The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02
CITY N STATE.
From Saturdays Daily.

0A1AOuk tuC SISlIOES Al LOWQ.
D. A. Crowley and wife, of Lloyd
were among the arriv ais today.
Born. on Saturday, August %, 1908,
to the wife Of Frank Palmer, of this
city. a daughter.
F. A. Carnal, county attorney, left
today for Chinook. % attend a hear
ing 10 the justice court ut that place
The mutton shipping season in the
MILK river country was opened today,
with a t~rainload shipped by Messrs.
Lehman and Hensen from Havre.
According to beef market reports
from Chicago, the receipts of range
cattle Monday were Is, 500 head, the
largest run for one day in recent
years. Most of the sales were a. 81. 90
to S.. 10.
c. c. Chambers. of Minneapolis, a
we'll known dealer in grain and
screenings, is among the visitors in
town. MIR. Chambers reports a par
tial failure of the wheat crop in the
Dakotas and Minnesota.
Four location notices for quartz
claims in the Sweet Grass hills we're
filed in the county clerks office today
by l.. A. Stott and Pearl Alvord, Of
Hill. The claims are named Deferred
Hope, and numbered one to four.
1t is announced that a special dairy
train organized by the state agricul.
tural college authorities will start on
its trip October II. 1t will make stops
at various points on the Northern
Pacific between Hamilton and Glen.
dive.
Several tracts of land in Valley
county that had been reserved inQcon-
nection with the Milk river project
have been restored to entry, the re-
clamation service having discovered
that they cannot be irrigated. The
lands are located northwest of Glas.
gov.
The primaries Of each political party
will be held in this precinct this even.
ing, the republicans meeting at the
Choteau House from I to 9 p. M, and
the democrats at the club room of the
Grand Union hotel at 8 p. m. The
republican primary will select thirteen
delegates, and the democratic primary
three delegates, to the county conven.
ton OF their respective party.
The authorities at Great Falls are
calling the attention Of automobile
n to q Montana law, passed in
1905, which regulates the speed of
motor vehicles. 1t provides that
the speed limit shall be eight miles
an hour within the bound aries OF an
incorporated city, and twenty miles
an hour elsewhere. The statute also
From Mondays Daily.
?. Thorland, of Big Sandy, arrived
today on a short business visit.
f. V. GRAPHICAL. a we'll known resid-
ent of Harlem, was among yesterday
arrivals.
Mrs. G. II. Ragland and daughters
left yesterday for California, on an
extended visit.
The little son of Roland Ragland
died at ST. Glare hospital Saturday
evening, after a brief illness from
pneumonia.
A n0nti0n of thn hornooly, ~ LN~o<
Assinniboioe was destroyed by fire
Friday night. The property loss is
estimated at sc, 1000.
Woodford Dimock is nursing a
badly cut hand, the result of his sad.
die horse accidentally running into q
barbwire fence Friday night.
Advices from Anaconda report the
first snowfall of the season at that
place Saturday. The storm was fol.
lowed by a frost ID affected vegeta.
ton.
Otto Maurer, the Great Falls sur
veyor, who is in town today, is dis.
tributing some excellent maps OF Cas-.
cade county which he recently com.
pleted.
7. j. Troy arrived from Havre yes
terday, and is interviewing the re-
publican delegates of this prec;cct in
regard to his nomination for county
treasurer.
James Griffin, of Chinook, who is in
town today, reports that recent favor.
able weather has improved crop con-
ditions in that locality. There prom
i-es to be a better yield of grain than
was expected.
The opening of the hunting season
tomorrow promises to be celebrated
on an unusually large scale in this
vicinity. Several parties of sports.
men left this afternoon for the u
south of the Missouri river, each pro.
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