The river press., 1903-11-11
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS,
Grist of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Northern Montana Exchanges.
Shelby Independents: A message
from Sweet Grass station on Tuesd ay
announced that a young son of w. G..
Davis, U. S. Land commissioner at
that point, had been dragged to death
by horse. The boy was about s
years old and very intelligent.
Choteau Montanian: J. H. Mon
teath, U. S. Indian agent at Brown
ing, has filed notice of water loca-
tion appropriating POO inches of the
waters of Cut Bank creek for the pur.
pose of irrig ating the bench land be.
tween Cut Bank and Greasewood on
the reservation.
Glasgow Review: Alois Olmstead,
who is charged with stealing calf,
was not present when his name was
called in court and his bond of $500
was forfeited and the sheriff ordered
to collect the same from his bonds
men, Messrs. Russell and Richard
Mann of Culbertson.
Glasgow Review: 1t is reported tn at
Dan Garrison lost his ranch and most
OF his hay the other day in a disas-
trous prairie fire. Mrs. Garrison, who
was at home alone at the time, only
escaped being sutfocated by dashing
through the flames and reaching a
point on a barren butte.
Dupuyer Acantha: The people of
Shelby have been reading the presi-
dents proclaim alton for Thanksgiving
and are counting up the good things
they are thankful for-''life, liberty,
the pursuit of happiness, good coun-
try, good climate, good health and
the good prospect of the St. Mary $
canal.
| Lewistown Democrat: Sam Grant
came over from Alder gulch, in the
Little Rockies, last Saturday, where
he and AL. Bebb have a contract for
some work. Sam reports conditions
as being fairly good in that section
and says that they will soon have a
new mail route direct from Malta to
Alder gulch, where the postot1ce will
be established under that name.
| Lewistown Argus: David Hlger
was figuring up his cattle receipts for
the present season last Friday and
found that the firm Of which he is q
member has sent in 300 steers and 4(
cows to the Chicago market this sea
son and they had netted them a frac
tion over $33 per head. Their last
year shipments netted them just S;54
or $2l per head more than the present
shipments.
Choteau Montanian: Scab has beer
discovered among q band of shee,
owned by Wright & Kennedy, of tn
Dry Forks, and vigorous steps hav
been taken by the authorities to kee
the disease from spreading. S. i
Potter, Of Shelby, has been appointed
deputy inspector and has ordered al
scabby and exposed sheep quaran
tined and will have them dipped a.
soon as the necessary arrangement:
= can be made. Altogether there ar,
about 1000 head to be dipped.
Belt Times: Last Wednesday prac
tically the entire crop of Albert Cast
ner Of Davis creek was destroyed b,
, fire. The threshing machine owned
by Rankin Il McLeish had just beel
set by the stacks and after runnin!
: about an hour had stopped to chang
5 the position Of the separator, when fir
e was discOuered in one of the stacks O
grain, and in a few minutes the set
. ting of stacks was entirely destroyed
t The engine and separator were pulle,
+ out in time to save them, but the grail
r was total loss.
Lewistown Argus: G.. w. Rich, on
OF the prosperous ranchers living ol
the bench between Mcdonald ant
Spring creeks states that a great crol
OF grain is now being threshcd on thu
bench, which, but u few years ago
> was very sparsely settled. The aver
age crop of oats is so bushels pei
| acre and some crops threshed out az
> high as IS bushels per acre. Mr.
! Rich thinks that now since the rail
: road has connected Lewistown will
the outside world and afforded
market for our grain, much more
= wheat will be sown on the bench.