The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-03-22
CITY AND STATE.
From Saturdays Daily.

AANN0SC was lSSOCu w.
day to Robert B. Kanouse and Edith
l.. Bruner. both of Fort Assinniboine.
Lew Williams. of the Big Sag Land
and Livestock company. is making
preparations for the sheariug season.
he is hauling lumber to Sulphur
springs. where he will build shearing
sheds.
A dispatch from Washington says
the First National bank of Harlem,
Mont, has been authorised to begin
business with So. 900 capital. Thomas
NJ. Everett is president: w. E. French,
vice president, and Charles E. Owens.
cashier.
Another canvass of the votes cast
In Silver Bow county last November
is being made in the district court at
Butte. The recount is in connection
with a judgeship election contest case,
which is being heard by Judge Henry
G.. Smith, of Helena.
An outfit of about of 2 900 wethers
and dry ewes arrived today from the
Merrill & Libby ranch. and is being
loaded at the stocky ards. These are
the sheep that were recently purchased
by Minneapolis parties, who will feed
them for the Chicago market.
Richard Town, of Malta, has COM
menced work on a ferry boat about 8
by % feet, which will lie hoated down
the Missouri river to Kismet, a dis.
lance Of yer POO miles. 1t will be
loaded with a cargo of irrigating ma.
chinery and other supplies.
AT a third trial on a charge of in.
sanity, before the district court of
Cascade county, George Hliboka was
declared to be of unsound mind and
was committed to Warm Springs. He
Is under sentence OF death for killing
George Sedalek about a year ago, but
his conviction of insanity prevents ex-
ecution.
A telephone message was received
from the Shonkin this morning to the
I effec. that Lee Elrod, an employe at
the Jno. I. Murphy ranch, had been
seriously injured in a runaway, caused
by being run over by a wagon heavily
loaded with lumber. The injured man
will be brought to this city for medi.
cal treatment.
A dispatch from Culbertson says a
prairie fire started ON the range north
OF that place last Saturday, in the
neighborhood Of Duck lake, and
burned over a large scope of country.
The fire was put out Sunday afternoon
about one and a half miles east and
north of town. No damage excepting
the loss OF range was done.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is sending out copies of
the statute en- acted at the recent ses.
sion OF the legislature relating to the
attendance of teachers at institutes.
Teachers will be required to attend
institutes, and willful failure no to
\ do 50 will be considered sufficient
evidence for revocation of certificates.
The law will be strictly enforced.
Bertha Rowe, the ive.year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wearn
Rowe, was brought to town tod ay to
receive medical assistance for a bro.
ken bone in the lower part of the left
leg. The cause of the injury is not
known as the child was found lying
on the ground near the Rove home,
hut it is thought that the accident was
the result of a fall from a wagon which !
was nearby.
A proposed bill Of exceptions in the
. election contest case of John Buckley |
VS.. Frank Mcdonald, relating to the
Office of sheriff, has been filed in the
Office Of the clerk Of the district court
by 7. E. Brady, attorney for the con
testant. The document consists of
about 50 pages of typewriter matter,
n includes a transcript of the testi.
mony given at the trial of the case
. about three months ago.
. The trespass suit of II. o. Lying, OF
4 Highwood, against Bart Armstrong, |
Of Cora. was decided 10 favor of the |
plaintiff yesterday IN the district |
court of Cascade couAty. the jury
awarding him damages to the amount
of $50 and costs. The complaint al.
legged that a band of sheep owned by |
the defendan was driven into a field
4 owned by Mr.. Lying and was grazed
there without his permission.
From Mondays Daily.
People who know, drink Cyrus No.
bic, the purest and best American
whiskey.
Mrs. a. Lapine, of Teton, is among
the recent arrivals at St. Glare hos
Hpi,al, and is under the care of a ply