The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-09-04
CITY AND STATE.

oeuO yOuT Wdtcn ana JeWelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
j.. H. Evers arrived from Chinook
today, on a short visit with relatives
in this city.
A marriage license was issued tod y
to Kid Carter and Maggie Hickman,
both of Havre.
+. E. S%tranahan and family, and j..
". Lenning and wife returned today
from a camping trip in the Blackfoot
country.
Miss Dixie Williams, who is visit.
ing with her sister, Mrs. j. F. Sulli-
van, is reported to be seriously sick
with pleurisy.
The new forms of quartz location
blank required under the new law can
be obtained at the River Prese Office.
The new form must now be used in
making quartz locations.
Frank Kustka, Of Landusky, who is
among the visitors in town, has filed
location notices in the county clerks
Office for eight quartz claims in the
Little Rockies mining district.
Congressman Charles N. Pray re-
turned today from a trip to Butte and
other points in western Montana. Mr..
Pray reports greater mining activity
at Butte than at any time in its his.
tory.
Advices from Great Falls nnounce
the death OF Fred Habberman 1t the
Deaconess hospital, where he was un-
der treatment for heart trouble. The
deceased, who was about IS years Of
age, had been q resident of northern
Montana for about thirty years, hav.
ing been engaged in ranch work in
this viciuityoand at Big Sandy.
CountylAttorney F. A. Carnal and
others who are interested in some
promising quartz claims in the Clear
Creek country lare in receipt Of word
than an assaye of some specimen ore
indicates.theyDhave q paying PROPOSE.
ton. The ore carries copper and
gold in about equal values, the assay
showing itsto be worth s31. 80 per ton.
1t appears that the body of . man
found in the missouri river above
Great Falls, which was identified as
that of Peter Huffman, a rancher who
was drowned near Mid Canyon about
three weeks ago,!was that of a victim
of another drowning accident. The
emains were buried as those of Huff.
man, and his relatives were notified
of his death, but it is now discovered
that a mistake in the Identification
was made.
From Thursdays Daily.
A very3pleasant social was given a.
the G. H.sBoyle residence last even.
ing, by members of the Epwor,h
League.
Rev. j. ~. Martin and wife, who
have been visiting with relatives here,
left today by private conveyance for
their home at L%ewistown.
N. N. Lease, the Great Falls con.
tractor, vas among the arrivals from
the west today. Mr.. Lease has the
contract for building the new Catholic
church, which will be one of the neat.
est stone structures in the state.
The county attorney has been ad.
vised that Thomas Lamey is under
arrest at Havre on a charge Of assault
in the second degree, and will have a
preliminary hearing 10 Justice W. b.
Pyper's court at an early date.
Miss Ethyl Blum, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, who was recently engaged to
teach the commercial course in the
Fort Benton high school, was among
the arrivals from the east today.
Miss Blum1 vas accompanied by her
mother, who will make her home
here.
J. O. Patterson, who was one of the
owners of the Shonnin beef shipment
hat was on the Chicago market a few
days ago, reports that the prices real
ICED were highly satisfactory. The
returns show an average net price of
$5l.25 per head. including the COW por-
ton Of the shipment.
The clerk Of the district court is in
receipt of papers in the civil suit Of
Charles Lindblom vs.. Alexander
Young, whichswas tried recently before
a jury in Justice Vennum's court at
Harlem, and which has been appealed
to the district court by the defend ant.
The suit was brought to pos.
session of a bay mare and colt and a
flly, which were valued at abou. $3.50.
The jury in the justice court gave q
verdict in favor Of the plaintiff.
4. local business man who has just
received a shipment of baled hay from
Chinook finds that the freight rate is
$500 per ton, compared with q rate Of