The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-31
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

. Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Choteau Acantha: Il. D. Redmond,
the Great Falls horse dealer, has
bought the Clark horses on the Black.
leaf, the reported price being $50 per
head.
Zortman Miner: It is said the
Hawkeye mine, at the head Of Alder
gulch, has shown specimens carrying
free gold, visible to the naked eye.
AS a rule the pres OF the Little Rockies
carry no visible Gig of their values.
Choseau Acanths /: Dipping of cat.
tie and horses is. going on actively at
Joe. Surgeons ranch, west OF Du.
puyer. The dipping there is done in
q solution Of lime and sulphur at
present, though Beaumont oil will be
used after q few days.
Chinook Opinion: Lease & Rich.
ards, contractors and builders, who
are are 81 we'll k nown in northern
Montana, have purchased $50 acres
Of timber land near Port Townsend,
Wash. The tract contains something
over 10, 0 900 feet of lumber.
Havre P~laindealer: Walter Brown,
the we'll known stockmsn OF Box
Elder, the latter part of the week
closed . deal with e. c. Gibney where.
by he purchased the formers beauti.
full home in this city. The considera-
ton was not made public. Mr.. Brown
will remove with bis family to Havre
and make this city their home.
Glasgow News: At a meeting Of
the business men of Culbertson on
Monday evening it al decided to
organize a commercial club, whose
main object will be the pushing OF
Culbertson to q place among the lead
ing towns Of the northwest. Walter
Mathews was elected chairman and
Frank Nj. Catlin secretary and treas.
urer Of the temporar organization.
Chinook Opinion n: More specimens
from the Dividend mine we're brough,
in from that property in the Bea,
Paw copper distric t the fret Of the
week and the members of the company
are more confident than ever. Thu
latest specimens are the best ye
brought in and the prospects are more
encouraging than ever. The work o
sinking the shaft has been hinderet
by the amount OF labor that was re
Quired to build q road to the MIN
and the scarcity Of labor.
Malta Enterprise: Garry Cloyd
who lives at Leedy, while attempting
to ford the Pouchet creek, on bis wa!
home from this city, where he ha,
been shearing for some weeks past
met his death in a manner unknown
He left here Saturday, his horse be
ing found on Monday morning feed
ing along the creek. Search revealed
the body partly submerged in 8 nea
by pool and it vas brought to tow
Tuesday evening. Mr.. Cloyd leave
a wife and child.
Glasgow Review: Some DARN
thieves stole 500 head of sheep from
band belonging to Mus Elise, a
Italian sheepman, on Rock creek
about ten days ago. The sheep ha
just come from the shearing pens an
were unbranded. They were taken 9
night while the herder slumbereC
They we're traced and found in an OF
! scure coulee about forty miles mort
OF the place where they were last seer
having evidently been deserted upo
the approach Of the hunting part,
2 Some one in the vicinity volunteers
the Information that they had straye
away.
Havre Herald: Superintendent
Schools Troy says that nothing shoul
be in the way Of the immediate estal
lishment of the Chouteau county fri
high school as soon Is the e ar
bonds, Or the succeeding levy by II
board of county commissioners cha
have been made. II, by September
final decision has been made in regar
20 the school, ample accommod alto
, will be made in the upper story of II
Z East side sch DOL in Havre for the i,
itial faculty.
Glasgow Review: According to a.
vices from the west end of the coun,
dipping operations are progressin
nicely. A Seabury machine is no
located At the old DIS ranch, q
Beaver creek, where it has been Ct
ing good work. In a few days it wi
De moved to some point on Roc
creek near Barr, where about seve
thousand head OF cattle are awaitin
dipping. From there the machine wi
De shipped TO the s~tockyards east
Glasgow. 1t is safe TO say that dill