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«E YOL. 4. CHOTEAU, TETON CpUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, L893.; NO. 20. \ S, H. DRAKE, M.D- PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office over sank of Choteau. J , CHOTEAU,- - MONTANA. J AMR'S SULGROYE, A T T O R N E Y AT LAW, .CHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. •' Admitted to pi at Ice in Lavd . Pension and Patent Claims before the Interior Derpartment. Land‘s Water , and Irrigation Rights a Speci alty., AU Legal Papers and Collections given care ful and prompt attention. •Attorney N. A. M. A. Co.. Correspondents in every city in North America. Notary Public. COUNTY ATTORNEY, TETON COUNTY, : X . G r - D B - A J E Z E B ,, ■ATTORNEY’& COUNSELOR . • ST LSW. J. K WAMSRRY. CHOTEAU. - - - - - - - MONT. J, H. DAY. . CO 'P'H S T T IT S T 7 B V E Y O E Irrigatici! Ss Laud Surveying a Specialty. C h o t e a u , - - - M o n t a n a . UffOTE A ü t 0 DGÉ\Ncr 3 % _A_. IF 1 &o Jy. hAL. Holds its icgular communications on the 1st and 3d Saturdays of each month. All visiting brethren cordially welcomed. D r . S. 3 . D rake , \V. M. X O S H S r CL Authorized to practice before the De partment of the Interior, the Land Office, and the Pension and other Bureaus. PEN8ION CLAIMS SPECIALLY A T T E N D E D T O . Cor. Main and St. John Sts., Fort Benton. A. G- WARNER, 1TGTALY PUBLIC, U. S. COMMISSIONER, AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE F ilin gs & ¡F in a l Pfccciss on P ublic L ands . CHOTEAU, - - - - MONT. ______________ ft ____________________________ ■ W m . e :. X j - s r c o s r , 2 <r o t a , x 3 7 - HP i x ' d I I c »BED«?. MORTGAGES and all kintla of legal Instruments drawn up. CHOTEAU, - - - - M ONT. E. C. G A R R E T T . A- C. WARNER GARRETT & -WARNER* CONVEYANCEBs, B e a l e s t a t e , IHsUBANCE CHOTEAU. MONT. . \ W H L B t C L A I K , B k i l o e r & H ^ f d p e 0 0 e i r . ------- H ot and C old B aths . ------- Main fctreet, Opposite Choteau House n h Mfc» Subsoil! e fo r T ee M o n t a n i a n . SSTTLING A N B W COUNTK.T, How the Cherokee Strip Was Taken Possession of. A rkansas C ity , Kan., .Sept. 16.—Five minutes before noon 75,000 men and women were gathered on the north and south boundaries of the Cherokee strip, awaiting breathlessly the signal which should 'announce the arrival of the hour when the possession of land in that modern Eldorodo should pass from the ownership of the government into that of its individual citizens^ Some mounted thoroughbred racers, some the leBS fleet but sure-footed cow ponies, some bicycles, others buggies and wagons. The throng was made up of all classes, from the shrewd financier and real estate speculator to the sturdy young farmer, bent only on securing a homestead for himself and family. As the minutes decreased to seconds reins were tightened, girths cinched, stir rup straps looked after, and every mus cle was drawn tense, quivering with ex citement. When exactly at high noou, at a signal from thecommanding officer, the revolvers of Uncle Sam's represen ta- tives raug out the signal for the start, pell-mell, helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, the great speculative army rushed across the line and raced for home and fortune. The chivalry which relinquished places in line to women all disappeared in the scramble for actual results and. the women bad to take their chances with the men in the race. It is to their credit that some of them made asgoodashow- ing iu the struggle as the alleged lords of creation, reaching the goal in time to. pre-empt desired bits of mother earth. Boomer trains, loaded with town- siters, crept along, being forbidden to exceed twelve miles an hqu»^ while horse; derision. As a train pulled into a town-* bite the boomers swarmed out of the cars like ants, and in fifteen minutes what was merely a waste country be came a populous community. Innumer able fights over lots resulted, and in the absence of other means of settlement the right of might carried the day and' the stponger took possession. Tents went up, town meetings were held, of ficers elected, and in an incredibly short time a full fledged municipality had sprung into existence. Meantime out on the prairies farmers continued the racefor homesteads, leav ing the women folks to follow in the slow moving prairie schooner, bringing the household implements and shelter, until such a time as a permatent abode can be erected. Enough people made the run to furn ish each of the 37,000 homsteads with an occupaut and give every townsite 1,- 5 % 0 0 inhabitants. Over 126,000 certifi cates were issued, but as a large number took homrstmd and town^ite certifi cates. the number of eerlilicates does not represent the Dumber of boomers. It is estimated that 25,000 raced from Arkansas City, 25,000 from Caldwell, 11.000 from Orlando, 9,000 from Flen- nessy, 7,QUO from «Stillwater, 3,000 from Kiowa, 3,000 from Hutnewelf, and 5.000 to 8,000 from other points—in all nearly double the number which raced into Oklahoma. The greatest rush was in the eastern strip, which coutians the most fertile land i'n the entire reservation. Perry, on the Santa he, in the most favored townsite. Milford’s and Pond Creek, ou the Rock Island, are objective points for the hundreds who made the run from Caldwell. Arrived iu the strip the throng found a desolate waste. Most of the hay had been cut off, and what remined was either burned off. by prairie fires or scorched brown by the drought and sun. Creeks bad run dry, and the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers nearly so. There will be great suffering for lack of water. Iu some places it is almost impossible to obtian; iu others it has to be hauled many miles, and then is of poor quality, probably entailing much sickness. The work of digging weils in the'Sandy soil is very slow, and they will have to be put down a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet to secure water. Ib is estimiHed that to-days rush numbered 175,000 souls. The strip has been added to Ok lahoma, which now, therefore, has am ple population to justify its demand for statehood. . . . Perry, the county seat of county O., and the principal towsite on the Santa Fe road, fell into the hands of “ soon- ers.” Seven minutes after noon horse men were seen riding in that direction from the Flint hills, over towards the east, and five minutes later 200 horse men, under the leadership of Jim Mas- terson, mounted on Bill Dalton’s fa mous horsp, occupied lots surrounding the land office, where the business por tion of the town doubtless will be built. That- they \were “ sooners,” who had been hiding in the Fliut hills, is absolute ly certain, for they could not have rid- deD nine miles in twelve minutes. At 12:45 honest boomess began to come in. They, boo, were mounted on horses, and beat the Santa Fe excursion trains eight minutes. Early this morn ing troops discovered a score of “ eoon- ers,” among them Mrs. Silver, known all over the west as ■ proprietress of dauce halls in mining camps and border towns. The troops brought them to . the guard house here and kept them until late this afternoon. Guthrie, is deserted, scarcely a hun dred people beiug in town. The remain der have gone to the strip, including women. Men armed with Winchesters are guarding the city against bandits that have fchieatened to loot the town. A report just received says a band is ten miles from town in camp. They are supposed to be members of the Dalton- Starr gang. How to L o c a te a Mining- Claim. CLAIM. 1. Length not over 1500 feet. - 2. Width not over 300 feet each way i from Lode. . 3. Claim must be lengthwise from the Jo'Sa^'fli^ehd'fin'fis^ p'iCritHelrV' P- STAKES. 2. One on each end. ’ 2. One on each coruer. 3. At least one “ as near as practic able along line of loue.” 4. Stake's at least four inches square, four feet high, arid each distinctly mark ed with name of claim. NOTICE O i’ LOCATION. 1. Must be posted on one of the cen ter end stakes. 2. Or at a point of discovery or work. 3. Monument of stone of right height will do. 4. Notices must contain: a. Date of location. b. Name of locators. c. Name of claim. d Leugth along lode. ’ e. Width from middle of vein. f. Discription either by survey or natural land marks, or contiguous claime. RECORDING. Every claim must be recorded within fifteen days after location. Affidavit within five days after filing. Life Without a Newspaper. Warsaw Times: It is told that once upon a time a certain man got mad at the editor and stopped his paper. The next week .he sold his corn at four cents below the market price. Then his prop erty was sold for taxes, because he didn’t know his tax was due. He was arrested and fined $8 for hunting on Sunday, because he didn’t know it was Sunday, and paid $300 for a lot of forged notes that had been advertised for two weeks, and the public cautioned not to negotiate them. He then paid an Irishman with a foot like a forge hammer to kick him all the waj' to a newspaper office where he paid a four years sub scription in advance and made the editor sign an agi^nnuri lokimck him down and rob him if he ever ordered his paper stopped again. Such is life without a newspaper. TONS A N D TONS O F G OLD . • A Tale T h a t W o u ld Turii a M on tana M iners H ead. Thera has been in this region for some days investigating Montana’s miniug t* - sources, a distinguished gentleman from far-away Africa, says the Anaconda Re view. His name, is M. deVdliers, he cocoes from Pretoria, Trausvaul, South Africa. He tells a story that would send a miner out of his mind. As Review readers doubtless know the Transvaal is a little republic iu South Africa, inhabited by the Boers, which England in 1880 fought for but was driven off. Three years before, the war broke out England had established a protectorate over the county. - In 1880* a citizen refused to pay his taxes and was arrested, public opinion sided with the debtor who was released from pris on. Then began an agitation for inde pendence. The republic was founded iu 1881. At that time says M. deVilliers, there were eight houses in Johuasberg where gold mines were discovered. T o day there are 35,000 inhabitants. The city is lighted with electricity, has elec tric cars, a system oi water works equal to any in this country, and a class of stores and houses superior to any city • of its size in America. The mines there are enormously rich in gold, so he says. During the mouth of July 123,000 ounces of pure gold were taken from one mine aloue. “ At present,” says M de Villiers, “ wd have a population of 120,000 whites and 500,- 000 blacks, bub within 10 years we will have a population of 5,000,000. We have three tine railways. I am on 'my way to the worlds fair to get pointers which I trust may be of service to ray people when I return. Our government is much the same as that o! the United States^. .. „“ There .is . n o .. liraib^to our gold;any opinion is that the yellow metal vyilKbe* conie so plentiful iu a few years that it .will .become the cheaper ruutal again and your American bond buyers will again be glad to buy silver atapremium as they did once before. The cry has gone up among the miJious for gofd. Che Americans who hays been chasing the almighty dollar and making every •enta prisoner during the last century are at present engaged iu a death strug gle for gold. Oriental countries have caught the fever and all eyes ar« strain ing for a new El Dorada. California forty years ago was sought as the prom ised land but of recentyears it has been neglected. And now, just while the financial world is squirming, rich,yellow gold, great wedges, ridges and hillocks > ’ gold present themselves and await tne grasping band of the miner.” M de Villiers gives a much more glow ing account of that country then the miuers who have gone out there from this region.' But the visitor protests that he has told the simple truth here and is not a bit particular whether auy one believes it or not- “ G o u o W e s t .” When Horace Greeley saw east ern Colorado in 1858, and declared that if irrigated it would produce, largely, even he had but littl© idea of the facts as they exist. His declaration and urging% supplied the incentive to founding the first irrigation colony. The town of Greely and the irrigating ditches were laid out and built in 1S70-72. There are now 20.000 acres planted to potatoes alone, and producing annually about 500,000 bushels. The cost of irrigation etc., is about $1.50 per acre. Potatoes have sold for the past seven years at from forty cents to $1 35 per cwt. The latter was the rate for 1892. The average this year will be within a fraction of one dollar, or about sixty cents per bushel. The pota to. crop of 1892 gave a return of $2.535.000 or nearly $127 per acre. Pretty lair return for a total irri gation investment o f !e«s than $25 per acre.—Irrigation Market.
