The river press., 1904-11-02
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
Grist of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Northern Montana Exchanges.
Glasgow News: Yesterday after
noon Ed Little who was serving term
in the county Jail for petty larceny,
was sent out to dump pail of slop
and he jumped the fence and ran down
to the river, crossed on the dam, and
hasn't been seen since.
Glasgow Review: The Dawson
county ranchers who brought their
stock to Nashua last Saturday with
the intention of shipping were disap-
pointed in not securing cars and have
been forced TO take their beef steers
back TO their ranches.
Shelby Independents: Clyde Martin
is building about the largest reservoir
so far mapped out in this section. 1t
will extend across the coulee and be
- feet in height, and at least 1900
loads of rock will be used in bracing
the embankments. The work is being
done for Mr.. Goeddertz, about Is
miles northwest of town.
Shelby Independent: Robert Chris
tian, John Fey and a. J. Moltz went
east from Galata yesterday, with a
shipment of sheep and will take in the
ST. Louis fair before returning. It is
reported that MIR. Fey will join the
benedcts while on the trip, the lucky
lady Of his choice being Miss Rose
Ban sfeld, who went east few weeks
ago.
Lewistown Argus: S. E. Jameson,
for some time past foreman for p. I.
Moule at Bercail, was found dead by
fellow employees last Sunday evening.
Mr.. Jameson had been a sufferer from
heart disease, but when he left the
house after supper to go out and look
after the sheep, no indication Of i'm
pending death was apparent. Some
| three hours later he was found, where
he had fallen at his work.
Culbertson Searchlight: Several
horses were recently recovered by the
mounted police in Canada, that were
run across the line by Ernest Symes
about six weeks ago. Symes sold
them to a party in Canada from whom
the police got them. One of the horses
bore the brand of Jack Evans, one
the Diamond brand, and four or five
| bore Henry Kirn's brand. The bunch
is now being held by the mounted po.
lice for Identification.
Chinook Opinion: O. E. Peppard,
the Missoula bridge builder who put
in the new Fort Belknap dam, has
| just finished new timbe d am for the
Empire Cattle Co., in West Fork.
His work began Tuesday on the pile
and plank protection on the river
bank for the pumping station of the
town water works. He will be busy
about a week, and will then move his
outfit to the Marias to put in com.
bination steel and wood bridge for the
county across the Marias.
Glasgow Review: Bill Christensen
| deposited $50 in Judge Kampfer' g
court Thursday morning for the pleas
ure OF dashing a pail Of whitewash on
his better half and bouncing the pail
on her head. The couple have been
married about two years and it was
generally supposed that their domes-
| tic affairs were as harmonious as a
| Methodist camp meeting. Bill ex.
| planned to the court that the little af.
fair was only a mere pleasantly, but
the court thought that while Bill
might be telling the truth it was not
always best to carry a joke too far.
Havre Plaindealer: Registry Agent
Skylslead estimates that between 500
and $50 votes will be polled here on
election day, irrespective of the Simp-
son and Gildford precincts. At the
| time the books closed last night 300
| new voters had recorded their names
| with the registry agent and 1888 re.
| N mained on the books from two years
ago. This makes the total number of
persons registered 6SS. From this
| must be deducted the cancellations,
and it is estimated that they will num-
Der from one hundred to one hundred
| and fifty, being the names of persons
who have moved away from the COM
munity.
Escaped From Highwaymen
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