The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-15
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Beecher, lawyer, Great Falls, Mont.
NoT1CE.-If you send during THU
month your watch to jesse Colon
Great Falls, Mont, he.will clean and
warrant it n year for 81 5
The board of school trustees has
not yet decided upon a date for re
opening the public schools, but will
act upon the advice Of the local health
authorities.
Joseph Martin, a former resident OF
this city, who was recently arrested in
Cascade county on a charge of horse
stealing, has confessed his guilt. He
was sentenced to eighteen months in
the p~enitentiary.
1t understood that the bill creating
the new county of Sanders from part
Missoula county, which passed the
legislative assembly and has been
signed by Governor Toole, goes into
effect in 1906. Montana will then have
y counties.
a dispatch from Kalispcll reports
the suicide of Antoine Stadler, a we'll
known resident of that city, who was
found hanging in the attic of his
cabin. The deceased, who was COM
paratively wealthy, was a brother of
Louis Stadler, Of Helena.
A very pleasant: surprise vas ac-
corded Miss Helen Il. Culbcrtson last
evening at the Pacific hotel, by the
members of the Kings Daughters and
other friends. The evening was passed
in card games and dancing, after
which refreshments were served.
Three new cases Of smallpox are re
ported from Choteau, where several
persons who had been exposed to the
disease have been under quarantine.
Miss Jones, the school teacher who is
supposed to have contracted the dis.
ease 10 Billings, is rapidly recover
ing.
The experiment station at Bozeman
has issued a1 bulletin in which the
merits of Macaroni wheat are dis.
cussed, this variety being commended
as u good crop producer in a dry sea
son. Farmers, however, are advised
not to plant it,ssas the extreme hard.
ness of the grain makes it unsuitable
for milling purposes.
Speaking OF the date at which the
ice in the Missouri river at this point
usually breaks up, an old time resi-
dent says one of the earliest breakups
followed the hard winter of 18SO.S1,
when the ice went out on Februa airy 6,
but the final breakup generally hap
pens early in March. Last year the
final breakup of the winter was on
March %.
1t is reported from Lewistown that
all but three of the saloon keepers of
that city have filed the bond in the
sum Of $1,000 each required under the
new ordinance as a guarantee that all
the ordinances will be observed by
them. Those who have not complied
cay they intend to fight the matter,
asserting that the ordinance is illegal.
Unless they file their bonds at once.
the city will refuse to issue licenses
to them and their places will be closed
by the police under orders of the city
council.
Prom Thursdays Daily.
NoT1CE.-If you send during this
month your watch to Jesse Colon,
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it one year for $l.5O.
There was Il short session of district
court yesterday, ut which some civil
business was transacted. Court then
a adjourned to Monday, the 18th inst.
1t is reported from Chinook that
Mr.. McPhersou has resigned the po.
sition Of editor of the Bulletin, and
has been succeeded by u Mr.. Brooks.
Chas. C%repeau's ice packing crew,
which has been engaged for the past
two weeks in putting up the seasons
ice crop, finished their work this
morning.
1t Is understood that the Headquar.
tiers saloon, of which T.. S. Wright
has been proprietor for the past year
and q half, closed its doors to the
public yesterday.
a petition has been filed in the dis
trict court by John V. Carroll, execu-
tor of the estate of Cleophas Martin,
deceased, asking that his final report
be approved and that the executor be
discharged.
The Harlem News reports the death
OF Murray Nicholson, an old.time and
Well.knOWn resident of that mart of