The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-09-27
CITY AND STATE.

"A six.hOle Jewel range for sale
Apply at Office of county Jail.
Henry Fastje, OF Clear Creek, i,
among the business visitors in town.
Send your watch and j~ewelry repai,
work to D. G.. Lockwood's iewelry
store.
B. l.. Schwartz, q we'll known resi-.
dent of Clifford, was among the ar.
rivals today.
For sale, q dining table, chairs and
rockers and other articles of furniture.
Wesley Manuel, Fort Benton.
For sale, one Superior disk drill.
One Star disk harrow, both new: also
one second hand disk. All barg ains.
G. E. Sheldon.
Several residents of Box Elder and
vicinity are in town today, to attend
district court in water right proceed.
ings.
Frank Laird. who has extensive
ranch and livestock interests in the
Sweet Grass hills, arrived today on a
business visit.
G. B. Van Alstine, proprietor of the
Spokane hotel at Big Sandy, ia re.
newing acquaintance with his Fort
Benton friends.
N. T. Lease and a number of assist.
ants arrived from Great Falls today,
to begin extensive building improve
ments at the T. G. Power & Bro.
store.
An order was made in the district
court today appointing Oscar John
ston, A. S. Guthrie and M. Robinson
appraisers of the estate OF A. M.
Lewis, deceased.
Attorney F. E. S%tranahan, who re.
turned yesterda y from Glasgow, re.
ports that the term of district court
for Valley county has been adjourned
at the request of the jurors, most of
whom feared damage to their crops by
recent heavy rains.
Peter Wagner, q we'll known stock.
man of the Sweet Grass hills, has
brought suit in the district court
against the Great Northern Railway
company for damages in connection
with a cattle shipment made last fall.
The complaint alleges negligence on
the part of the railroad, and asks
judgment to the mount of 1877.
A hearing was held in the district
court today upon the application for
the appointment of a water commits
sioner 10 the suit of Glen Sailor and
others against Walter Brown and
others. The appointment of a COM
missioner was asked for the purpose
of properly apportioning the waters
OF Box Elder creek, of which there
are several appropriations whose
rights were ad Indicated some time
ago. AS q result of the hearing the
court appointed w. 7. Cowan and
A. II. Thompson as water commits.
sioners, and as the parties had agreed
as to the work that was to be per-
formed, no order was made as to the
matter of Improvements.
From Thursday Daily.
Sam G. Armstrong, representing a
Portland grain and elevator company,
is among the business visitors in
town.
A marriage license was issued by
the clerk of the district court today TO
John Baron and Marguerite Laurent,
both of Landusky.
Mrs. Jos. Gokey, who has been
visiting with her sister, Mrs. H. La.
Barre, of this city, left yesterday for
her home In Helena.
A ~postofice bulletin the
appointment of Emily Halverse as
postmistress at Reidel. to succeed l..
Williamson, resigned.
Mrs. J. S. Jones, of. Ontario, Ore.
gon, left for that place tod ay with her
con Hickman Jones, who has been
under treatment at the Sanitarium for
typhoid fever.
George Pelican, who was arrested
on a charge of ~disorderly conduct,
was fined S. by Justice Kinder yester-
day, and was incidentally advised to
behave better in the future.
Chris Buechas, a former resident of
Havre, was adjudged insane today at
a hearing by a board of physicians in
the district court. An order was made,
committing the patient to the asylum
at Warm Springs.
Declarations of their intention to
become American citizens have been
filed in the district court by Augusta
NJ. Westphal, of Clifford: Albert
Adamski, of Galata; and Malcolm
Macauley, of Havre.
A petition for involuntary bank.