The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-04-05
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Northern Montana Exchanges.


and oficiate At a double wedding when
Jack Shufelt aud Miss Wright, Ralph
Berger and Mrs. Perry will be mar.
ried.
Chinook Opinion: W. E. Walker,
the Great Falls hide buyer, was here
yesterday. Mr.. Walker says there
are not many hides and pelts offered
for sale-an infallible evidence Of q
mild winter.
Culbertson Searchlight: The sher.
IFS sale at the Y L ranch Monday
resulted in the sale of 25O head of
mixed cattle for the sum Of 81, 569. 90,
or a little over $500 per head. K. o.
Slette, vice president of the Bank Of
Culbertson, bought the cattle.
Havre P~laindealer: Bids for car.
rying the mail between Havre and
Oldham on Wild Horse Lake, forty
miles northwest of Havre and a half a
mile this side the Canadian line. were
this week sent IN TO the potoffice de.
puttu!CuI W OstlAiuSeCI AAO"elA vi tiAlS
city.
Chinook Bulletin: Harry SOmers.
of Salt Lake, superintendent Of con-.
struc,ion Of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company was in town this
week looking over the situation with u
view of determining whether the COM
pany should build Il line from Fort
Benton to Chinook by way of Havre.
Hinsdale Homestead: \ rousiug
meeting OF the farmers and their fam.
lilies will be held in Hinsdale on Sat.
urday, April ID. The meeting will be
held under the auspices of the Valley
County Farmers Club, of H~insdale,
and every member is expected to be
there with a basket of good things to
eat.
Lewistown Democrat: II. j. Morri.
son and G.. p. Newell will handle the
lease on the creamery in partnership.
These gentlemen have made the state.
ment that they will be able to guaran.
tee the farmers twenty-five cents for
their butter during April and May,
and twenty-five and a half during five
of the summer months.
Havre Herald: L. G. Smith, of Chi.
nook, arrived Sunday morning with
his surveying appurtenances and left
in the afternoon for Alexander Nc.
Loughry's ranch in the Bear Paws.
He will probably devote considerable
time in that locality this spring max.
ing the correct locations of homestead
and desert land, besides stalking GU,
the proper location for highways and
bitches.
Havre Plainde aler: 1t has been
learned that the death Of William Pow.
ers, formerly Of Hound creek, which
occurred al Chester recently was
caused by pneumonia. He had beer
i'll with the disease for several days
aud had decided to come to the hos
pital in Great Falls. He had a ticket
and while waiting at the depot for the
arrival Of the train. walked out on &c
the platform and fell dead.
Malta Enterprise: John Survan,
returned from Canada on Monday
after an interview with the commits
siOner OF customs, at Ottawa. HI
was nicely treated and found the of
ticials disposed to do the right thine
80 far as lay within their power
About IS 600 of the ten thousand here
tofore assessed against his compau,
for dipping cattle. duty, ETC.. was re
mitted and returned to him.
Culbertson Searchlight: Jane,
Shields, OF Mondak, was in tow
Tuesday and says it don't look reas
enable to him that the Great Northern
, Railway officials are contempla tins
cutting Off Buford and Mondak b.
=. running the main line 8 or 10 mile
north of there, because at the presen
!, time they have $50 men engaged i,
, ~riprapping the bank of the Missouri
river at Snowden, about 3 miles ives
of Mondak.
Malta Enterprise: The Montan;
Colonization Co has filed its articles
of Incorporation with the secretary O
state and will engage in a livestock
real estate, grain and general mer
chandise business as we'll as to con
struct bitches, buy and sell watel
rights. engage in agriculture and hor
ticulture and other pursuits. Its prin
cipal Office is to be at Bainville, il
this county, and its capital stock i,
$4OO, 600. The incorporators are Min
neapolis people.
Glasgow News: Sheriff Griffith re
ceived a telegram Saturday from
Williston, 10 arrest ''Slim" Jones a
Mondak for robbery, and he wen
down to that place On the first trair
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