The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-05-31
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Send your watch and jewelry repai
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelr
store.
NoT1CE.-If you send during thi
month your watch to Jesse Colon
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean an
warrant it M year for 81 so.
Notices of location of four quart
claims, known as Murray Hill Nos. l
2, 3 and I, have been filed in the coun
ty clerks Office by w. J. Wildwood
l.. S. Goslin and others.
c. S. Waters, of Highwood, who i.
in town today, says crop condition.
in the Highwood country are bette,
than for several seasons past. He
has alfalfa growing ten inches high.
Geo. w. Taylor, justice of the
peace at Chester, informs the county
clerk that his court docket and other
official papers were destroyed in a
fire a few days ago. He has been
supplied with a new outfit.
According to the Herald.Journal, of
Kalispell, a beet sugar factory will
probably be built at that point. An
Oregan man has promised to under.
take the enterprise If the farmers will
guarantee to grow 1000 acres of
beets.
4 petition for letters of administra.
tion in the estate of Chas. A. McNul.
ty, deceased, has been filed in the dis.
trict court by Mrs. A.. A. McNulty
and other heirs. They request that
p. NJ. Bosley. Of Harlem, be ap.
pointed administrator of the estate.
a suit to recover possession Of if.
teen head OF horses has been com.
menced in the district court by Thos.
Lamey against Jack Ryan, Of Havre.
Ia the event that the property is not
returned to plaintiff, the latter asks
judgment in the sum of $500, which is
alleged TO be the value of the horses.
1t appears that the true name of
James Smith, the l7.year-old boy IN
der arrest for stealing a revolver, is
Herman Sellars, although the prisoner
refuses to confess I o that effect. His
father lives near Stockett, in Cascade
county, and has been summoned as a
witness in proceedings necessary to
send the boy to the state reform
school.
"A newspaper correspondent at
Browning is responsible for a story
which says the Blackfeet Indians have
determined to make claim at Wash.
ington for all the land lying between
Sun river and a line a short distance
north Of Helena. The amount in-
volved is nearly two million acres.
They claim that a strip OF land along
the Sun river vas sold by them, but
that they never sold the land beyond.
This Is anIold claim, and is now re.
vlved because of a similar case in
California in which, after a l3.year
struggle, the Indians won out and re.
ceived 5000, 900 for their contested
lands. With such a case as a pre-.
cedent, the Indians r hopeful OF a
satisfactory adjustment of their claim.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. f.. j. Dunno and T.. l.. Dunno,
who have been visiting in this city for
the past three weeks, left this morning
for their home in California.
NoTICE.-lf you send during this
month your watch to Jesse COLON,
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it one year for 81. so.
The eastern wool buyers are gather
ing in several Of the smaller clips in
various parts of northern Montana,
at prices ranging from 81 to %! cents.
Advices from Virgelle report that
the railroad depot was converted into
an opera house a few nights ago,
when the residents of that locality at.
tended a moving picture entertainment
given by G.. Selhaver.
An order Of sale of real property
belonging to the estate of Margaret
Jane Hicks, deceased, was made in
the district court today. A similar
order relating to the real and person.
al property Of the late William Hicks
was also made.
Mort Burrows, of Zortman, has
f1led IN the county clerks Office notice
OF location of two quartz claims.
which he has named the Totteripv
Pole and Goldtield. The Shale quartz
claim has been located by Thos. l..
Carter, and the Juneau by Messrs.
Whitcomb and Berry.
Great Falls Leader: Samuel II.
Flick, u we'll known rancher of Tween.
ty-eight Mile Springs, in Chouteau
county, and Mrs. Mary Beds-
good OF Great Falls, were united
IN marriage last evening at 80