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The Montanian and Chronicle! The Montanian, Vol. XIII, No 36. CHOTEAU, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA. JANUARY 9, 1903. Teton Chronicle, Vol. VI, No. 23. On Sunday,. Jan. 4th, The' first Montana & Great Northern regular train will pass through the now town of Collins, and ON M O N D AY, JANUARY 5 th, W e will begin an opening sale in pur new location. This snlo • is to continue lor ono week. Men’s, ladies’ and children’s underwear; men’s, ladios and children’s shoes, hose und sox; all kinds and grades of over- shirts, suspenders; the ontire assortment of neckties, corsets and winter gloves and mittens—all of tile goods in this list wo will discount 20 per ceut duriug the titno of this sale. W e will also give a 5 per cent discount on all Groceries, except Sugar, Coffee and Soap. Come in and see the big ongiuo, and the small price, and ex cellent bargains which you can secure with us. Collins Mercantile Co., A. S. TRUSCOTT, Manager. J. E. ERICKSON, v A ttorney-at-Law , Notary Public, MONTANA. CHOTEAU, \ G. BAIR, Attorney-at- Law, C H O T E A U , M O N T A N A . F. A. LONG, •Physician and Surgeon Office in Jackson Buildiiig. Next to Telephone Office. CHOTEAU, - - MONTANA. Dr. S. B. STONE, Pkysiciaa a i Sarpi. OFFICE, CHOTEAtJ HOUSE, CHOTEAU, MONTANA. T. BROOKS, Physician & Surgeon. Successor to Wainsloy & Brooks. OfPco Next to Court Houso. ^ C.WARNER, U. S. Commissioner, CHOTEAU, MONT. Land filings and proofs. l IA L J E R M A T H E W S , U. S. C O M M I S S I O N E R , C O U N T Y S U R V E Y O R , ilephone No. 27. • CHOTEAU, MONTANA. Dr. EARLE STRAIN, OCULIST and ADRIST, 317 First Avenue North, G R E A T FA L L S , M O N T . Offiee Hours: 1 p. m. to A p. m. W . SHIELDS, O. E. Land Locations. Beservoir Sites. Canal and ditch surveying. Full List o f Vacant School Lands -O- OfFIGE, CHOTEAU, MONT. Olaf C. Fjeld, Land, Reservoir and Ditch Sur veying a specialty. SH ELB Y . - - MONT. CHEVALIER LODGE NO. 12, K . o f TP. Meets Every Thursday Evening. Visiting Brothron Cordially Invited to Attond. L eonard J. L owxds . C. C. D b . T. B rooks , K. o f ß & S. Choteau Laundry Best Work in the State on White Stirts aufl Collars. Prices Reasonable. J. II. Perman.Agt C. P. Crane, Manager. Telephone 12. Choteau, Mont. H . B E A U P R E , d e n t i s t Teeth Extracted 'With out Pain. All -work Guaranteed. CHOTEAU. MONTANA. ft ¡ft ft ft f. ft ft ft ft ft ft ft I J. M. LAÜGHLIN, Proprietor. DUPUYER, MONT. ••?brg393:'SâS:-3i3^3-5SS6&:g-.©&:&:®&:g;S;é- MRIISGTON SEWS. G r e a t ¡F a l l s M o n t , Lumber, Lath, « Shingles, Builders Hardware, I S / Building P a p e r , Mouldings, Sash, Doors, Etc. Write for Special Prices on Carloads F. 0. B your nearest Railroad Station. GEO. R. WOOD, Manager. Telephone 70. 200 Fifth Ave. S 1 N E W MEAT I ¡M A E K E T l h __ u *! \5 [WEAVER &00RE, I Fimi Having openod to the public a nesv meat market in the old Truchot building wo shall endeayor to keep on hand a full supply of fresh meals of all kinds. Courteous treat ment to all customers. g GIVE US A TRIAL | Remember the placo I TRUCHOT BUILDING, On Lower Main Street. gTolephono No. 10. F armington *, Jan. li, 10(12. Editor .Montanian and Chronicle: I can’t hear of anybody being made sick by reading my last week’s articlo so I will giro them another dose. The choice for under sheriff by Sheriff Taylor is well received here on the bench. Jack Kerr is one of the boys who has stuck to us through thick and thiu and wo aro glad to see him get ono of the plums that is falling; not only that, but ho will un doubtedly mako a good officer. Mrs. Chris Lindsethhas beeu quite sick, but we are glad to say is now much better. Enoch Peterson, Win. Chalmers and Geo. Burt wont lo tho Falls with a six-horse load of baled hay each. They will bring back freight. Dan McCormack mudo us a flying visit Tuesday. Dau has got a good raucli boro and 50 head of cuttle and is doing well. Tho Board of tho Teton Creamery made an assessment of 51150 per share some time ago which was duo Jan. 1st. This was rnado so that the old debt could bo paid off, and if it is all paid up, as it should be, it will square everything up. No doubt tho creamery will bo run some time aud it will pay. I can’t see any reason that it shouldn’t. „ Any way, all should pay thoir debts. I seo the “Beaverslido” on the Foster hill is progressing finely: The new board when they meet should take a rido over it, (hen order a new road made on tho other sido of town. This piece of foolishness, and made against the poople’s will, will stand as a monument to denote (ho cltcolt mile, across aod rsu car, .„lit -!, fljj J Wfi(E EOflP DEifl we camo pretty near going down two or three limes, aud if it hail not-been for tho rod hot swoariug done by tho. ferrymau we would havo beou fish and gall tho old board had In its last ncncTcroinrjcncriGGccciCGCcccjt! THE CASCADE BANK o f G reat F a lls, M ont. (Incorporated under tlio laws of Montant April 5,1 Capital - - $75,00 0 . Surplus - - - 15,000. 8. E. Atkinson President. Jacob Switzer Vice-President, P. P. Atkinson Casliler, W. W. Miller Assistan Cashier. directors : 9. E. Atkinson, P. P. Atkinson. Potcr Larson John J . Ellis, Jacob Switzer, W. W. Miller days. Tho peoplo in Choteau should get a hustle on them if they waul to keep the county seat. Don’t let tho grass grow on your streets or somebody will buy the town and mako a sheep ranch of it. I understand quite a few families will como out here from the east next spring. Let them come, thoro is lots of room. When tho people back there got tired of shovoliug snow and signing mortgages, let them give us a call. The chinook wiuds might thaw some of tho ice out of thoir whiskers and blow a few wheols out of thoir heads, if nothing moro. The people who havo friends east aro glad to see them aud we hope to seo some old familiar faces cross tho Moulauu line in 111»!]. What others can do, so can you. I wish to givo you ono ex ample out of many, to show that a man with a family hero, can make something moro than a living. A man camo hore from Minnesota about six years ago with a good woman, fivo rod headed children, an old span of mules that hauled freight for Gen. Lee, time of the ‘wah,’ eight or nine old cows, made op of bide, tail, horns and vacuum. Now ho has 53000 worth of stock, 10 good horses, 100 acres of well improved laud, and machinery, wagons, etc., and best oi all, out of debt. Ye spindlo shank, weak kneed geezer, put this in your pipo and smoko it, and don’t let tho old folks feed you any lougor, but got you a homo while you havo a chance. Industry, pluck and econ omy is pretty good medicino to take for poverty, and if you use it in a judicious way you will bo pretty sure to live and die on your own land, in your own house, aud among vourowD friends. As I have not much nows to write I will givo you a few reminisconcos of my early life. 45 years ago last spring my falhor sold out in Will county, 111., and converted an old lynch pin wagon into a prairio schooner, dumped a few household goods and provisions in her hole, hltchodoD soven yoke of oxen, with a few cows trailing behind, started lor Howard county, Iowa, then classed / as the wild and wooly wost. We crossed tho Mississippi on a lorry j bait in short order. Tho boys caught a big cat fish, so when we lauded wo all had a feuBt. We climbed the hill at McGregor aud made west for our new homo. Woll I romembor tho first patch of wild strawberries we rau iuto. Groat Scott! When wo got through l looked likoa vorysmall snake that had swallowed a largo toad. Wg got to our now home some time in June, filed on a piece of brush luud about II miles from tho Iowa river. Thoro was lots of game and wild fruit, and mosquitos ns big as blackbirds. We had u<> roads,school houses nor churches and our nearest neighbor was miles an ay. Fathor had to go fs miles to buy a stove. Everybody was kept l-u-\ that, sum- j liter fixing np for aimer. Our hay wus cut with a «i-yiln- and raked by hand. •Thai winter Mas a uhizzor, mouths at a time it. neyer thawed ou tho south sido of the house. Tho snow was four feet on tlm level with a crust on top, You could kill a door with a club while (¿oy wore stuck fast in tho snow. Quail frozo to death around tho 6lablo. Our folks had to haul hay to feed tho stock on a hand slod on the crust of tho snow, two miles away. I romembor that Christmas ove. I hud my first Santa ' Claus. I got a pair of red topped j boots with copper toes. In ono of! | tho hoots wus a pieco of dried beef j and a doughnut. I was tho only little kid in the outfit aud this little act of kindness from a dear fathor and molhor I can nover forgot. Tho following spring thero was a big rain which took all the suow off in short order. All the streams were over thoir hanks aud tho Little Iowa was a mile wido in somo-pLce.-. Houses, barns, stock, hay, etc., that was on tho lowlauds, were swept away and lots of peoplo lost thoir lives. Fulhor and a uoigbbor wont lo tho rescue of a family. The boat was swamped and they had to climb a treo und sit thero all night before liolp came. I may continue this in tho next. I A n O ld G ranger . A (renerai banking business tsansacted. »crestallowed on timo deposits. in- T h e N e w O fficers. The nowly elected county officers assumed thoir respective positions last Mouday morning. In tbo sheriff’s office C. \V Tuvlor takes tho position so ubly filled during tho past two years by Goo C Taylor; J. E. Erickson succeeds James Sulgrove us county attorney; J YV. Shields succeeds Walter Mathews as sur veyor; W. II Franklin takes tho place of C. F. Green as public ad- minislraloi; Dr. W. H. Stoarus, of Dupuyer, is coronor. Tbo now county commissioners aro Wm. Cow- gill, Ed. Bollorud and Ed. Donnis. In tho county clerk’s office and in the assessor’s offico thoro was no chaDgo, your Uncle A1 Warner succeeding himself in tho former and Thos. O. Larson in tho latter. At tho present lime we seem to linvo two superin tendents of schools, but tho tangle will probably bo straightened out f-borlly after tho new hoard of com missioners gets down to work. John S. Gordon, treasurer, assumes tho position to which ho was ro olocted March 4th next. Tho county having advanced from tho seventh to one of tho sixth class, I he now officers will receive a sub stantial increase in thoir salaries, as will be seou by tho following: Old New Office Salary. Salary. Sheriff. .......... : ____ 52,250 County c lerk ........ .. . 1.800 2,000 County attorney .. . . . 1,200 1,500 Treasurer ............. ... 1,800 2,000 Supt. of schools .. . . . 800 1,200 Assessor ............... 1,500 Word was received horo Wednes day oveuiug that Dr W. B. Wiuo, of Dupuyer had boou found dead in his room iu tho Titus b u i l d i n g . Ho wus last seen about 1U o’clock on Monduy night, when ho was around town in his usual health. Ho must li.-ivo thou retired to his rooms aud gouo to hod. Lloy Leech and family occupy the ground floor of tho building in which wore the doctor’s rooms, us a resi dence, and Mrs. Loot li noticed Tues day that she did not near the doctor coming dov.n stairs or making any noise. Shodid not think this pe culiar at first, ns she thought ho might havo been calhd into tho couutry, as wqb often tho case. Ou Wednesday, alien ho did not phow up, and callers fomid his door locked, suspicion was aroused and it M-ns resolved to investigate the inattor. A ladder was secured and placed at his office wiudow, which was open. Deputy Sheriff Woimor wont up aud found tho body lying ou tho offico floor dressed iu his under clothes. Tho door was then forced open and Coroner W. II. Stearns took possession. From tho appearance of tho room ono would judge t hut tho doctor had beeu reading iu bed and had thrown back tho covers, placed his book upon them, and taking tho lamp walked into tho ufiico adjoining. Ho then placed tho lamp on tho desk and sauk to the floor, dead, llo was fouud lyiug ou his side, with ono leg drawn up, but thero whs no ovidonco of a struggle. Ho had frequently spoken of boiug troubled with hoart disoaso, and this probably ended his lifo. A coroner’ll jury was summoned, consisting of Messrs. F. Doan. If. Gordon, If. A. Allen, Ed. Forest, II. C. Kunkol aud J W. Quail, und from thoovideuco ut hand brought in a verdict of death from natural causes, Dr. Stearns suggesting heart disoaso. Tho Woodmen of tho World then took charge of tho body, tho doctor having boou a member in good stand mg of that lodge, and had it re moved to thoir hall. Tho fuuorul, under tho auspices of the same lodge, was hold yostorday (Thursday) af tornoon. Dr. Wine was a nativo of Virginia, where his mother still resides. He was a comparatively young man, who from studious habits aud much travel had acquired u fund of gonoral information, besides a proficient edu cation in his own profession. During his rosidonco in Dupuyer he had won many friends by his gentle manly manner and obliging ways, professional and social. Ilia sudden death was a shock to tho community und the cause of gonuino sorrow to his more intimate friends. Hirshbergf Brothers Bankers, Choteau, M o n tana. BELLEVIEW BEETITIES. B u c k s fo r S a le. Fifteen bead of registered Delaine Merino Bucks, three and four years old, at S8.00 per head. Call on or address tho undersigned ut Augusta, Montana. J ohn L. B, M aster . John S. Lano and wife were visit mg his father-in-law, Frank Free man, Sunday last. Francos LaFranco was a caller at C. L. Monroe’s Sunday. “ 1 guess that’s poor,” Frances. Frank Salmond commenced tho now year with a bad faco. Wo hopo be will not ho so unfortunate ns to got his faco scratchod again. Kobt. Twiggs and Jos. Baart are in-Helena at this writing, and will return soon with somo thoroughbred bulls. This looks like tho Banatfa Bolt expects to havo a bettor grado of cattlo. Johnnie Gleason was in this neck of tho woods tho first of the wcok. Carlos Mouroo returned homo Sunday for a few days’ recreation, after which ho will return to his position oil the C. P. R. School opened lastMonduy with a nice attendance. Wo wish tho school a successful an l happy year. F or S ale .—A ranch of ICO acres, boat, the motivo power was furnished on Sfafcop croek, near Dupuyer., -For by two mules. Tho river 'was-throo particulars call at this office. FOR SALE. We solicit accounts and offer to the public the most liberal treat- NEW RESTAURANT meat consistent with safe banking. exchange on Wc buy and sell all the principal American and European cities, and issue letters of credit. THOMPSON & FERRIS, LETIimilDOE COAL Leave orders nt telephone oflico. Hello, No. 42. II CO. 0 3 - GREAT FALLS, MONT. (Unincorporated.) Paid up capital ................... $ 100,000 Individual-responsibility... 2,000,000 The best of service and ac com. modatlons to be had In the city. Everything First Class and In accordance with the market. l^EMEITBER THE PLACE Mrs.T. A. SMITH Millinery and Confectionery. New Stock of the Lat est Styles of Winter Hats Just Received. W. G. CONRAD, Pros. JAMES T. STANFORD, Vico Pros, and Manager. P. KELLY, Cashier. This bank solicits accounts, aud offors to depositors absolute security, prompt and careful attention, and tho most liberal treatment consistent with safo aud profitable banking. Buys aud sells foreign exchange, drawing direct on all principal Amer ican and Etiropoan cities, aud issues its own Lotlors of Credit. Interest puid on time deposits. The highest cash prico paid for ap proved stalo, county, city aud school bonds aud warrauts The Teton Exchange Choteau, M o n t. Thin is the finest, ap pointed saloon in north ern Montana. We have on hand ihr, finest brands o f Wines, Liquors and Ciqurs. The Cclebrdlcd Pabst Export Beer On tap and in bottles. D AVIS BRO S ., Proprietors. THE A well improved ranch of ICO acres adjoining the Choteau townßito. Call on J. G. Bair. wtf. C L U B C A F E , Mrs, CHAN 3M1T1I, Proprietor. Open Day and Night. FRESH BREAD, PIES AND OAKES FOR SALE. A Full Line of Nuts, Candy and Fruit is Always on hand. Agent for the BEST Ladies Tailoring Co. in the country. TAKEN UP. - One sorrol golding, broke to saddle, about 12 year old, with Blaze face and Whito legs. Branded on loft thigh and * on the left shoulder. Owner can have same by proving property and paying costa. W. H. C onmffe , Choteau, Mont, A N D Livery Feed Stable fin vine purchased tbo stock and business of II. F. Hailey, I am prepared to furnish Livery Bigs nnd Turn outs for patrons. Also to care for and feed yonr team when you are' in Town. Corner o f CTiotonu Avenue and Hamilton Street. I havo Baled Hny and Grain for' sule and will be pleased to supply nil wants in that line. Call and see me. O.E.PUGSLEY. E . H . REPRESENTING THE CHICAGO TAILORING COMPANY. 1 < .• ux - kô *-.. m Fancy Disites Made to Ordei on Short Notice. Has tho^largest line of Fall and Winter samples ever brought into the state. The Price« are. Moderate and a perfect fit is absolutely guaranteed. _•; Have a fine line of samples for Ladies suits, Rainy -„.day#; skirts. Hold your orders unlil'L ''■/yrj.vyA you see them. . '
