The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-08
CITY AND STATE.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Bruce Glenn. of Chinook, is among
the business visitors in town.
Send your watch and j~ewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Ever Nelson and Robt. Corcorran,
OF Box Elder, are among the visitors
attending our
q. F.. Morris, cashier of the Security
State bank of Havre, is renewing &C.
qaintance with his Fort Benton
friends.
A marriage license was issued by
the clerk OF the district court today to
Harvey B. Atkinson and Lillian G.
Aud, both of Havre.
Sheriff Bickle left today for Deer
Lodge with Dennis Dolan and Chas.
Kline, who were sentenced yesterda y
to terms in the state p%enitentiary.
A declaration of his intention to
become an American citizen was fled
in the district court today by Henry
J. Bugden, of Chinook, who is a ma.
tive of England.
Twenty ducks per day for each hun.
ter is the limit permitted by the pres
ent Montana game law. This restric-
ton will put q quietus upon stories of
slaughter by the wagon load.
George Hart was received at the
county jail yesterday to await trial in
the district court on q charge of re-
sisting an officer. The defendant was
committed by Justice Brooks, of Chi
nook.
Joseph Gussenhoven, of Havre,
Mont, is arranging to import a herd
OF Holstein Fresian cows and bulls
registered, with an ancestry record OF
over "a pounds of butter q week and
100 pounds of milk q day.
It is reported from Chinook that c.
M. Sedgwick, of Ada, has harvested
q record winter wheat crop of So bush.
els per acre from his dry land farm.
The~lsnd was summer fallowed last
year, and received proper Guilty. alton
this season.
Frank Laird, who is among the
visitors in town, brings news of boun.
tiful grain crops in the Sweet Grass
hills. During q residence of about
twenty years in that locality MIR.
Laird has never seen anything superior
to present conditions.
c. M. Lanning, formerly of this
city, and who vas q member of the
board of county commissioners in the
early nineties, was among the arriv-
ais from the vest last evening. Mr..
Lanning is now located at Decatur,
Mich, but has been visiting on the
Pacific coast.
I. A. Neibaur, of Dodson, who was
among the arrivals today, states that
construction work on the bitches from
the Dodson dam is being pushed by
the reclamation service. The rail
road authorities are also busy rails
ing the height of the Great Northern
track at Dodson, to prevent its being
flooded by backwater from the bod.
son dam.
OThe prisoners in the county Jail
whose names appear on the register
as Frank Belmont, Harry Brown and
Joe Tucker, had a hearing in Justice
Kinder's court tod ay on a charge of
assault, and we're fined $40 each. The
offenders organized a Kangaroo court
in the county Jail, and inflicted pun.
ishment upon another prisoner by
brutality beating him.
Helena Independent: John T. MUIR
ply has received t%elegraphic advices
from Rosenbaum Bros. & Co., that
out of a shipment of cattle to Chicago
he had 48 steers that brought $50
per hundred and averaged 1,48O
pounds. This makes 1913 "a for each
animal, which is a top price for beef
stock from Montana or any other
range, and q record breaking aver
age for weight.
Hon. T. Nj. Everett, of Harlem, who
Is among the visitors in town, con-
firms the news that a site for the big
beet sugar factory has been definitely
located at Savoy, and that the factory
will be ready for business next season.
The labor problem in connection with
growing the beets will be handled by
an employment agency that will co.,
tract to supply the laborers needed,
On a plan similar to that in successful
operation at Billings.
From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. c. H. Ragland and family left
today for San Diego, Cal, on an ex-
tended visit.
w. T. Cowan, of Box Elder, and B.
+. Schwartz. ri Clifford. are among