The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
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Prom Fridays Daily

Prom Fridays Daily
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
A party Of lsndseekers from Iowa
is Investigating conditions in the
country north of town, with q view to
locating homestea ads in that locality.
A recent transaction in city real
estate is the sale of three uuimproved
lots on Main street by A. L. Lewis to
7. G. power & Bro, the purchase
price being 81. 900.
w. G. Paulson, of Williston, who
is among the visitors in town, is maxi
ing arrangements to open a lumber
yard Of the Front street property
which he recently purchased.
The resignation of VIM. DesLosier,
as city marshal, vas presented at a
meeting of the city council last even
ing, to take effect March l. Mr.. Des.
Losier finds it necessary to establish
residence on hts homestead.
A Washington press dispatch saya
the interior department has designat-
ed 1920 acres of land in Valley county
as coming under the enlarged home.
stead law, making q, $3.50, 4lO acres in
Montana subject to entry under this
act.
Patents covering q large acreage OF
lapd In THE district, upon which final
proof was made some time ago, have
been received at the Great Falls land
Office. The parties in whose favor the
patents were issued will be notified IN
due course.
A resident of the new town OF Car.
ter, located about Is miles west of
here. reports preparations for exten.
sive building operations at that point.
A lumber yard has been established
there. and q general store is about
ready for business.
A suit has been fled in the district
court by Bridget Dice against John
G. Baily, OF Havre, to establish the
dover right of plaintiff in some real
estate to which defendant holds a deed.
The suit relates to some aavre town
property acquired from the late A. F.
Dice about eighteen years ago.
The report of G.. W. Ling, of the
weather bureau station at Havre,
shows q temperature of % de-
grees last month, compared with an
average of 13 degrees for January
during the past thirty years. The
lowest temperature during the month
was eight below zero. There was a
deficiency OF precipitation last month,
the record showing only O.44 inches
compared with an average of OLA for
January in former years.
From Thursdays Daily.
Among the arrivals today was q
party of twenty.three landseekers,
most of whom come from Indiana.
A marriage license was issued by
the clerk of the district court tod ay to
Harry r. Gibson aud Anna Rixinger,
of Havre.
Constable /. A. Neibaur arrived to
day from Dodson with Thomas Flor
renee. who has been committed to Jail
for thirty days, for petit larceny. The
prisoner was sentenced by Justice
George Hall.
D. r. McGinnis, owner OF the
site of Galata, is among the visitors
in town today. Mr.. McGinnis has
fled in the county clerks Office the
plat Of an addition to the townsite of
Galata, containing about lis lots.
A. j. Schmidt, who has been visit.
ing at his former home in North Da-
kota, was among the arrivals today.
Mr.. Schmidt reports that large num-
bers OF settlers are preparing to come
to this vicinity at an early date.
-Four declarations of intention TO
become American citizens were filed
in the district court today. The ap.
plicants we're William O. Cole, James
Connolly, Thomas Bradley and Jas.
Riley, all residents of the new town of
bingham, a few miles west of Gid.
ford.
A dispatch from Washington says
Representative Chas. N. Pray has in.
PRODUCED a bill appropriating 800, 900
for surveys of unsurveyed public lands
in Montana and increasing to $3.50, 900
the appropriation for improving the
Missouri river from Sioux City to
Fort Benton.
A notice of co partnership was filed
in the county clerks Office today by
Henry G. Turner and Clyde E. Tur.
ner, Of Harlem, who will be associated
in business under the firm name of the
Turner Land aud Livestock company. |
The partnership is to continue for a