The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

trip from Los Angeles, CAL, the
journey of about 1900 miles being
made in less than sixty hours.
A dispatch from Salt Lake an.
nounces the death of Benjamin F.
Saunders, the we'll known Utah live.
stock dealer, who had q wide &C.
quaintance among Montana stockmen.
Mr.. Saunders supplied q good many
trainloads Of young steers to local
stockmen, who matured them on the
northern Montana range.
Great Falls Leader: A damage
suit for s25 900 has been instituted in
the district court against the Alphous
Custodis Chimney Construction com.
pany and the Boston & Montana
Copper & Silver Mining company by
Ralph L. Jones and Emeline Jones,
parents of Ralph Jones, who, on July
9. 1908, was killed by falling q dis.
lance Of $50 feet while employed as q
laborer in the construction of the big
stack.
From Fridays Daily
Emil Mundt, Of Lloyd, arrived to.
day on q short business visit.
Henry Baeth, q we'll known Valley
county sheepman. was among the ar.
rivals today.
Mrs. John Harris, who has been
spending several weeks at the Harris
ranch on Highwood, returned today.
Andrew Gilbertson. who is engaged
in the banking business at Towner,
N. OAK, is among the visitors in
town.
A p%ostoffice has been established at
Savoy, about twelve miles east of
Harlem, with G. A. Boardman as
postmaster.
Jere Sullivan returned today from
Livingston, where he attended the
annual meeting of the Montana Hotel
Mems association.
Robert G. Johnson. of Hollywood,
returned today from Kalispell, where
Unregistered for q chance in the
Flathead land lottery.
Otto Ramstead, OF Thief River Falls,
MIMI, who recently made several
horse purchases in this vicinity, is
among the business visitors in town.
P. Buckley, Of Nanticoke, Pa, who
has been visiting with his nephew,
Phil Buckley, of this city, left yester.
day on a trip to the Yellowstone
park.
Lena Johnson, a Russian subject
who was born in Finland, has filed in
the district court q declara alton of her
intention to become an American
citizen.
G. HOkansOn and A. j. Aarsand, OF
Warrick, we'll known residents of the
Bear Paw country, are among the
business visitors in town. They re.
port a record hay crop in the Bear
Paws.
George Wackerlin, who is handling
the wool shipments from this point,
has been unusually busy the past few
days. The various shipments will
probably aggregate over 1900, OOO
pounds.
W. S. Stocking has presented the
River Press with an attractive exhibit
OF dry land garden truck. 1t consists
OF cucumbers, carrots and turnips of
good size that were gathered July 20,
and which matured without irrig alton
an exhibit that equals anything that
can be seen in carefully tended gar.
dens.
D. S. Williams, local agent of the
Great Northern Railway company,
was arrested yesterday afternoon up
on a complaint made in the justice
court by County Attorney w. S.
Towner, 10 which the defendant was
charged with failing to properly re-
port delayed trains, as required by q
Montana law. The failure of the de-
fendant to make such report is alleged
to have caused considerable incon-
venience to the travelling public, and
the natter was recently presented to
the superintendent at Great Falls:
but as there was no improvement in
the situation it was decided to invoke
the assistance of the law. The defend.
ant will have a hearing Friday, Aug.
ust g., and In the meantime is allowed
liberty without bonds for his appear.
ance.
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