The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-05-06
CITY AND STATE.

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store.
DR.. Stephens will sell q Premier
6 cylinder, REQ, or Ford automobile.
See him or write.
Ed. Fogarty and wife, of Sand
Cliffs, are among the business visi.
tors in town TODAY.
A marriage license was issued today
in favor of Charles Moulik and Anna
Gounak, both of Havre.
The new forms of quartz location
blank required under the new law can
be obtained at the River Press office.
The new form must now be used in
making quartz locations.
A contract has been awarded to
Hagen & Fry for making improve.
ments on the Baker opera house prop
erty, at a cost Of about $3.50. The
plans call for fitting up the main
building as an opera house and dance
hall.
The residents OF Cascade and other
persons who suffered loss from the
Hauser lake flood, have called q meet.
ing at which the matter of recovering
damages will be discussed. It is pro.
posed to bring suit against the owners
OF the dam.
According to q deed fled for record
in the county clerks Office TODAY. the
Francis Covenant ranch property
near Big Sandy has been purchased
by Hugo Lehfeldt. The property con.
sists Of about 120 acres, and is said to
be good hay land.
Some of the local beneficiaries of
the new law which increases pensions
for widows of veterans have been ad.
vised that the law became effective
April 10, and no application for the
increase is necessary. The new rate
of widows pensions 10 sl2 per month.
Jno. Lehfeldt, of Big Sandy, who is
in town today, reports q good demand
Tor the product of the Mackton COM
pany coal mines, which are located
near that place. Arrangements are
being made to build q spur which will
connect the mines with the railroad,
and afford better shipping facilities.
The sheriff's Office is in receipt OF
an inquiry as to the present address
OF John c. NJ. Spehr, q cowboy who
is supposed to be working in northern
Montana, and whose relatives are
anxious to locate him. It is desired
that information be sent to W. L.
Kelley, deputy sheriff of Missoula
county.
The Great Falls newspapers report
that work has been commenced on q
new cooper alive creamery in that city
in which about 81, 500 will be invested
a large number of farmers and bust.
ness men have subscribed to the pro.
position and al organization will
shortly be effected to take over the
plant. Many farmers residing on the
Sun river bench and in the district
south of the city from Sand Coulee
and Stockett to the Missouri river and
south as far as Monument butte
have agreed to furnish cream.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs Jere Sullivan left today 90 a
visit to her old home at New Ulm,
Mimi.
H. Lohse, of Judith, who is here
today on land business, reports that
a new ferry boat will soon be put in
the Missouri river at that point.
B. T. Savage, of Harlem, who has
been held in Jail On a charge of using
threatening language, was released
from custody today, on bonds Of ST.
600.
Mrs. c. Houser, who has been visit.
ing during the winter with MIR. and
Mrs. G. W. Price at Los Angeles,
CAL, was among the arrivals yester.
day.
A large frame warehouse, about &C
by 80 feet, is being built by Hagen &
Fry for the Chase Lumber company,
to be used for the storage of finishing
lumber.
A declaration of his intention TO be-
come an American citizen was filed ir
the district court tod ay by John Mac
dougall, of Chinook, who is a native
of Scotland.
Major T. a. Cummings, secretary
of the North Montana Roundup as.
ISOLATION, left today for Malta, where
the annual meeting of that organiza-
ton will be held tomorrow.
James Lackie, Of Zortman, who was
among the arrivals tod ay, reports that
work is progressing on the coustruc.
ton of an electric power plant for the
Ruby Gulch Mining company.
An addition to the number Of auto.
mobiles in this vicinity is made by