The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
AMONG OUR
4 Grist Of Items Gathered From OuS
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Malta Enterprise: Wilfrid Primeau,
whose ranch is a few miles east OF
town, has a field Of barley that is 80
inches high and just heading out.
Corn is doing fairly we'll but is not
making the progress it would with
warmer weather.
Lewistown Argus: Some losses of
lambs are reported as q result Of the
cold rains during the latter par: of
last week. followed by a snow storm.
In the H%arlowton district. it is said
that about 500 head were lost. The
Sage Creek Sheep company is report.
ed to have sustained a loss OF about
1000 head.
Havre P~laindealer: H. H. Nelson,
of Vandalia, shipped 80 head of horses
from his ranch at Vandalia to Cut
Bank, where he will begin the work Of
blowing the fire guard for the Great
Northern railway. They will pillow,
with the exception OF the Peck reser.
walton, ali the land between Cut Bank
and Minot.
Malta Enterprise: The Bloom Cat.
tie company will receive a train load
of southern cattle during the coming
week, which will be driven to their
Canadian ranch. about 100 miles
north Of here. Another train will fol-
low in a short time. The company
has leased a range OF th~irty-six town.
| ships of land, with ample water front.
age.
Havre P%laindea!er: L. X. Devlin
has donated 70 the Catholic church
three acres Of land southwest Of the
city, directly south of the reservoir
site, for q Catholic cemetery. Engi.
neers Swearingen and McCulloch plat
ted part of the ground Wednesday
morning, and the first intermsnt was
made in the afternoon, that of Joseph
Gus.enhoven's child.
Hinsdale Homestead: The splendid
rainfall of this spring and summer
will prove what water on the lands of
this valley will do in an agricultural
way. Many of our farmers who put
in crops and took chances Of getting
moisture enough to grow them will
simply strike it rich this year. Proba.
bly, nobody living in the valley ever
saw vegetation look better at this
time of the year than it does at pres.
ent.
Chinook Opinion: The Chinook
Creamery is now making 1900 pounds
of butter each week, which product is
of the first quality and is being mark
eted without trouble in Chinook and
neighboring towns. There are now 30
patrons furnishing milk in the neigh
borhood from about 200 cows. Some
milk is shipped by train from Madras
and Wagner, and arrangements will
soon be made for shipments from many
other points up and down the line.
Havre Herald: c. E. Wiley, tailor,
who was last week charged by NJ.
Auerbach & Son with grand larceny,
on account of an alleged shortage IN
accounts, WAS this week brought back
to Havre. He was arrested in Grea,
Falls, where he was found by Deputy
Sheriff Kehoe conserving with a wo'
man we'll known in Havre restaurants
and lodgings, but recently of Big
Sandy. Wiley had money enough tc
pay his debt to his former employer'
and the charge against him was with
drawn. He quickly fed before de
frauded creditors knew about his re
lease.
Glasgow News: The Great Northern
company is installing a steam shove
and four work trains al the Blair pit
eight miles west of Culbertson, to bal
last the tract, and later on the sam
outfit will be moved to Saco grave
pit, from which gravel will be take.
to ballast the new railroad yard q
Glasgow. 1t is also understood tina
another steam shovel and four wOrl
trains will shortly be installed at Gil
ford pit, 30 miles west of Ravre, Il
haul gravel to ballast the track boil
east and west of Clifford. A wate1
train al put on recently to suppl!
water t o engines in the third district
Havre to Cutbank. the water suppl!
having become exhausted At Clifford
Burnham, Concord, Dunkirk and Eth
ridge water tanks.
Where are you sick? Head ache
fonl tOnpue. M %annatita. lack energy