The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-01-11
CITY N STATE.
From Saturdays Daily.


Teton were filed in the county clerks
office today by Edwin H. Fox, viii.
liam Cluston, w. f. Mowrey and
others.
Owing to the small crowd in at
tendance at the elocutionary entertain.
ment which was to have been given by
the Misses Walden, of Minneapolis,
at Green's hall last evening, the en-.
tertainment did not take place.
1t Is reported from Havre that the
tw%o.year.old son of Sergeant and Mrs.
Adams of Fort Assiniboine was scald.
ed to death by falling into a tub of
boiling water. The mother was wash.
ing, and after pouring hot water in the
tub left the room where the baby was
at play. The little, one must have
backed against the tub and fallen in.
According to the Culbertson Search.
light, it is reported that G. B. Lob
miller, formerly clerk under Major
Scobey, who recently resigned, has
been appointed as agent at the Fort
Peck Indian re%serva alton. II is said
that the appointment was made Decem.
Der Is, and tina the official nnounce
ment will be made this week. Francis
Z. Leupp, who is now commissioner
of Indian aft airs at Washington, was
in Poplar several weeks last summer
and made al investigation into all
the complaints which had been made
by the Indians of the reservation, and
he undoubtedly made up a list of such
other changes as he thinks will be for
the good of the Indians.
From Mondays Daily.
Born, or Sunday, January s, 1905,
to the wife of Geo. j. Shook, a daugh.
ter.
People who know, drink Cyrus No.
BILE, the purest and best American
whiskey. n
Miss Rowena Chestnut left Saturda Y
morning for Dillon, where she will
attend the state Normal college.
Born-At Fort Benton, Mont, on
Sunday, January 8, 1905, to the wife
of Rev. p. w. Haynes, a daughter.
Preparations are being made by the
residents of Big Sandy for a public
dance at that place, to be given on
Friday evening, January -.
In the district court today, Judge
Tattan denied the motion of the de.
fendant to dissolve the attachment in
the civil suit of Thos. O'Hanlon com.
pany vs.. Carl Kruse.
Notice of a quartz location for the
"Flying Dutchman' mining claim in
the Little Rockies, has been filed in
the county clerks Office by Geo. Put
nam and o. P. Zortman.
Judgement by default was entered in
the district court today in the suit OF
Stockmeu's National Bank VS.. Thad
F. Raymond. The suit relates to an
indebtedness of about $2,436.
Constable Bickle, of Havre, arrived
in the city yesterday with Harry Hart,
ley, who was sentenced t. a term of 90
days in the county jail for petit lar.
ceny. The prisoner was sentenced by
w. B. Piper, police magistrate.
Miss Agnes Atkinson, county super
intendent of schools, has received no
tice from State Superintendent Har-
mon that an eighth grade examine alton
will be held in the schools of Chou.
teau county on Friday and Sa,urd ay,
January 20 and p.
According to Great Northern Off.
Gals, the Montana beef shipments OF
the past season came largely from the
northern part of the state. Out of q
total OF some 1863, 600 head, about 100,
900 head are said to have Deer shipped
over the Great Northern.
The case of NJ. l.. Bridgeman. for
,ner Indian agent at Fort Belknap,
who is alleged to have been short ia
his accounts with the government in
the amount of some $l1, O00, is before
the United States district court a,
Helena. Several residents of Harlem
have been summoned as witnesses to
testify in the case.
The Canadian authorities have iden'
titled John Payne, a man being held
in Jail at ChOteau, as a horsethief sus'
pect who is wanted north of the bound.
airy line, and will take him to Mac
leod, n. w. T., to stand trial. Pavne
is alleged to have been implicated
with a gang of twelve or who
have stolen horses on an extensive
scale within the past two years, and
the mounted police have recently ar
rested the whole outfit. 1t Is believed
Payne will be induced to give evidence
against the other members of the
gang.
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