The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-06-07
CITY AND STATE.

Everett Kennedy, Of Harlem, is
among the business visitors ia town.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Jos. A. Baker and wife, Of High.
wood, are visiting with Fort Benton
friends.
Miss Kate Lee returned yes,erda az
from q visit With her sister q. Leth-
bridge, Can.
A marriage license has been issued
by the clerk OF the district court to
John r. Schiltz and Mary E. Mac.
Hale, Of Havre.
A large number Of young people
we're the guests Of Miss Mary Sullivan
1t . dance given in Odd Fellows hall
Monday night. They all had . good
time.
Born, at the Fort Benton Sanitar.
ium. to A. Stephan and wife, OF the
Msrias, q daughter. A daughter vas
also born At the Sanitarium today to
to the wife OF Fred Hogey, of this city.
The city authorities are enforcing
the order against %depositing rubbish
at places other than the designated
dumping grounds. The driver of a
garbage wagon was arrested and
fined yesterday for disregarding the
order.
Winter wheat crops in this vicinity
have been making rapid gro WITH the
past week. G. G. Grant left q sample
at the River Press Office today that
measures % inches high, with the
heads partly DEVELOPED, and which
promises to reach maturity in about
q month.
The Fort Benton baseball team won
out yesterday in q return game against
the Great Falls Independents, the
score being 9 to 8 in favor of the home
team with Fort Benton still at the bat.
The game was witnessed by the biggest
crowd of the season, who we're enter
tanned with several exhibitions of good
play during the contest.
A news item from Havre says James
Furlong, aged "a years, son of Martin
Furlong, living eight miles west OF
Havre, committed suicide Sunday
night at his fathers ranch by shoot
ing himself in the head with a shot
gun. He had become dependent ow-
ing to i'll health. A coroner's jury
returned a verdict in accordance with
the above facts.
Roy Whitcomb, a fugitive convict
who escaped from the penitentiary u
Deer Lodge about a week ago, was
brought in from Havre today by r. E.
Cowan, of Big Sandy, who caught his
prisoner on a freight train at Havre.
Mr.. Cowan knew Whitcomb several
years ago in Wyoming, and had nc
difficulty in Identifying him as the
escaped convict for whom the peniten'
tiary officials offered q reward. The
prisoner, who was serving a five-yea1
sentence, will be held in the county
Jail until arrangements are made 70,
his return to Deer Lodge.
From Thursdays Daily.
Otto Maurer, of Great Falls, il
among the business visitors in town,
Miss Kate Lee has taken q position
as assistant in the Office of the county
treasurer.
A petition for aliz alton was
filed in the district court today by
Samuel A. Graham, of Savoy, q form
er resident of Canada.
J. L. Peacock, the Canadian live
stock dealer, arrived from Medicint
Hat today with another shipment o;
pure bred draft horses.
Charles Obocki, of Chinook, hal
been admitted to the Ssnitarium t.
receive attention for q broken leg
The injury was caused by the kick o
q horse.
Sheriff Bickle returned today frou
Warm Springs, where Rose NJ. Free
man, q young woman from bingham
was placed in the insane asylum TO
treatment.
According to a deed received TO
record at the county clerks Office,
tract of about forty acres has bee
purchased by A. G. Strobe, of Chester
from John jacobson, for a c%onsidera
ton of 81, 1000.
An appeal from Justice Wellborn'
court at Chester, in the civil suit o
A. G. Strobe against H. G.. Johnson
has been filed in the district court
Judgment for plaintiff in the sum Q
S13O and costs was rendered in tn
justice court.
Advices from Browning report tn
death of Charles Chouquette, an old
time resident who ia said to be one q