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Austin Middleton was a Miles City
visitor Friday.
Mi ss Cheever of Miles City, was here
on Wednesday.
Miles City has a well-established
case of smallpox.
Elmer Holt was -in Milestown the
forepart of the week.
A daughter arrived Sunday to glad
den the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Quinlan.
A. C. Stern, traveling auditor for the
Northern Pacific Express companv,
was here yesterday.
Ben Darnall, deputy county clerk of
Custer county, was greeting Forsj-th
friend the forepart of the week.
Friday January 24th is the 143d an
niversary of the birth of Bobby Burns.
As yet no arrangements have been
made for the observance of that event
in Forsyth.
Try the new comb honey and saeur
kraut at Gay Huff's. *
Chas. Beck had sufficiently recover
ed from his recent illness the forepart
of the week to be out, but will not be
able to resume his duties in H. Huff's
barber shop for several days.
. B. S. Crawshaw has about complet
ed the large addition to his livery barn.
It is of L shape, 16 feet wide by 140
feet in length, and will soon be in
readines for the accomodation of sever
al head of stock.
A ticket to Hunter's Hot springs and
return, including board and baths at
the hotel for one week, for only $22.
Apply at N. R. ticket office. *
Philippe Fontain the Lightning ar
tist, in the M. E. church Sat. Jan. 18.
Mrs. A. T. Campbell and Mrs. C.
S. Whitney returned to their homes at
Miles City Sunday after spending a few
days here as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry G. Wright.
Hill's Players completed a three
nights' engagement here last evening.
While not up to the average from a
Col. Gordonean point of view, all their
performances were fairly well attend
ed.
County Attorney Gibson returned
last week from Helena, where he spent
several days with the , Carter contin
gent applying oil to the troubled waters
of the republican party. Mr. Gibson
was accompanied from Bozeman by
Mrs. Gibson and child.
The trustees of the Carnegie library
at Miles City have received word from
Mr. Carnegie that when he has receiv
ed a copy of the ordinance establish
ing the city's share in the matter, and
information as to the site, he will make
arrangements for the payments to cover
the $10,000 donated.
We respectfully refer our readers to
Bailey & Terrett's new ad. in this
week's News. The reliability and
business-like methods by which this
firm is gaining a wide prestige makes
it imperative that you should consult
them before purchasing elsewhere any
thing in their line.
Special rate of $22 to Hunter's Hot
springs, including board, room and
baths at the hotel for $22. Apply N.
P. ticket office. *
Chairman T. Alexander of the board
of county commissioners, Miss Longley,
deputy county treasurer, and Wm.
Choisser, county assessor, met the fore
part of the week in County Clerk
Bailey's office and completed the work
of drawing a list of jurymen to serve
Rosebud county courts during the com
ing year. From the assessor's list it
was ascertained that 206 persons in
the county are eligible to serve as trial
jurors.
According to a St. Paul dispatch of
the 14th, tariff reductions on the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific go into
effe.t Feb. 1. The reductions, which
vary from S to 15 per cent, affect main
ly ''ten classes" but the commodity
rate on coal, lumber, flour and wheat
remain unchanged. The reductions in
wheat rates are postponed till later in
the year and President Hill believes
reductions now would not help the
farmers since most of the wheat has
left their hands. The new tariffs were
prepared by Darius Miller, who acted
in behalf of both the Burlington and
Great Northern. Si. Paul and north
western roads will not make any re
ductions till the effect of the reductions
on competitive points is noted.
H. H. Fletcher & Co. are exclusive
agents for the famous W. L. Douglas
shoe and the Cataract Union made
overalls. These are standard goods
everywhere and will out wear any
other make in the market. *
J. S. Truscott was up from Miles
on Monday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Grace, a son.
Philippe Fontaine in the M. E.
church Sat. evening, Jan. ISfh.
Miss Grierson and Miss Elderling
were callers in town this week from
Rancher.
Best creamer}' butter at Gay Huff's.
Justice of the Peace Wright return
ed Thursday night from a short busi
ness visit to Miles City.
Mrs. Tom Butler returned Sunday
from Miles City, where she spent a few
days with friends and relatives.
C. J' Henderson, a brother of W. E.
Henderson of the Postoffice store, is
spending a few days here en route
from Sisseton, S. Dak. to Billings.
Mrs. J. Wettereau returned Tuesday
morning from a six weeks' visit with
friends and relatives at St. Paul, Min
neapolis, Hanover, North Prairie and
other Minnesota, points.
"1,000 Miles on a Camel's Back,"
for 50c!. Fontaine will furnish it.
Sat. evening in the M. E. church.
Attorney General Donovan has ren
dered a decision to the effect that the
improvements upon real estate exempt
from taxation must be assessed as real
estate and not as personal property.
County Clerk and Mrs. Bailey re
turned Thursday from Miles City,
where Mr. Bailey took advanced de
grees in Masonary with County Treas
urer McKay and W. M. Taylor of
Custer county.
What is said to be the largest gold
nugget ever found in Montana was
melted at the United States assay of
fice at Helena last Thursday. It
weighed 82.48 ounces and worth pre
cisely $1,404.90 and was found in Mad
ison county.
Fresh vegetables at Gay Huff's. *
Jas. G. Ramsey, at one time pub
lisher of the Miles City News, paid
Forsyth a visit Friday. Since aban
doning the newspaper business "Jim"
has been traveling throughout the
West in the interest of an eastern man
ufacturing concern and reports a good
business in his line.
All persons knowing themselves in
debted to the undersigned are request
ed to call at the store of Bailey & Ter
rett and settle their accounts at once.
E. M. Huff. *
The Leighton and Miles City hotels
at Miles City were taken in charge of
Tuesday by the sheriff's office. This
was taken by the State National bank
of that place in default of the payment
of the interest on a mortgage of $5,000
by the proprietor, C. A. Mason. It
is expected the places will be open in
a few days, however.
The Rebekah lodge will give a Book
social at the Alexander residence Fri
day evening, Jan. 31. An admission
fee of 25 cents will be charged. The
event promises to be as enjoyable as it
is unique and the fact that the ladies
of this order are the promoters of the
affair is conclusive enough to war
rant a good attendance.
Beginning next Thursday, Jan. 23,
Rev. John Evans, of Miles City, will
conduct the first of a series of regular
services to be held in Forsyth. The
place of meeting for the present will
be in the Methodist church. There are
quite a number of Episcopalians in
Forsyth to whom this will be welcome
news.
The following, which appeared in
the Big Timber Pioneer of the 9th,
inst., will be of interest to many of our
readers owing to the fact that prior to
a few-years ago Miss Lizzie McWhirk,
with her mother, was a resident of
Forsyth: W. A. Clark, the well known
sheep and stockman, arrived here last
night accompanied by his bride, form
erly Miss Lizzie McWhirk. The cere
mony was performed in Butte last Sun
day. Mr. Clark is one of the old resi
dents of this county and is looked upon
as one of its most prosperous young
men and with all acquaintances very
popular and a royal good fellow. The
bride is a sister of Mrs. T. McAuliff
and during her short residence here
made a host of friends, all of whom
extend congratulations and wish the
newly wedüed couple a pleasant and
prosperous future.
Not since the installation of the two
bowling alleys in the American hotel
by Butler & Holt has so much interest
been manifested in the popular game
as has been prevalent the past few
days. When it was first announced
that the Miles City team wastocontest
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with the loca enthusiasts, it cannot ht
»aid hat it tended to increase the in
terest, for it was reasonable to believe
that in the event ot a game with For
st th the visitors would have a walk
away. It must be conceded that the
Forsythians have been handicapped in
i solar as practice is concerned. Miles
j has had a bowling alley for several
month , while Forsyth has had one
for scarcely as many weeks But since
Glendive has again demonstrated its
superiorty over Miles, much additional
enthusiasm has been infused into the
game and the local bowlers have shed
their coats and gone into the sport
with the consolation that they have, at
the least an even break. As yet the
exact team for Sunday's game has not
been chosen, but it is probable that
the players will be picked from the fol
lowing, many of whom roll a mean
ball and have established creditable
averages: Wright, Houston, Holt,
Miles Bailey, Mulligan, Kline, Huff,
Shaub, Terrett and La Duke. The
Milesians will arrive on Sunday morn
ing's train and the game will be called
at about 2:30 in the afternoon.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Raocher
James Briesen left a few days ago
for his new home at Portland.
John Lehof has improved the appear
ance of his homestead by the erection
of a new mansion.
Mr. Muri received a sprained ankle
recently by his horse falling with him
on a slippery road.
W. King is threshing with his ma
chine at Mouts & Koffle's, His right
bower, Mr. Baggs, is chief oiler.
Henry Giierson has returned from
the RL ranch, where he had been
breaking horses for several months.
Roy Weathers, one of our energetic
ranchers, is nursing a bruised shoul
der as the result of a cinch on his sad
dle breaking while riding a bronc
ho recently.
In a few days Rancher will have an
order of the Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica. Mr. Patterson, D. H. C., was
here recently from Forsyth in the in
terest of that order. He secured the
names of about 22 persons who were
willing to be initiated into the myster
ies of Woodcraft and as soon as he can
hear from headquarters a lodge will
be instituted.
1000 miles on a Camel's Back
Philippe Fontaine, PhD. LLD.
who has spent 8 years in Egypt and
the Holy Land, will deliver his fa
mous Oriental Production, "1,000
miles on a camel's back," Saturday
evening Jan. 18, in the M. E. church
at 8 oclock. *
Dr Fontaine carries his audience to
Jerusalem via. the Arabian desert,
the Wilderness of Sin, Sinai country,
etc., following the course persued by
the children of Israel in their journey
ings to the Promised Land. Beauti
ful oil paintings, descriptive of the
different scenes, are executed by the
doctor before the audience, each paint
ing made in 54 seconds. Rich Orient
al costumes are worn at different times
during the entertainment, and singing
in the English and Semetic tongues,
together with high class instrumental
music, adds freshness and delight to
the entertainment.
Admission 50 cents; children under
10 years of age, 25 cents.
Auspices o( the Ladies Aid of this
place.
Gold Teeth Out of Stjrle*
It ia no longer considered good fora
to mak« a display of gold teeth. "The
custom has grown to such an extent,"
■aid a prominent eastern dentist the
other day, "that young men and wom
en actually had small holes drilled
in teeth that were perfectly 6ound, in
order that gold fillings might be in
serted. Even sets of false teeth for
older people were thus decorated. Gold
caps were in great demand, and were
often put on when there was no occa
sion, simply because people thought
they looked well. I remember seeing a
chorus x girl who came over with an
English company several years ago
who had a diamond inserted in one of
her front teeth. Her smile was liter
ally dazzling. All that is changed
now, though. The tendency seems to
be to preserve as much as possible
the natural whiteness of the teeth, and
sometimes enamel is placed over a gold
filling.''
IiiHtructeri it* I» 111 * Unlit-*.
A young clerk in a wholesale house
has been spending a large portion of
his salary for the last few days buy
ing cigars fof friends who are "or." to
a joke that was perpetrated on him,
says the Albany Journal. His em
ployer engaged a new boy and as soon
as the boy came to the establishment
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CORRESPONDENTS:
Chatham Rational mil
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he was Instructed m ms duties by on
friend, who had been promoted to th
position of assistant bookkeeper and
given a small office by himself. About
an hour after the boy started In, the
"boss" came around and seeing him
working, asked: 5 "Has the assistant
bookkeeper told you what to do? M
" 'Tee, sir,' was the prompt reply; 'he
told me to wake him up when I saw
you coming around.' "
1.—Slag Cuiu with Gera,
Congressman "Joe" Cannon, of Illi
nois, is a man of strong likes and dis
likes, and never does anything by
halves. In the list of his likings, so
far as culinary matters are concerned,
hie fondness for green corn takes first
rank, and on this score he tells a good
story at his own expense. After a
long sojourn in Washington he re
turned home and started out to look
after his political fences in his dis
trict. At a small village hotel, where
he stopped for dinner, a scanty plate
of fine roasting ears was placed before
him as a side dish. Immediately he
abandoned the main bill-of-fare and
applied himself exclusively to the
green corn. When the plate was de
pleted he called for more roasting ears,
and continued his feast until he had
made his entire meal from the staple
product of the Illinois prairies. The
hotel-keeper noticed the array of cobs
stacked upon tbe plate of the tall poli
tician, whose identity was unknown to
him, and said: "Say, stranger, what
in thunder do you want to board at a
hotel for? The place for you to put up
at Is a livery stable. Don't you know
green fodder is a dum sight cheaper in
a barn than in a house?'' During the
remainder of the campaign Congress
man Cannon retailed this story to his
constituents—and turned it to good
account among the corn growers.—Sat
urday Evening Post.
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IN A TRASH PILS.
Old Slag Georg* Coin Voand la S»«a
villa. Toon.
* Walter Cheatham, an employe of the
eity stables, has had the good fortune
to find a very old coin of the realm of
Great Britain in a trash pile, says the
Knoxville Journal and Tribune. The
coin is of the same else as an Ameri
can dollar and weighs just the same.
Walter did not realise that the coin
might have a big price offered for it.
and while showing it to Stable Boss
William Kellar, asked that official
what he would give for the coin. Mr.
Kellar does not know the value of old
coins, and offered ten cents. Mr.
Cheatham declined and Mr. Kellar
proffered twenty-five cents and tbe
bargain Was struck. Mr. Kellar de
cided he would keep the coin as a rare
novel keepsake, but now he would
probably refuse an offer of $500 for it.
pending a thorough Investigation of Us
value to numismatic collectors. On
yeeterday Mr. Cheatham returned to
Mr. Kellar and tried to buy back the
coin for a quarter of a dollar. Mr.
Kellar refused, but jokingly said be
would take $5 for it. Cheatham was
about to take him at bis word, when
Mr. Kellar said he intended to keep the
coin. Its owner was then informed
that according to a coin collector's
manual. King George's dollar was
quoted as being worth $1.600. Tbs coin
Ch«r> Coi;»n-Omwln> II»* Inertia«« <1.
American cottonseeed Is responsible
for a tremendous increase in the pro
duction of cotton in Russia, middle
Asia, Bakhara and Khive. The year
1900 shows an increase of 44 per cent
over 1899 in the Asiatic lands, and the
increase in the Russian district is 28
per cent. Most of the former coibk
fields are now being planted with edfi>
ton.