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Don't know where the "Argus" originates from, but he was indeed called McSwine in the Milkman story.

Argus McSwine got his first name in 1990's UNCLE SCROOGE 244??a story in which he didn't exactly appear!
To elaborate...

Editor Bob Foster was faced with the fact that many Egmont stories used a pig villain whom they always called McSwine (source: "Milkman" story)??but who wasn't always drawn consistently. Sometimes the classic Barks visual design was used, but not always. Bob came up with a clever solution: he would treat the variant designs as relatives, and give them different first names.
US 243 had included a story with the classical Barks design; called simply "McSwine" there, with no first name.
US 244 had a non-Barksian McSwine design; so Bob called this one Angus McSwine, and had him refer back to the previous issue's McSwine as being his cousin, Argus. When more stories with the Barks design appeared somewhat later, "Argus" continued to be used, until it became the general rule.

So... from 1990 to now, Barks' classical pigfaced villain has usually been called Argus McSwine in North American Disney comics, except when he has a very different role than usual??and we revert to the old Barks tradition of varying aliases (example: US 364, where he was "Lardo J. Porkington," a name invented by Lars Jensen for that particular story).