The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-19
CITY AND STATE.
From Fridays Daily

Prom Fridays Daily
Ole G. Osnes, the Knerville stock.
man. arrived today on a business
visit.
Send your watch aud jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's iewelry
store.
Advices from Great Falls announce
the marriage of H. N. Ragland and
Edith B. Patterson, two we'll known
residents of this city.
A suit has been commenced in the
district our by James Garden
against j. W. Taylor, to recover an
indebtedness alleged to be due on q
hay contract.
The county commissioners were in
special session today, to consider mat.
ters regarding the al of the county
poor. Commissioners Skylstead and
Kennedy arrived this morning. to
attend the meeting.
Sam q. Wood, who established a
wooden mill at Manchester, near
Great Falls, some years ago, is cor.
responding with local residents in
regard to starting q similar project
here. The matter has not yet assumed
definite shape.
A press dispatch reports that
Dutch" Henry, q notorious outlaw,
was killed in q fight with the Cana
dian mounted police neal Moose Jaw.
The victim is supposed to be the
dutch" Henry who was suspected of
horse stealing in Valley county some
years ago, and was also believed to
have been implicated in M or more
murder mysteries near the interna-
tional boundary
W. o. Dexter has received q we'll
drilling outfit that has been in transit
from the Ohio factory about two
months. and will have it in operation
as 500 as weather conditions are
favorable. Mr.. Dexter received q Jolt
in the freight charges on the outfit,
which weighs about $1,000 pounds.
The freight cost from shipping point
in Ohio to ST.. Paul was Gill, and
from St. Paul to this city S240, al
though the distance in each Ease was
about the same.
Great Falls Leader: For the first
ten days of January, and really jan
uary is hardly to be chosen as a
homeseekers' month, the number of
homestead entries in the Great Falls
land Office was 306. And besides be.
ing a time of considerable chill, and,
in the belief of the easterner, raging
blizzard, two Sundays and one holt
day must be taken out of the ten days
mentioned, leaving but seven. This
morning there stood in line at the
Great Falls land Office counter SIS men
Nth homestea d entries to file, which
makes no count of those received by
mail.
From Thursdays Daily.
Col. W. A. Stark, of Rhame, N. D.,
is among recent arrivals from the
east.
John T. Sheath, who has a desirable
Missouri river ranch south of Big
Sandy, is among the visitors in town.
A telegram received from Kansas
City today announces the birth of a
son to the wife of DR.. Z. M. Porter, of
this city.
John Harwood. an old time resi-
dent of this part of Montana, left to-
day for the old soldiers home at Co.
lumbia Falls.
A marriage license has been issued
by the clerk of the district court to
Matthias H. Ness and Anna D. Metba,
both of Chester.
A declar alton OF his intention to
become an American citizen was fled
in the district court today by Albert
j. Ogden. a native of Canada.
E. M. Kennedy, of Harlem, reports
a brisk market for hay at that place,
the demand having increased the price
to Sl4 per ton, on board the cars.
r. Fl. Wright, the Great Falls To-.
Gator, arrived today with a party of
land seekers from Spokane, who ex-
pect to secure homesteads in this vi
entity.
Ed. Kelly, who returned yesterd ay
from Bozeman, has been attending
the horse school recently held at the
Montana experiment station at that
place. Mr.. Kelly reports an instruc.
tive series of lectures and demonstra.
tons, with a large attendance of stock
men and ranchers from various parts
OF the state.
1t is announced that a meeting of
the members of the Milk River Irriga-
ton association will be held Satur-