The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-12-09
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Northern montana CnanS
Harlem News: The dwelling house
and all the other buildings of Chris.
Kruse, in Paradise Valley, burned
Thursday afternoon. While Mr..
Kruse was t%hreshing at a neighbours
place near by, and while all the mem.
bers of his family were away, the fire
started In some unaccouutable way.
The threshing crew were within sight
of the fire, and FASTENED there as soon
as it was discovered but were unable
to save anything.
Hinsdale Homestead, The Hinsdale
Broom company has been organized
and will be incorporated with a capital
stock of s. 200, divided into 500 shares
of a par value of ten dollars each.
The incorporators OF the new com.
pany are A. Nj. Butler, A. D. kepple,
Charles Tanner, NJ. j. Welton, w.
H. Hesser and J. Z. Farris, who have
associated themselves together for
VIC PuA POoC VI 'hS w "6~AS"
broom factory business.
Glasgow Review: Mrs. Boatright,
north of the track, while laboring un-
der q temporary alteration of the
mind attempted to commit suicide by
shooting herself Saturday night. II
appears that while Der husband wal
eating his lunch she quietly slipped
up behind his chair and extracted his
revolver from his pocket, and later
used the weapon upon herself. She
inflicted a slight wound in her side
which was dressed by Drs. Hoyt and
Getty. She was later Sent t O be,
parents in Oklahoma.
Glasgow News: The project eugin
eer has received a number of requests
that he ask for bids on the Dodsol
south canal, from Point Of Rocks tt
Malta, with the idea in view that SOM
work might be done during the winter
months. The matter was submitted tt
the supervising engineer, who state'
that a further strip of canal than tina
f already opened for construction coul'
not be let until the stretches in tn
first nine miles on which contract
had not been let had been contracted
for.
Chinook Opinion: The Belkna]
Irrig cation company recently finishe'
= extensive and permanent repairs O,
. the headgate of their canal. DurinI
t the flood last spring there was con
= siderable damage done by a break i
the bank of the river into the ditch
A large crew of men have been a
q work there for about six weeks film;
T. IN dirt into the washout and ripraI
= ping the bank of the stream. TIL
J. riprapping is four feet higher tina
g the old bank level and the headgate
better protected than ever before.
Conrad Observer: Those who ar
in a position to know assert that
i Thousand new settlers will be added
this section of the country the comm
! summer. 1t is a we'll known fact thu
the new owners of the Conrad Inves'
q ment company are rushing the irrigt
ton project with a reality that mean
business. To the old timers there az
pears to be madness in their method
To interested and progressive citizen
the present work for the reclamatio
of thousands of acres of arid land
q but a business proposition and on
o that is bound to bring with it VI
bounded. prosperity. Farming in thi
section is no longer an experimen
1t has proved a profitable investmer
a and with water on the land failure
I impossible. We look to see the da
q when the Pondera valley will eclips
e famous sections in the state Of MOI
n tana noted for agriculture and hort
culture, and the time is not far di
liant.