The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-12
CITY AND STATE.

are visiting with friends in this city.
Send your watch and j~ewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's iewelry
store.
DR.. Stephens is agent in this vi
entity for REQ and Ford automo.
biles.
Jere Sullivan, voluntary observer
for the weather bureau at this station,
reports a temperature of FIVE below
zero this morning.
If you van to buy pianos, organs
or graphophones, you a ave money
by writing Stackhouse Music Store,
Great Falls, Mont.
Notice Of location of the Bird seye
quartz claim, in the Little Rockies,
has been filed in the county clerks
Office by Theo. Nantelle.
Letters of administration in the es.
tate of the late Gus Senieur have been
issued in the district court to Matilda
Senieur, widow of the deceased.
A marriage license was issued today
by the clerk of the district cour 10
favor of Elmer Hodge. Of Fort ASSN.
niboine. and Ina B. Shippey, of Troy,
N. Y.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Benton. Highwood Telephone com.
pany will be held February 10, to
consider the matter of extending the
system.
The e 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.
Arrangements have been made by
the local committee for holding the
Farmers Institute tomorrow at Odd
Fellows hall, the program providing
for an afternoon session at 1870
and an evening session at 1880
O'Clock. The visiting speakers. as
previously announced, will be F. S.
Cooley. Prof. F. b. Lin6eld and Miss
Lucille Brewer, Of Bozeman: and
T. T. Black, of Whitehall.
There Is considerable excitement
among old placer miners in Butte
over the lucky find made by John
Kern in the Highland district about
twenty miles south Of that city. A
few days ago Mr.. Kern, who has been
engaged in placer mining for nearly
forty years, uncovered a gold nugget
that weighs over sixty ounces, and has
a value of about 81, 1856. 1t is the
biggest and be has ever made.
Great Falls Tribune: Another
chapter was yesterday added to the
case of the Madison Livestock COM
pany against Mary d. OSler and
other Chouteau county ranchers, when
Attorneys George r. Allen and S. V.
Stewart, who represented the live
stock company at the trial, each
fled aftidavits charging Attorney
George H. Stanton with creating a
prejudice 10 the minds of the jurors.
who returned the verdict. The aflida-
Wit of Attorney Stewart also charges
the jury with irregularity in making
up the verdict.
According to a report from Cascade
a posse of Lewis and Clarke county
officers had an satisfactory exper-
fence with William Mosney, the fugi-
tive halfbreed who IL wanted on a
charge of murder, and whom they 10.
Gated in a cabin neal that place. One
OF the posse was wounded by . shot
from Mosney's rifle, aud while he was
being given the necessary attention
the outlaw escaped from the cabin and
eluded the other officers who were on
guard. MOsney will be remem bered
here as a prisoner who escaped from
the county Jail some years ago by
holding up Thomas Coatsworth, who
vas jailer at that time, but Mr.. Goats.
worth recaptured his man before he
got outside the city limits.
From Thursdays Daily.
DR.. Stephens sells Ford runabouts,
two styles: also 4O.horsepower touring
cars.
Mail facilities at the Teton and Por-
tage postofices are temporarily sos-
pended, the postmasters having re.
moved to other locations.
According to the annual report Of
the state coal mine Inspector. The out
pat Of Montana coal mines last year
was a little over TWO million tons.
Chouteau county coal mines are cred.
tied with about IA, 900 tons.
\ resident Of Highwood, who ar.
rived in town last evening, reported a
strong chinook 10 that section. He
left home withou. an overcoat, but
discovered tn at the warm temperature
lid not extend to his destination.
The county attorney filed a com