The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-16
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Conrad Observer: John Shinnick
OF the Marias river, has just made a
cleanup of his range horses, selling
all with the exception of a few brood
mares to Hubbard, the South Omaha
horse buyer. at $40 per head.
Chester Signal: Prairie fires are
becoming too numerous to mention.
The fire guards were not plowed soon
enough and are Of little or no protec
ton to the range along the railroad.
1t seems too bad to see such splendid
feed destroyed when it could have
easily been prevented.
Hinsdal l Homestead: J.. NJ. Nelson
left his boat at Poplar and ran up
home for a few hours yesterday morn.
ing. The boat has made slow prog.
ress coming up the river against the
heavy winds Of the past few days. He
expects to leave Milk river station
with a cargo for Kismet the fore part
of the week.
Zortman Miner: Harry Kellar and
Ed. Powell, tired of being in the pow.
erty.stricken class, went over to the
head OF Beaver on Monday and locat-
ed ground enough to put them in the
frenzied finance class, provided the
ground is rich enough. The only way
to catch on is to try, and in this coun.
try one mar has as good a show as
another.
Culbertson Searchlight: T. E. Bow.
man shipped q trainload Of cattle from
Ambrose over the 500 line to Chicago
October 4. Several other cattlemen in
TIM Upper Muddy country intended to
ship from this point but the range is
now burned off clean from Redstone
to Ambrose and they will probably
trail their cattle to Culbertson for
shipment.
Havre Herald: A shipment of two
trains of cattle passed through Havre
last week which were made by Turner,
the Canadian cattleman, to the Chi
cago market. The duty on the two
shipments collected by Colonel Mike
Healy. was a total of $1,000. Guess
the markets of Uncle Sam are pretty
good when a sum like this is paid for
the privilege of selling in them.
Havre P~laindealer: The steel for the
new electric line of railway leading
from this city to the coal mines of the
Havre Coal company, together with
all the steel work for the inside work.
ings Of the mine, arrived in the Havre
yards this week and the work of in
stalling the mining machinery was i'm
mediately begun. Many of the Goa
cars for use by the mining compan,
arrived a week or more ago and tn,
balance of them are expected to reacl
here at an early date.
Glasgow Review: Under Sheriff
Rutter made a long chase to the Ca
madam line this week to serve a wri
of attachment on a Dawson county
rancher who was running a bunch O
horses out of the country to avoit
paying some of his oblig ations. On,
work team and a wagon were secured
by the sheriff. The last seen of tn
rancher he was headed for the nortl
pole and judging from the rapidit,
with which he was leaving the United
States behind him he will beat all th
Arctic explorers a city block AM
back.
Conrad Observer: News from Che
teau says that F. A.. Gallagher.
prisoner in the county Jail waitinI
trial on the charge of grand larceny
made his escape last evening Will
out after a bucket of coal and is no,
at liberty. Gallagher left a letter T.
be posted by another prisoner VIII
was soon to be discharged. The lette
stated that he would go over to Az
gusta on making his escape. Thi
appears to be q clever ruse on Gala
gher's part, as officers made q trip T.
Augusta shortly after his escape an
be was not found.
Choteau Acantha: There is consid
cradle talk just now about the damag
caused by grasshoppers. C. NJ. Black
man has suffered the loss of practi
cally all of what promised to be al
unusually fine seed crop of alfalfa
The grasshoppers simply took it.
j. said also that there are grea
swarms of these insects on the bench
They are not doing much damag
there, however, as the crops are al
out of the way. One longtime resi-
dent of this section expresses the opin
ion that the hoppers may be thicI
enough next year to work great in
ilry to grain and hay.
BILLINGS. Oct. IA great fai
and industrial exhibition of the Grow
indiana nnopo1 Of C,row oropov <o1o