The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-04-10
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Conrad Observer: E. E. Leech, who
took a shipment of cattle to the Chi
cago market. returned last Saturday.
He reported that he struck a good
market, receiving S4.75 per hundred
for his calves and 1925 for his steers.
Chinook Opinion: The melting snow
Wednesday raised the flow of the
streams and Red Rock overlooked at
the point of its entrance to the Milk
river. The road is covered. The
Belknap canal also overlooked on the
north side of town.
Conrad Observer: The Reeves
steam pillow and outfit ordered by NJ.
S. Darling arrived here last Sunday.
The disc pillow and other machinery
r being put together this week. An
expert from the factory is expect this
week to run the engine. The freight
on the engine and machinery amount
ed to over 5000.
Havre Herald: Frank G.. Hopkins
has completed q deal for the sale of
his residence property and is arrang.
ing his at airs to bid q farewell % the
city. 1t is the intention of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hopkins to leave Havre between
the 18th of this month and the first Of
next and for their destination the city
OF Buenos Ayres, South America.
Superintendent Patrick of the shops,
purchased the property, paying the
sum of 81, 700.
Choteau Acantha: Attorneys Down.
ing & Stephenson, of Great Falls,
have filed three suits in the distric,
court of this county against the Grea,
Northern railway and the Montana &
Great Northern railway in behalf o.
Il. D. Anderson, Antoine Tedson aud
Dennis Holland, representing q large
number of small cattle owners liviue
in the northern portion of the county
who shipped cattle over the defendan
company's roads t the Chicago mar
ket last fall.
Glasgow News: r. NJ. Patten ant
Walter Stanley have received oficia
notice OF their appointment to the po
sitions Of register aud receiver, respec
lively, of the new Glasgow land Office
The Office will be open for bushes
June l, but the location has not ye
been decided on. The west line of tn
district will be about Yantic, sevel
miles west of Chinook. This viii
equalize the territory between this en-
and the Great Falls land district. A
soon as spring opens, much Of tn
unsurveyed portion of this county vii
be surveyed.
>, Malta Enterprise: John ..Survar
returned from Canada last .Friday
He gave the ranges of the Bloom Gait
company Il pretty thorough lookin
over, and while he found condition
bad enough, the loss will not be nea
t lieve, and is confined TO young ar
, she stock almost entirely. Since con
r ing home, he had to remove the fe
U cattle here, from the Beaver cree
: ranch, on account of the high waite
e aud to get them out had to make u
e bunch walk IA foot log twenty feet
, length. which shows the high INTEL
s gence of the cattle and the ability
$ the ranch hands.
Havre P~laindealer: Burnur CT
g bons, of Willow Creek, Canada, for
, man for the Empire Cattle Co., was
Havre this week. He stated that /
first storm of the winter caused abo
u 800 Of their cattle to drift across
y this side of the line and were caug
near Chinook. OF the other cat,
i. across the line he said he would CO
" slider it lucky il they got off with
loss of not to exceed Is per cent. r
winter has not abated across the Ii
u" and the snow il still covering the {
- tire range. Stockmen have been fee
y ing everything there for months a.
many OF them are now entirely out
!. hay. Reports from other MontaI
stOckmen who have stock across I
g line confirm the conditions represent
- by Mr.. Gibbons.