The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-02-03
CITY AND STATE,

From Wednesdays Daily.
Send your watch and iewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's iewelry
store.
The new 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.
The supplemental final ccoun OF
Chas. h. Boyle as administra tor of
the estate of Peter J. Tssdal, deceased,
has been approved by the district
court, and the Administrator dis
charged.
A news item from Hamilton, in the
Bitter Root valley, says q contract
has been let for the construction of an
oatmeal mill At that place. If will be
the fret establishment of that kind in
Montana.
Mise Blackstone, county school
superintendent, returned today from
an Official visit to the Milk river val.
ley. Miss Blackstone states that
most OF the pupils in the several
schools were successful at the recent
eighth grade examinations.
o. G.. Osnes, of Knerville, has in.
creased his holdings Of ranch pro.
perry by the purchase of about 855
acres from Joseph Vanden Heuvel. q
deed filed for record in the county
clerks Office completing the transac.
ton. The purchase price wss about
9 $1,000.
G. 81. Ragland, who recently made
. trip through the wool growing dis
tricts In Utah and Idaho, reports that
Boston and St. Louis buyers have
contracted for most of the wool clips
in those localities. In view of the
prices paid for these heavy woods,
Mr.. Ragland believes Montana wool
is worth more than the figure at which
some of it Is alleged to have been
sold.
1t is reported from Dodson that
work on the government dam in Milk
river at that point is progressing
satisfactorily, and that If the weather
continues favorable the crest should
be affixed by March l. Construction
work is being rushed to the utmost,
three gangs of men being worked in
eight.hour shifts. The claim is made
that the dam will be the cheapest one
OF that character ever built, the total
cost being estimated at about
500, 600. 1t is being constructed with
q view to strength of structure, and
will be as we'll built as any of its kind
in the world.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. Serena Rome left today on a
visit with relatives at Harlem.
John Laird, a we'll known stockman
OF the Sweet Grrss hills. arrived to-
day on a short business visit.
At a recent social session of the
Eastern Star lodge, of this city, Mrs.
E. Frank Sayre was presented with a
handsome past matron pin.
Another case of scarlet fever having
developed in town, the local health
authorities have ordered that the
public schools be temporarily closed.
Peter Mitchell, of T. G. Power &
Bros grocery department., left today
on a trip to his old home in Scotland,
and will return the early part of
March with Mrs. Mitchell and chill.
dren.
Edward Plunkett, who arrived from
Chinook yesterd ay, was taken to St.
Clare hospital to receive treatment for
badly frozen feet and hands, the re-
suit of exposure during the recent
severe cold spell. His hands we're in
such condition that all the fingers
and thumbs had to be am%putated.
An appeal from the Judgment rem.
dered in Justice W. B. Pyper's court
at Havre, in the civil suit of the Kali.
ispell Mailing and Brewing company |
against N. II. Solomon, has been filed
in the district court. The plaintiff
brought suit against defendant to
compel the payment of about S27O
that was alleged to be in his possess
sion as garnishee for V. M. Gardiner,
against whom plaintiff held a iudg-
ment.
Great Falls Tribune: Stock trains
Nos. l and 2, the first to be sent over
the Butte division Of the Great North
ern this year. were loaded yesterday
at Stanford and Swift with fifty cars
of sheep from the Long Bros ranch,
all bound for the Chicago market. A
third train will he loaded tomorrou