The river press., 1904-10-12
CITY AND STATE.
From SATURDAYS Daily

oSSA
has been postponed to October l3
D. D. BARNES, of Great Falls, left
this morning for Highwood to make
repairs to the Benton-Highwood tele.
phone line.
Mrs. W. H. Haynes, mother of P.
W. Haynes and Mrs. W. H. H. Dick
inson, mother of Mrs. Haynes, are
visiting with the Haynes fami y.
A democratic club has been organ.
ICED at Havre with L. K. Devlin as
president: John Purcell vice president:
J. NJ. Kelly, secretary: and L. New
man, treasurer.
H. Norden and John List, of W ar.
rick are arrivals in the city today.
Mr.. List will leave tomorrow for Col
umbia Falls, where he will enter the
Soldiers Home.
The homestead entry Of D. Chisholm
near Gold Butte is being contested by
G. j. Lotus, who claims that the en-.
tryman has not complied with the law
as to residence upon the land.
1t is reported from Havre that the
electric light and telephone p ants in
that city have been sold by e. V.
Hauser to a Butte syndicate. The
consideration is said to have been
about $36, 1000.
John Neubert and wife will repre-
sent the old time residents of this
vicinity at the meeting Of Montana
pioneers to be held in Butte the com.
ing week. They leave for Butte to,
morrow morning.
H. F. Maxim aud p. Burnett left
today on prospecting trip down the
Missouri river. They have supplies
for about month, and will prospect
the bars as long as weather condi-
tons are favorable.
The unknown man who was found
dead yesterday about ten miles west
of Malta has been identified as an
aged sheepherder known as One Arm
Pike. His death is believed to have
been due to natural causes.
A certificate of the nOmin alton Of
A. L. Lewis on the republican ticket
for the Office of public admnistr ator
has been filed in the county clerk S
office. This fills the vacancy caused
by the resign alton of Allen Gray.
Chase & Patterson have recently
purcb ased about ?, 900 wethers, mostly
threes and fours, from Schwartz Bros,
Of Clifford, the price reported being
S2.75 per head. They have also bought
about $500 head of yearling and two
year.old wethers from A. Beckstead, ,
Of Havre.
The shooting of Dr.. G. A. McNulty,
of Harlem, news of which reached here
Thursday. proves to have been a case
Of suicide. An investi cation of the
matter by coroner's jury showed
that the deceased shot himself in his
room at the New England hotel, the
bullet passing through the heart and
causing almost instant death. The
cause of self destruction is not known.
NoT1CE.-If you send during this
month your watch to Jesse Colon,
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it one year for 81 80.
From Mondays Daily.
A marriage license has been issued
at Great Falls to Edward B. Toole
Al I'm 49,.
Gold Butte.
MIR. and Mrs. August Hydt and
daughter, of the Shonkin, returned
this morning from Helena, where they
attended the state fair.
D. Gordon, of the Boston store, has
shipped his dry goods and clothing
to Glasgow, Valley county, where he
will be located in the future
A marriage license has been issued
by the clerk of the district court to
Louis P. Rene, Of Havre, and Tressie
NJ. Pordun, OF Henry, S. Oak.
Theodore Danielson returned this
morning from Helena, where he at.
tended the annual meeting Of the Ma
sonic grand lodge, which took place
last week.
The first issue of the Chinook Bull
letin, the new journalistic venture in
that town, has been received. 1t is a
neat 8.page publication, of which Geo.
F. Mcpherson is editor.
It is reported from St. Louis that
the Fort Shaw Indian Girls basket
ball team won the exposition cham
pionship game by a score of II to s.
The opposition team was that of the
high school alumni OF Missouri.
Notices of location of four gas we'll
claims on the Teton have been filed in
the county clerks Office. The locators
are Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Jewell,