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VOL. 3. J AM It'S SULGROYE, A T T O R N EY AT LAW, CHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. Admitted to piatice in Land. Pension and Patent Claims be fan the Inttrior Der)>nrtment. Land, Water , and Irrigation Rights a tipeei- ultg. All Legal Papers and Collections given care ful and prompt attention. Attorneg N. A. M. .-I. Co. Cm respondents in every city in North America. Notary Public COUNTY ATTORN R Y, TKTON COl NT Y, 7 *. Gr. 1TT0RNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW. S . H - D R A K E , M . D . p h y s i c i a n & s u r g e o n , Office over Valley Restaurant. CHOTKAU, - MONTANA. ~~ J. E. W AM S E EY. Ptiy^icHaii & Slafge&ii. C H O T E A U . - - - - - - - MONT. J . H . D A Y . C O U U T Y S T T B V E Y O E . Irrigation & Land Surveying a Specialty. GilOTEAO, - 1VI,PNTANJ|. C hoteau L odge N o 34 _A_ IF & c .A.. IMI. Holds U h i egida r cotmminications on the 1st and Bd Sat unlays of em-h month. All visiting bipthren cordially welcomed. Pit S. IL D rake . W. M. t o i e - xust o - i o t t : f : e \ Authorized to .practice before the De partment of the Interior, the Land Office, and the Pension and other Bureau«. PENSION CLAIMS SPECIALLY ATTENDED TO. Cor. Mam ftnrl Ht. John Ht*.. f-nrf Renton A. G WARNER, NOTARY PUBLIC, U. S. COMMISSIONER, AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE F il i n g s & F in a l C rooks on P ublic L a n d s . CHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. ' W r'a^_ I-3L X-T^OOSr, 2 S T o t a x s r G = - u . \ t o l i c DKKD*. MORTGAGES and all kind« of legal Instruments drawn up. Subscriptions received for all News papers and Periodicals at publisher's rates. CHO T E AU, - - - “ M O N T . E. c. GARRETT. * A C. WARNER. GSRRETT & WARNER. CONVEYANCERS, r e a l esta t e , INSURANCE CHOTEAU, MONT. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 7 h . s t c l a i r , B àLdr'bet' & Hà'?i'di'e0£ei', ------ H ot and C old B aths . ------ Main Street, Opposite Choteau House CHOTEAU, TKTON COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1893 NO. 52. T H E D A Y S TRIFLES. Sweet May, so cool, so hot, so wet, So windy, calm and dry, Pray tell us how to make a bet Upon the weather eye! Shall it be fur-lined coats to-day. Or gum shoes and um ore-lias, Or summer shirts of neglige? Sweet May, in pity tell us! —New York Kocorder. N E ITH ER M ONEY OR FORCE Trouble Caused by the Order to Fit Out llieThree Cara vels of Columbus. In (he days of Columbus vessels wore generally called ‘‘caravels,” and if of considerable size for those times limy were called by I he Spaniards nans When Queen Isabella dclei mine I lo help Col umbus to make hi v.-v.ice, a roy al order was sent, to the oily ol Palos to fit out tl ree caravels and to place them at the royal dispos al. The city made a pretense of complying, but it was so well known thAt ships were iorColum bus’ hazardous venfure into the terrible-western ocean that neither money or- force -could-- gel them equipped and manned. Over and over again the people were as sembled in the pub le square and the older read wiili gieat pomp, but all in vain. Columbus, in his despaii, begged that the prisons be opened and the convicts allowed to go with him. Finally a ship owneis of Palos, Martin Alonzo Pinzon, «as in duced, by an oiler of a large share ol the rewards in case of discov eries, to make an active effort to fil out I he expedition. He was a popular sea captain and a vigorous man of business, and it was entire ly due to him that Coltnnhii was able to set sail from Palos on his ever memorable voyage. Pinzon condemned two of the caravels given by the town, and substituted two staunch vessels of his own. One was a decked vessel of 300 tons, large enough to be called a nao, and 1ie l oilier was a little thing with lateen sails, which was chosen on account of her light draught, in case rivers had to be ascended in the country they ex pected to discover. The nao was al first named the “Gallega,” hut they renamed her the “Santa Maria.” Columbus took her for his flagship, for he held an admir al’s commission from Ferdinand and Isabella. The little laleen- rigged caravel was called the “Nina.” Of the three caravels of fered by the town of Palos, the only one which Pinzon consider ed seaworthy enough to accept was the Pinta, a boat about half as large as the Santa Motm, and rigged like her. Ills shrewdness in rejecting the others was fully proved before the expedition reached the Canaries, for it was discovered that the Pinta had been tampered with, and had been pur posely weakened. A long delay in the islands was necessary to re pair her. Such w7ere the vessels in which Columbus discovered America; one as large as a small schooner, and the other two about the size of lighters. Had lie susp 'cted the length of his journey, or knew the terrible storms which c in rairc in the Atlant ic ocean, In* inner would have dared to venture out in emit so frail.—John M. Lllieotl, U. 8. N., in St. Nicholas. Mr. Boon’s Unsuccessful Scheme. It is re! ited ol one of the early settlers of this section named Boon, from w horn Boonville w j s named, that lie decided to emgage in sugar making on an extenshe scale. Cane sugar was not as cheap then as now. and he believ ed ii/ere would ‘ be demand for maple at good prices the year round. lie employed men to make buckets (dug out of bass wood logs) to catch the sip, and made extensive arraiiirements to make maple sugar all (lie summer. Before his apparatus was fully completed the (low of sap stopped. Disgusted with a business that would not last over a month in a year, he turned his attention to building a town, which pioved a success.— Utica Daily Press. What the Discovery of America Cost. Professor Huge has published in the (Holms, a (human periodical, an article corcerning the cost of the discovery of America. In the original .documents concerning the voyage of Columbus. Pro lessor Huge found that the contri bution of the queen towaro the ex pedition was given invariably as 1,140,000 maravedis. One hun dred years ago a maravedi was the equivalent of about one filth of a cent, but in the fifteenth cen tury, before the coin had been de based, he learned, it was almost three fourths of a cent. In tlie coinage of the present, time, there fore Queen Isabella’s contribution was approximately $7,500. The annual salaries of officers of the first transatlantic fleet are caleu lated by Professor Huge to have been: Admiral, $320; captain, $192, pilot, $13G to $153; surgeon, $38. * — ---------------- FO R G O T H E W A S ON FOOT. A Doctor W h o Thought Ho W a s Driving a Sluttish Horse. Dr. S — - was noted among his professional brethren lor his pow er of concentration When once he bent his mind to a prob lem he became totally oblivious of everything about him. The doc tor had a horse that was almost as famous as himself. Among her peculiarities was the habit of shy ing. She would not shy at tilings which most horses consider fil subjects for that sort of digression. ¡She would pay no attention what ever to a newspaper blowing about the streets, but was mortally afraid of a covered wagon. At ‘ he sight of one of New Haven’s suburban stages she would run over ths curbstone and threaten not only the doctor’s life, but that of the chance passer. Ol this habit she could not be broken. It seemed as though she could smell a stage long before it came in sight, so that the doctor would go half a dozen blocks out of the way rather than meet one. Early one morn ing lie\ received a- telephone calk- - to the effect that one of his pa tients had become alarmingly worse. Without waiting for his carriage, he started to walk, tlie distance being about a mil°. ills mind became at once absorbed in tlie case, but not so much so that the course of the ¡Sevmour stage lay right to his path. lie looked al his watch and saw that he would be sure lo meet it if lie went. I lie shortest way. He was in a hurry to get to liis patient but there was no help for it. lie uttered a malediction over the circumstances and turned off* at the first corner. This obliged him to nearly double the distance, and the day was warm. He walk as he never walked before, and fail ed to recognize a couple in inti mate friends whom he nearly ran over. It was not until he had spent two hours with his patient and came out to look for his horse that he began to realize that he had walked a mile out. of his way so that he need not shy at the Sey mour stage. Now is the time to get vour picture taken. L e M u n y o n of G reat F alls , will remain here in a tent for a few days, only. Come A ll! Bring* ’ » h e Babies!! Instataneous Process used Ex clusively. Viewing a Specially. Groups, .Residences, Animals, &c.
