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• THE JUIJITH VOL. 1 ASIN STAR HOBSON STATION, PHILBROOK, P. 6., FIAIGUS — COONTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909. NO. 17 **IMO 0411411000,1 Cowan & Graeber I Agency for Emerson engine disc and moldboard plows. The kandard engine plow. Thework of this.plow will best convince you of their merits. Cheap freight can be . given on any repairs until Feb. 1st. Cowan & Graeber lig.011111111161111111111111111111111411410011•1110 1 1 14 1 1 41 1 00 11 1 0 . 0041111101 K 4 ti+titettSift+tiNINS.+01 1 Safety Liberality 01=11.111 , This Bank is ever ready to accept any new desirable busi Pess, and offers its services to those who desire their busi- ness handled in a prompt and conservative manner. Refusing all hazardous or speculative ventures, we con- Ijne our business to legitimate and conservative bankihg. STATE B OF MOORE Courtesy Conservatism A REVERSAL OF OPINION By WILLIAM A. SC -r (('ii&TINUF.D FRoM LAsT \VEZIK) of -a -fool brom.', that mush-rai just about seared themlaylights out of him, an' . he - proceeded to throw about fourteen tits in airing , ten seconds, an' the girl—not 1)0 1 in' prepared .for any, such a manuvur—lost her seat about the second jump an' Gopher come tearin' out of the creek bed a dragan' her, head down, with her left foot eaught fitst in the stirrup i .\Its a mighty good Mae was a waterdn' time - 'cause if he hada' d been 'Katy -bar the Miss Bell, but you (Ill) • thing that7 her at the t been Wed lbsle wit Ii td' tliniwin' a tit right on the spig; just gamble the sight of his girl holdin' an see Mae g her dad's 'Well ilOwtrat, the crack of as I said laofore, Miss .that there wasn't anything slow about that boy's mental Machinery, even if he was a .sheepherde. Gopher didn't have time to make more - thiti - about two. : jaws after he reached the bank before a soft - nosed bullet from Mac's smokelss took him a Swat in the cabeza an' he went down an'7out,.right there: . \Its .funny how - things get boggled up sometimes The ways of 'old lady Providence' :are trimly past. all . understatidite—Amen, says I—\It • keeps - here busy hot ia' SOHIt. of• . . aught to be- hang, while 'every little while she fe`ehes some poor devil that is deseryite of totter things, a baek--handed swipe that knocks all his ettlenlationg into the middle of next, week. it.. certainly seemed like she had it in for poor -, . Mae that (lay, as yttli will shure agree when yult see how the play went. \When Mae saw that he bad Made - tt dead center shot he drop- ped his gun an' hotfooted it for all he was worth for the edge of the stream, wherntho . giy1 and *the brow!' was all piled op in nasty lookin' lookin' heap, because, ioilt,seC he Was plum.auxious for fear that sit, 'night be all in: Bight there is where, the funny part Of the play eome in. . 4 - \Yuli see, old man Havers had took it -into his head to go up that mornin' . ate take a good square fall out- of Maelvor, cause, the longer he thought about the affair of the night befroe, the madder he got: As it happened, he bulged up over the ridge just as Mae put the finishin' touches on Gopher. The gun that the herder was . usin' bein' a hig-preskire one, the •bullet•never ,stoped after it had busted the pony's . think -pan, . but eame out of his neck, struck a rock across the creek, an'' went „zim-m-m, right along. side of the old man's ear, just as he dropPed down off the top of the hill. 'Well, the old man, couldn't see what. Mae had shot at' on account of the tal) - brush along the creek, an' of course he took it -fit greeted that Maelver was out after his scalp, for he didn't do it thing but up,an' . , whittle away at the sheepherder' as he Notre a 7 14,pi it ' down °fen the hill, 'hell • bent for election.' . 'Int a blamed good thing for Mae that he was runnin' like . a seared. wolf, because the 4•4141 man Havers ain't no sli much with a gun himself; as it was he misealeulated owein, to Mac's speed, just the fraction Of an ineh, ten'' it was 'just that fractional misealculation that saved Mae from becomitt' coyote Nig right there. The bullet from 'Havers' thirty -forty ploughed' a furrow about three'inehes long on the top of. Mac's think piece •an' the shock of the blow knock him as cold as ft.inaekeral for about a in ''About the tune that the old map cut lose at Mai:. Miss Bell untangled . herself' from the mix-up. , 8 0 was just ill lime' to \ \ •444444+0.4444404444.44444444444444444++++++ 4444++ Basin Lumber Co. LUMBER? Times our busi- ness and we carry at all times a com- plete -stock of it and all kinds of building material. Our prices are right too. Let us figure on your bills Fa - rde or small. We know • we can please you. Basin Lumber .Co. 4444 .H1444444444+H4444444444 +14111 , THE JUDITH LIVERY. and FEED STABLE J. S. Mateer, Prop. Carrier of the Utica Mailr.Leaves Philbrook. for Utica at 11 A.M. SulAcribe for Judith Basin Star Bell hat a heart like an angel, an' when she saw Mae drop she just let omit el'y Of pity Ittl' flew up the slope to whcre he was a layin', all erumpled tip like a busted paper suck, an' when E etime to, she was send)* there in the 411Yst, holdin' ltis heath. in her lap, tryin' to StOp.the.140011 with her hand - !thief. ''When Ilavers saw his daughter show up, au' make 11 'grand stand play' like that, he eame within one ornery sheepherder's head in her lap an' eryin' over him—she was eryin' alright—was more thee he eoubl figure out, see'n as how he was ignorant of how the play happened to come up in the first place. \ 'What the hell' says he; an' there is no tellin' what more he would have said if the girl hadn't a -looked up jut then an' seen him an called to him eotne down, 'poronto.' \Well whea Havers got down o w tere s me was-, . ay was just ileginin' to come to, an' I guess if tlic'girl hadn't got between 'ein th'ey''ed a -finished each other in short order, 'eause as: it, eirrinif-d, Mac had litoked up an' seen the old HMO just 11:4 lie ellt lose at him, with the thimly-forty an' yulm eau just bet your whole staek that he was some obesterperious, not be - in' aware of how near his OWIll bullet had come to . puffin' the old gent's light out; which was, of course, excuse e gh for Havers, seem n as how the play, had eome up in his ease. The trimble was, Mae didn't know that-the old man had any exeuse. 'Havers was Plum wild, tut' the things that he said to Mae was share smathin' fierce Mee was too 11111141 f a gentleman to say muelm before the girl, but, after he had made three or four ineffectual attempts to cool the old duffer down, he lost patienee an' nailed the cattbunan by the nose an' after he had twisted it about half off an' celled him a 'murderin' old seoundrel` he picked up the thirty' forty from the ground, where Havers . had laid it, pumped all the shells out of it an' put 'em in is gun to the -old Man, whirled around !in' walked haek up the slope to his sheep without ever once lookin' back; 'cause yuh see, he was too all -fired mad to trait himaelf,, atm' he had too much respect for a woinan to let hiniself out, before the girl—which he certainly would have done if she hadn't a -been there. , \Between the two of them they ceFtainlv 1nel the poor girl a goin' SOOle, mistake; the worst of it was, the blamed old (thump wonldn't listen to' a word of ex- planation from the girl until they got plum home—she did manage to get him home, after consider . able coaxin'—but ,after they got back to d pme ranch, she contrived to put him wise, at last, to 'the real eiremonstances of the euse,. when she got through telhin him the details how Mae had saved her baeon, yulm eould-a-knocked him . down with a feather, lie was that; flagerbasted. lie sure felt sonic had about the way he Wad 'behaved to Mite an'• he promised her that the first thing in the Mornin', he'd go over an' square himself, with the lad; 'cause pill see,' time old man was shure plum white, down under the hide, even if lie did get 1 a little bughonsed oCeasionalx, (CONTINI*Ett NEXT ‘VEEK) Twenty Five Years Experience Has Given Us The \Know Where\ To Buy Land To Satisfy The Homeseeker Our past successful record in finding homes for over 6,(NN) iniailies is a guarantee that those who conic to us will shown land that is absolutely right and -will Olive the 11104 profitable inveOtileal that they ever wade. We say without hesitatiOn that the land in the Judith Basin, h'etgits County Momitmuuia, that we own and have for sale. is the best land in the West t4Illay, etillSidering what it will prialtire and what the land ii litt , Itoilght tor. Any laild that will produce 40 III ''54) 1111010:4 of wheat, 75 bushels of oats, 44) bushels of oc, and good crops of timothy, alfalfa, clover. vegetables . anil fruits without irrigation is worth $100 per acre. VOL' elm NOW buy ';otne of this land from us, for $18 to $25 an erre. • Tell us about what YI/11 would, like, or the amount of money you 4•201 fl vest. Never mind about the payments, we w; . 11 protect you ott. % that. What we want is the ACTUAL HOMESEEKER and to such we will sell .1,AND ON HIS OWN TERMS. For maps and facts for your Down East friends, - see us or write us. / Pr Iliobson•-PhIlbrook P. 0..-Mostans • The Center of the Judith Basin 44+44+44444 A BANKING CREDIT Pew people realize the necessity 4)1. the pelsibilities of 11.:1C('I A I, CREDIT moil they see °pistil unit ies go by without the Means lit lake advantage of them. > The busine..s man of today establishes a eredit. Ile 'realizes t hat CREDIT Means Cash Whets • Needed ' We invite your aeeount and will extend • to you every aceonnuodation eimsistent with sound banking - methods. Bank of Feygus County LEwisTow . N. MONTANA 11187—Twent v - Iwo Years Safe Itamiking-1909. 44++ 1 +++++444444444444444+++4444 444444 444444444+44 444444444444444')4444 4.44+444 JAY'S HOTEL M. J. hIXENMAN. Prop.' PhilbrOok, Montana Board root Room by tho Day, Week or month] 1 +444++ 1444444+14444414 - 1. +44 4444444+4444444444+444+ 0 EMPIRE BANK AND TRUST ,COMPANY . LEWISTOWN, MONTAN) . We desire youy banking business, and the same careful al i tention will be given it whether it In' . large or small. r nol Five per eent. interest paid on sa nigs nints and the savings banks funds te(1. U. B. TiumesoN, President .1. I.. BEEBE, Cashier .1. P. IlAitNgs, Viee-President F.J. IlAzv.s, Ass't Cashier'
