The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-26
CITY AND STATE.

Attorney W. Chittick, of Chester, is
among the visitors attending district
court. !
Born, at Great Fa!ls, Mont to MIR.
and Mrs. Arthur Levi, of Fioweree, !
q daughter.
w. Slette, q we'll known business
mar Of Culb.r.sou, Is among TIE wis.,
tors in town.
Mrs. David Filler, of Havre, has
been received at the Ssnitarium for
medical treatment.
A transaction in ranch property
near Chinook 10 recorded in q deed
received 1t the county clerks Office.
by which Elmer f. RieRel conveys
title to about 400 acres to George
Jones. The considers alton named in
the deed is $1,000.
A sheep deal was closed yesterday
between the Sun River Land and Stock
company, Of Sunnyside. and Evers
Bros., OF Everson. by which the latter
disposed of about 5000 head of two
and t~hree.year.old ives and wethers.
The purchase price is said to be 81 %
per head.
Six declarations of intention to be.
come American citizens were filed
in the district court today. The
applicants are Christian Lux, Rudolf
Karius, Christina Karius and Karl
Jarel, all of Kremlin; Arthur G.
Allen, OF Havre and w. F. Wiki.
inson, of Chinook.
The suit of the First State bank, of
Chester, against H. G. Delaney was
on tri al before q jury in the district
court today. The plaintiff asks for
an accounting from defendan in HE
business relations with the bank, and
seeks to recover some real estate that
is alleged to rightfully belong 10 the
institution.
The formation of a big telephone
merger is indicated in q certificate
of the incorporation of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, which was fled in the county
clerks Office today. The concern has
q capital stock of $50, DOC, 600, and pro.
poses to absorb the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company and some OF
its competitors. The new company is
q Colorado corporation.
Great Falls Leader: Flax over two
feet high and of such luxuriant growth
that it will produce from Is TO 20
bushels an acre, according to the
estimates of farmers who know, was
brought t % Great Falls tod ay by A. l.
Thomas, a rancher who has q dry
farm two and a half miles north OF
the Big falls of the Missouri river.
The fax which Mr.. Thomas carried
had been pulled from the ground yes
terday. 1t had not yet matured, bu,
10 approaching the stage of maturity,
and the crop will probably be ready
for harvest iu about three or four
weeks.
From Mondays Daily.
V. F. Blankenbsker, of Virgelle, il
among the business visitors in town.
Mrs. H. J. Boyer. of Chester, was
received at the Sanitarium today fol
medical treatment.
Thos. A. Matthew'S, who has beer
seriously sick the past few weeks, wal
taken to st. Clare hospital yesterday
Miss Blackstone, county superin
tendent, returned today from an Off
cial visit to the school districts in tn
Bear Paw country.
Declarations of their intention Il
become American citizens we're filed II
the district court today by Malco!n
Mclean, of Dunkirk. and John Tinker
OF Harlem.
A new map of Montana, with stats
tics compiled from the last fedora
census, has been placed on sale at th'
postoGice store. 1t is in %convenien
pocket form.
VIM. Mieburg and wife, Of Roc
Rapids, Iowa, who have been visiting
with c. II. Evers and family, left to
day for a trip through the Yellowston
park prior to returning to Iowa.
E. M. Kennedy. who arrived toda
from Harlem, reports a cloudburst i
that locality Saturday evening. Tn
storm was accompanied by hail the
caused damage to some of the crop:
John Goodman was received at th
county jail today from Chinook.
serve thirty days for giving intoxica
ing liquor to an Indian. The prisone
was committed by Justice H. E
Brooks.
c. h. Sands & Co., of Concord
have brought suit in the district cour
aoainst Alena IIrdal and Others. {