The river press., 1910-08-17
CITY AND STATE.


From Wednesday's Daily
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's iewelry
store. =
Matthew L. Goldiner, special agent
Of the Title Guaranty & Surety Co.,
Of Denver, COL, is business visitor
in the city today.
Declaration OF intention to become
q citizen of the United States was
made today in the district court by
William J ames Thompson, OF Chinook,
q native Of Canada.
The number Of automobiles credited
to this part Of the country has just
been augmented by the purchase OF .
fine Petrol five.psssenger car by Mrs.
R. L. Kelly, Of the Teton. The pur-
chase was made through the W. F.
Wilford agency, Of this city.
The call for the republican state
convention has been issued BY the
republican central committee. 1t
designates September IL % the date
and Missouls % the place for the
meeting. The call allots q deleg ates
to Choutesu county, besides three
delegates at-large.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the proposed advances in the
freight rate on livestock of 2@ cents
per 100 pounds between Missouri river
and Mississippi river points, which
were to have become effective August
Is. will be suspended pending an in.
quiry by the interstate commission in
to the reasonableness of the increase.
The Bistolf "Multum In Paro" or
chestra arrived in the city this morn.
ing and will give concert in the
opera house this evening, beginning
at $50 O'Clock. The orchestra has
been highly recommended to all lovers
Of music. At the request of the young
gentlemen of the city, they will play
until train time for dance to be Civ.
en- by them after the concert.
A large bunch of beef cattle belong.
ing to several stockmen in the vicinity
of the Highwood mountains was ford.
ed across the river from the south
eide, last evening and driven to the
Benton stock yards, where they were
loaded today for the Chicago market.
The shipment comprised about 26 cars,
and was in charge Of James B. Hurst.
The balance of the trainload Of 81 cars
was made up of cattle from the Teton
range.
From Thursday's Daily.
A license to wed has been issued by
Clerk of the Court Harper at Great
Falls to John Barksdale and Miss
Lettie Thompson, both OF Fort Benton.
Arthur Harrison Boone, of Chester,
q native of Walla Walla, WASH, but
a citizen of Canada, today declared
his intention to become an American
citizen before the clerk of the district
court.
Among the documents received at
the county clerks Office today for re.
cording was deed conveying title
from Emile Lehfeldt to VIM. J. Cole,
man, to 13S so acres of land in the vi
cinity of Big Sandy. The consider
alton named in the deed is $4,000.
Bert Coon, charged with wilfully
and unlawfully carrying away a cer-
tain quantity of barb wire fence, the
property of Mrs. NJ. E. Keaster, Of
Highwood, was yesterday arrested by
Constable DeLosier. He was arraiRn.
ed before Justice Kinder today, and
his hearing set for Saturday.
1t is announced by II. N. Savage,
supervising engineer of the reclams
tion service in Montana, that the
board of army engineers who are in-
specting the various irrigation works,
will reach Mondak on Aug Is, and
will then proceed up the Milk river,
thence to Great Falls and the Sun
river and St. Mary projects.
John Jacoby, who ia in town today
from his ranch nine miles south Of
Fort Benton, informs US that he has
just finished threshing his crop of
Turkey Red winter wheat and from
sixty acres realized 9l2 bushels. This
grain was grown by strictly dry land
farming methods, and the result is
very gratifying in view of the unusu-
ally dry season.
We publish in another column, the
call for the republican county con.
vention of Chouteau county, which
will be held at Havre on Septem ber 10.
The prim aries are to be held on Sept.
ember 5, and the apportionment of the
several precincts is based on one dele
gate for each fifteen votes or fraction
thereof for the republican representa-
tive in congress in 1906.