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THE DUPUYER ACANTHA.
VOL 7.
DUPUYER, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1901,
NO. 20
Ttctr Store
Stock
Of General flerchandise
G. partis.
Pondera flontana.
Murder In Second Degree.
Patterson, N. J., Jan. 18.—Walter C.
McAlister, William A. Death and An
drew J. Campbell were today convicted
of murder in the second degree for
causing the death of Jennie Bosschieter.
This means« maximum of thirty years'
imprisonment. It was three months
ago today that the girl met the men in
Saal's saloon and started for the carriage
ride which was to end in her death.
The jury took four ballots, and after
summoning Judge Dixou and the pris
oners, filed into the court room. The
prisoners appeared very nervous. Mc
Alister seemed more excited than any of
the others. He sat biting his lips while
-waiting. Campbell thrust his hands
into his trousers'p ockets and tünche
bis fists in them. Death looked anxious
ly about the court room for a moment
and theu assumed the same attitude as
Campbell. When the verdict was an
nounced the prisoners showed neither
elation nor relief.
Judge Dixon thanked the jury and
said he believed the verdict a just one.
He then dismissed the jurors uncil
Monday morning. The court then
adjourned and the prisoners were taken
back to the jail.
A Snow Slide.
The delay to trains on the Great
Northern last week was caused by two
great snowslides following a severe bliz
^zard. The wind filled all the cuts be
tween Essex and Blackfoot with snow,
•and all the rotary suow plo vs on the
•division were ordered out to clear the
track, but before they had gone far it
was discovered that there had been two
great snowslides near the summit at
Java. One slide covered the track to a
depth of about 25 feet fur a distance of
<500 feet, and the other slide placed 450
feet of the träck under 15 feet of snow.
The rotaries attempted to g® through
the obstructions, but before they had
gone far the blades used to cut away the
snow hit ooulders, trees and logs, and
the rotaries were eoon sent batik to
Kalispell for repairs. It was found that
the slides had swept all the loose rocks
and timber on the mountain side into
the cuts and the snow was packed hard.
A telegram was s< nt to Spokane for an
other rotary and when it went to the
scene of the trouble Superintendent
Kennedy had 200 Japanese there with
shovels and they assisted the rotary, but
it was not until two days later that the
track was clcared.
What 's in a Name?
Although the prosent fashion of
christening childreu with family sur
names is much to be commended for
many reasons, it carries with it some
awful possibilities unknown in the days
of Mary Anns and John Henrys. A
glance at the following list, each name
of which i s genuine, will illustrate
sufficiently well the possibilities of no
menclature resting with pareuts in their
choice of names for the men and women
of tomorrow:
Edna Broker Mothershead.
Marian English Earle.
Sawyer Turner Somerset.
Will W. Upp.
Nealon Pray Daily.
Owen Taylor Money.
Benton Killiu Savages.
lma Littl« Lamb.
Broker Husbands Hart.
R. U. Phelan Goode.
Marie A. Batchelor.
May Tyus Upp.
I. Betty Sawyer.
Mabel Eva Storv.
Will Waltz Wither.
Iva Winchester Rifle.
Eita Lotta Hauimond-Degges
Barbar Cutting Mann.
Weir Sick O'Brien.
Makin Loud Noyes.
Hurd Copp Cumming.
Kodenor Pullman Karr.
Doody Spies Sourwine.
Knott Worth Reading.—Life.
At Swift Current.
Altyn, Jan. 11,1901.
Mr. Editor,
The people of this camp have a great
kick coming, and I am going to tell you
all about it. Here we ai e, about 200 as
good and sociable people as I ever met
in my life , and here we are, not a letter
or a paper, not a bit of news of any kind
for four weeks. The trouble is that a
darn fool wrote to the Post Office de
partment last fall that he had carried
tne mail in here all last summer at
eighty dollars per month and made
plenty money. Well Sir, the same man
left here a few weeks ago afoot, with a ;
pack on his back, flat broke. Well, the
government advertised for bids last fall
to carry mail from Blackfoot to Wetzel i
P. O., thence to Main P. O., thenca to ;
Altyn. Now, Lere is a 55 mile route, as
bad as you can find anywhere, through
an open country where nobody lives and
a carrier is in danger of his life every |
trip he makes, for be is liable to meet a j
blizzard at any time, and there was no '
contract let last fall because the bids
were too high. The administration is
afraid that a poor man out here might
make a living. We all know that there
is not a mail contract in this cjunty that
is paying expenses.
A man has just come to town and
reported that old Rockefeller and old
Has Been Maginniss were elected U. S.
senators from Montana. It is so long
since we have had news of any kind here
taat we do not know what to think of it.
We have had a very fine winter up to
the first week in January, but we have
had 18 inches o i snow fall since, and
very cold weather; out nere conies one
of those gentle chinooks on the night of
the 10th inst. and away went the snow,
don't know where, not a speck to be seen
in the morning, it must be a good way
off, for the wind must have been going
at the rate of 00 miles an hour.
This place is pretty quiet this winter,
but the people are enjoying themselves
just the same. Through the kindness of
Mr. Virgil Harris aud M his sister, Miss
Lillian, who are kind enough to let the
people dance in tüeir ^private residence,
we are having a dunca every two weeks
and;everybody bujoys thaunelves aud
everybody dances.
Oue of our young bloods left camp
today to be gone all winter; God help
the girl he left oeninc!
The milieu here are looking well.
There is sure to be a big rush in the
spring here. Let them come, there is
room enough for all. I'll try to do bet
ter next time aud I'll toll more about the
camp. # R anch eu.
Forty Stolen Horses.
Local officers aud the Canadian north
west mounted police are on the trail of
thieves who recently stole 40 head of
horses from Alberta and brought them
to Montana, selliugsomeof them in Great
Palls and the rest at Shelby, i ho theft
was discovered when a customs inspector
recognized the brands as Canadian
brands. It was found that duty had
not been paid on the horses and Col
lector Browne notified the Canadian
authorities and they identified 30 head
of tho horses as having been stolen from
A. Liudquiat, of Winnifred, Alta., while
the rest were stolen from George Houk,
of Lethbridge. It appears that the
thieves drove the horses across the lino
south of Cardston and thence to Shelby,
where some of them were sold, while
the others were taken to Groat Falls and
sold there. Tno persons wh > bought
thomjrefuse to surrender them until
satisfiad that they were siolan, and evi
dence of that fact is now boing prepared.
Tie thieves are believed to have return
ed to Alberta and the mounted police
are after them.
The Protection of Fish.
To the Editor of the Acantha:
I read an article in your paper a short
time ago from W. J. Elrod, of Missoula,
asking for suggestions from all parties
inteiested as to the best means of pro
tecting fish and game. I had intended
to offer my views on the subject before
this late day, but my business interests
have thoroughly occupied my time.
There are peculiar conditions existing in
this section of Montana, the famous St.
Mary's lakes and their vicinity, to which
I desire to call attention. The mount
ain country drained by St. Mary r s and
Belly rivers with their numerous tribu
taries covers about 600 square miles and
all the streams are headed with lakes,
and all swarm with fish.
Verily this is the sportsman's para
dise; dark, pine covered hills slope gent
ly to the waters edge, while higher up
the grand precipices ribe majestically to
the height of thousands of feet and pre
sent an appearance of total inaccessibil
ity, although the field glass will disclose
sheep and goats browsing on the almost
perpendicular walls.
This Switzerland of America, teeming
with fish, furnishes mountain trout only
in the small streams which, on account
of the roughness of the country, are al
most inaccessible to man. The reason
for its absence from the lakes is that
they are swarming with a fish locally
known as "bull trout," which lives ou
smaller fish. These bnll trout are very
large; I have seen specimens weighing
25 to 28 pounds and am credibly in
formed that fish of this species have been
caught weighing as high as 40 pounds.
Trout can be sometimes caught near
the months of the small streams but
seldom venture out into the lakes, the
domain of their enemy. It will thus be
seeu that the mountain trout exists un
der difficulties in this section and the
bull trout is protected by the law al
lowing fish to be taken only with a Jhook
and line.
Another fish which abounds here is
the white fish, identical with that of
Lake Superior, which if caught at all
must be caught by other means than the
hook and line. I will venture to say
that the ordinary demands of the whole
state could be supplied from these
lakes.
If our law makers would allow the
taking of fish by the use of nets with a
two inch mesh at certain seasons of the
year for white fish, and the taking at all
seasons and by any means of the bull
trout, the interests of this section wou'd
be benefitted to the extent that more
room would be made in the lakes for the
trout by the removal of the matured
white fish aud their safety would be .as
sured by the destruction of the cannni
bal bull trout.
I am informed that fishing with a net
with a two inch mesh is allowed in Can
aaa in these streams and within 25 miles
of their head waters. Fishing with a
seine in these lakes is an impossibility
on account of the enormous boulders in
the bottom, aud the gill nets that could
be used would only catch the matured
fish. I have been informed that when
this "strip" was a part of the Black feel
reservation the residents U3ed to fiiu
with nets and during the mouth of
January in oue winter a party of three
men with one team aud two gill nets
shipped a ton of white fish per week.
I una of these men infocmed uae that
during that time they only caught
nine speckled trout, the smallest weigh
ing four pounds and the largest about
five and one-half pounds, so it wiil be
seen that fishing here with nets does no
injury to the preservation of trout.
I Tho question as applicable to this
section is this: Shall the usa ot nets
continue to be prohibited, thus fostering
the natural enemy of specklod trout, and
allowing the lakes to team with white
fish, which caunot be takeu by hook and
i line, and which under the present law
j round out their existence, yielding no
I benefit to man except occasionally to our
I Canadian cousins across the internation
al boundary? If it is desired to protect
trout do not put "bull trout" under the
same sheltering provision of the law,
aud if it is desired to promote the
pleasures of sport do not place the
white fish beyond tho reach of those who
would find pleasure aud profit in catch
ing it, and thus leave mare room for tha
trout to iucroasa in his natural haunts.
J. H. B oucher.
I Altyn, Mont., Jan. 8,1901.
The Bounder.
As soon as the Rounder heard that W.
A. Clark was elected senator he wrote
letter asking him for the town of Jérôme.
The answer has not come yet. When he ;
gets the town he won't let any of the
Daly gang in Teton eounty even play
marbles on the sidewalk. He may have
to let Pat Gallagher, of Great Palls, run
the hash house, according to previous
contract, but no other son of a gun deed
apply. The eight hour a day law will be
enforced strictly for various reasons.
In the first place a man born with that
tired feeling feels better in his bed than
at work. Then, the doctors say that;
eight hours is long enough to sleep
and that leaves eight hours for the
honest laboring man to »it around the
kitchen and abuse his family, or bum
around the saloons blowing in his money j
and improving his mind. He may be,
by some, supposed to be weeding his
gardon or reading in the public »library,
but he won't do either. In the first
place he has no garden aud in the sec
ond he has never read a dozen books in
his life. In a short time this eight hour
law will be in force on the ranches.
Then the boys will give Sam Denson the
horse laugh when he orders them out to
make a twenty-mile ride before day
light. The poor farm hand will then
have plenty of time to go to town of an
evening aod get drunk. He can get up
at seven o'clock in the morning, perform
his toilet at the horse trough, get his
breakfast and go to work at eight. He
can then manage to kill time until the
hired girl brings his lunch out to him on
a silver tray at twelve* At five he can
throw away his tools where they caunot
be found and go to the house, don his
iresssuit, polish his shoes and go down
to dinner. Then he can sit on the corral
fence and watch the hired girl milk the
cows or lie in the bunk house and read
detective siories. Tho hired man will
then assume his rightful position at the
top of the social scale.
As soon as Representative Hedges gets
that bill passed the legislature appro
priating $tf,500 for the purpose of in
noculating .wolves and coyotes the
Rounder is going to have the money
sent to the Utopians on Birçh creek. A
doctor's office will be opened in the city
and a written invitation sent to various '
prominent wolves to visit there. When |
they come they will be asked to present
their fore legs for innoculation and,
being well bred animals, they will com
ply. The citizens will engage to kill off
the wolves and coyotes by some means
whether they innocuiate them or just
dig after them in the old style. This
contribution to the general fund of
Utopia will enable the Rounder to buy
out the Lewis and Clarke forest reserve
and legally locate his people thereon.
Wolves and coyotes won't live in the
same country with them.
Th^re are vast possibilities in this
innoculation business. Just think of
the name Hedges would make for him
self if he could sneak around some dark
night and shoot a dose of mange into an
octopus or two and thus jjkill them off.
Some people hßd better look a little ont,
thnt Hedges is a eep one.
Assessors to Maet.
County Assesor Larson has received
notice of the annual meeting of tho
assessors of the several counties of the
state to be held in Helena oa January
29. It is expected that theassassors will
again agree upon uniform valuations to
be fixed by them upon certain classes of
property, including live stock. Last
year the valuations up m live stock that
were fixed at the maaiing were by no
means satisfactory to the assessors of
the stoykgro,ving counties, Teton among
the others, and Jthey refused to follow
the schedule of values that was fixed by
the meeting. The meeting last year ap
pointed a committee on valuations of
live stock, but it refused to accept this
committee's report and adopted a sched
ule of higher values. Tiie assess .rs of
the live stock counties would not be
turned down in this way and they
adoptel, the valuations fixed by JJtho
committee's rejected report. Later, the
state board of equalization attempted
to force the raising of valuatiors of live
stock, but tho clerk or Uascade county
refused to make the raise aud the su
preme court sustained him. Tho Estate
board Of equalization, by this decision
of the supreme court, was sheared of the
powers which it had claimcd and cannot
interfere with the assessed valuations
this year.
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Dupuyer,
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Choteau, — —
Montana.
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Choteau, —
Montana.
H. STEARNS,
Physician anb Surgeou,
Montana
QR. T. BROOKS,
Suooeasor to WAMSLEY & BB00KS.
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r <Uoteau, •> Montana.
Physician anb Surgeon.
Dupuyer, *
Montana.
QLAF FJELD,
Surveyor
Land Surveying, Ditch Work, Etc.
Choteau, Montana.
QEO. W. MAGEE,
Ilntteb States Coimmssioner
anb Hotary. public.
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Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice
President Illinois Woman's Alliance, in
speaking of Chamerlain's Cough Reme
dy, says: "I suffered with a severe coid
this winter which threatened to run into
pneumonia. I tried different remedies
but I seemed to grow worse and the med
icine upset my stomach. A friend at.
vised me to try Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and I found it was pleasant to
take and it relieved mo at once. I au*
now entirely recovered, saved a doctor's
bill, time and suffering, and I will never
be without this splendid medicine again."
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