The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-08-19

entire state, was 10 cents-paid at
Billings for the John Schroeder clip.
Mr.. Putnam also states that the Mon.
,aua wool clip of this year amounts
t. abou. 80. 600, 900 pounds.
From Tue.day'. Daily.
c. H. Evers. who has been making
a trip through the Yellowstone Park, !
returned home today.
Jere Sullivan left today for Butte to
attend the annual meeting of the Mon.
Hotel Mems association.
Miss Mabel Johnston returned yes.
tcrday from a trip to Glendive and
other points in the Yellowstone coun-
try.
Mrs. David q. Browne and Mrs. E.
T. Morris let, today for Highwood,
where they will be the guests Of Mrs.
John Harris.
Miss Margaret Patterson enter.
tanned d large number of young peo.
pie last evening, the guest of honor
being Miss Evelyn Boyle, of Havre.
John O'Neil, day clerk at the Grand
Union hotel, returned this morning
from Alhambra, where he has been
ENJOYING a vacation for the past ten
q lays.
j. f. Morrison, OF Landusky, who
recently built one of his current motor
boats at Kenuewick, Wash, reports
tina, it is doing good service under all
conditions.
Congressman Charles N. Pray is
attending the dedication Of the Dea.
couess hospital in Great Falls, and
will take part in the ceremony by
making an address.
T. Montgomery, a typical hobo, was
given a 30.day sentence by Justice
Kinder today, for d%isorderly conduct.
Sentence was suspended for ten
minutes. during which the offender
was permitted to leave town.
A decree of divorce has been grant,
ed in the district court in the suit of
Ellen S. Klock, of Havre, against J..
Klock, in which the complaint made
alleg ations of cruelty. The decree
authorizes the plaintiff to resume her
maiden name.
The Great Falls police are trying
to locate a gang Of burglars who en-.
tered the Catholic church in that city
a few nights ago, and stole the chalice
Of the sacrament service. 1t was a
silver vessel. with trimmings of gold,
and was valued at about $3.50.
The appointments made at the Meth.
odi-t conference at Kalispell remove
Rev. P. W. Haynes to Belt, and Rev.
W. A. Morgan, of Belt, ia transferred
to this city. Rev. j. A. Hill 10 ap.
pointed pastor of the Methodist church
a. Chinook, and Rev. w. w. Listen,
at Havre.
II is reported from Havre that A. ]
Brodrick, of the Havre Plaindealer
has been appointed to succeed the late
Nj. j. Healy as deputy customs in
spec,or. The emo!uments of the posi-
iion are $500 per day, and ar
allowance Of 80 cents per day fol
''horse feed
a beef shipment from the Highwoot
country was forded across the Mis-
souri, river today by John Harris
Jos. a. B aker and other owners, ant
will be loaded at the Kershaw stock
yards. The damage caused by th'
recent fire at the stocky ards has beel
sufficiently repaired to provide TO
loading at that point.
George Burlington, of Havre, so,
of q Great Northern locomotive
!, engineer, died at Columbus hospits
in Great Falls yesterda y, from I
revolver wound in the abdomen. Th
shooting IL said to have been acct
dental. having been Inflicted during
playful struggle for possession Of tn
gun.
Yellowstone Journal: 1t was re
ported in Miles City today tha
Snidow, a Billings sheepraiser, ha'
, sold 5000 wethers for 49, IS to
, party who shipped them and for
bunch of tops that average II
pounds received $40. It is also re
ported that Rea Bros. have bought
Z lot OF yearling wethers in Oregon TO
s. and will ship them to Montana.
The dead body of a man was foun'
last evening on a sand bar 10 the Mis-
souri, river near the Holderbaur
, ranch, and the authorities we're a
:, once notified of the discovery by q
Holuerbaum. The remains, which ar
badly decomposed, are believed to b
those of the stranger who was en-
ployed or the JOS. A. Baker raft, an
who was drowned about two weeks az
while frvinu tn swim tho vivian