The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-25
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FscM Saturdays Daily.

creek TO hold Il public sale OF the ner.
sonal property OF the late Peter Tas-
dali, Of whose estate he is admiristra-
tor.
Word rs received today from
kirksville. Mo-, announcing the
birth OF a daughter to The wife of j.
FRANK Curtis. of this city. on Monday
last.
Jere Sulliva q chairman of the
board of county commissioners, re-
turned today from the Milk river
country, where the members OF the
board have been inspecting county
WORK recently performed by contrac
tors.
The county attorney applied to the
dis,ric, court today for leave to file
IN inform atinn against Thomas
Johnson, who is charged with burg
larry. The crime is alleged to have
beer committed II Havre, and the de.
fenoant is now confined in the county
Jail.
Articles of Incorporation Of the
Dodson Mercantile company. with a
capital stock Of $50, 700, were FLED TO.
day in the county clerks Office. The
incorporators are s r. Stevens, Of
Dodson: j. A. Crump. OF Columbia
Fails: and George D. Du,ro, of
Chester.
Advices from Great Falls report the
death of John c. Giesey at the Dea-
cones hospital from paralysis. The
deceased, who had recently made his
home near Monarch, was engaged ia
the freightiug business in early days.
and was we'll known to old-time resi-.
dents of this vicinity.
A press dispatch from Washington
announces the appointment OF James
Sanders of Great Falls, to succeed
Captain Dare as agent Of the Indians
on the Blackfeet reservation. The ap.
pointee is q Great Northern engineer,
and is q member of the legislature as
state sen atOr from Cascade county.
According 10 the Helena Record,
JUNIORS are current among railroad
men that the Great Northern shops at
Havre will be closed very shortly for
q period of thirty days, and when re-
opened, non.union men will Dc EN-.
ployed- The reason for this, accord.
ing to the reports, is because the
company feels it has had too much
trouble during past years with the
machinists and boilermakers.
Some extensive deals in Milk river
ranch property are indicated by deeds
fled for record today in the county
clerks Office. The transactions in.
clude the sale of tracts aggregating
about $50 acres by Alfred Watkins to
Joseph w. Jackson, of Williston, N.
OAK, for s., 900, and about 456 acres
by L. Minugh to the same buyer for
$4,000. Another tract of about 760
acres has been sold by w. T. NC.
Daniel to Willard B. diversion, OF
Wil!iston, for $40, 100. The lands that
figure in these transactions are located
a few miles east of Harlem. in the vi.
entity of the proposed site Tor a bee,
sugar factory.
From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. C. H. Ragland and children
left yesterday for California. on a
visit Of several weeks.
Dr.. C. J.. b. Stephens and wife re.
turned yesterday from q Welt OF about
two weeks 10 Havre.
L. T. Hamburg, of Helena, special
agent OF the general land Office, is
among the business visitors ia town.
The song Of the robin and the
''honk" of wild geese passing over
town this morning, proclaimed the
arrival Of spring.
Miss Violet Lepper, who has beer
visiting with Fort Benton friends the
past few days, left for her home al
Havre this morning.
Col. j.. II. Rice and wife, accom-
panied by their two sons, james l.,
and Harry D. Rice, were among the
arrivals from the west today.
George +. Lewis, who has been IN
der treatment at Great Falls for sew
eral weeks past, for abscess on the
brain, was brought in from that city
today. He is slowly recovering from
the effects Of recen surgical opera
::ons.
/, is reported from Zortman that
the Little Rockies Exploration Com
pany has just made cleanup of about
81, 600 from a run Of three weeks.
The company expects to make a still
better record during the coming
season.
The navigation easou at this point
was opened yesterday By u number OF
citizens taking u l2.mile trip down
.ne Missouri river on The Jay Fry