The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Cho.eau Acautha: Twenty.three oil
placer locations, each covering 100
acres OF government land In the "Bi2
Basin country near Kelvin and south
of J James Miller's ranch. we're filed in
the county clerks Office last Monday.
Glasgow News: Rauchers and herd.
ers coming in from the north country
report large herds of antelope work.
ing south on account of deep snow
and cold weather. Some herds are
estimated to contain from 800 to 500
antelope.
Conrad Observer: A car load of
Montana horses was shipped from
Conrad to Alabama, Georgia, last
Sunday by Chae. Kroht Of the Cho-
teau country. The horses were all
small and of the csyuse type and are
said to Withstand the hot climate TO
good advantage.
Chinook Opinion: The Chinook
creamery is considering &C important
addition to their present equipment In
the way of u cold storage plant. The
directors have been considering the
proposition favorsbly for soma time
and only wait the approval Of the
stockholders.
Dodson Index: George Fernie came
in Saturday from the Ruby Gulch
mine with their monthly cleanup
which aggregated S35, 600 in gold
bricks but he was very careful not to
hand any one in Dodson me OF them.
The gold vas shipped to the First Ma
tional Bank in Great Falls.
Inverness Iudex: With the Their
mometer registering from II to "a be.
low zero on Tuesday, there were %
pupils present in the primary school
at Inverness. Some of them walked
to and from school one and one-hali
miles. These are the people who will
be in charge of affairs here 10 a few
years.
Malta Enterprise: Our weather man
rises to remark that unless some radi'
cal change occurs in the temperature
between now and spring, all the mois.
ture that has been precipitated since
November will be available for the
crop Of 1912: aud that recently fallen
is in a state of beautiful preservation
He further says that frost is the very
best method of conserving moisture.
as there Ia no waste from evaporation
Havre Plaindealer: Hon. Dan Nc
, Kay, of Glasgow, vas in the city tbs
!, early part of the week. Mr.. Mckay
has been recently over q large part o.
northern Montana and met with en-
( thusiasm the suggestion recently made
. by him that the buildings at For
Assinniboine be not destroyed bu
rather converted into an industrial
school and dedicated to teaching tn
| young men of the country the arts tha
make for both peace and prosperity.
: Shelby News: The property of tn
Conrad Land and Water company II
advertised to be cold at sherif's sal,
: on January 30. This 10 what is know
1 as the Waller project which has beer
in q more OF less crippled financia
3 condition since the failure of the Car
y gill. Withee company q year or tw<
ago. The foreclosure may work
hardship on some of the smaller cred
itors, but it will effect q reorganiza
u ton of the scheme and permit . con
tinuance of construction work.
i. Glasgow ~Indepent: It 10 reported
q that quite q little petty thieving wen
! on Saturday morning when bushes
a men on Front street were engaged il
removing the contents of building
which looked for q time were doomed
by fire. Anyone who will steal fror
q man who is being burned out jus
at the time be is undergoing a heav,
: loss, is about the lowest type Of hu
mainly. Yet it ia often done at sue
. conflagrations. Many people believ
e that the insurance companies have t.
stand such losses, when in reality th
n insurance companies require the owne
to exert every precaution to save al
of the contents insured as possible
deducting the value from the polio,
losses.
Scientific Lecture, January 22.
e The lecture to be given at the oper