The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-21
CITY AND STATE.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
A marriage license was Issued today
to John H. Mason. of Philadelphia.
Pa, and Mary Olson, OF Brandon,
MINI.
A very pleasant and largely at.
tended dance was given at the Odd
Fellows hall last evening, by the
Modern Brotherhood OF America.
The manifest Of the s.eamboa. 0. X.
included a few passengers, the ar.
rival consisting of Mark L Frost. of
Wilder: Merlin Power. who boarded
the boat at Judith: and Glen Lauer,
who made the trip from the mouth of
Milk river.
"Montana's Lonely Hills is the
title of a new song composed by Mrs.
Reuben Archer, of this city, which
has beer set to music by the Madden
Music company. Copies may be oh.
tanned at Geo. w. Cranes, or from
Mrs. Archer.
Thomas Broadwater and Henry
Acker. charged with grand larceny.
were received at the county Jail today.
to avn ait trial in the district court.
Another arrival was Leonard Markku,
a Finlauder, who is being held on q
charge of insanity.
County Attorney F. A. Carnal, who
returned today from Havre. brings
word that the inquest regarding the
death of EN- Taxi, q Japanese woman,
has not yet been concluded. When
the body was first discovered II was
supposed to be a case of murder, but
later developments lead to the belief
that the unfortunat ate committed sui
eide.
According to the Zortmau Miner.
the my stery surrounding the disap-
pearance of A. D. Gill last October
may be solved by the discovery OF re-
mains on q wooded butte in the Little
Rockies. It!is seated that q young
halt breed, some time ago, found the
carcass Of a horse that correspondent
with the description OF the animal
used by Mr.. Gill at the time OF bic
disappearance, and q later investiga-
ton resulted in the discovery of hu'
man bones that had been partially
burned. It is now believed 10 Fort
man that Mr.. Gill was murdered enc
his body cremated, and parties have
gone to the scene Of the supposed
crime to iullyOinvestiga ate the matter
From Mondays Daily.
Jno.C Sulliva an left yesterday for hi
old home in Canada, on a bushes
trip OF about q month.
Mrs. J. H. Green and daughter hav'
returned from an extended trip which
included a visit with relatives a
Lethbridge, N. W. T.
The Culbertson Republican is tn
name of a new journalistic nature a
Calbertson, a thriving town IL easter
Valley county. which now has wv
newspapers.
A crew of stone mason and othe
workmen arrived today from Grea
Falls, to work on IN
new Catholic church. They expect t
have the building completed in a fe'
weeks.
Local stockmer are in receipt of &C
vices from Chicago TO the effect tha
range beef arrivals brought goo
prices the past week. One load T.
Montana steers sold at S6.15, an
there we're several other sales of'rang
stuff u 8 60 and up.
It il reported from Shelby that IT,
Great Northern Oriental Limited wa
wrecked west OF that place Frid ay. b
striking a steer that was on the trac!
The locomotive aud several ears wei
derailed, but none of the passenge,
or train crew we're seriously injured
Several Old.time residents who wi
messed the arrival Of the steamoo
so. X" are recalling incidents
their fret trip up the Missouri rive
One of the early arrivals by that rou
wal VIM. Davis. q arrived 10 II
territory by steamboat in 1863, Lam
ing at the mouth of Milk river ar
proceeding from that point by freigl
team to the Deer Lodge valley. +.
Culbertson aud several other either
cate their landing from a Nilsson
river steamboat in the sixties.
The l25.foot draw of the bridge ov,
the Missouri river at this point ";
swung yesterds y, for the first time
many years, to allow the passage
the steamboat 80. X" up the rive
The mechanism of the draw vas four
&c be in good shape, and very lit
difficulty was experienced in turnit
it into line with the course OF the riv'
and returning it to its usual position