The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-20
CITY AND STATE.


SSSs
asst night from Montreal, Canada, on
q visit with their brother, Ed. Goyette
and family
Advices from Chinook report the
ale of the H. G. Reynolds ranch of
about $50 acres to A. w. Jamison,
the purchase price being sl5. 900. The
property is located about four miles
east Of Chinook. and is considered an
excellent ranch proposition.
In q business letter to the River
A. G. Strobe writes that many
new settlers in the vicinity of Chester
are preparing to seed q large acreage
Of fax and other crops. Several
steam plows are at work breaking up
the sod, preparatory to seeding.
Marriage licenses we're issued today
BY the clerk of the district court to
Harry jackson and Mary Baldwin. Of
Chester, and Paris G. Hughes and
Florence Fleming, Of Great Falls.
The latter couple yer married this
morning at the Methodist parsonage
by Rev. Mr.. Morgan.
John 81. Ruhe. who q few days ago
had q hearing before . lunscy com.
mission and was adjudged insane,
died last evening. his relatives at
Warrick have been notified, and will
arrive here tomorrow morning. The
funeral will be held from the Episco.
pal church tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock.
A Washington dispatch states that
the secretary of the interior has at.
frmed the decision of the land com.
missioner denying the application Of
Louis Lacy for the reinstatement OF
his allotment under the Great Falls
land Office, now covered by the home.
stead and cash entries Of Robert
Grondorf and August Heydt.
From Mondays Daily.
II. J. Toomey, of Deer Lodge, who
has livestock interests in this part of
Montana, is among the business visit.
ors in town.
The City Shooting shop has been en-.
lsrged, Mr.. Byers finding that his in.
cressing blacksmith business requires
additional accommodations.
The Helena man who was assigned
to take the census Of the country die
tricts in this vicinity failed to qualify
4~~ <ho coalition ood 1ouaa p~art1ov
has received authority to take up the
work.
Phil Buckley, who has been on the
sick list for several weeks, returned
today form Harlem. Mr.. Buckley re-
ports an active demand for Harlem
real estate, with several sales at fancy
figures.
There is q little mining excitemen,
at Big Sandy over N assay of ore
alleged to have been taken from
claim in the Bear Paw mountains, 10.
Gated about twenty miles south of Big
Sandy. The report of a Butte assay
err gives the sample a value OF s 1885
per ton, but old time residents will
prefer to await further development;
before taking stock 10 the proposition
Among the arrivals today was
man who was put aboard the west
bound train at Lippard in a badly
crippled condition. According TO thu
story told by the patient, he was
knocked of the esstbound train las
night, while passing from n car tt
another, q fellow passenger falling
against him when the train gave
quick lurch. He is injured on the
head, hands and feet.
A contract for the new bank build
ing at the corner of Front and St
John streets has been let to Hurd {
Gleason, of Minot, N. OAK, the struc
ture to cost about Gil, 600. 1t will b
q by Ill feet ia size, with basement
concrete found alton aud brick walls
the front to be of pressed brick
Work will be commenced az soon q
the present frame building a be re
moved to its new location on Mai
street.
Prom Tuesdays Daily.
Found. u dress pattern. Apply a
River Press Office.
Attorney ID. L. Blackstone, of Chi
nook, was among the arrivals today
Jos. Demars, an old.time residen
of Havre, is among the visitors il
town.
For sale, q Percheron stallion, tw'
years old. weight 1850 pounds, a
Buck & Keunon's feed yard.
A jury venire Of fifty names wa
drawn in the district court yesterd ay
the jurors to report for duty Wednes
day, May Is.
John Lippard, of K%alispell, who wa