The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

h. E. Wright, OF this city. Among
those to whom certificates were issued
we're two women applicants, who will
be the first women to practice DENTS.
try in Montana.
Captain Stevens steam pillow is
breaking . big acreage of land near
the stocky ards, about four miles west
of town, which it is proposed to seed
principally to winter wheat. The pillow
is doing very satisfactory work. eight
burrows being turned each trip and its
record ranging from "a to 30 acres
per day.
A resolution recently adopted by the
board of directors of the Great North.
ern railway has been filed with the
secretary of state, authorizing the con.
struction of a branch line in Valley
county which lie to leave the main line
at a point nea Hinsdale The dis.
lance from that point north to the in.
ternational boundary is about sixty
miles.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Ray Cooper and P. PHILIPPE we're
received at the county Jail today from
Harlem, where they we're given q sen.
tence of thirty days by Justice Ven.
mum, for vagrancy.
Mrs. J. q. Russell arrived from Fort
man today on q visit with her parents.
Mrs. Russell was accompanied by
her sister, Mics jeanette Morrow, who
has been attending college at Winona,
MINI.
Martin Furlong has commenced suit
in the district court against the Great
Northern railway company to recover
the sum of sl05, alleged to be the val.
ue Of a COW and a steer killed on the
railroad track: The complaint also
asks judgment for 800 attorneys fee.
Three recent arrivals from Seattle
are building a gasoline launch on the
upper levee, in which they propose
making a trip down the Missouri
river to st. Louis. The launch will
be about % feet long, and will be
propelled by y 5.horsepower gasoline
motor.
Bargains In dry goods at the Chase
Store: Kimona goods at zoe reduced
to l0c. Curtain SWISS, formerly 25c
and 35c, reduced to 1Oc. Sateens that
sold at Csc offered at 1Oc. Silk waists
at g. 80 that formerly sold at "a to 80.
Flannelettes and fleece lined goods, at
Sc per yard.
John Neubert, the we'll known old.
timer, returned today from q visit to
his old home in Germany, his first
trip acros the ocean in more than
fifty years. Mr.. Neubert says the
Fatherland does not look as good to
him as it did in his boyhood days,
and he is glad to get back to Montana.
A damage suit against the city OF
Havre has been filed in the district
court by Rosie Houser, a minor, by
her guardian adj item, Reub ben Houser,
the complaint asking Judgment for
$4,000. 1t is alleged that the hand OF
the plaintiff was badly crushed by a
road grader owned by the municipal
ity. and which was carelessly left
where children could be injured while
playing around it.
The officials of the U. S. engineers
Office at Kansas City, Mo-, are asking
bids for 525 cubic yards of rock for
riprap work on the lower levee at this
place, the bids to be opened August
Is at Kansas City. A notice to that
effect has been received by Postmaster
Geo. w. Crane, the specifications
stating that the rock must be in pieces
ranging from ten to 200 pounds in
weight.
AT the request of several residents
of this vicinity, County Attorney W.
S. Towner has notified Superintendent,
Nicholson, of this division of the
Great Northern, that local railroad
officials are not complying with the
state law which requires them to give
public notice regarding delayed trains.
Mr.. TOwner advises the railroad PEG.
pie that arrests and prosecutions will
follow any further violations of the
law in question.
John Krohn, a ranch foreman who
had been employed by the Benton
Sheep company for about two years,
died suddenly in this city last evening.
Mr.. Krohn had been on the sick list
about q week, but his illness was not
considered of a serious nature and he
was talking with his friends on the
public street yesterda y morning. Dur
ing the afternoon, however, be was
seized with severe stomach pains and
passed away before a physician could
reach him. The deceased was about
% years old, and leaves a wife and