The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-05-26
CITY N STATE.

From WEDNESDAYS Daily.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's iewelry
store. \
G. W. Price. Of Los Angeles, Cal,
formerly of this city, arrived today
to look after his business interests in
this vicinity.
1t is reported from Belt that the
heavy snowfall in that section has
caused high water in Belt creek, anc
some OF the ranchers fear q repetition
OF the food experiences Of last sea.
son.
The adjourned meeting of the Com.
mercial Club will be held next Wed.
nesday evening, May %, when the
Fourth Of July soliciting committee
expects to. be able to make q satisfac.
tory report.
Another transaction in local real
estate is the purchase of the Frank
Merger saloon property on From,
street by Isaac Hunsberger. The
property. which has q 24.foot front.
age, sold for $500.
Constable E. B. Thomas arrived
from Havre today with Charles Roske,
who was bound over to the district
court by Justice W. B. Piper on q
charge Of assault in the second degree.
Charles Gardiner is the complaining
witness in the case.
A prisoner who gives the name OF
G.. W. Gilbert was received at the
county jail yesterday to await trial in
the district court on q charge of for
gerry. He is said to have cashed a
forged check for s75 at the berly
saloon in Landusky.
The habeas corpus proceedings in.
stituted on behalf of Thomas E.
Tucker rel abandoned in the district
court today, the prisoner having been
delivered last evening to two deputy
sherifs from Enterprise, Oregon, who
had requtsition papers for the de.
PENDANT. Tucker is said to be wanted
in Oregon on q charge Of assault in
the fret degree, but he claims there
were ex~tenuatinR circumstances that
will acquit him of criminal intent.
A dispatch from Twin Bridges Gays
n OF the largest cattle deals con.
summated in Madison county in re.
cent years, al recently closed in the
Madison valley for the purchase of
1000 head of stock cattle from H. B.
Filing by Mark & Mark Of St. Paul.
The price paid is said to have been
S2S a head straight through, or a
total of II 5000. The cattle will be
shipped within q few days to Miles
City where they are to be disposed of
at auction. The same parties have
also purchased about $50 head of
horses at $50 q head which will be
shipped . for sale.
From Thursdays Daily.
Word has been received from Lap
wal, Idaho, announcing the birth of
a son to the wife of Ira F. King, of
Big Sandy.
1t is reported from Billings that the
Hervey wool clip has been contracted
to Silberman Bros, of Chicago, at "a
cents, the top price of the season.
The clip will amount to about 100, 900
pounds.
Another petition for letters of ad.
ministration in the estate of DR.. J. A..
Stauffer, deceased, has been filed in
the district court. The applicant is
W. 0. Dexter, public administrator
for this county.
Among the documents filed in the
county clerks Office is a water right
by the Great Northern Railway COM
pany to about 200 gallons per minute
OF the waters of certain ~coulees near
Inverness, which are wanted for it's
pumping station at that point.
The new time card that will go into
effect on this division of the Great
Northern on Sunday, May %, gives
daylight trains in each direction.
The westbound will arrive here about
$3.50 q. m. and the %eastbound about
4:40 p. NJ, according to unofficial re-
ports.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the county clerks Office by the
Cooperative Telephone company of
Chinook, the incorporators being
Rudolph Hermes, John Drummer,
James N. Cook, W. D. Smotherman
and r. L. Morris. The company,
whose capital stock is $40, 600, proposes
to build q telephone line from
Chinook to the Paradise valley.
John Neubert, of the Teton, the
Oldest pioneer citizen in this part of
Montana, left today on a trip to his
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