The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-02
CITY N STATE.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Frank N. Lowe, Of Whitlash, is q
business visitor in the city today.
Rev. Edward Donnelly, the newly
appointed pastor of the Catholic
church In this city, arrived from Great
Falls on last nights train.
Mrs. r. E. Danielsen and family
left this morning for Spokane. where
they will join Mr.. Dsnielsen, who has
been located there for some time past.
Lots, 6, g., 10, IL and Ia, in block
10, townsite of Chinook, we're sold at
auction this afternoon by Judge Tat.
tan, the successful bidder being Will
liam Wolf, of that place.
At q meeting held At the Hilmen G.
Lying store Thursday evening, ar
engagements were made to reorganize
the town band. 1t Is proposed to
have q band of twenty pteces.
A fire loss of about $4,000 is re-
ported from Shelby, the Palace botel
and the Drake drug store being am
oug the buildings destroyed. Part of
the loss is covered by insurance.
The high school literary society
will hold its regular meeting tonight
in the assembly room, where an in.
teresting program will be rendered.
The general public is invited to At
tend.
Declarations of intention to become
American citizens we're made today
before the clerk of the district court
by Adelaide and Isabelle Jaynes,
natives of Canada, and Henry Kiosk.
imaki, . native of Finland.
A large delegation of members Of
the Fort Benton Commercial club left
on last nights train for Chester,
where they will interview residents Of
that section OF Chouteau county in
opposition to the proposed removal
OF the county seat to Havre.
Among the documents received q,
the county clerks Office are several
notices of location for quartz elaine
in the Little Rockies. Two notices
have been fled by W: B. Lusk and
Robert Goode, and other notices by
Walter Wolfe, John O'Nail and J. c.
Emerson.
1t is announced in q Washington
dispatch that q large area Of land ii
northern Montana has been with
drawn from entry Be coal land. the
Withdrawals aggregating about l22,
600 acres. Most of the lands are To-
Gated just east of the Fort Assinni
boine military reservation.
Another death from exposure IL re-
ported from Great Fails, Tom Orico'
vich, an Austrian, being found frozer
to death on the Belt road near thai
city. He is said to have left Grea'
Falls in an intoxicated condition, in
tending to walk home during the re
cent severe cold spell.
A novelty in moving picture show:
will be given at the opera house TO-
morrow evening, when Mr.. Belchel
will present the Passion Play. con
sisting of over 5000 feet of artistically
colored film, with a musical program
appropriate to the occasion. The en-.
t~ertainment will commence t nine
o'clock.
According to an exhibit prepared by
the state bureau Of labor and indus
try, the number of convicts received
at the state penitentiary last year wa,
375, Yellowstone county heading the
list with AZ convicts committed from
that county. On January l there were
678 inmates in the pe~nitentiary, a gair
OF nearly a hundred during the year.
Malta Eeuterprise: The reclaim atior
Office in this city was notified by tht
secretary Of the interior the first o
the week that all the land under thu
Dodson-M alta canal, that is not flee
upon,or subject to q contest,o in an!
way revert back to the governmen,
will be made into eighty acre farm
units. Land already filed on, prev
ious to this order will not be subjec
to this decision. Surveyors are nov
busy surveying those units and a.
soon as the plats are sanctioned b.
the reclamation service Ia Washing
tor the land will be subject to entry
There is not a very large acresg'
which will come under this order a
most of the fand has been filed upon
From Mondays Daily.
/. NJ. Rogers, of Big Sandy, wa
among the arrivals today.
Jos. STREET., of Highwood, is renew
ing AGO uaintance with old-time friend,
ia this city.
William Davis, Jr., arrived from
Great Falls toda on a visit with hi
fo.ho. ,rbo 10 mr. tho siok 1iSt