The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-13
AMONG OUR
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

A Of1St OF ltCmS O0tncrGQ from OUt
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Chester Signal: We understand the
railway forces went up Cottonwood
coulee Tuesday to cut some of the up.
per dams with the intention of getting
some of the water to I'll up the big
reservoir at this place. l.
Glasgow Review: There is talk Of
a special lax levy this fall for the
purpose of buying a new arsenal for
the sheriff and his deputies. Most Of
the guns have been distributed among
destitute horse thieves.
Malta Enterprise: The recent rains
caused the breaking of three of the
many big reservoirs B. D. Phillips
has scattered over his vast domain.
Cuts from fifty TO q hundred feet wide
were made in the dams, entailing a
loss Of about $1,000,
Havre Pla!ndealer: Wallace Cow.
ell, who went into Canada with a
bunch Of horses some time ago, re-
turned TO Havre this week. He re-
ports that horses are fairly good
property but also that sales are slow.
They have not yet disposed of all their
stock.
Chouteau Acantha: The county at
torney has filed an information in the
district court charging Lillian Heartily
with the crime Of burglary, alleged TO
have been committed at the Evans sa.
loon at Shelby on or about the Goth
day Of April, 1906. Miss Heartily is
now confined In the county jail await.
ing trial.
Creamery sold about 500 pounds of
butter to outside towns Saturday, and
Friday and Saturday together sold
ne arly $40 pounds in Havre alone.
The run of milk is increasing rapidly
and the output during May was about
800 pounds more than during the pre-
ceding month.
Havre Herald: There is a large
and valuable, though undeveloped de-
post of cement in the country about
three miles south of the city and the
time when it will become a valuable
addition TO the business wealth OF
!. Havre is not very far distant. Mr.,
l. X. Devlin is the owner OF 800 acres
of the land on which this deposit is
. located.
Conrad Observer: 1t Is now given
a out that the work of ballasting the
roadbed between Great Falls and
Shelby will be commenced next month
and that 500 men will be employed
The work will be carried on as Ions
: as the weather will permit. The re
n cent heavy rains have softened up tn,
roadbed and as q result the track Il
in bad shape.
Glasgow News: Edward Brady
st chief clerk of the Indian agency g
Poplar, was in the city Tuesday. Il
had been at Nashua with q govern
g ment inspector counting cattle tina
Y have been rounded up on the reserve
e MIR. Brady said that as near as h
h could tell, there is not much sea
among the cattle that have bee
gathered up to this time.
Malta Enterprise: Chas. Viii,
d comb came from Zortmau Thursda
&c evening with 10 pounds of bullion
t. the result of twelve days run for tn
!e month of May, as the mill was dis
te abled. The Ruby is in some grea
ir ore 10 and the cleanup represen,
about the former usual monthly on
c. put. The June output of this mine
N expected to be such as to plac,
~ Chouteau county first in gold pre-
duction of the state. IL may be new
to some to mention that the bullio
from the Little Rockies carries nearl
~ fifty per cent silver.
=, Havre Plaindealer: President |
Newman, following the instructions
the Milk River Irrigation associ'
ton, which met Wednesday in Ch
nook, says he will appoint r. \
Everett, OF Harlem, and John Wilt
Of Glasgow, as the delegates to go
Washington TO urge work on II
Chain Lakes reservoir system and
:, the Dodson dam. Their aim is
recure an appropriation for these in
d provements which are already a pa
Of the approved general plan, or
CO secure at the present session Of col
gress an instruction that will enabl
- the department of the interior to
NC once begin work o. the endorsed diver
sion plans.