The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-22
CITY AND STATE.


month your watch to Jesse Colon,
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it one year for 81 5
The commissioners of Cascade coun.
ty have ordered the county treasurer
to bring suit against those who have
failed TO pay their license tax. The
licenses that are delinquent in Cas-.
cade county amount to about 81, 500.
John Haieler, deputy sheriff, re.
turned today from Big Sandy with
o Peter Nielsen, against whom a
charge of mental arrangement has
been preferred by his wife. The ac-
cused will have a hearing in due
course
Austin Taylor, of Saco, one of the
we'll known wool growers of Valley
county, was among the business WISH
tors in town today. Mr.. Taylor is
one of the sheepmen who have con-
tracted their wool clip of this year to
a Boston house at 20 cents.
The Fort Benton amateurs are maxi
ing arrangements to give one of their
popular entertainments at the opera
house on the evening of Easter Mon.
day, April "a, when they will present.:
my friend from India" The enter.
tainment will be for the benefit of the
Catholic church.
The annual meetings of Montana
stockmen will be held next month.
That of the Montana Stockgrowers'
association will be held at Miles City
on Tuesday, April IS, and the annual
meeting of the North Montana Round.
up association is to be held at Helena
three days later.
The last legislature passed a bill
and it was signed by the governor
providing for the establishment of
public weighing scales, by boards of
county commissioners. On the petit.
ton of % freeholders the scales may
be put in and they are to be owned by
the county and under the control Of
the county commissioners at all times.
A weigher will be appointed and in
lieu of a salary he shall receive O fee
of ten cents for each load weighed.
Sheriff Mcdonald has returned
from the Sweet Grass hills, where he
took part in trailing a sheep outfit
whose ownership is in dispute. The
sheep were formerly in charge of the
Montana Co-Operative ranch com.
pany, which is now in the hands of q
receiver, and were recently seized by
f. L.. Cleveland who claimed they
were his property. He drove them
across the interna tional boundary
line, and stood off the Montana Off
Gals on the ground that he was be-
You'd their jurisdiction.
From Thursdays Daily.
A postoffice bulletin announces tina,
Frank B. Rogers has been appointed
postmaster at Maddux, and will soor
assume HE official duties.
NOTICE.-1f you send during thi.
month your watch to Jesse COLON
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean ant
warrant it M year for $3.50. =
Mrs. J.. p. Thies and Mrs. A. A
Cabaniss left this morning for the J
o. Patterson ranch on the Shonkiu
where they will visit for a few weeks
A flock of wild geese scouting in thi.
vicinity last evening, and the appear
ance Of robins in the court hous,
grounds today, are indications tha'
gentle spring has arrived.
1t Is reported that the Ruby Gulcl
Mining company, Of Zortman, recent
ly made application to the state LAND
board for the purchase of the wooC
IN section IL, township Is north,
range % east, Offering % cents u cord
This offer was accepted, the stat.
land agent to estimate the amount o
timber on the section.
A dispatch from Pocatello, Idaho
Gays Mrs. H. c. Colvin, Of Havre
Mont, was instantly killed by afall yes
terday afternoon. With her HUSBAND
she was on her way to Goldfeld, New
They stopped over in Pocatello, tax
ing rooms at the Masonic temple. Ii
some unknown way she fell through
the skylight into a drug store beneath
%fracturing her skull.
Advices from Medicine Hat, n. w
T., report that Alex Laframboise
charged with horse STEALING. was CON
victed in the supreme court and givel
a sentence Of four years. Laframbois
was formerly a resident Of the Bea
Paw country, and was wanted by tn
Chouteau county authorities for
crime similar to that of which he wa,
convicted in Northwest Territory.
Prom Fridays Daily
Just received, a carload of the Bake