Gilt Edge, The complaint sets up
that the plaintiff and defendent were
married iu Lewistown Oct. 19, 18 b,s
but that soon after the wedding, the
husband commenced to treat tin*
plaintiff in a cruel and inhuman man
ner.
It is alleged particularly that on the
23rd of September of this year, he
threatened her life and also the lives
of their children. It is further alleg
ed tliai at various and divers times,
at their home in Gilt Edge, the de
fendant has abused lier shamefully.
That he was continuously drunk from
June Isl to October 9th of this year
and that liis treatment during that
period was almost unbearable. Accord
ing to the complaint, the defendent
lias not contributed to her support
since October 9th of the present year.
it is set up that the plaintiff has
always been a good, true and faithful
wife. She asks for the sum of $50 per
month during the predency of the
divorce proceedings and at the settle
ment of the case she prays the court
to give her the custody of the child
ren and such relief as may lx* just
and proper.
A PECULIAR MIXUP.
Japanese and Russians Get Together
by Accident—One Killed.
Russian Headquarters, Mukden,
Dec. 17.—There was considerable de
sultory firing on both sides today.
The Japanese made an advance, but
it proved to be only a demonstration.
Night, sorties continue. A curious
melee resulted last night from a sim
ultaneous advance of both Russian
and Japanese. Two companies of Jap
anese taking advantage of the dark
ness, advanced on Russian positions,
and at the same time a Russian col
onel set out for the village of Nangan
za. The Russian column heard the
Japanese iiring in the direction of
their base, and thought they had been
discovered, but held Nanganza while
sappers mined and then retired. The
Japanese re-entered the village, where
they were greeted with a tremendous
fire which killed many of them. In the
meantime the two Japanese columns
operating in tiic direction of the Rus
sians heard the explosion and thought
they had been outflanked, whereupon
they retired. The Japanese and Rus
sians met as each side was returning.
A hand-to-hand scuffle ensued, but as
it was impossible to distinguish friend
trom foe, probably little damage was
done. The Russian loss was only one.
HUMOR IN TEXT OF CLERGY.
Amusing? He marlin Which Were Mont
Seriously Intended.
Part of the humor which one occa
sionally meets with even in the sedate
inclosure of the pulpits is due to the
queer texts which are sometimes, often
unconsciously, chosen by preachers. No
doubt there are many stories told un
der this head which owe their origin
not to actual fact so much as to the
Invention of the wag. For example,
a minister on the Sunday before his
marriage is said to have chosen as tiis
text, "And he went on his way rejoic
ing," and on the Snnday after his hon
eymoon to have eloquently discoursed
on the words "Remember my bonds."
These instances are probably apoc
ryphal, hut the following are true and
have all come within the experience of
the writer, it was in the north of
England that the first incident hap
pened. It was a country church where
oil lamps were used instead of gas.
One night in the late summer when
the lamps had not yet been resumed
after the long days it got suddenly
overcast, and before the sermon it was
deemed necessary to light the pulpit
lamp. During the hymn the old sex
ton repaired to the pulpit and. having
cleaned the glass chimney with a dust
er, lit it up, but only a feeble light strug
gled through. And then the clergyman
took his text, which was Ihis, "And
now we see through a glass darkly."
A few years ago a well known bish
op married ills second wife and, re
turning home after his honeymoon, an
nounced a series of sermons, the title
Of the series being "The Penitent's Re
turn." This was obviously uninten
tional.
There Is a church in one of our large
cities which boasts of a very high pul
pit. A short time ago a strange preach
er, who was of a nervous tempera
ment, occupied this pulpit, but, as the
sequel will show, only for a very short
time, for, having taken his text, and
said about a dozen words, lie startled
his congregation by saying, "As 1 urn
not used to pulpits ns high as this, you
will pardon me, I know, if I come down
and preach my sermon from the lec
tern." He suited his action to the
words and preached a very good ser
mon from the modest lectern. And
this was ids strangely appropriate text,
"He that cxnltet'u himself shall be
abased, and he that bumbleth himself
shall bo exalted."
One more instance: Not many months
ago a clergyman preached one Sunday
evening from ti e text. "My w.evs shall
not pass awry" Exactly a fortnight
later the same clergyman preacl ed the
same sermon from the same text in
the same church, to the wonderment of
practically the same congregation. Kv
idently it was his determination that
at any rate his words should not pass
away from the memory of his hearers.
—Chicago Chronicle.
PEN SKETCH OF
AN OLD-TIMER
Donald G. McCaskey. a Young East
erner. Finds Much of Interest
on a Long Stage Drive.
STORIES QE "JIM" DRISCOLL
Old-Time Stage Driver Who Has Seen
Much of Danger Relates Some
Reminiscences.
About ten days ago, the Democrat
was favored by a call from Donald G.
McKaskey, a young physician who
graduated from the medical depart
ment of the University of Pennsylva
nia last, summer and lias since been
seeing the west. He was a newspaper
correspondent in St. Louis for several
weeks during the fair and then struck
out from St. Louis through the west,
his capital being just 90 cents when
lie left the world's fair city. He re
sorted to various shifts to get along
and when he got to Billings, decided
that he would ride through to Great
Falls by stage. He stopped in Lewis
town long enough to write a most ex
cellent article on the Custer battle.
He showed it to the writer and of all
accounts previously reaa of that now
historic massacre, none were so vivid
ly written as was the account by the
young doctor.
He is a young fellow of splendid
apearance. cultured and very enter
taining. From Great Falls lie wrote
to his home paper an account of his
300-mile ride from Billings to Great
Falls, the following of which is an
excerp concerning a character well
known in this city.
' Many prosperous looking ranchos
are passed, the owners of which came
out in early days, settled, took out
their claim from the government,
lived up to the requirements and are
now content to rest on their laurels
having derived a goodly portion of
this world's goods.
"A passenger cannot "stage it" from
Billings to Lewistown, a distan'ec of
180 miles, and from Lewistown to
Great Falls, a distance of 120 miles,
without being attracted to other things
of interest beside that of the scenery
and towns through which he passes.
The various stage drivers come in
for a goodly share of one's interest.
Many of these men are old battle scar
red stage warriors.
"At one stopover station that we put
up at I became acquainted with a man
named Driscall. He was until a few
weeks ago driving stage, but being
now 60 years old he concluded he
would act as stock keeper at one of
the coach stables through the coming
Montana winter. He is popularly
knowm as Jim Clark among his associ
ates. The name was acquired because
he threw into a man's face named Jim
Clark a frying pan filled with "flap
jacks." Driscoll was cooking these
in camp on the Nabraska prairie. The
man Clark belonging to the same
camp outfit approached his Are and
persisted in kicking dirt, into the "flap
jack" cooking materials. Warnings
proving ineffectual, Driscail threw the
contents of the entire "flap jack" pan
into the would-be tough Mr. Clark's
face. The incident created such a
stir in camp that the cook ever after
was known as Jim Clark.
"Driscall is a most interesting char
acter. Born in Tippecanoe county,
Indiana, he enlisted into one of the
Indiana state regiments during the
Civil war and fought until its close,
being wounded three limes, one bullet
costing him the hearing of his rightear.
After the war he became stock keeper
at Rock Creek, Wyo.. for the Over
land Stage Line.
"In those days Indians swarmed
through the country, and a man took
his life in his hands who traveled
through the west. One day Driscail
was surprised in his stable on the
prairie by a band of Sioux who in
tended, to take him prisoner. They
surrounded his stable and one great
buck entered the door, saying "How."
Driscall never waited to reply. He
made a flying leap through a side hole
n the stable through which he pitched
manure. Gaining the exit, lie mauo
for some cottonwood brush growing
nearby the stable. Uuiiets and ar
rows followed him for many minutes
but he Anally made his escape to the
ranch of a neighbor In miles away
The indians drove off his stock and
burned liis stable but failed to get
his scalp.
"He acted as express messenger for
various express companies, using the
old fashioned stages to transport their
valuables. He has been in inumerablo
"holdups" and escapades and attacks
bj Indians during his career. 1 le has
driven stages in almost every section
ol the west., even driving for awhile
in Australia.
"Some of the greatest dangers that
he successfully faced were while he
v. f s driving in New Mexico and Ari
"bna when that locality swarmed with
hostile Apaches. On many occasions
he told me hi) thought his last hour
had come. but. said he, "I always be
lieved in fighting an Indian when they
surpised us unless there were too
many. Most of tile men would run
wliep we would be ambushed and get
killed. I've been Hit in the knee, the
right lore arm. and had bullets go
through my hat and one througli ray
coat collar, but niv friends who ran
always got killed.
"Another driver named Klines lias
an interesting record. I learned from
him regarding many of his stage driv
ing experiences in blizzards, runaways
and in other very trying difficulties.
Pluck and intelligent use of his native
wit always has pulled him and Ids
passengers and horses through.
"After all is said and done regard
ing the 300-mile stage trip from Bil
lings to Great Falls, a passenger is
glad to arrive at his destinaton after
two nights and three days of riding.
He can never forget, however, the
beauties of the scenery and the many
very interesting features and inci
dents of the trip and he will always
be able to recall them with pleasure.
1, an easterner, certainly am one who
shall, for I am an enthusiastic admirer
of tins stage trip."
BRIDGERITES ARE EXCITED.
Carbon County Ranchers Enthusiast
ic Over Sugar Beets.
Bridger, Dec. 15.—Agents for the
Billings sugar factory have been in
Bridger and up the Clark Fork valley
contracting acreage for the new fac
tory. The ranchers are investigating
the returns frq*» the sugar beet cul
ture, and next spriV.g will see a large
area planted in su^rr beets. Accord
ing to results accomplished in Colo
rado, tile ranchers of the Clark Fork
can secure a return of trom $35 to $10
per acre net after paying all expen
ses. The contracts drawn l'or the
Clark Fark company contain a pro
vision that so soon as a factory is
erected in Bridger the contracts will
be transferred to the local concern.
Several eastern sugar concerns are
preparing to send agents to the valley
to contract acreage for a factory at
Bridger to cost not less than $6,900,
000. The sugar beet question has
caused land to jump from $5 to $10
an acre in price, and ranchers are cut
ting up their large holdings into smaller
tracts and disposing of them to buy
ers who will plant sugar beets.
HE LIKED THE TOWN.
Hon. J. H. Lynch, Prominent Butte
Business Man Visits Lewistown.
The Hon. J. H. Lynch, a member
of the Eighth legislative assembly
from Silver Bow county, formerly
postmaster of the city of Butte and
one of the most influential democrats
and business men of the Copper City,
made a flying visit to Lewistown Iasi
week, having arrived in the city
Thursday evening and departed for
home Saturday morning.
Th© visit of Mr. Lynch to Lewis
town was for the purpose of looking
over the town with the view to in
vesting in some real estate. He is
one of the largest holders of real es
tate in Butte but as the rents of the
Copper city have decreased materially
during the last year or t wo, he has
decided to make some investments in
outside places. Lewistown appealed
to him as one of the best towns in the
state and he came over to make a per
sonal investigation of the business
outlook.
To the Democrat, Mr. Lynch ex
pressed himself as highly pleased with
the business outlook in Lewistown
and made the prediction that our
town has hardly entered upon the era
of her greatest prosperity. •■You cer
tainly have an elegant lit tly city," said
Mr. Mr. Lynch, "andthe most eneuu i -
uging thing J observe is the fact that
the future holds out such magnificent
promises.
"You have business interests that
would reflect credit upon a city of
three or four times the size of Lewis
town. Everything has the air of be
ing substantial and permanent. With
your great stock, agricultural and
mining resources there can be noth
big which will hinder or retard your
growth and prosperity. Personally, I
think that, your Main street real es
tate values are a little steep and
those who have holdings should not
make the mistake of placing an exor
bitant value on their property as it
Itasa tendency toscare away investors.
I consider real estate here as mighty
good collateral, however, and may get.
hold of a piece. If I do so, I will
erect a modern building for rental
purposes. It is my intention to re
*urn here shortly to make further in
vestigations of the place."
Mr. Lynch was a guest at. the Elk
stag social Friday evening and there
made a speech in which he congratu
lated those assembled upon their
t own and particularly upon the so
ciability of the citizens of Lewistown.
LARGEST VESSEL AFLOAT.
The Minnesota, Hill's Leviathan. Is
Admired in Frisco.
San Francisco, Dec. 15.—No vessel
which ever entered tills harbor has
attracted so much attention as th«
steamship Minnesota, of the Great
Northern line. Her size impresses
mariners as well as landsmen, and the
beauty of her lines is self-evident.
She is now anchored off Mission Rock,
discharging 3,000 tons of coal, by
means of a noistess electrical ma
chine. A luncheon was given on
board today, and the big vessel was
thoroughly inspected by a number of
invited guests. Tomorow the big
liner will be thrown open to the pub
lie an'il doubtless will be visited by
thousands.
She will continue her voyage to
Seattle early next week.
LENGTHY SERMONS.
Five oi* Six Hours nl a Mt-cirli uuil
Division* Up to "Digli l \-m i v I li I y."
No English congregation would have
listened to such sermons as used to ho
popular in the Presbyterian churches
of Scotland. There is indeed a story
told of it dissenting preacher named
Lobb in the seventeenth century who,
when South went to hear him, "being
mounted up in ihe pulpit and naming
his text, made nothing of splitting it
up into twenty-six divisions, upon
which separately lie very carefully un
dertook to expatiate in their order.
Thereupon the doctor rose tip, and,
jogging the friend who bore him com
pany, stud, 'Let us go home and fetch
our gowns and slippers, for I find litis
maa will make night work of it.' "
But: Mr. Lobb himself was humane
iu the pulpit as compared to it certain
Mr. Thomas Boston, to whose sermons
Sir Archibald Geikie lias drawn atten
tion in his "Scottish Reminiscences."
Mr. Thomas Boston, who wrote a hook
called "Prlmltiae et Ultima," was min
ister of the gospel at Ettrick. In a ser
mon on "Fear and 1 lope, Objects of
the Divine Complacency," front the
text Psalm cxlvii, 11, "The Lord tak
etli pleasure in them that fear him and
in those that hope in his mercy," Mr.
Boston, "after an introduction in four
sections, deduced six doctrines, each
subdivided into from three to eight
heads, but: the last doctrine required
another sermon which contained 'a
practical improvement of the whole,'
arranged under eighty-six beads. A
sermon on Matthew xi, 2H, was subdi
vided into seventy-six heads.' " On Ihis
text, indeed, Mr. Boston preached four
such sermons.
It is more than doubtful whether any
brains or hearts south of the Tweed
could have stood the strain of such
discourses. But a Scotch preacher,
not in the present degenerate age. has
been known to preach from live to six
hours at a stretch, and sometimes
when one preacher had finished liis
sermon another would begin and there
would lie a succession of preachers
delivering sermon upon sermon until
the unhappy congregations were kept
listening to "the word" for as many
as ten hours without a break Bishop
Willdon in the Nineteenth Century.
LOVE.
Love Is kindly and deceitless.—
Yeats.
Love can sun the realms of night.—
Schiller.
Love's a thing that's never out of
season.- Barry Cornwall.
They do not love that do not show
their love.—Shakespeare.
He that shuts out love in turn shall
be shut out by love.—Tennyson.
The greatest miracle of love is tiie
euro of coquetry.—La Rochefoucauld.
Love is master of the wisest; it is
only fools that defy him.—Thackeray.
Love never dies of starvation, but
often of indigestion.—Ninonde l'Enclos.
The magic of first love is the igno
rance that it can ever end.—Beacons
field.
Mail's love is of man's life a thing
apart; 'tis woman's whole existence.—
Byron.
It is impossible to love a second time
when we have once really censed to
love.—La Rochefoucauld.
BRING CHARGES''
AGAINSI WHIK
*
Prominent Butte Citizen Charged
With Misappropriation of School
Fumis of That City.i .ojum
i kS Joilitt
lbs btttfoM
IS A «AMI (It -III fOACMil
I Hub eviiii
:iltiml ogtt
Commissioner Indicted by 1 GfWfl# 1
Jury. of Which White
foreman. Gets Eveiur oatwi
II boanuon
.ati'Dooa ol
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Bult.e, Dee. 15—The board of^oqqty
commissioners this morning ypf{M^st$fi}
County Attorney Breen to ,
inal proceedings against \y
White on a charge of misa,yjȣom-|$. ll
ting $15,999 of the county's
A vigorous prosecution is i^^ed^i
f'he news of this official more ,
board of commissioners tray^'lc<l f^at^
all over the city and created t u SO^y, ,
sat ion. Mr. White, foreman pf tjiq
late grand jury, is president''
Butte ice company and othoryvi^ij
prominent iu social and business cirpcs
At one time he wan president' of ^p ,
hoard of school trustees, and jl is' ^
connection with this off ice that 'al-''
, „ , „ a "kirtihnc
i«\gj'cki malfeasance of office
The ball was started rollW. this, ^
morning when Charnian Clapk pt'Jijj' '
meeting of the commissioners intro
duced the following resoultlon:
"Whereas. It appears that at'/ilivohj'
times W. McC. White, while acUtm.siji'^,
school trustee of school district no*
of Silver Bow county, did alj vanijps ^
times wilfully anil corruptly ammmj
riat.e and take moneys belonging jto
tne general school fund of this coimj,y,
misappropriated by ihe said \\Y McC.' '
White, and more particular!\ as fi>1
' bur, Kdhvi
lows, tow it:
"Fifteen thousand dollars uiisappvpy
printed and taken from tin
school fund of this county oil Decern- j
1993. "w. D. cla^ 1
Board ol
iv'uh'ibtxud
The resolution was passed, ( Cunre
niisioners Clark and People^ vyUip,
forand Commissioner Haggerty againyi ,
it. The latter stated that lie knqw
nothing of the matter and ,fof tbM.
reason only wanted to vote, aggius^
the resolution.
Chairman Clark said: "Tftis is foy
no means done in the »ay of refolia T
tiou, as no doubt will he charged* byi,,,,;
some people. We have known qfiooi
this matter for a long time, bgtjftwahflk
ed the action of the grand juryjj r Hie m
mull | nojt'.J
UlilnecM* Cal**Tidin'*. f ^
As our \vc»ck In not usni except 1 *
among Christina converts
are accustomed to count by'ltrti
•f the moon. Certain days are voiuWWcm
ered specially sacred, such aOirtie flMli£(i
and 15th of each month and t(ie cliitflfliftd
on which the numbers are doubled,,u>i nii(>
the ."d of the third month or fill o'f ihe a ,. f
seventh month. Particular aitenlioiu
is given in the calendars Lir ll ^owriJu " '
use to the lucky and iinluHtV w 'Bl
sometimes even to 1 lie in gldrt ofaj^Audi
tronouilc.il information nnrPidpriMit-vS'ilt
tlons. Some editions ci,iidii(ie^rqfhW1 b <
poetical matter with tin* praql^nl aqd, ( *
superstitious notes, giving thj.\ . ,
when tiie rainbow wilt tirst''he seeiu
the tins* for the opening ul" cMraVn 1
flowers and the migrations a fill*
of birds. Tiie otlieial calendarM'are i w- * * ■' ■
sued annually, after they have hrcolrvsl!:
ed the emperor's approval; ; ( vprt, mfrdUiJ
though tilled witli supersiitiojji (ind
accurate in many particulars, they are )r
most interesting and attractive and ,
present u ^ootl exiimpN* n f the' IrtiV'ifAq
science of the I'hinosc people h-emc-iiL;
___;;n: ».M flu)
Horst** «« S tv I miner*, yim hflupi
Deer and horses raid; next
in swimming powers. 1 ,l iW.tf'Vjjn,.,,
rapidly and gracefully. and.'it'Yfj. noj^
uncommon for iliom to cover "a dis
tance of ten or even lit'ieeit rl$icVdti ( ''*'
the water. Horses arc powertiiWWftfi-'B'fW
mors and have none of t hef itOOSiidiffl
toward entering the water tea'A!
often shown even by aniuqiJiv hv-fvv
can swim well when forcqij -,.t.<,L,iy,A- vi ll
number of horses that were
on the American side of tlie''Niagara
river once swam in compaHy ): Vi4wi& '
this broad stream in order ! W-?Wh4t i
to their old stables. It may he '
to know that in crossing awlujdywtaBi"'
water with a horse the best' .tucUVhibiiini
if the horse is expected io s<yi iin i|iW( •,dt
considerable distance, is to s|^i ) ..av l g|, a i
ills hack, hold the animal
the tail find allow it to tow you ac:;V!:. .
This relieves the hors.....' tile'll
of the body anil enables
faster and much furl Iter tluttfKiiWtetifd* 9t
Wise would lie the case.
ber
"Chairman of th<
Commisaouers."