The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
AMONG OUR NEIeHB0RS.

AMONG OUR NElCHBORS.
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Hinsdale Homestead: Already the
people Of saco and vicinity r get
ting ready for the coming big harvest.
We understand two new threshing
machines have recently been ordered
and the hum of the machine will be
heard throughout that section this
fall.
Hsvre Plsindealer: Major Walker,
OF the immigration department, this
week placed under arres Robert w.
Moore, q procurer, at Shelby. Moore
brought In from Lethbridge, Canada,
. young woman for immoral purposes,
and was spprehended by Officer
Walker as he vas deportiug Mrs.
Swain ct Virden.
Conrad Observer: A. ]. Fowler
was q business visitor this week from
his home on the Marias river. He
said that he had docked 90 per cent
increase in his lamb crop and but for
the May storm would have had over
100 per cent. BE said be never saw
such healthy lambs and 90 many
twins. he had forty pairs Of twins in
q band Of 200 ives.
Chester Signal: The Great North.
ern's we'll drill is expected at an early
date to sink . we'll on the experiment
farm. We understand it is the inten-
tion to go down q thousand feet, II
necessary, to find an artesian 6ow of
water. This work will be watched
with . great deal OF interest and 1t 10
confidently expected that the result
will be highly satisfactory.
Glasgow News: The ranchers on
the Big Dry and Its tributaries, south
of the Missouri river, are going TO
make . special effort to check the
increase Of wolves in that part OF the
country, and have decided to unite In
Offering q bounty of $50 per head on
old wolves and 80 on wolf pups. The
bounty, we understand, is in addition
to the regular state bounty. This
offer should be q good %inducement to
trappers in other sections.
Chinook Opinion: TheIalfalfa patch
on the Chinook experimental dry farm
is q most encouraging sight these
days and 10 q good indication Of the
possibilities offered by THAT crop In
this section on the non.irrigable lands.
The alfalfa was planted under unfav.
orable conditions, being sown on new.
~ broken land, which is not recon.
mended by authorities. 1t was eaten
to the ground the tirst summer by
sheep but came up, lived through the
bare winter season of last winter and
is now making fine growth.
Glasgow News: The commercial
club has taken steps to ascertain why
so much Of the land, similar In char
acter to that already designated, has
been left ont of the 32O-acre distric,
west Of here in the vicinity of Hins.
dale, Saco, Malta and 90 west as far
as Chester, and S. j. Rumble was ap-
pointed to look into the matter. The
secretary was instructed to make In.
quiry OF the proper authorities re.
garding the failure of the reclaim alton
service to give data of the Milk river
valley irrigation project for the map
that the state publicity bureau is
about to issue.
Malta Enterprise: A heavy rain
and hail storm visited this locality
Friday afternoon. Many of the hail
stones measured thr~ee-fourths of az
inch in diameter and for fifteen min
utes they fell thick and fast. The
gardens In and about Malta suffered
somewhat. in some instances the ten
der plants were not only made ragged
but we're driven into the ground by
the force of the storm. About siz
miles east of town there seems to have
been q partial cloud burst for the hal
was piled in heaps resembling snow
drifts, windows we're broken and gar
dens entirely destroyed.
Chinook Opinion: The Milk River
Information Bureau has taken up {
plan of pushing the advertising of the
resources of northern Montana by go,
ing to the farmers o. the east with
samples of the products of this sectior
in addition to sending out literature,
Petitions are being circulated in Val
ley and Chouteau counties asking the
commissioners of those counties to ap'
propriate the $500 authorized by the
last Legislature for publicity purposes
in each county each year for sending
out a special a filled with northern
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