Sheep Receipts and Market Steady Report
Market steady for sheep and lambs with receipts around 30,000 head. Sheep priced at 4.00 to 5.60 dollars, lambs at 24.50 to 7.35 dollars.
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1905
Page
4
Market steady for sheep and lambs with receipts around 30,000 head. Sheep priced at 4.00 to 5.60 dollars, lambs at 24.50 to 7.35 dollars.
Official paper of Teton county warns hundreds of delinquent subscribers to pay up or face consequences. It promotes new subscriptions and its printing services. Also reports cattle moved to Augusta, a land purchase denial for J D Kingsbury, and a road right of way application denial in Helena.
Railroads warn that halting rebates could spark a rate war and admit to publishing one tariff while collecting another. Theodore Roosevelt, speaking in New Orleans, pledges not to bluff if he cannot back it. The dispute seems joined as the scrapping proceeds.
Beaten at his own name, Ferg sent notice to his few subscribers that he has quit the dispute with the Acantha over Chateau and the hamlet of Conrad. The remark, Keep your mouth shut, suggests little talk remained from Conrad.
A plan for a railroad from Choteau to Collins and on to Helena or Great Falls promises to double the town's population within six months and provide farmers and stock growers a local market. Proponents urge drilling for an electric railway to spur development.
In 1904 Alton B Parker proclaimed purity in politics yet this year he is hired to defend what is described as the most corrupt political organization in the United States, Tammany. The quote Times change and men change with them frames the shift.
The article notes President Roosevelt shows iron constitution by enduring the recent endorsement from the populist party, reinforcing his strength and stamina in the face of political backing.
B D Beatty has received orders to report for duty in Chattanooga Tennessee and be attached to the Chattanooga division covering Tennessee Alabama Georgia South Carolina and Florida He comes from Montana after five years there and will depart soon Friends regret his departure and no successor is named yet as reported by the Tribune
The regular November term of the district court will open in Chateau next Monday morning. Trials slated include The State of Montana versus B. M. Johnson for grand larceny and The State of Montana versus John Wagner for grand larceny. Also listed are cases against Sampson Burd Jos. Daley Chas Hilger Edward Hughes and Edward Black for grand larceny.
Teton County High School basketball team invites Burton Beach Public School to a game scheduled by mutual agreement. The notice appears in The Acatha with a yearly subscription of 2.00 dollars.
L. F. Baston of La Crosse Wisconsin and Price Townsend have been in Sun River Canyon for two weeks on a hunting trip. They returned to Chateau Tuesday and report a very successful hunt. Baston leaves for home today.
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