The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
CITY AND STATE.

IN tue city yesterday las accepted
position in Green Bros store.
NoT1CE.-If you send during thi
month your watch to Jesse COLON
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean an
warrant 1t one year for 81 so.
William Finke today received tn
Sad new Of the death of his brother
Antoine Finke, which occurred severa
days ago at:Nauvoo, Illinois.
Nose Solomon, the we'll known old
timer who has recently been under the
care of q physician in Great Falls, il
among the visitors in town. He ex.
poets to return to his home in Kendal
early next month.
j. j. Stengleberry was brought up
from Chinook this morning by Con.
stable Miniken, having been com.
mitted to the county Jail by Justice
Frey on a charge of disturbing the
peace. The defendant is to be exam
ined as to his sanity.
Peter Nelson, of Big Sandy, against
whom a charge OF insanity was pre-
ferred by his wife, had an examina-
ton in the district court yesterday af.
ternoon and was ordered discharged.
The charge appeared to be the result
OF trouble in the family.
G. w. Swearingen, city engineer of
Havre is among the business visitors
in town today. He is making up a
list of owners of real estate in Havre,
for he purpose of assessing them for
public improvements as provided in a
law passed by the ninth Legislative
assembly.
"A Fort Benton resident WHO is visit.
ing in Seattle, reports having met sew.
eral Montana old-timers in that city.
Among them was A. &. Hamilton, as.
SCISSOR OF this county in the eighties,
who is holding the position of clerk
in the Hotel Northern; also John j.
Healy, who was sheriff of this county
some twenty years ago, and who is
trying to interest eastern capitalists
in a tin mine proposition in Alaska.
1t is reported from the Sweet Grass
bills that NJ. S. YEARLY, acting as
deputy sheriff, has seized the outfit of
about 1900 head. of sheep which was
driven into Canada to escape attach.
ment by Receiver j. w. Speer, of the
Montana Cooperative Ranch con
pany. The sheep were discovered to
be on this side of the intern ational
boundary line, and we're promptly
%corralled by Mr.. YEARLY to await
action by the court.
From Thureday's Daily.
Mrs. Frank Mcdonald returned last
evening from Highwood, where she
has been visiting with relatives for
several days past.
NoT1CE.-1f you send during this !
month your watch to Jesse COLON, !
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it one year for $l.5O.
Notices of location of the Hard Luck
and Last Chance quartz claims in the
Little Rockies were filed in the county
Office today by l.. r. Haywood,
A. j. Caulley and C. H. Dixon.
c. D. Vail, of Butte, arrived in the
city this morning on business in con.
nection with the surveying for the new
water works reservoir. 1t is under
stood that work Oh the reservoir will
in a few Weeks. /
a dispatch from Havre announces
a fire broke out at 10 O'Clock last
night in a bakery situated in the rear
of the grocery store of Richardson Il
Richardson, and before the fire could
be gotten under control that building
and the one adjoining We're entirely
destroyed. The loss is about $l5. 900. |
with insurance covering half that
amount. The losers are Richardson
\ Richardson, grOcers: Gourley
Bros, bakers; Golf, photographer,
and +. a.. Buttrey. The buildings
were owned by the latter. Fortunate-
ly the high wind which prev allied dur.
ing the day had almost entirely sub.
sided, otherwise the loss would have
been far greater.
From Fridays Daily
NoTICE.-lf you send during this
month your watch to Jesse COLON,
Great Falls, Mont, he will clean and
warrant it n year for 81 80.
A marriage license was issued in
Great Falls yesterday to Reinhold
RAIDER and Catherine Groghehan, both
of Chinook.
Mrs. j.. 2. Thies and Mrs. A. A.
Cabaniss returned yesterday after.
noon from the j. O. Patterson ranch
and left this morning for Helena for a
short visit.
The members of the G. NJ. ~. lodge
entertained q number of their fri,nas