The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-06-29
CITY AND STATE.

SAVAA VAACSOoy . DOA4y
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Howard Price and Norman L. Rob.
son arrived YESTERDAY afternoon from
Maple Creek, Canada, making the
trip by automobile.
Advices from Wagner report that
the ranch house of Ezra Erdeaux was
destroyed by fire q few days ago, the
result of children playing with
matches.
Two new postofices has been or
dered established In Valley county,
At Froid and Woodbridge. Fred E.
Price has been appointed postmaster
at Froid and c. G. Erdmsn at Wool
bridge.
Pat Seaman, travelling re p~resenta.
tive Of the Milwaukee railroad, is
among the visitors In town. Mr.. Scan.
Ian reports q continuance Of immigra.
ton to the territory traversed by the
Milwaukee.
1t is announced that the Great Nor
thern Express company has made q
reduction in rates between all points
in Montana, the commodities affected
including fruits, meats, butter, cheese,
eggs, dressed poultry and vegetables.
Clarence Buck, q baggage man.
and Harold Christensen, q telegraph
operator in the employ Of the Great
Northern, were received at the county
jail today to await trial in the district
court on . charge of burglary. The
prisoners are alleged to have stolen
goods from Great Northern boxcsrs
at Chester.
There is considerable curiosity
among local young people as to the
identity OF q couple, supposed to be
Fort Benton residents, who are pictur.
ed in . handsome sign painted on the
front of b. LsBarre's' livery stables
by S.. Alderman. The scene repre.
sents . man and woman taking a bug.
~ ride, the lady handling the lines,
and there are various guesses as to
who the artist had in mind when be de.
signed the picture.
From Thursdays Daily.
Miss May Flanagan, of Helena, 10
visiting with her brother, F. A. Flana-
gan, OF this city.
Attorney Jno. G. Duff, of Chinook,
arrived today on probate business be.
fore the district court.
W. G. BrOadwater, of Havre, who
has been under treatment at the Fort
Benton S%anitarium, returned home to-
day.
A location notice for the "Paradise'
quartz claim was filed in the county
clerks office today by Carl Kruse, of
Zortman.
A declaration of intention 10 become
az American citizen was fled in the
district court today by Ingvald T.
Enes, Of Chinook.
The Baby Rose steamboat arrived
today from Wilder, a point about 200
miles down the Missouri river. Her
cargo included alarge quantity of beef
hides, sheep pelts and wool from the
lower river district.
Letters of administration in the es-
ate OF Frank G. Dartman. who was
recently drowned at Chinook, we're is.
sued in the district court today to
John L. Dartman, of Zortman, a
brother of deceased.
Local sheepmen who have com.
nenced shearing their hocks, report q
Phrinkage in weight compared with
[ast season, the leeces averaging
about q pound less than those of 1909.
Similar conditions are said to prevail
n other parts of northern Montana.
Frank Scott, who completed q term
n the comfy Jail Monday, was re-
Furned to that institution today. He
got into q fracas at Havre and was
arrested and bound over TO the dis
riot court on a charge of resisting a
public officer.
A tract of about "a, 900 acres lying
outh and east of Conrad, which
ormed part of a large land with
travail under the Carey irrigation
aw, has been restored to the public
omain. Several residents Of Con-
ad and vicinity petitioned the state
Poard to restore the land to entry.
The county authorities are being
gifted by G. E. Kumpe, state exam.
per, that the Montana statutes re
uire county warrants to be signed
y the chairman of the board Of com.
pissioners, and to be impressed with
be official seal of the county. These
brm alities have been diregarded in