The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-28
CITY AND STATE.

store.
Miss Agnes Atkinson, county super
int ndent of schools, left this morning
far a visit Of several days to the
schools at Kuerville and vicinity.
J.. O. Patterson and family returned
this morning from a visit of a week or
ten days with relatives az Helena and
Missoula, and left for their home at
Lost Lake.
Daniel Lane. the ~l7.year-old boy
charged with stealing a horse at Fort.
man, had a hearing in the district
court this afternoon, and vas con.
mitted to the reform school.
Attorney J. II. Allen, of Twin
Bridges, is attending to business be-
fore the district court. MIR. Allen rep
resents the plaintiff in the civil suit Of
the Madison Livestock company VS..
John Osler and other residents OF the
Sweet Grass hills.
A hearing of matters relating to the
estate of Mary Connolly, deceased.
was had in the district court yesterday
afternoon, when some objections TO
the ccoun Of Martin Connolly, adj
ministrator, were sustained. The ac-
count was amended and thereafter APP.
proved in the sum of S944.9O.
The application of Bert Schwcig for
a writ Gf h ohnoS .nrn1l v-n: hand in
the district court this morning, and
the court ordered that the prisoner be
released on his own recOgnizance.
Schwieg is the man who was commit
ted to Jail for sixty days by Justice
Baird, of Iortman, for contempt of
court.
John Brecn, who had been an in
mate OF St. Clare hospital for some
three years, died in that institution
last evening. The deceased, who had
been Il resident of this vicinity for
more than twenty years, was born in
county Kerry. Ireland, in 1872, and
came to Montana from Illinois in tn,
early eighties. The funeral will take
place tomorrow at . a. III. from tn.
Catholic church.
From Thursdays Daily.
a marriage license was issued to
day to Guy B. Lee, of Havrc, anc
Jennie l.. Nicholas. of Lewistown.
Gus Okerman, who cam IN from
Highwood this morning, reports d
cloudburst at Spring coulee about ten
miles south of town.
NJ. E. Miner, the we'll known stock
man, was among the arrivals thi:
morning. Mr.. Miner has been super.
Intending cattle dipping operation:
at Vandalia, in Valley county, an
reports that about a thousand heat
have been treated the past few days.
The funeral of the late John Breeu
was held this morning at 8 o'clock
from the Catholic church and was at.
tended by a large number of friends
and acquaintauces OF the deceased
The pallbearers were Messrs. Il. \.
Cummings, Martin Connolly, a. @.
DeLorimier, Jere Sullivan. w. Il
Early and Jos. Sullivan.
1t appears that the bounty of sic
per head on wolves has not resulted
in any great slaughter of these ami.
mails in Chouteau county during the
past two months. Since May |, the
date upon which the new law wen,
into effect, bounty claims for only 81
wolves have been presented in Chou.
teau county, while the claims for coy
otes and wolf pups aggregate 1872
head. Most of the claimants TO,
bounty are Indians.
Great Fails Leader. George Wood
II. j.. Fitzgerald aud l.. NJ. NcDonll
left this morning for the Baunutyu,
oil fields for the purpose OF Ioukin.
oven the work of the Leota compan,
and deciding A. TO what Shall he don,
with the present we'll. The we'll vii
be down l,100 feet today, and a. tha
is the extent of the cable ON hand. tn,
uIICCtOIS VIII tctiut WlleJ'tr 10 SuS
pend work until more cable can b.
shipped in, or start a new we'll an,
keep on working until Il new cable ar
rives. 1t is probable that the latte
move will be carried out.
The number OF prisoners in tn
county Jail wa, Increased this morn
Ing when Daisy Copas was bruugl
up from Havre to serve Il term of 81
months for petit larceny. The pris
Oner wa, tried in Justice l'yper'
court. Hang Lee. a native of tn
Chinese empire, arrived from Cheste,
having been sentenced by Justice Ia,
lOr to a 6U.day term on the charge .
selling hop. Joe Pritehard, charge
with malicious mischief, and tried h.
fore Justice Frey, of Chinook, W;
bound over to the district court uul,