The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-24
b. resumed about the end Of the week,
a. rapid progress is being made In
the work of repairing the track.


the work of repairing the track.
Today was observed as cleanup
day Try a large number of citizens,
al the suegestion of the municipal
authorities, and the appearance of the
town is greatly improved by the re.
moval of relics Of the recent food.
L. D. Sharp, cashier OF the Stock.
mems National bank, returned today
from a business trip to Chinook. Mr..
Sharp reports that two wool buyers
are interviewing sheepmen 10 that 10.
%cali,y. but their only purchase, so far
as known, Is the B. K. Lyon clip at
Is ccn.s.
The county authorities have been
notified that the timbers OF the Ice.
breakers that were carried out by the
recon. food are lodged among some
trees near the Holderbaum ranch,
about FIVE miles down the Missouri
river. An effort will be made to re.
cover them rs soon as the high water
subsidies.
Fred LaBarre, who is 10 town to.
day, reports that the recent Marias
food washed away about thirty acres
Of his alfalfa field, a. we'll as about
POO tons uf hay. Mr.. LaT3arre has
lived on the Marias about thirty
years, and s.ates that the recent food
was a. least eleven feet higher than at
any time since 1878
!, From Tuesdays Daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson of Min
neapolis, are visiting with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Wallace E. Chase.
, H. 3. Dickinson, of Knerville, ar.
| rived from the south side of the river
today, on u short business visit.
The Kings Daughters will hold a
3 cooking sale Saturday afternoon in
r former electric light Office, adjoining
, Chase store.
Miss Beatrice Boyle, accompanied
by her mother and sister, left today
for Havre, and will take a position al
i teacher ia the public schools of tina
e city.
A, IL meeting of the directors of th'
Stockmen's National bank, held yes
,, terd ay afternoon, q semi-anuual divi
dend of s per cent. vas declared, pay
q able July Z.
A local weather prophet says
severe hail storm may be expected
o within a few days, the latter part O
u June usually bringing q visitation O
&c that nature.
81 j. w. Woodcock is reported t
have purchased three lots on lowe
-. Main street, the property to be use
rs the site of q new residence whic
will be built this summer.
Arrivals from the Shonkin brin
:. word that Gus Heydt was the victi'
~ of a runaway accident last evening
-. He is confined to his home, but til
nature of his injuries is not known.
ba Declarations of their intention t
~ become American citizens were file
in the distric: court today by Davi
w. Wilson and William Maxwell,
Chester, who are natives of Scotland
~. Mark Cockrill, who is here on
-. business visit, was among those who's
II. property was damaged by the Maris
RI food, but his loss was not so great
a that of several other residents of TIL
or locality.
c.. Three isolated tracts Of public d.
L. main in the country south of this CT,
were offered for sale at the Great Fal
land Office yesterday. They were pu
v. chased at 1925 per acre by Gus Olso|
"a. H. O. Lying and Anna D. Flagler.
he The death of Henry Pauliner, wi
tn Is said to have been the Oldest man
b. Montana, 10 reported from KalispeI
ed The deceased, who vas an inmate
e. the Flathead county poor farm, VI
In supposed to be about 104 years old.
a. 1t is reported from Havre that Re
ar' L. J.. 'Chris.ler, of that city, earn
the title of ''the fighting parson" in
controversy with one of his parishio
Va ers, in which the latter was worste
The matter Is said to have been
ferred to the loca, court.
," w. 2. Sewers, who Is engaged
ns the sheep business near Malta, W
among the arrivals today. He repol
om that two wool buyers are trying to
IT. business in that part of Valley count
but their offers of ID to l5t cents a
Is, not acceptable to the growers.
II! Among the homestead filings ma
-. in the Great Falls land Office the pa
ted week, is that of John Brown, q m
r]y 50 years old, who has been located
of a claim near Fort Shaw since Isl
The land was unsurveyed until a she
ritz time ago, and he is 10Y preparing
zen make final proof as soon as possib
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