The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-22
CITY AND STATE.

store.
b. F. Schwartz, Jr., of Clifford,
arrived today to attend the Gray
Stevens wedding.
Jurgen Engellant, the we'll known
Everson sheepman, is among the bust.
ness visitors 10 town.
If you want to buy pianos, organs
or graphophones, you al save money
by writing S.ackhouse Music Store,
Great Falls, Mont.
A location notice for the Ruby
quartz lode mining claim was filed in
the county clerks Office today by Chas.
Whitcomb, of Zortman.
According to q deed filed in the
county clerks Office today, Robert
Cloves has sold three quartz claims
in the Little Rockies to the Beaver
Creek Mining company.
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.
The civil docket of the district court
has been reduced by the dismissal of
a few suits in which s%tipulations were
filed. The suits affected are those of
Emily G. Wood vs.. Royal S. Wood:
Esther Erbes vs. Alonzo Smith, and
Chas. Oleson vs.. the trustees of the
Harlem school district.
Satisfactory PROCESS Is being made
in the we'll drilling operations near
the city pumping station, q good
supply of water having been located
at q depth Of about thirty feet. The
drilling plant has been moved to q
point west of the first we'll, and is now
at work on that location.
Several citizens have been watching
the Missouri river today for signs Of a
food that might result from the break
ing Of the Hauser lake dam, but there
have been no indications of q high
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Word was received by telephone from
Great Falls that there was a rise of
about . foot in the river at that point
about 3 o'clock this afternoon, and
that an opening had been made in the
Black Eagle dam to provide passage
for the surplus water. The rise will
be due here during the night, but there
is a difference of opinion as to its
probable extent.
From Thursdays Daily.
G. W. Thrailkil!, who 10 in town
today, states that he has purchased q
25.horsepower traction engine which
has Just arrived It Great Falls. 1t
will be used in hauling coal from the
Thrailkill mine to this city.
Chas. Howe, of Highwood, who
recently returned from a visit to
Tacoma, was among the visitors in
town today. He is so pleased with
Pacific coast country thai be will
locate there at an early date.
A. L. Sutherland, who is in from
the Marias, states that he has leased
his summer ranches and range to c.
H. Ragland. Mr.. Sutherland wintered
an outfit of about 5000 sheep the past
season, and says conditions were so
favorable that it was not necessary to
feed hay at any time.
A Washington dispatch states that
the war department has ordered Lieu.
tenant Colonel William A. Mann,
Sixth infantry, of the department of
Dakota at St. Paul, and Lieutenant
Colonel j. Estcourt Sawyer, chief
quartermaster, to proceed to Fort AS
sinniboine to prepare the buildings for
the incoming garrison.
The food waters from Hauser lake
reached this point about midnight las,
night, nearly SO hours from the time
Of the bursting of the dam, the speed
of the torrent having been greatly re.
duced during its cours of nearly 20C
miles. The water has been slowly
rising during the day, and at a late
hour this afternoon was about four
feet above the level of yesterd ay
Immense quantities OF brush. logs,
timbers and other wreckage was
brought down the river by the food,
and a large number of men have been
busy roping in the logs that could be
Intercepted. The river banks and
bars contain an extensive assortment
of debris that was rescued from the
food.
From Fridays Daily
DR.. Stephens will sell a Premier
. cylinder, REQ, or Ford automobile.
Inducements to offer until the 18th.
The Chouteau county district court
has been adjourned by Judge Tattau
for the term. The new term OF court
will begin Wednesday, April %.
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