The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-03-16
CITY N STATE.
From Wednesdays Daily

Send your watch and jewelry repair |
work to D.. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Wanted, to trade a three.horsepower
gasoline engine for good work horse.
Reuben Archer.
Mrs. Dick Pennock, of Big Sandy,
was received at the Fort Benton Sani.
tarium tod ay for medical treatment.
A declaration of his intention to
become an American citizen was fled
in the district court today by Robert
Jewett, a native OF Canada.
George B. Bourne, of Hill, who is
among the visitors in town, reports q
continua alton of the land boom at
Chester and throughout the surround.
ing country.
w. G. Paulsson, of the Missouri
River Lumber company, has a force
of men at work building sheds and
other accommod atoms at his new lum.
Der yards on upper Front street.
The arriva ais today included several
land seekers from the states of Wash
ington and North Dakota, among them
being q party of three ladies who pro.
pose to locate homesteads on the
bench. u.
A transaction in livery stable prop.
erty was closed today, II. LaBarre
becoming the wner of the Barley &
Rowe livery, feed and ssle stables on
upper Front street. The considera-
ton is reported to be about $1,000.
John Lehfeldt, Of Big Sandy, who
is among the business visitors in town,
reports the arrival of large parties of
landseekers at that place. There has
been quite q demand for Big Sandy
real estate the past few weeks, q of
the recent sales being that of q lot to
be used as q site for q bank.
Local sheepmen are interested in
press dispatches from Chicago which
report quite ar advance in the mutton
market. A recent report Gays that
sheep cold in the Union stockyards at
$50 q hundredweight-the highest
mark ever recorded in the history of
the market. The animals we're pur.
chased for the use of the British army
and will be shipped to the Bermuda
islands.
Only q year ago, Gays the Hinsdale
Homestead, there could be many good
homestead sele ctions of 100 acres each
secured within four or five miles of
Hinsdale Now homesteaders are 60.
ing out ten and twelve miles and are
glad to get such land as is found here
within that distance. Only a year or
so more and the entire country around
here will have been taken and home
steaders will be compelled to 60 up
wards of rs miles from this place to
!. secure wha at they are looking for.
From Thursday's Daily.
Walter M. Green arrived from Lew
istown today on a visit With his mother
and sister.
B.. J.. Boorman, the we'll known
Kalispell lumber man, is among the
visitors in town.
The arriva ais today included about
thirty l~audseekers from the east, most
of them being former residents of
North Dakota.
A declaration to become an Ameri.
can citizen was fled in the district
court today by Benito Agoretta, OF
Ada, who is a native of Spain.
The latest addition to the list OF
postofices in Chouteau county is
Dunkirk, with Cassius johnson as
postm aster. Dunkirk is located about
thirty miles of Chester.
A suit was commenced in the district
court today by Frank Fleischman
against Charles Farrell Of Sweet
Grass, to about S235 alleged
to be due for labor and services per-
formed by the plaintiff.
A petition for letters of administra.
ton in the estate of the late Olive
Trommer, of Chester, was filed 10 the
uISGrlCb COuFI UOudy W AtOu1luCIS
husband of the deceased. A similar
petition in the estate OF T. Il. Watt,
deceased, was filed by w. o. Dexter,
public administrator.
A Washington dispatch says the
secretary OF the Interior has awarded
a contr act to the Des Moines Bridge
and Iron company of Des Moines,
Iowa, for furnishing the material for
the construction of three highway
bridges in connection with the Milk
river irrig alton project. The ION.
tr act price is 81, 1852.
The plats of W. townsites In Chou
teau county were filed 10 the county
clerks Office today. The plat OF Car.
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