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THE INLAND EMPIRE VOL. I, No. 1 I MOORE, MONTANA, N Devoted to the interests of Rock Creek Bench a The State Bank of Moore IS NOW LOCATED IN THE ..Hrick I3ui1ding... A cordial inVitatio - n - is - extended - tio all to in- spect our new quarters. SHERMAN SHAFER DIES From Alcoholic Poison—Drinks a Quart of_ein—Coroner's Inquest. Sherman Shafer, commonly known as \Hayrack\ drank about a quart of gin last Sunday evening between six and seven o'clock, from the effects of which he died within a very short time. Shafer* was a hard working man and also a hard drinking man and hasbeen made the butt of many jokes while on his sprees. It seems, as though he had been asking -Several parties for drinks or money to procure them and ap- proached L. B. Jewell, who had near a qtlart of gin in his .pocket, which he had bought at the - Sideboard. Jewell had started home, but in passing Ross Brown's saloon had stopped in for a few minutes when Shafer asked him for the drink. Jewell rdused him tell- ing him he did not need a drink. Shaf- er then declared he could drink two quarts. Jewell offered to bet him twenty dollars he could not. After some talking and repeated requests for a drink, Jewell set the bottle of gin on the counter and told Shafer to take a drink, when sheer immediately drank the contents of • the bottle. In a few minutes he fell to the floor and was picked up and put in achair. Sev- eral persons noticed his heavy breath - lug and he was carried to the rear of the building to recuperate in the open air, but instead of recuperating, died. It is not known just when he died or haw long he laid outside of the saloon dead. The testimony at the inquest bniught out the fact that he was lay- ing outside for probably an hour and when Dr. Owen testified he said that Shafer had probably been deid about Forty-five minutes, when he was called. Rumors were rife during the early part of Monday to the effect that Sha- fer had been forced to drink the gin, but no such facts appeared at the in- quest. A knowledge of Shafer's char- acter confirms - the belief that he v,11- .untarily'drank the liquor, as he was a simple minded man, taking all jests in earnest. He has been known to near- ly drop in his t racks because his em- ployer told him that a certain job must be performed hi a certain time. The coroner's inquest developed nothing of a criminal character and the jury, consisting of G. H. Beasley, T. E. Rice,Johu Hensley, Nels Nelson, A. M. Mathews and A. D. Barney, could find hi no other way., according to the evidence submitted than that, \deceased came to his death from acute alcoholic poison caused from drinking •• a large quantity ( g in, self-adminis- tered,.given him by L. B. Jewell.\ Moore has been Infested' with a set of chronic drunkards for some time past and this tragedy only accentuat es rthe need of Moore for a holdover in which these drunks can be locked up until they become sober. • Shafer had no relatives in this see - ton of the country and no property exeept a horse and saddle of question- able value. He was buried Wednes- day in the Moore cemetery. A New Creamery. The people of Rock Creek Bench are to have a market for their milk right ' at ,their door. The Hastings indus- trial Co., of Chicago. III., has bought property in the townsite of Moore and is now laying the lattidation upon which will be erected a superstructure devoted entirely to the making of but- ter. This will create a demand for all the milk that the Bench can furnish. The plant will be as up-to-date as ' money and genius can make it. All the latest butter -making machinery will be installed and in the erection of a building no expense will be spared to make it as cleanly as possible. One feature of the building is a Cement. flooring which will prevent the absorp- tion of milk and thus prevent any bad odors from arising. A deep well will be dug and a perfect water system in- stalled. The plan is to make the creamery a co-operative business, and as many people are invited to take . stock as - possible. The experience of all the large creameries is that the co- operative plan Is the most successful, causing a wider interest and drawing a larger trade from the farmers in the surrounding country. The capicity'of the creamery will besufficient to make 1,200 pounds of butter per day and by adding another separator this capacity can be doubled. The Weal manager will be named by the Chicago firm, and we understand, will be a man who has graduated In the business and thoroughly under- stands his work. A first class „article is guaranreed by the Hastings Indus- trial Company. We are Informed that a large part of the stock has been tak- en by local parties, but there will be an opportunity for a number of farm- ers to purchase stock. The contract for the stone work Was let te Anton Anderson and thecarpen- ter work to Ed McRae: • CALL FOR PUBLIC MEETING • It has been suggested that a public meeting of the citizens of Moore be called for the purpose' of discussing questions of, a public nature, among which are the questions of a jail and a waterworks system. Any and all suggestions will be heard and it is hop- ed that this meeting will be the means of putting Moore on something like a. business basis. The meeting will be held Monday night,•Nov. 27, at THE INLAND EMPIRE. office. , Come out -and take part. Olsen Mears from Mis Horses. E. Olsen received a telephone .mes- sage from the sheriff of Park county stating that a team and outfit answer- ing the description of that stolen from several parties at this place - recently, had arrived in Livingston, and the parties were under surveillance. The Park county officer sayS the brand on the horses has been altered and shows that it has recently been done. Mr. Olsen left Tuesday morning for Liv- ingston, and if he finds • the. property to be the same that was stolen will drive back overland. • Joe Walton Stabbed. In an altercation between Robert Hood and Joe Walton. Wednesday evening, the latter was stabbed in the left side. Mr. Walton wasnotserious- Iv injured. The trouble, as near as we can learn, was the continuation of an old feud over wages. Hood was im- mediately placed under arrest by Dep- uty Sheriff Al Denton and is being held under *750 bond. j ohn W. Nel- son and T. G. Cooper going on his bond. County Attorney Ayers will be Over Monday and the hearing will be held. before Judge Malcolm. Extend Telephone Ling. The Lewistown -Billings, Mutual Tel- ephone company began to install its local phone system about ten days ago and now has more than 50 phones connected with its switchboard, and In addition to these, orders for more than 50 phones are now on file in the local exchange. The rural line to Cottonwood, which Is a connection of the Mutual com- pany, has 17 phones, and the lines to Armells connects with nearly all the ranches on Ar4 . 1ells and Dog creeks. The management of the Mutual company has announced that , it in- tends to extend their rural phone sys- tem to all parts of Fergus county, and work is now in actual progress on a line from Moore and the Rock Creek country to Lewistown. Tilts new line will start from Moore, touch at the Hoffman ranch, from thence to the Clary, King, Mason, Branger, Camastral, H. Shipman, C. B. Shipman, King's lower ranch, in fact nearly all of the ranches in the section adjacent to the King ranches; from King's lower ranch it will be built across to Spring creek to the Dundom ranches, up Spring creek to the Hamilton, A. B. Long, T. E. Crow- ley and other ranches in the valley. At a point between the Dundom and Clegg canches the building of a branch line th Kendall Will be under- taken. This line will use the same poles frofn this junction with the Moore line on into Lewistown, but will have its separate wires. Poles for building this addition to the Mutual system are now in Moore and Lewis- town. Work Ls also progressing on a branch line from Roundup to Lavina, a distance of 20 miles. The Mutual company and Its con- nections now have in actual opera tions 257 miles of line, and with the completion of the work now in pro- gress it will have, approximately 326 miles of line penetrating the most im- portant sections of the central part of the state. All the local lines of the company are connected by a metallic system, which Insures a first rate service, tele phone men say, regardless of weather conditions. Seek to Redeem Mining firound• A fine legal point was raised in the case of State of Montana, ex rel, vs. Sheriff L. P. Slater „told John L. Bright last week wherr the plaintiff filed in the district court-pandamus proceedings to compel the sheriff to Issue a certificate of redemption for $8,710, the amount tendered to the sheriff for the redemption of the Nip- per, Blue Jay and Silver Bow mining claims located in the North Mossasin mountains and sold at sheriff's sale on the 12th of November, 1904, to sat- isfy a m'brtgage which was held by John L. Bright. The property was owned by Hal S. Corbett., formerly of this state, Put-. later .of Spokane, but' was -mortgaged to Mr. Bright. It became'necessary for Mr. Bright to foreclose and the property was sold at sheriff's sale. Corbett or Moore, who was the trus- tee, had one year in whith to redeem an Huntoon & Smith of this city were appointed the attorneys to look after the matter here. The last date of redemption, that is, the 12th of No- vember, fell on Sunday of this year. For that reason, the tender' of the money was not made to the sheriff un- til Monday, November 13th. The sher- iff was instructed by R. von Tobel, Mr. Bright's attorney, not to issue a certificate of redemption and the mandamus proceedings to compel him to do so were instituted. The .defendant filed a demurrer on the ground that the plaintiff had not stated facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and this demurrer was argued by the attorneys Saturday evening. Judge Cheadle took the mat- ter under advisement and will prob- ably render his decision upon his re- turn to the city next week. • Austin Warr Rome. • Austin W. Warr, assistant cashier of the Bank of Fergus County, arrived home Friday evening from an eastern trip of several weeks' duration: Mr. Warr left primarily to spend a few weeks at the Battle Creek, Michigan, sanitarium, having been unwell for some time before his departure. While . in that part of the country, Mr. Warr took a run down to Kansas City to see some relatives. In speak- ing of his trip to the Democrat, Mr. Warr said: \Like the west. the middle states are experiencing wonderful prosperi- ty. -Bumper grain crops this year and good prices have paid off thousands of mortgoges and given a remarkable of mortgages and given a remarkable What struck me particularly was the exceedingly rapid growth of some of the smaller towns in Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska. Places that I can re- member as mere hamlets with a thousand or so inhabitants a few years ago, are now thriving cities of T 11)ictor Calking Machines UITARs NDDL trig 'pianos ant) Organs on Easy 'payments Ert Music %tore, Emil U. Sail, ILewietown, • • Mont. CHAs. W. Molt' /N LOUIS E. PLACE With liasi Commission and Cone non Agency Office over LEW I Collect ions property ,11 Fire and • PROVED rgus Co. Bank Bldg. 'TOWN. MONT. IA DE. All kinds. of ndled on commis,sion. ffe Insurance in A 1 1 -, ompanies. H. LEONARD DeKALB, Att'y for Company. DR. MI/RON E. CUR_TISS, ENTIST Graduatd Chicago Dental Surgery. Haskell'i Post Graduate College. Will/be located in his large house tent' acress from the Moore Hotel for three weeks.' MOORE, MONTANA. Nelson Ross CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Is prepared to furnish plans and specifications on short notice either in or out of town. Don't fail to have him figure on your work as he can save you money MOORE, MONTANA. 'MOMS, YENP BER 23, 1905 Judith Basin. In polities Republican. Asimmomp. SIIVrILE COPIES FIVE CENTS ten nct twelve thousand people. There a civil suit for $106,000 damitges for Il- ls v ry little complaint to be heard by bel, ,brought against him by Barron in int bd ess men and the general impres- 1900 and not yet tried:. sion is that present conditions will con nue.\ ing tha We dec res of 13a T leg zin (au ,ha eni pri tio pa th cis th an fe pe ml Ton) Lawson Arrested t4,n, Nov. 14.—Counsel represent. Charles W. Barron stated today after a private hearing Judge worth of the municipal court has led to issue a warrant for the ar- of Thos. W. Lawson on a charge iireferred-flY OH. , C vase rises from a statement al- to have been made in a maga- article by Mr. Lawson and the tion of the issuance of a warrant been the subject of hearings cov- a perioud of several weeks. . Barron, the complainant, is pro-' or of a bureau for the distribu- of financial news in this city, his r being the Boston News Bureau. ortiv before noon the court issued warrant in accordance with its de- n and an officer was sent to serve document on Mr. Lawson. fore the, warrant had been served greernent between counsel was ef- •ed whereby Mr. Lawson is to ap- r in court next Saturday and sub - to the service of the warrant. M nwhile counsel for Mr. Lawson shied that the defendant in this suit wit,Apply for a warrant for the arrest of fMr. Barron for criminal libel, in m,itter printed in the market sheets istied by Mr. Barron for his bureau. AWSON AND BARRON TALK. oston, Nov. 14.—In a statement Is-, s d after the hearing today, Mr. Bar.. said: \The Warrant is -based upon a knagizine article which appeared in (*ober, and upon threats and attacks it previous magazine articles, and in - ci .ulars issued by Mr. Lawsdn.\ r, Lawson, in a statement, said t the Present action.was an echo.of Total, LI ABI LIT! ES. Capital Stock • • Undivided profits, less ex penises and taxes paid Individual de- posits subject, to check *28,462 38 Demand certiti- , cates of deposit ,1,438 Cashier's checks outstanding .• 10 00 *29,910 71 Total, . *55,170 94 STATE ori, MONTANA, .COUNTY 01 FEItOUS, SS: 1 Gordon Q. Street., Cashier of the above -named batik, do soleantly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. GoanoN O. SHAFER. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this hith day of November. - JOHN 1). MA LA:01,31, Notary Public, in and for Fergus County, Montana. . rrEsT: • A. M. MATHEWS. PATRICK SIBILL., Dir etors. • _ CITIZENS' BONK of MOORE, INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MONTANA OP' Paid Up Up Capital, $25,000.00 5 Per Cent Paid on Time Deosiirs , •••••••• OFFICERS: M L WOODMAN, President PATRICK NIBILL, Vice President GoanoN 0 SHAFER, CltS111gtr C M CLARY, THOS. NICHOLSON. , A M MATHEWS, DIRECTORS: .1 T WUNDERLIN, It W CutTottn, .1 D •••••••• PATRICK NI II I I„ M 1 . 4 W(N)DMAN, GORIMMN 0 SHAFER. This bank - transacts a general ...banking business. It sells drafts pay- •• able throughout the United States and. in foreign coantries; accepts at face value checks and drafts on all banks: gives careful attention to notes and - other items left for collection, and makes approved -loans. It receives temporary and permanent accounts •in any amount, and es- pecially invites the opening of accounts by Mail, Checks andcash items endorsed to us, and sent by mail, will be placed to your credit, subject to check, or as desired. • • Bank Statement. Report of the condition of the Clti- zen's Bank of Moore, at Moore, in the state of Montana at the close of busi- ness, November 9, 1905: RESOURCES Loans and .,19,Unts, \— 'Banking house furn. and fix- tures Cash reserve in blink, viz: specie * 219 DO Currency 1,300 25 Due from banks and bankers 31,025 40 32,544 65 *55,170 94 • Excellent music has been, procured and the suppei• which will be serv- ed by Mrs. John Reese,_ in the Fogle building, will be tit loran epicure.' • COMMITTEE ON ARRANCEMENTS: Butte 11„ Tipton, Cieorge I. Fogle, John W. Nelson. RECEPTION COMMITTEE: .1. C. Stoutenburg, 'Miss Stoutenburg, Straw: Harry Spence, Natal: John W. Nelsin. Qeorge Belcher, Prank Wolf, Gordon Shafer, C. W. Thurston. C. C. McClave, Miss ivy Hawkins, Miss Rooney, - Mina Ham- ilton. Mrs. Bowl . Clint. Jackson, Utica. Floor manager, Clyde•Combs: Ticket Agent, George I. Fogle: De0b- ration. L. L. Batman. , • *19..219. 04 3,4-07 25 *25,000 00 260 23 Ca are cordially invited to attend the grand ball - At Woodman Hall, EvenTng of Thanksiving - Day, Nov. 30, MOORE, MONT. The STATE BANK of MOORE 7 CA prrii,.=.pmn•IN 825;000 You will not entrust important business matters or anything of val . - Ile to one in whom you do not have implicit confidence. • Neither will you entrust your money to a bank unless you have the utmost.contidence in its financial soundness and in the integrity of its officers. Nor will you care to have business relations with a bank unless you have faith in the impartiality, fairness and liberality of its policy towards its customers. That the STATE BANK OF MOORE enjoys to an extraordinary , degree the confidence of the entire cammunity of Moore and the. coun- t ry tributary is shown most conclusively by the fact that in the seven weeks since we commenced bnaittess, NINETY DIFFERENT PER- SONS have opened and are maintaining active accounts with us. • INCORPORATED AUGUST 22, 1905_ OFFICERS: JOHN C. HAUCK, • HON. CLARENCE P. Tommy, C. W. TutinsTox, JoHN C. LIAIIcK, L. B. HAMILTON. .lotHr,PH (trALLAGER, DIRECTORS: (.LARENCE P. Tommv. B. F._Turri.a, TiiitODO — RE GRAY, President Vice President Cashier 1). S. HARTINDS-, T. E. Rica, ('. W. THURSTON. Money to Loan on Approved Security. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Drafts Issued on all foreign Countries. Courteous and Liberal Treatment fissured to all. ), H. J. SPRINGER II ) RESIDENT CON FRACTOR 11) Est !mates f u r tits! ied any kind -or buildings-- residences, rerooms h business ouses -- -- large or small .; NO JOB TOO LARGE FOR ME MOORE tox'r.tNA (C. fiewisiown tailoring* *Company J. L. NEILSON, Prop. Fine Tailoring by First Class Tailors also Cleaning and 11e - pa jilt mg. When In Lewistown call and - see — . our new line of Fall and Winter . Styles. , Old fashioned Turkey Dinner Thanksgiving Day, November 30, 'Will be served in the new Fogle building by 'Mrs. John Reese. Cubb Brothers Practical Contractors 4114 Builders PLANS AND SPECIFIcATIoNs FUR- NISHED- ON SHORT ;WINCE Lewistown, - Mont. %. Owen, phpsician anb %uroeon. Salle ronipIte Itnewcreo Slight or Ilfav Compicte, Stuh of 1Drua6 flboore, Montana DUANE BUTTERFIELD, BREEDER OF Pore Bred &Ilford gator. WRITE FOR PRICER STANFORD, MONTANA 00 0 0 0 00000000000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOM H. WHITE BARBER Hair Cutting and Slim- ing done with neatue„ss and dispatch. Guaran- tee ,sat 'faction .• MOORE
