The Dupuyer acantha. [volume], September 19, 1901, Image 1

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DUPUYER ACANTHA
VOL 8.
DUPUYER, TETON COUNTY MONTANA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 19, IQOI
NO. 2.
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The wages of laborers on the Great
Northern have been raised to two dollars
Iter day to their general satisfaction
Two large extra gangs
m eu each are at work in this vicinity
raising and surfacing track on the rail
road.
Forty six victims who were killed in
tji« Great Northern wreck have been
accounted for. Two injured men died
on Sept, 3rd and others will die.
Game warden Boucher has been look
ing into some August chicken killing
which was contrary to the State gajne
laws.
Henry Devereaux is fondly caressing a
slight shade on his upper lip now days,
which may ia time become a mustache.
The boarding cars in this vicinity get
all their beef from St. Paul, the proprie
tors saying they can lay it down cheaper
than they can buy it here, but to our
notion the quality is very inferior.
Street car rails and cars arrived at
Blackfoot last week which is an object
lesson to the less progressive hamlets
»in
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of about 40 1
surr ou nding our busy burg. They were
on flat cars consigned to Spokane, and J
only remained while the engine wascoal- i
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ing and taking water
There is a young lady here who has an
album tilled with portraits of her gentle
men friends. None but pictures of males
are permitted in it, and she calls it her
•"him boon."
The Indians have solved the problem
of how to dispose of breachy range cattle
which stray onto the reservation and
make themselves obnoxious by breaking
into fields and hay corrals. Several of
the tribe of Lo get after such au one, ran
it far out on the prairie where tfcey
rope the offt-nding animal, throw it, and
hobble its feet su that it can travel but
slowly. Pretty good scheme that.
One of our popular guide3 for hunters
ana tourists was employed by a party cf j
cockneys to lead them to the haunts of
mountain goats. One day the guide
while scanning the hig)i peaks near the
Summit discovered a bunch of white
Williams and Nannies far up on the side
of the mountain, and said. "Well Col
onel there's your goats." The English
man eagerly took the glass and gazed
long and steadfastly at the wild animals
and then called his companion's atten
tion to the iind by saying "Aw Jack come
jieah I say, aw, see those lovely gouts
aw. They look as big as polah bealis
dont you know aw. Go up deah fellah
<to the guide) and dwive the bovdy.
Solawsted gouts down heah aw, so we can
bag them aw, dont ye know." There upon
the meek and lowly sirving man labor
iously climbed the mountain side, round
ed up the '*gouts" and led them down to
camp with a rope, where the sprigs of
nobiiity slew them at their leisure,
People here dont go to church very
often because the places of worship uro
îi j remote. True one can go to Kalispell
Saturday night and return Monday
morning at a cost of $6.50 for the round
trip on the Great Northern, and if he
dont get wrecked or cremated on the
way or run in for alleged complicity in a
train robbery, he can listen to the glad
tidings at a nominal cost.
A gentleman recently went to Uards
ton thinking to calm and relieve his
guilty conscience from the sin of stealing
his neighbor's supply of fuel by attend
ing the church of Mormon. He says
that after the regular services an ex
perieece meeting was held at which the
men spotte? and the women held their
tongues for the timo being. One old
fellow related how he increased the yield
of grain on his farm by late saedicg, an
other detailed his experience in the cul
ture of small fruits, while a third ex
patiated upon his new and improved
method of rebuking and training a wild
and conscienceless broncho. Then the
faithful ioaded their numerous sisters (?)
into the family vans, and wended their
various ways homeward, calculating on
the chances of the community saw mill
going to decay before the next crop of
U. S. piue would be tit for saw timber.
Tae Aoaconda Sta ndard has of late
taken enough] interest in our humble
literary efforts to reproduce some of the
emaciations of our think cells, and em
bellish thorn with half tone engravings.
Now this is cold blooded cruelty. It
harrows our feelings, and we fain would
ous
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to
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ïeïirç from observation. It carries ua
back to the dim and shadowy past when ;
mater illustrated our back with wood U p
cuts for inserting a yellow jacket's nest
the chamber maid's couch, and thus
proving our warm solicitude for her
want of enargy in arising promptly.
Cease such diabolical reminders of our
callow youth, and let us pass our autumn
iife in serenity and peacefulness.
Its high time that some one started a
department store here in order to keep
our town up to date. What's the use of
being behind Shelby and Choteau when
all one needs is a bale of barhed wire
two kinds of bed ticking, a couple of
wheel barrows, and a water melon with !
squashy flavor in order to get out a
catalogue of every thing one needs to eat
drink or wear. The protit on face
powder alone, now that flour is scarce,
would insure a competence in a short
time to the founder of such ' an institu
tion.
Bacon Rind Dick is one of the most
useful members of society in Northern
He
ic
of
are
the
to
Montana. He hunts geological and rare
botanical specimens for the savants who |
come nere for study and research; he go
picks huckleberries and tends the babies !
for the dames; he whistles waltzes and I
two steps when the damsels and swains j
ivvish to dance, an 1 now sheof the golden j
tresses, the fair Carrie of the Philadel- i
phia Evening Bulletin has engaged him
Ü 1 — : 4- U fKn n?ilrlr.at<noaa n f
stackin
for her guide through the wildnerness of
the Rockies. Keep a string on him Car
rie, for if Dick eve^steps into a gopher
hole there will be a vacancy right there,
for on account of his thinness he would
be swallowed out of sight in the twink
ling of an eye and you would be left
°
guidelee3, forlorn, and a prey to ravon
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ous wild beasts. 1
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Ole has written our weather man for
a fore cast of next winter. The fore- j
caster has examined the summer resi
dences of hornet colonies, and found that
thev have built them very high upiuthe
trees. Uncle Bill nherman says this is a
sign that the snow will be six feet deep.
The muskrats have gone visiting without
any fodder, and John Monros
declares that they always do this prior
to an open balmy winter. On the con
trary Al Paisley is having mackinac
union suits made for his Belgian hares,
and has had the in vacciuated in aatic
pation of a spell of Arctic weather, and
an epidemic of small pox. After a pro
found research into the meteorological
conditions as they no.v exist, the weath- i
er observer recommends an early thresh- i
ing of tne turnip crop, and says that with
a snow storm raging in the mountains at
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this writing, and a forty mile gale tinct- |
ured with iceness blowing from thejnocth
over the prairie, the indications are first
class for a blizzard before night, and
may the man who swiped our overcoat
get caught in its fury is our fervent
petition.
O.G. Van Senden of Browning is
wearing an 8x10 smile now days. Van
has invested considerable of his spare
lucre in cattle and his heart was glad on
i the 3rd inst when they told him it was a
boy. In a few years this scion will be
in the swim prepared to represnt the V
lazy K brand with any ouifit. Congra
tulations Van.
The terrible news of President Mc
Kiuley's death was received with univer
sal sorrow by all classes Friday morning.
None were louder in their condmnation
of the assassin's foul deed than the many
laboring men employed in this vicinity
by the Great Northern for they are in
rccord with the times which the country
has enjoyed under his administration.
ALTYN.
Henry Main was up looking for a loca
tion to move his post office into. Henry
is a pleasaut fellow and the Altyn people
will be glad to see him locate here.
French Pete the ma„ or of Altyn is in
the butcher busiuess. He is doing well,
and it looks as if he was going to double
up, by the way he is saving his money.
At the Gun Club shoot last week W.
E. Jeffery was the only one to kill a
chicken. It cost him two dollars, but it
was a good shot any way and Jeff got
the prize.
School opened on the 2ud with a good
attendance and the children and teacher
appear happy.
Gus Leihbach, an old tiu:e prospector
' ia ia camp thia week, taking in the
eights. Gus is happy since he got settled
with, the company and got his rights.
will make Altyn his home in the
future.
According to the decision of the In
terior department at Washington, it is
impossible to allow a saloon on the
ceded strip The saloon men here think
is not worth while to make a test case
it and have decided to look for other
locations.
The M. & M. company are going to
close down work for the winter. They
are letting contracts to run 1000 feet of
tunnels this year and are going to get
the mines in shape for an early start in
the spring. They are letting contracts
cut and put into the saw mill 500,000
feet of logs^o be cut into lumber in the
spring.
The boys are wondering what has hap
pened J. A. Kennedy. He left camp on
such short notice and did not come back
go tjj e y are naturally wondering what is
matter<
Thos. Cowan says he will resign as
school clerk as the weather is too cold
an( j we t attend school ^meetings held
tfae trusteeg behind a 8tU mp.
Parley Stark, Gleason and McGivern
have completed their work on the Bull's
Head and Josephine mines, and are tak
a well deserved holiday.
Dad Walker got stalled in a blinding
, „ ,
snow storm that raged here for five days,
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without anything to eat. He was re
turning from a trip to McDonald lake
the summit when the storm
across
started and was unable to make it back
until the storm let up. It was a very
narrow escape for the old gentlemen and
every one was glad to see him return.
The only thing wrong with him he was a
little hungry.
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dent is off on a trip to Great falls and
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with vegetables for which he finds ready
sale at good prices.
Our deputy sheriff with severa 1 specials
got a swift move on themselves ou Sac
urday summoning jurors and witnesses
for the district court. Amongst the un
fortunate ones were Fred Buteau, H. F.
Stoltenberg, Jos. Hilger and John Fitz
patrick for jurors.
SHELBY NEWS. I
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H.F. Guth bought a fine team of
horses fiotn Fleury Sullivan. He in
tends using them on his sheep rauch.
Len Stark is busy hauling Jout his
winter supply of ccal.
J. W. Shannon editor of the Indepen
Helena
Uncle Dan Sullivan unloaded a car of
oats for Parrott & Meade.
Bob Grinling makes regular trips now
The Gold Butte Mining company re
ceived another car of mining timbers, it
being their intention to reach bedrock,
and when they do they deserve to strike
it rich.
Satn H. Wood arrived l ere Sunday
with a car load of thorough bred De
laine bucks from the Fairview sheep
ranch Mich. Every one who has seen
them says they are as fine a lot of bucks
as were ever shipped to Montana; Mr.
Woods intends using most of them on
his ranch at the West Butte and will
seil but a limited number. ^
The recent storm did considerable
damage to late shorn sheep on Rocky
Ridge. Several bauds suffered consider
ably and more especially the machine
shorn flocks.
W. G. Davis and William Simms wore
hore to make final proof on their home
steads.
Wm Dawes took a trip to Pondera
Sunday. While there he saw the milk
cow of Mr. Krause who runs the hotel
at that place come home terribily muti
lated. Some dirty cur who evidently
had a spite against the owner took it out
cn the dumb brute by chopping two ter
rible gashes in the animal's>side& which
required several stitches^
Chas Hilgar moved bis family iDto
town Sunday for the purpose of sending
the children to school.
Wiu Aylward is on the sick list.
The people of Gold Butte run out a
lot of' worthless characters from that
camp. They came as far as Shelby
thinking they would be all right here
but our deputy sheriff waited on them
and gave them twenty tour hours to
make themselves scarce. They all took
the hint as there is none lo be seen here
at present.
James M. Wilcox is building a fine shed
on his ranch and otherwise improving it.
He intends to give up the Merchant's
hotel as soon as his present lease expires.
Our Agt. W. B. Shoemaker, is going to
Great Falls as a delegate from the Shel
by lodge of K. of P. to the meeting of
the grand lodge.
Bud Allison, Geo- Brown, and Geo.
Jacobson leading citizens of Cut Bank
paid us a visit last week. Bud rode the
K. P. goat successfully.
Wm Dawes made a large shipment of
lumber and building material to Pon
dera last week, three full cars, for differ
ent parties in that vicinity.
M. S. Darling passed through on his
way to Kalispell last Wednesday.
Our school clerk has nearly completed
the census of school children of this dis
trict. He says that there will be quite
an increase from last year.
Fifteen ^cars loaded with wreckage
from the Nyack disaster went through
Shelby Tuesday. From the appearance
of the iron rods, car wheels and axles,
the heat must have been something ter
rible. Lots of it was molten and run
together in one mass.
The Marias cattle men intend to ship
on the 20th inst., from which point they
I have not yet decided.
j Wallace B. Martin and wife arrived
I here Monday. Wallace has a position
I with H. F. Guth, and he says while other
parts of Montana may be good, Shelby
and vicinity is the best part he has
struck yet.
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Horses For Sale.
The undet signed will sell 25 or 30
hïad of mares and geldings For furth
er particulars apply at my ranch near
Fiuh Lake, or address me at Dupuyer
Mont.
M. H. Embody.
For Sale.
I have 45 head of Hampshire
bucks which I will sell at
price.
Down
reasonable
D on C. xjeech,
Cut Bank, Mont.
Situation Wanted.
By a man and wife to work on a mnch
Will make arrangements to work during
next winter, or longer if desired. Apply
at the Acantha office.
ltaiich for Sale.
Will be sold for cash or will trade for
horses, Eighty acres of land with build
ings mile northwest of Dupuyer. Also
22 head of cattle with hay enough to
winter them.
Thos. McLain.
Notice to Horsemen.
All horsemen connected with the Du
puyer roundup are requested to meet at
Dupuyer on Saturday Sept. 21st for the
transaction of important business.
(j. R. Scoffin,
President.
Lambs for Sale.
I have 15C0 lambs for sale. Gallon or
address.
James Miller,
Shelby, Mont..
$10 lie ward.
The above reward will be paid by the
undersigned for the recovery of 1 gray
mare, four years old, branded O with dot
iu center on right h p.
Jos. C. McOuaig.
Dupuyer Mont. Sept. 9, 1901.
H ticks for Sale.
I have 300 French Merino bucks which
I will sell at reasonable prices, and iu
ots to suit purchasers. Can be seen at
Hilly springs south of Pondera, or ad
dress. Ambrose Vxllakd,
3t Pondera, Mont.
Sheep lor Sale.
Old ewes and lambs for sale or
will trade for calves, or mixed bands of
cattle. Address C.arx Bros, Bynum
Call for Ale and Porter, a cool driuk at
the Q. & L. saloon
Dr. J. B. McCOLLUn,
9
Expert Optician and Eye Specialist
Graduate of the Chicago Opthalmic
College. 22 years experience in re
fraction.
Glasses coirectly fitted for all defects of
the eyes known to the profession,
Granulated sore eyee cured by a
paiuless method. Free examinations. ^
Office 509 2nd Ave ne South. 2 blocks
south of Hotjl Grand CHEAT,
FALLS, Mont.
•J.
G. BAIR,
Ctttorney.
Choteau,
— Montana.
ALTER MATHEWS
County Surveyor anb U. S.
Commissioner.
Lands Surveyed.
Filings and Final Proofs
Choteau, + Montana.
Dr. EARL STRAIN,
OCULIST AND AURIST.
317 First Ave. North, GREAT FALLS,,
office hours: 1 p m to 4 p nru
QEO. W. MAGEE,
Uniteb States Commissioner
anb Hotary public.
Land Filings and Proofs....
Mortgages, Conveyances. Etc., Etc.*
Dupuyer,
Montana.
QR. T. BROOKS,
Successor toWAMSLEY & BROOKS.
physician anb Surgeon.
Choteau, * Montana.
QLAF FJELD,
Surpcyor
Land Surveying, Ditch Work, Etc.
Choteau, * Montana.
\j\j B. WINE.
pijystctan anb Surgeon,
Special attention given to Con
finement and Surgical Cases.
Office Next to Magee's Drug Store.
Calls promptly answered day or night.
Dupuyer,. Montana
Hclson Collarb,
<_« HEAT FALLS. MONT.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and Estimates furnished ou
application.
$10 lie ward
Tha above reward will be paid for 'the
return of the following horses: One.
black horse slim build, branded JH con
nected on left thigh, and one brown
horse with pipe brand on left shoulder.
Strayed from Cut Bank the latter part
of June. Return to Geo. W. Magee's old
ranch on Birch creek or toOôcar GraaUû
at Kipp! Mont.