The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
CITY AND STATE.

oETASeu tOuay on q short business
visit.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store. =
James BARLEY, Jr., has accepted q
position in the Office of T. G. Power
& Bro.
Wanted-Position by lady as cook
on ranch. Address B. Mcclellan,
Fort Benton. Box 81.
A notice of location for the Kittie
quartz claim, in the Little Rockies,
was filed in the county clerks Office
today by James Lackie and John Vol
Remand.
Wanted, from two to three thous and
mixed lambs coming yearlings for
April delivery. Write or apply to
c. W. Morrison, with Power & Bro,
Fort Benton.
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.
A Washington dispatch says Sen.
ator McCumber has proposed an
amendment to the river and harbor
bill, for improvement of the Missouri
from Sioux City to Fort Benton, and
the Yellowstone from it's mouth to
Billings.
A telephone message received from
Highwood this morning announced
the death of the little daughter of
Theodore Danielsen, who had been
suffering from a severe attack of
scarlet fever. The patient was a little
over two years old.
Among the recent marriages in Great
Falls is that of Thore Ritland and
johanna Holland, both of this city,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
A.. Lunde. OF the Swedish Lutheran
church. The newly welded couple re.
turned from Great Falls yesterday.
Great Falls Leader: F. D. Cooper.
the we'll known sheep man of Cascade,
has just concluded the purchase of
about II, 900 acres of land from the
Northern Pacific Railway company
and has increased his holdings of Cas-.
cade county land to about %, 900
acres. MI. Cooper has had possession
OF this land for a number of years
under lease and has for a long period
been endeavoring to secure deeds to
the same. With the Inauguration of
the present plan of the railway com.
pany to dispose of its big land hold
ings he at last secured the land by
purchase.
From Thursdays Daily.
P. II. Scanlan, the rustling repre-.
sentative of the Milwaukee railroad,
was among the arrivals today.
f. w. Cheatha am, of Highwood, re-
turned yesterday from a visit to
Tacoma and other Pacific coast
points.
Arthur Vance, a colored man, was
received at the county Jail today to
await an official examination as to
his sanity. He was committed bv
Justice W. B. Piper of Havre.
Chas. H. Boyle, accompanied by
Mrs. Boyle and family, left today on a
visit with friends in Washington, D.
c. They expect to be present at the
Taft inauguration ceremonies on
March 4.
The trial of William Randall in the
district court of Cascade county, on a
charge of train robbery, ended in the
of the defend ant. Randall
was one of the boy bandits who held
up a train on the Shelby road several
months ago.
The Great Northern railroad seems
to be having a streak of hard luck
with its tunnels in this vicinity. Word
was received this morning hat a por-
ton of the tunnel just east of the Ben
ton depot has caved in, and will cause
q suspension of traffic for several
days.
One of the biggest water right suits
ever filed in Montana ia on trial in
district court at Bozeman, the suit
being brought to adjudicate various
conflicting water rights in Gallatin
county. There are about IS plaintiffs
and 800 defendants involved in the
Iitig alton.
The Fort Benton Commercial Club
.eels interested in the McDumber !
amendment to the rivers and harbors +
dill. now before the United State
senate, which provides for a liberal i
appropriation for the Improvement of
waterways. The Club, !
through its president, w. S. Towner,
Oday wired Senator Carter REQUEST. Y