The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
CITY AND STATE.

Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Howard Price left yesterday after.
noon on a 200-mile trip to his home
at Maple Creek. Canada.
Beeigio Ventura. a native of Italy,
has filed in the district court a decla.
ration OF his intention to become an
American citizen.
A telegram from Chicago reports
good prices for the Shonkin beef ship
ment that was on the market today,
some of the steers bringing 5000 and
better.
The recen eQuinoctial storms have
been quite Q benefit to the dry land
farmers il this vicinit.. They report
that the fav orable weather conditions
have caused their winter wheat to
sprout, and the fields are a macs of
brilliant green.
The Sunday closing ordinance
passed by the city council of Havre
some time ago was defeated at a spe.
cial election held in that city Monday.
The ordinance required the closing of
saloons all day Sunday, and under
the state referendum law was submit.
ted to the voters at q special election.
There was q majority vote of 81
nn0inet a. IN a total - A>.A A..-
hundred.
The Helena reception committee in
charge of arrangements for President
Taft's visit to that city Monday, is
appointing q number OF private citi-
zens from various parts of Montana
to take part in the formal welcome.
The appointees in Chouteau county
are John Harris, David G. Browne,
W. K. HARDER, E. T. Broadwater,
Ed. Burke, G. F. Morris, William R.
Hensen, A. S. Lohman, j. A. Hatch,
George B. Bourne.
H. J. O'Hanlon, the Chinook mer.
chant, who returned from q trip to
Ireland q few days ago, is among the
visitors In town. Mr.. O'Hanlon re.
ports a very enjoyable vacation, one
OF tie pl~easantest features being a
short visit with Dan Brereton. q former
resident of this city, who is now living
on the old family homestead in Ire.
land and is engaged in the cattle bus.
mess. Mr.. O'Hanlon crossed the
ocean on the Maurietania, the cele.
brated Cunard steamer that makes the
passage in about AZ days and which
is about $50 feet in length.
From Thursdays Daily.
Walter Burton, of Chester, is am.
ong the business visitors in town.
L. M. Compton arrived from Har-
lem today, on a short business visit.
A news item from Lewistown reports
the first snow storm of the season, in
that part of Montana.
The Barbwire roundup has gathered
ar outfit of prime beef cattle that is
being held on the Teton, preparatory
to shipment.
A deed filed in the county clerks
office records the sale of the Merritt
Flanagan ranch to DR.. c.. F. Hopkins,
of Chinook. The purchase price was
about 81, 800.
Several horse purchases are said
to have been made recently in the
western part Of Valley county, the
buyers being eastern dealers. Some
of the tr ans actions were at $50 to $50
per head.
The Miles City Journal reports, as
an instance of dry land farming, that
J ames Barnes, of Jordan, has raised
this year 10000 bushels of oats that
ran As pounds to the bushels. and dis.
posed OF a large amount around his
part of the country at two cents per
pound.
Word was received from Saco today
that L. H. Mills, the we'll known sheep
man OF that vicinity, has sold his
land holdings and sheep to Great
Falls parties, the deal amounting to
about SIC, 900. The land holdings in.
cluded some 1000 acres, about one.
half being susceptible of irrigation.
Among the samples of grain received
by the Commercial Club, for exhibi.
ton in the Great Northern building at
ST. Paul, is a fine collection of oats
and wheat grown by Gus Heydt of the
Shonkin. One of the exhibits is a
bunch OF ''sixty day" oats that was
seeded June 3 and harvested August
20, and which is a remarkably good
sample of that variety of grain.
From Fridays Daily
George E. STREET., Of Highwood. is
in town today on a short visit.
Attorney John G. Duff, of Chinook.