The river press., 1904-10-05
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Chinook, has sold E. }. Pepin his Chi
nook ranch together with all the per-
sonal property. The ranch consists
OF three tracts of land and sold for a
consideration of 81, 100.
Havre Plaindealer: The pits at the
Havre shops are all full and with the
amount of work that is in sight, it is
regarded as quite probable that addi-
tional men will soon be put to work.
The entire force Of the shops is work.
ing niue hours.
Glasgow News: Mike Fugihara, a
Jap living at Malta, was granted ma
turalization papers Monday by Judge
Tattan. He is a bright looking young
man and says he has no desire to be {.
subject Of the emperor Of Japan any
longer as he is in America to stay.
Havre Plaindealer: Mrs. William
Blashtield came in the first Of the week
from her cattle ranch across the line.
Mrs. Blashfeld states that hay is
bringing IS in the stack on this side
Of the line and $500 on the Canadian
side. The northern country is very
dry, and the country needs a general
drenching.
Malta Enterprises: The Bloom Cat
tie company shipped trainload of
cattle from Nashua Thursday. Sum
day John Survant received word that
fifteen cars were wrecked near Avoke,
Minnesota. A door came off the same
train near Brainerd the night they
were loade and the stock from that
car were scattered along the right of
way.
Glasgow News: A train load of
sheep belonging to the First National
bank OF Great Falls, was unloaded
here Tuesday. They will be trailed
north. It is claimed that the sheep
have just recently been dipped for scab
and not kept in quarantine according
to the requirements of the law, but
| were driven out on the range as soon
as unloaded here.
Hinsdale Homestead: The bond issue
of seven thousand dollars for the pur.
pose of building a school house in
this district carried at the special
election last Saturd day, the vote being
thirty two for the bonds and one
against. The papers in connection
| with thic n1oatio, =
by some of the best authorities on
bonds in the city of Helena and pro-
nOunced all right.
Chinook Opinion: G. G. Babb, en-.
gineer in charge Of the government ir-
rigation work, with headquarters at
Malta, spent Friday and Saturday
making arrangements to do some
work hereabouts. Engineer Paugh
and party began work Monday run
ming the lines of a prospective ditch,
beginning two miles east of town. The
ditch is intended to cover the lands
about the mouth of Snake creek and
on the Indian ervation.
i Belt Times: The farmers of this
section who having raised over l,00(
bushels of wheat this season, so far az
heard from, are Ole Paulson, Frank
Sheldon and Hans johnson, all liv.
ing southwest of town. They all OBJ.
tained the bonus of two cents bushe
which was offered last spring by the
Royal Milling company to all farmers
who raised more than one Thousand
bushels Of wheat this season.
! Havre Herald: There seems to be
some Misunderstanding between the
train crews on the Montana Centra
and a certain lot of soldiers at the
) post Thursday, Friday and Satur
day nights the train carried mum
Der of soldiers to Assiniboine. Upor
, alighting from the train they directed
their attention to the car wind ows
| smashing several of them with stones
The conductors say their grievance is
; merely the result of being compelled
to pay fare.
Harlem News: Chris Volker, vel
known cyanide expert, of Helena has
returned from the Little Rockies
where he went to make tests of ore ir
the mines belonging to the Ruby
Gulch Mining company. Mr.. Volkel
says the tests were entirely satisfac
tory and the work has begun on tht
erection of a plant for the treatmen
of the ore. a sawmil| has been or
dered which will be used 10 saw lu,n
Der for the mill. This plan is mucl
cheaper than transporting lumber
from the railroad to the camp.