The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-26
CITY AND STATE.


the business visitors in town.
Gasoline and coal oil for sale in
any quantity at LaBarre's stable. =
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
j. D. English. q we'll known resident
OF the Bear Paw country, Is under
treatment Ut the Santtariuu, for in.
1uries caused by the kick OF q horse.
John Elliott has been committed to
the county Jail by Justice h. B.
Brooke, of Chinook. to serve thirty
days for breaking jail At that place.
A deed received At the county clerks
Office records the transfer OF about
100 acres of ranch property by Nal.
coin Denniston, of Big Sandy, to Niels
G. Christensen. The property is 10.
Gated about ten miles east OF Big
Sandy.
The mental condition of Oscar An.
derson, of Chester, was the subject of
investigation in the district court yes
terd ay afternoon by q board OF ply.
s~icians. The defendant was found to
be of unsouud mind, and was commit.
ted to the Warm Springs asylum.
M. B. Kortgaard, of Dunkirk, who
was recently arrested on q charge of
carrying concealed weapons, has been
bound over to the district court by
Justice Kinder. The defendant Is a
we'll known resident of the northwest.
ern part of the county, and is said
to be the owner of part of the townsite
OF Dunkirk.
Fred G. Brown, of Devils Lake, N.
OAK, who arrived with his brother
yesterday to establish residence OF a
homestead about twenty miles east of
town, is under treatment al the SAM.
tarium for q broken collar bone and
other injuries. The patient was the
victim of q railroad accident near
Glasgow, in which he vas badly
crushed.
Among the arrivals tod ay were Mrs.
David G.. Browne, Mrs. Jno. V. Car.
roll and Miss Grace Carroll, who re.
Gently returned from q seven months
tour of the Orient. The travellers spent
considerable time visiting points of
interest in the Philippine Islands, their
itinerary also including various cities
in Japan, China and other distant
countries.
From Thursdays Daily.
Elmer E. Briggs and wife, of High
wood, are among the visitors In town.
W. M. Williamson, of Big Sandy,
arrived today on q short business
visit.
Mrs. Ida Mussen, of Lodi, Wis,
arrived today on q visit with her
niece, Mrs. w. r. Leet, of this city.
L. o. Hudson arrived today from
Spokane where he has been engaged
in improving his fruit land property
near that city.
Marguerite Hensen has brought suit
in the district court againt Max Cops,
to recover possession of certain ranch
property occupied by defendan but
the ownership of which is claimed by
the plaintiff.
Marriages licenses have been issued
by the clerk of the district court to
Ora Setty and Lucretia M. Heldt, OF
Warrick; and to John E. Smith, OF
Chinook, and Pearl Wallace, of Will
liston, N. Oak.
W. P. Sewers, OF Malta, a we'll
known sheepman of that locality, was
among the arrivals today. Mr..
Sewers reports a backward spring in
that part of Valley county, owing to
the lack of moisture.
Andy Larkin. an employe at the
LaBarre stables, suffered q broken
leg and other injuries this morning by
the fall of q tank of gasoline that he
was unloading. The patient was taken
to St. Clare hospital for treatment.
Walter Bowman, a boy who is al
legged to have been implicated with
David Riddle in robberies of sheer
camps, was brought in from Lewis.
town yesterday by Under Sheriff
Crawford, and placed in the county
jail. The prisoner gives his age as
twenty years.
Postmaster George W. Crane ii
making report to the Washington
authorities regarding the business
transacted by the Fort Benton post
Office during the past twelve months.
The report makes q most satisfactory
showing. there being an increase o,
over 81 per cent in the volume of bust
ness, compared with the preceding
year.
Great Falls Leader: A. II. Wilson,
recently arrested at Kalispell by