The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-08
CITY AND STATE.
From SATURDAYS Daily.


From Saturdays Daily.
Attorney L. V. Beaulieu, of Havre,
arrived today on district court bust
ness.
Charles Lepley, who has been serv.
ing as a juror 10 the federal court at
Helena, returned from that city today.
Oscar Anderson was brought in
from Chester today by Constable
Thomas Smith, to await au examina.
ton as to his sanity.
j. r. Smith, who has q bench land
farm about ten miles south of town,
was received At the Sanitarium tod ay
for medical treatment.
The remains of the late Earl Sedg.
wick we're shipped last night to Chi.
nook, where the funeral services and
burial will take place.
The dance given at the opera house
last evening by the band boys was
we'll attended, and . very pleasant
time was had by all who we're present.
A fire alarm called the department
to the Walter Casburn residence last
evening, and the blaze was extin.
guished with slight damage to the
building and contents.
F. A. Csrnal, register of the Havre
land Office, vas among the arrivals
today. Mr.. Carnsl reports q suspen.
sion of railroad traffic vest of Havre,
owing to snowslides Ia the mountains.
The January report of the govern
ment assay Office In Helena shows
gold receipts from Chouteau county
valued at s42,0 this being the eec-
ond largest amount from any county
in Montana.
Miss Blackstone, county superin.
tendent, announces that the fifteen pu.
pills from the Fort Benton schools who
took the recent eighth grade examina.
ton in physiology and geography,
we're all successful.
According TO advices from Brown.
ing, there will be . heavy loss among
cattle ranging on the Blsckfeet reser.
walton. The deep snow and cold wea.
Their makes the situation serious for
the stockmen interested.
Two we'll known young ladies of this
city took q very pleasant ride In an
ice sleigh this morning, to the island
above town, but as the return trip in.
volved sitting on chunks of ice they
decided to walk back to their homes.
Peter Russell, q half. breed, was
brought In toda from Box Elder, to
serve sixty days in Jail. Justice W.
A. Ragan, of Big Sandy, imposed the
sentence, the defendant having been
found guilty of selling beef without
producing cattle hides.
The reclaim alton service announces
that as soon as contracts are signed
by the water users under the proposed
Milk river project, bids for the con-
struction of work will be called for on
the main features, which include St
Mary's canal, Dodson, north and
south canals and the Vandalia canal.
From Mondays Daily.
Miss Anna M. Powers is visiting
With Fort Benton friends.
A news item from Malta reports q
snowfall OF from eighteen inches to
two feet on the range In that part Of
Valley county.
A declaration of his intention to be
come an American citizen was filed ia
the district court today by Eugral B.
Mikkelsen, of Big Sandy.
Adolph Hattie has brought suit If
the district court against Steve Potter,
claiming an indebtedness of about sl6(
for labor performed and services
rendered.
Among the deeds fled in the county
clerks office today was one from
Henry G. Delaney to J. ]. Delaney
of Denver, for lots 10 and 20 In block
4, Decelles' second addition to Havr.
townsite. The consider alton named
in the deed is s 5000.
The case of G. w. Sparkling, WHIT
was accused of forgery, has been con
tinued in the district court for tn
term, and similar disposition has beer
made of the case of G. Starke. charged
with writing a threatening letter. E
G. Allen, charged with robbery wa
released on his W .recognizances.
A recent issue of the Butte Evenin,
News, one of the best edited newspa
pers in Montana, u its sus
pension, owing to financial difficulties
The News, which was started by +
Augustus Heinza during his litigation
with the Amalgamated Copper com
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