The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-07
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Archie Daley and wife. of W.cxes.
Mont, are the guests of MIR. and Mrs.
Glen Lauer.
Fred Browne, who recently gradu.
ated from an eastern college. was
among the arrivals last evening.
c. W. Price, q former resident of
this city who now makes his home in
Los Angeles, CAL, spent the Fourth
with friends here.
J. j. Mahony, Of the United States
customs Office at Great Falls, arrived
Saturday to make an examination Of
the new steamboat as required by the
regulations of the treasury depart
ment.
Among the receipts of the county
tressurer's Office lie Q remittance from
the Great Northern railway, repre-
senting the special poor and road tax
collections from It's employees. It am.
cunts to s7,972, and it Is understood
further collections will be made.
The official June report OF Observer
G. W. Ling, Of the weather bureau
station at Havre, shows on average
mean temperature for the past month.
In the matter of precipitation, howev.
er, the total was 3.9l inches, an
amount about one inch in excess of
the average for June.
There was q heavy cloudburst Fri.
day evening on the Shonkin and in
the country south of here, and . simi.
lar visitation was repeated last even
ing. The coulee leading from the
bench to the Missouri river was q
raging torrent, and the road down
the canyon is so badly damaged that
it is temporarily closed to traffic.
A telephone message received from
Great Falls this morning stated that
Charles Waters, of Hollywood, was
run over by q street car in that city
yesterday , suffering injuries that re-
suited in his death this morning. MIR.
Waters had q wide acquaintance
among local residents, having attend
ed school in this city, and news of the
cad occurrence is received with deep
regret by his many friends.
Advices from Belt announce the
death of John W. Leland, an old
time and welllknown resident Of that
vicinity. Mr.. Leland was a typical
western pioneer, having come to Mon.
tana from Colorado in 1859, and in the
late sixties engaged in mining in Last
Chance gulch. He also engaged for a
number of years in ranching and be.
sides anlinterest IN a hardware store
and a number of other enterprises in
Belt, he owned one Of the larges,
ranches in that vicinity. He is sur
vived by a wife and three children.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Thos. E. Hayward and wife, of Min.
neapolis, were among the arrivals
from the west last evening.
The postal service to Avery has
been ordered discontinued on July 81,
the nail thereafter to 60 to Harlem.
Judge Tattan and E. R. Russell lef,
last evening for Glasgow, where a
jury term of district court will com.
mence tomorrow.
Some fine samples of winter wheat
from the George Tope dry land farm
are on exhibition at the Grand Union
hotel. The samples are we'll headed
and stand nearly four feet high.
Judgment by default has been en-.
tered in the suit of the First National
Bank Of Harlem against the Harlem
Mining and Investment company, the
amount OF the judgment being abou,
q, 800.
Among the departures last evening
we're Jere- Sullivan and W. S. Tow.
ner, who will represent this city at the
Missouri River Navigation Congress-
at Yankton, South Dakota. They
will go via Wilmar, MINI.
Malcolm Morrow is in receipt oil
word that q recent thunder storm did
considerable damage at his Shonkir
ranch. Three calves were killed by
lightning and a long stretch of fence
was grounded by a thunder bolt.
Arrivals from the country between
the Teton and Marias report a record
grass crop in that section. Some OF
the ranchers propose harvesting a
hay crop on the prairie, and if suf6.
cient help can be secured they will
put up enough hay to last them three
years.
John B. Rauch, of Lewistown, a
former resident of this city, arrived
last evening On a short visit before
going to Los Angeles, Cal, to attend
the Elk's convention. Mr.. Rauch re-
ports an immense crop Of winter wheat