The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-02-12
T AND STATE.
From SAtRfdaY'e Daily.

mence Febrnary Is.
AT a meeting of the directors of the
Stockmen's National bank, which was
held today, the officers of that insti,u.
ton were re elected.
Mrs. Geo. F. Lewis left today for
Grea. Falls, in response to news tn at
the condition of MIR. Lewis is more
serious than anticipated.
Leon Ische,ter had a hearing before
a lunacy commission in the district
court this afternoon, aud vas COM
mitted to the insane asylum at Warm
Springs.
In the district court today, Chas.
Il. Boyle was appointed a%dministra-
tor Of the estate of the late Peter Tas-
dale, upon petition OF relatives Of the
deceased.
Henry Collins, who was convicted
by q jury on the charge of petit lar
ceny, was today given a sentence of
sixty days in Jail, the sentence being
imposed by Justice Kinder.
Thomas Buckley, of Harlem, was
among the arrivals today. MIR. Buck
ley reports heavy shipments of baled
hay from Harlem, some of them going
TO points on the Pacific coast.
The Missouri river At this point has
been in q turbulent condition since
last evening, owing to the formation
and breaking of ice gorges som dis.
lance down stream. The water has
been rising and falling every two or
three hours, a large quantity of slush
ice occasionally blocking the channel.
A Washington dispatch says the
bill providing for the opening OF the
Fort Peck Indian reserv alton in Val.
ley county contemplates an extensive
irrigation scheme in that part
There are in the reserv alton
1880, 600 acres, one-third OF which
has been surveyed. Indians on the
reservation consist of 1,S0O Sioux and
.Assinniboines. Nine months is the
period given for the work of ap.
praisemenL.
From Monday Daily.
A location notice for the Black
Eagle quartz claim, in the Little
Rockies, was filed in the county clerks
Office today by Alex Carr, of Fort.
man.
A. w. Merrifeld, county surveyor,
who has returned from a visit Of sew.
eral weeks in Chicago. reports thai
the mild winter conditions extend &c
that part of the country.
The Missoula newspapers report the
marriage of Oliver B. Crane, former
ly of this city, and Miss Grace Mac
Lean, of MissOula, who was until re
Gently a resident Of St. Paul, the wed
ding taking place Saturday. Tit
newly married couple will make thei1
home in Helena.
w. H. Steele and NJ. l.. DeLoug, o
the Boston and Montana smelter a
Great Falls, are among the visitor
in town. They are securing sample
Of water and ice from the Missouri
river, which, it is understood, will b
submitted to analysis to determin
their degree of alleged impurity.
The death of John J. Ellis, of Grea
Falls, one of the Oldest and wealthies
residents of that city, is reported fror
San Diego, CAL, where he was visit
ing. Mr.. Ellis came to Montana i
the early sixties, locating in the Su
river valley in 1867, and had a wild
acquaintance among old.time residen,
in this part of the state.
John Fleming, the we'll known liv'
stock dealer who has operated exte.
sively in northern Montana for II
past fifteen years, is a prosperity
mining magnate. He has become il
terested in some promising Wyomin
copper properties, for the developmel
of which $40, 600 worth of machiner
has recently been purchased.
Some of the local ice dealers a.
considering the advisability OF secu
ing their supply from the Teton,
the Missouri river shows no Indicate
of furnishing the usual harvest. 1t
recalled, however, that similar cond
tions prev ailed two years ago. whe
the freezeup Of the Missouri river o
Cured the second week 10 March.
In an opinion given to the coun'
attorney OF Valley county, the alto
ney general holds that county coroI
ers have no authority to conduct i
guests on Indian reservations. Ina
much as the United States reserv'
the right to punish all crimes COMM
ted upon reservations against Indian
and by Indians, it is not ineumbe
1pon a prom o determine wheth
a crime has been committed.
From Tuesdays Daily.
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