The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
CITY AND STATE.

Send your watch and iewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
A marriage license has been issued
to Cornelius Vandervoort and Cora
Niles, both Of Chinook.
The Office Of justice OF the peace at
Havre rendered vacant by the resigna.
ton OF Wallace Cowell, has been filled
by the appointment Of Ed. NJ. Allen
by the county commissioners.
A petition for letters of administra.
ton in the estate OF Robert Thompson,
deceased, has been filed in the district
court by a. G.. station, Of Havre. The
estate is valued at about u, 1900.
In Justice Sullivan's court today,
William Whiteman. of Chester, plead.
ed guilty to q charge OF selling liquor
without a license, and was sentenced
to pay a fine and costs amounting to
Sl32.
Al a meeting of business men held
at the Grand Union hotel last evening,
it was decided to send a delegation to
represent this city at the Helena rate
convention. The delegates chosen
were Chas. Il. Green, Chas. Lepley
and w. K. Harder.
Great Falls Leader: Suit was filed
in the district court this afternoon by
W. c. Broadwater against the St.
Mary's Lubricating Oil company. to
foreclose a chattel mortgage upon its
pumping machinery given Dec. 10,
1904, to secure a. note for $8O9. IS.
Judgment for that amount, with inter.
est at 10 per cent. and 5000 attorneys
fees, is asked.
In the course of q discussion re-
garding the cattle business ia the
Northwest Territory, G. w. Price
informs the River Press that the
greatest difficulty is the lack Of a
good market. Mr.. Price has made
several shipments direct to Liverpool,
England, and although the shipping
expenses we're about $50 per head, the
net returns from good cattle we're sat.
isfactory. Some of the shipments
made by Northwest stockmen did not
bring sufficient to meet transportation
charges, and the owners had to pay
a drawback.
From Thursdays Daily.
A marriage license was issued by
the clerk of the district today court 10
favor OF L. M. Owen, OF Havre. and
Mary F. Tozer, OF Pacific Junction.
At the meeting of the ladies OF
the Catholic church, held yesterd ay
afternoon, the date for the grand ball
and supper was definitely set for the
evening of Friday, Dec. 20. The la.
dies will hold another meeting next
Tuesday, to complete their arrange.
ments, and have 10 doubt that they
will make the at air q great success,
both financially and socially.
Montana land offices are in receipt
Of an important ruling from the gen.
eral land Office at Washington in ref
erence to second homestead entries for
persons who have entered or filed
upon their land under the homestead
laws, but who have not prosecuted
their proof to completion. Hereafter,
before the lands can be entered at the
local Office, all applications for second
fling will have to be submitted to the
commissioner Of the general land Of
fee for his approval.
A recent order by the state board OF
sheep commissioners relative to the
conduct of buck herds in the state
provides that permission OF the state
veterinary to conduct such a herd is
a requisite and the application must
show the exact locality where the herd
10 TO be kept, the bound aries of the
same, the county or counties and the
name and address Of the owner and
herder. The names Of owners OF
bucks in the herd must also be sup
piled together with the number.
1t may be of interest to the readers
of the River Press to know that the
paper upon which it has been printed
the past few weeks is q Montana pro
duct. 1t is from the paper mill recent
ly established ut Manhattan, in Gala
tin county, and is in every respec
equal in quality to that made in Min
nesota and Wisconsin,. The Manhat
tan mill gets its wood pulp from out
eide the state, this feature OF the pa
per being the only one in which tn
paper is not q strictly Montana pro
duct.
Articles of incorporation were FLEE
in the clerk and recorders Office thit
morning by the Havre.Box Elder
Telephone Co., the incorporators te
ing J. S. Almas, j. f. Valadon, H. j
Meili, G. Nj. Purnell and j. c.. Aud