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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
OF grazing land. Prior to this sum
mer the allotting agent has had q hard

OF grazing land. Prior to this sum-.
mer the allotting agent has had q hard
time 10 inducing many of the Indians
to take any irrigated land. they pre-
ferring to take the whole allotment In
grazing not appreciasing the value Of
water. There will be 2, 100 allotments
and 4o,ooo acres Of irrig ated land.
There are two irrig alton projects to
furnish all necessary wa'er The larg-
er 10 taken out Of the Two Medicine
river, ten miles south Of the agency,
and will water 30, 1000 acres. The sec.
ond out OF Badger creek, west of the
old Piegan agency, and will irrigate
25,VO acres. The former is about
completed and the latter will be soon.
A government steam pillow is kept con-
stantly at work breaking the sod for
the Indians at the actual cost of the
work.
After all allotments are made and
all work done, there will be approxi'
mately 40O, 900 acras left to the dis.
posal OF the government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Sale Of Real Estate.

In the district court of the Twelfth judicial
district of the state of Montana, in and for the
county of Chouteau.
In the matter of the estate of Peter Mitchell,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that In pursuance of
an order of the district court Of the county OF
Chouteau, state Of Montana, made on the 18TH
day of } uly, 1911, in the matter of the estate of
Peter Mitchell. deceased; the Undersigned, the
administrator of said estate will sell at private
sale, to the highest bidder, for cash and subject
to confirmation by eaid district court, on Friday,
the LIST day of September, 1911, ut two O'Clock p.
m, at the Office of said administrator in Fort
Benton, in the county of Chouteau, all the right,
title, interest and estate of the said Peter Mitch
ell at the time of his death, and all the right,
title and interest that the said estate has, BY OPP
Grafton of law or otherwise, acquired other than
or in addition to that of the said deceased at the
time of his death, in and to all those certain lots,
pieces or parcels of land situate, lying and being
In the said county of Chouteau, state of Mon
tana, and bounded and described ae follows, to-
wit;
Lots ls and ID, in block %, Of the original
townsite of Fort Benton, in said county and
state. Sealed bids will be received by the IN
dersigned at his Office in Fort Benton, Montana,
+ up to the hour Of sale.
Terms and conditions of sale: Ten per cent.
of the purchase money to be paid to the under
| signed at the time of sale, balance on confrms-
ton Of sale by said district court. Deed at ex.
| pense of purchaser.
L. D. SHARP, Administrator
Dated August IL, 1911.
Fret publication Aug. Is, 1911.
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In addition to the above, special
levies ranging from one to ten mills
have been made in several school dis
tricts 10 various parts of the county,
and the municipalities of Chinook,
Fort Benton and Harlem have made a
ten mill levy upon taxable property
in the respective towns.
There is also y state tax levy of p
mills upon all classes Of property,
and a special levy of four mills upon
livestock for wolf bounty and the in.
spection and indemnity funds.
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Allotting Blackfeet Lands.

A news item from Browning says
that within the next six weeks allot'
ment work on the Blackfeet Indian
reserv alton by Allotting Agent Wheat
will be over. The work being done
this summer is more in the nature OF
ad iustment to induce as great q num-
Der of Indians as possible to accept
lard under the bitches. the real work
OF allotment having been done a year
ago.
Under the law each Indian is en-.
titled to 280 acres of grazing and 4C
acres of irrigated land, or 800 acres
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Big Sandy Wool Sales.

Advices from Big Sandy report the
disposal Of a large mount of wool at
the public sales held at that place Sat.
urday the trans actions amounting TO
about $50, 900 pounds. The prices paid
for the several clips we're as follows:
Ole G. Osnes, II cents.
N. Sternberg. 145 cents.
H. Ostermap, Is cents.
Jappe Bros, l54 cents.
Jas. Nanstiel, 15b cents.
G. Hokanson, Is cents.
Geo. Arrison, 14a cents.
Casper Kaiser, Is cents.
Ruhe Bros. l54 cents.
Mcnamara & NARROW, 15s cents.
P. II. Schwartz, 14a cents.
j. Raglan, l44 cents.
H. c. Evers, 14s cents.
Lehfeldt Bros, las cents.
Murray Bros, 154 cents.
G. Lovinger, 14g cents.
G. G. lhmsen, lot cents.
Bay Mack, 15s cents.
A bid of l4s cents for the Walter
Brown clip, and a bid of 144 cents fol
the Schwartz Bros. clip were refused
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Concrete Fence Posts.

The United States ID par,mcnt OF
Agriculture has issued an elaborate
bulletin OF the subject Of concrete
fence posts. This bulletin goes into
detail, giving. full and minute instruc-
tons which will enable the farmers to
build their own fences with the farm
labor. BY applying to the Office OF
public roads, United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c., Farmers Bulletin No. 4O3., will
be sent without charge.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Chouteau County Tax Levy

At the Monday afternoon session OF
the county commits sioners, it was de-
cided that the Chouteau county tax
levy for the current fiscal year shall
be one mill less than last years levy.
This reduction in taxation is made
possible by an increase IN the assess
ment, and will be acceptable to owners
of all classes OF taxable property.
The county levy for this year will
be l3t mills, which is apportioned to
the several funds as follows:
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Notice TO

Fan and winter sheep range for two bands. A
good sheep shed and four sections of we'll shell
tered range; good running water; about % tons
of b~luejoint hay at shed good hospital shed;
dry lambing shed; from 100 to 200 tons of alfalfa
hay can be bought near for from SO to $40 q ton
in stack six miles from Great Northern railroad.
Also good sheltered corral and FIVE sections of
fall range, with good reservoir. This winter
range at SIS per month and hay at $l2 per ton.
Fall range at $75 per month. Four-horse team
and wagon can be rented with outfit. l have
wintered 5000 yearlings here on feeding ten tons
of hay some winters. Address
A. L.. SUTHERLAND, Iona. Mont.
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Bids For Coal.

Sealed bids for coal will be received the trus.
tees OF school District No. l up to 6 p. m. on
August 81 for SO ton nut, more or less; 100 tons
slack, more or less; $50 tons mine run, more or
the school house 40 wanted. The trustees re-
serve the right to reject any and all bids. The
bids must state from what mine the coal Is to be
shipped, and should be marked ON the outside of
envelope "Btds for Coal,'' and addressed to
GEO. W. CRANE,
Clerk Of School District No. l.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16

terday on o visi. with Fort Benton
friends.
One lot of mems dress shirts at one
dolla ar each, a. T. G. Power & Bro,
Lid.
Oar s1n.me cape for men and boys.
twenty.iv cents each. T. G. Power
& Bro Lid.
Oae lot of boys knee pants at
twenty-five cents per pair, at 7. c..
Power e. Bro Lid.
b. j. Boormap, Of Kalispell, who
has extensive lumber interests 10 the
F!athesd country, Ia among the busi.
ness visitors Ia town.
Beginning August II and ending
August 10, we offer you twenty per
cent. discount on anything in our
clothing department. 1t will cave you
Ave dollars on every twenty FIVE dol.
lar purchase. T. G. Power & Bro,
Id. \
Three marriage licenses were Issued
| by tie clerk Of the district court to.
day, the applicants being James G.
! Pewitt and Emma Booth, OF Zortman;
Alex Jarvis ard Anna Boyd, of
Havr,: Emil J. Hammer and Sever.
ence Ness, of Chester.
Word was received today by tele.
phone that the body OF dead man had
ben found near square butte, in the
Arrow creek country, no further par.
ticulars being given. Justice Kinder,
acting coroner, and Dr.. E. NJ. Porter
left al once to Investigate the matter.
An appeal from a judgment en-.
dered 10 Justice Ed. NJ. Aliens court,
in the case of Jos. Demars VS.. the
Great Northern Railway company,
has been filed 10 the district court.
The plaintiff was awarded $50 and
costs, ia a suit to o damages
for a steer alleged TO have been killed
on the railroad track, and appeal is
taken against this Judgment.
The matter of holding a special cleo
ton November !, to vote upon the
question of forming the new county o.
Hill, has Deer taken into court, al ap'
plication for an injunction having
been made to the district court o
Lewis aud Clark county by Mayor j
A. Arthurs, of Chester. A temporar!
Restraining order was issued by tht
: court, and August % named as tn
da'e upon which a hearing will b
held. The application for ar ~injunc
ton is based upon the refusal OF To,
Chouteau county commissioners t.
grant the request Of a number of petit
TONERS that they should not be in
cluded in the proposed new county.
Rumors of a big sale of cattle b.
the Miner Cattle company, which
. have been current in local livestocl
circles for some time past, are cor
. frmed by authentic information fror
one of the parties to the deal. Th
purchase was made by E. M. Jones
/ of Spokane, a wealthy railroad cor
tractor who own q tract OF abou
a 10, 900 acres of hay land in the Bi
Hole basin in southern Montana
o where the cattle will be fed for tn
Pacific coast market. The purchas
price was $50 per head, and Will
there is no definite agreement IN tn
the number of cattle to be delivered
o the purchaser, it is understood ther
will be about $500 head. The term
of the deal give Mr.. Miner the optic
o of retaining such breeding stock as
may desire.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS.

tJvb0uV~ |
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Chester Signal: Mr.. Madole, q set
tier north of Alma, bored a hundred
feet for water without success. He
quit hat place aud tried again a short
distance away and struck good water
at 20 feet.
Galata Journal: The Great North.
ern Is Offering 800 to anyone who can
discover q good gravel pit anywhere
along this division. The pit must be
Of sufficient depth to warrant them
building q spur to it., and must be
within two miles of the main track.
Chinook Opinion: A hearing was
held Saturday before Justice Williams
OF the charge against Jack Minikin OF
issuing q worthless check. The evil
dence showed tina the check was given
i q q poker game and the %defendent was
discharged. The county attorney has
taken steps TO fasten upon someone
the responsibility for allowing the
game to run.
Havre PlaindealeI: Harvesting is
now on In the vicinity Of Kremlin, and
although grain is not quite up to what
it promised a month ago, the average
yield will be fair, especially flax,
which promises a pretty good turn out.
The dry land farmers propose 10
adopt the system 3 advocated by the
Agricultural Department., and there is
no question but ID at in the future good
crops will be produced from our unex-
celled soil.
Bear Paw Mountaineer: AT a meet
ing of the Mackton Coal company,
held here Aug. s., numerous matters
were considered, among them being
the construction of the railroad spur.
A committee has been appointed to
arrange for the construction of a
tramway railroad, tipple, etc. 1t
is antici pated that Installations will be
. completed in November of this year,
aud the company will be in a position
to ship coal.
: Malta Enterprise: Lohr Bros. OF
Tampico, who have been so successful
with farming operations near that
, lace, Joined Walter Hill when he was
q returning east after the Twin City to
Helena tour and went with him to
Northcote, Mimi, where j. j. Hill's
ranch is located. Mr.. Hill has been
n so pleased with the Lohr Bros Mon
tana experiments that it is said he has
made them a f1attering offer to take
charge of his ranch at Northcote.
Harlem News: G. NJ. Davy was ir
town Sunday from his homestead. HI
X brought with him a fine bunch of fal
now growing upon the claims owned
n by himself and G. E. Holden, the two
"a having a joint acreage of l53 acres o
the grain in the finest possible condl
ton. The land was broken and seed
It. ed only this spring, but from the pres
o ent prospects Messrs. Holden aot
Davy will probably realize in thu
a neighborhood Of So, 600 for the flax.
Havre Promoter: Louis Harry, VIII
has a homestead II miles northeast Q
le the city, was in town Thursday an
reported @ severe bailstOrm in hi
e vicinity last Monday afternoon.
ls lasted about a minute and a half
u during which time hailstones fell q
,e large as eggs and ruined e%verythin
in the path of the storm. Mr.. Har
had about one hundred acre OF GRO
ready to harvest, and was only wal
r. ing for better weather, and everythin
&c was wiped away clean, excepting abo'
two acres of garden.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Fourth Of July Fund.

For the Information of those inter.
ested, the Fourth of July committee
wishes to present a financial exhibit Of
the recent celebration in this city,
which was one of the most successful
ever held here. The exhibit shows the
following:
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Sheep For Sale.

About 1000 head of lambs. 1900 ewes, ages
four and five; 800 mixed yearlings. For prices
address ERNEST SIMPSON,
Box 25 Cottonwood, Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Terms Of District Court, 1911.
Sheep For Sale.

ewes and As Rambouiliet bucks three
to five years old. Address
j. O. PATTERSON, Fort Benton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16
Bucks Fer Sale.

Fifty fne-wooled bucks for sale. None better
in the state and price low.
Seyenty-fve half-blood Cotswold bucks for
sale.
Two bands of young ewes to let out on shares.
Two bands of wethers to let out to winter.
Enquire Of A. X. PRESCOTT, Helena, Mont,
or w. H. SCOTT, Brady, Mont,
or A. G. COUGH, Chester, Mont.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-16

A surplus In a Fourth Of July fund
is an unusual experience, and the
committee is to be complimented upon
this feature of its financial statement.
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necessary II this IL to be done. The
school ought to have at least i've acres
OF ground to- seEve@as miniature ex+
pertinent station for the study Of agri.
culture, the cultivation of which will
increase interest In agriculture and
show that farming requires brains as
we'll as muscle. In such a school the
boy and girl would be able to get q
high school education and live at home
upon the farm.
The school would be the social as
well as the educational center of the
township-the rallying point where the
citizens could go and hold meetings:
it would develop the social life, would
be strong and helpful. and the young
people would find in the central school
and the associations that go with it,
and the school spirit that would be
developed, a satisfying condition that
would make life upon the farm at
tractive instead of otherwise.
Another handicap to progress and a
menace to our whole country, that is
very larely traceable to bad roads.
is the fact that so many thousands of
farms are passing from the hands of
owner into the hands Of tenants. The
weaving of the children from farm
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In about ten minutes she came back
with tho painful news that the only
thing in the neighborhood which
looked like a goose was q quill tooth
pick. and that was ungreasable.
But, my DEAR" Aunt Martha whis-
pered, II have something just az good.
I found this box Of axle grease In the
barn."
Uncle Peter shuddered and said
nothing.
my idea is to rub it on your chest
and call it goose grease, because the
moral effect will be the same" Aunt
Martha told him.
Then that loving wife rubbed so
much axle grease into Uncle Peter
that for hours afterwards he thought
he had pair of shafts on him, and
every time he saw a horse he felt like
making fifty revolutions a minute.
Then Aunt Martha said to him,
"Now, Peter. we could cure that cold
in Ave minutes If we can get wooden
stocking to tie around your throat"
After little she found out that the
only wooden stocking In our village
was owned by the night Waterman.
The night Waterman said he liked
Uncle Peter well enough, but he'd be
switched if he was going to walk
around all night with one bare foot
even to let the Mayor use his stocking
for a necktie.
Co1ac1, r,o<nhxoo~
The next morning Uncle Peters cold
was much worse, but the axle grease
had cured his appetite.
About nine o'clock his friend Dave
Terrence caem in, and after Uncle Pc
ter had barked for him couple OF
times Dave decided that the trouble
was information of the lungs and he
suggested that Uncle Peter should tie
a rubber band around his chest and
rub his shoulder blades with gasoline.
Uncle Peter told his friend that he
had no desire to become a human au.
tomobile, so Dave got mad, kicked
the piano on the shins and went home.
An hour later Deacon Ed. Sprong
the Mayors next.door neighbor, came
in and in ten minutes he had Uncle
Peter making signs to an undertaken
Deacon Sprong decided that Uncle
Peter had the galloping asthma with
compressed tonsilitis, and touch OF
chillblanous Group on the side, aggra
waited by asparagus on the the chest.
Deacon Sprong told Peter to drink
a pint of catn1p tea, take eight grains
of quinine, rub the back of his neck
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planted his four feet in the middle Of
the road and refused to be coaxed.
I took that horse by the ear and
whispered therein just what I thought
about him, and he wouldn't talk back.
told him my wife's honor was at
stake. and he looked my wife over and
his lips curled with an expression
which seemed to say, Impossible"
1t was all off with us.
rushed to the telephone and called
up the liveryman, but before l could
think of a word strong enough to tit
the occasion he whispered over the
wire: II know your voice, Mr.. Henry.
l suppose Parsifal is waiting for you
outside!"
my, my" l could hear the livery
man saying "ParsifaPs hesitation
must be the result of the epidemic Of
automobiles which is now raging over
our country roads. The automobile
has strange effect on Parsifal. It
seems to cover him with a pause and
gives him Inflammation of the speed"
l thought of poor Peaches sitting
! out there in that blushing buggy star.
ing at dreaming horse, while in front
of her Red Devil wagon complained
internally and shook its tonneau at
her, and once more jolted that liv"
eryman with a few verbal twisters.
Don't get excited" he whispered
back over the phone. "Parsifal Is a
| new idea in horses. Whenever he
meets an automobile he goes to sleep
and tries to forget it. Isn't that better
than running away and dragging you
to hospital? There must be some
thing about an automobile that affects
Parsifars heart. I think it Is the gaso'
line. The odor from the gasoline
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with benZine, soak his ankles in ker.
osene, take two grains of phenacetine,
and drink a hot whisky toddy every
half-hOur before meals.
During the rest of the day every
friend and relative Uncle Peter had in
the world rushed in, suggested cou-
pie of prescriptions, and then rushed
out again.
Aunt Martha tried them all on Un-
Gle Peter.
Before the shades of evening fell
that day Uncle Peter was turned into
human medicine chest.
And to make matters worse, he took
some dogberry cordial and it chased
the catnip tea all over his interior
from Alpha to Omaha.
Then Aunt Martha gave him some
hoarhound candy to bite the dogberry,
so it would leave the catnip alone, but
blood will tell, and the hoarhound
joined with the dogberry and chased
the catnip up Uncle Peters family
tree.
But it cured the cold. Now all I'm.
Gle Peter had to do was to cure the
medicine.
Copyright, by G. w. Dillingham; Co.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-28

Gather Dandelions for the Liver.
You ought to be fair as the dawn
with your name and l don't blame you
for wanting to cure your muddy"
complexion, but don't ask mo for a
remedy to take inside unless you
mean the eating of green vegetables.
From what you say your liver Is prob
ably at fault. Try to increase its &C.
ton by taking Epson salts every
morning, or. II these do not agree with
you, try a small dose Of castor oil at
night. Eat spinach twice a week or
get up early like your namesake and
go out and gather dandelion plants
and cook them as greens" There IL
a great revival of the old fashion Of
eating them now because of their
medicinal properties and they are cul-
tivated in greenhouses for the city
markets. They are served az salad on
the tables of fashionable hotels. As
you live In a small town. you should
be able to get them.-Woman's World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-28

II he starts out with nifty pounds over
bad roads It 10 q heavier burden than
hvesttmeas the weight: oversa good road
Given the parcel post in full swing
and without doubt tho weight the car
ner must handle viii be many times
what it is now. Any one familiar with
conditions will say that without good
permanent highways the delivery Of
packages over rural routes will be .
physical impossibility The first thing
to strive for is good roads: let the
parcel post come later.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-28
TRY FERR0-CEMENT ROADS
Experiments With This Substance in
France Have Been Highly
Successful.

"Ferro-cement" roads are being ex-
perimented with in France. The SUBJ
stance is made of cement mixed with
straw. To make a slab or block of
ferro-cement, mass of iron-straw is
placed in the mold, and there is poured
over it cement sufficiently fluid to
penetrate into all the interstices of the
iron and completely cover it. When
the whole has set, the core Of iron
thus intimately incorporated gives to
the block great resistance to break
age and to traction, at the same time
furnishing elasticity to compression
which enables it to stand superficial
shocks A brick of ferro-cement l 3-5
inches thick has supported during
crushing tests, a pressure of about IS
tons to the square inch. In breakage
tests, the resistance was quadruple
that of ordinary cement. Resistance
to wear was no less remarkable.
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Thus we see few of the very many
drawbacks that are directly and in
directly due to bad roads, and we may
add to the list, as stated by the de-
partment of agriculture, that the cost
Of moving farm products to the market
and getting supplies back to the farm
over bad highways causes an extra
expense of at least $3.50 per person
per year over and above what 1t
would cost to perform the same service
over roads that are uniformly good.
One of the great world questions is
that of good roads. and the sooner the
people wake up to the fact the faster
and surer will our progress be toward
higher and better things.
There IL a widespread clamor for a
parcel post and strong influences are
at work to get the federal government
committed to it. The indications are
that it will be tried out on a moderate
scale. Whether the parcel post will
prove a blessing or otherwise 10 an
open question, and one we will not at
this time discuss. We may say, how
ever, that any attempt at the parcel
post that contemplates extending the
service to the rural mail routes will
prove 4 disappointment. The condi'
tons of the public roads are such that
for weeks at time it would be physi-
cally impossible to make delivery. The
carriers are taxed now to the limit.