The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-17
AMONG OUR NHGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Malta Enterprise: a few short
weeks ago Frank Erfurth was very
eager to find a buyer for his Ash6eld
ranch property, but now, with 16O
acres OF blue grass standing As inches
high, Montana soil looks good 10 him,
and his property is no longer listed
for sale.
Lewistown Argus: Yesterday a
wool sale was made that is of interest
because OF the fact that the price paid
was the highest given here this season.
For the fancy clip of Ed. Mcdonnell,
Stressenger, for Williams & Co., paid
Is cents. The clip will amount to
something like 5000 pounds.
Glasgow Review: O. S. Cutting has
gone to the Missouri river country to
drum trade for John Nelson who is
coming up the river with q cargo of
merchandise on the boat he recently
purchased at Dubuque. 1t is the 10.
tention to run q store on the boat and
make stops at ranches along the river.
Chinook Opinion: Chae. Pelletier,
contractor and builder at Dodson,
was a business visitor in the city
Tuesday. Mr.. Pelletier reports that
Dodson is enjoying q tremendous
building boom. Several new business
houses have been erected including
the large warehouse for the Ruby
Gulch people. The stage line to the
Little Rockies has been opened for
travel and much Of it is going that
way now.
Havre Herald: A. G. Station, ad-
ministrator of the estate Of Robert
Thompson, deceased, made a trip to
the Bear Paw mountains Saturday
and conducted q sale of the property
OF the estate at the ranch. The sale
aside from the real estate embraced
10 the ranch included a few horses
and the farming implements, and was
purchased by Chas. Shaw for a con.
sideration of 81, $40.
Havre P~laindealer: George Ross,
who has . large and very fine ranch
near Yantic, will next week ship a
large number of his heavy draft horses
to Missoula. He has been offered q
portion Of the contract upon the grad.
ing OF the Billings & Burlington rail-
way and has accepted the offer. MIR.
Ross is an old railway contractor and
helped build the Northern Pacific rail.
way through this state. He has three
brothers residing in Missoula.
Zortman Miner: 1t is the consensus
OF opinion here that, If A. D. Gill is
dead, both himself and horse we're
drowned in the Missouri river. He
was considerable of q night hawk and
did much Of his travelling at night,
and II he wanted to 60 to Kismet, ani
arrived at the river late AT night, he
would not have hesitated in attempting
to swim the river with his horse
While not exactly popular here, h.
certainly had no enemies who wouli
have taken his life.
Glasgow News: DR.. Hoy, was call
ed TO Culbertson Wednesday to lool
into the health situation of that town
He found Eve cases OF typhoid fever
all OF which have de veloped within
the past ten days, and determined tha
they resulted from the shallow vel
system of the town, which is supple,
by surface water to q great extent
A strict order to clean up and disin
feet all quarters thoroughly was il
sued and he hopes to thereby proven
any further development OF the dis
ease.
Harlem News: Al the coming ses
sion of the federal congress Senate
Carter will introduce q bill that vii
be OF great benefit TO Harlem, as
pertains to the drinking water ques
ton, which has perplexed the mind
OF U citizens for many years. III
bill 10 question will call for an az
preparation of several thousand dol
lars to be used for piping the waite
from Snake butte to the Fort Belkna a
agency, with = proviso that the set
tiers who live off the alton ma,
use it for domestic purposes.
Choteau Acantha: Impossible as i
may sound, Bynum enjoys the distinc
tion of having a train although Their
is no railroad to that point. Tn,
Alkali basin ditch people haul thei
supplies from Collins and Conrad b.
means of a traction engine and a trail
OF wagons. The service is a trife SLOW
for passenger travel, and there is o.
regular schedule for arrival and de
parture. but the outfit looks su efficient
~ like q train TO make people on
there feel quite metropolitan. The,
begin to have visions of the rea
thing.
Chinook Opinion: A couple OF tn