The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

HJVONO OOn VIJOT1OOnCs
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Havre Promoter: Chas. c. Allen, q
colored rancher living about % miles
south Of Aavre, has sold his 16O acres
OF land for $50 40 acre, the purchaser
being q homesteader from Ohio.
Dodson Idea: A. D. FIom. one OF
our successful dry land farmers nine
miles south OF Dodson, reports q yield
OF 80 bushels OF oats and 10 bushels
OF fax to the acre, which goes to show
that the land in the locality is equal
to the best.
Stanford World: Reports from the
Arrow creek country state that Green
Creekmore received q yield of q triae
over IS bushels OF wheat per scre on
| q leo. acre tr act and that on the With.
row place adjoining the yield was
So bushels.
Big Sandy M~ountsineer: Small
grain still u%nthreshed is among the
crop that is going to figure in the loss
calumu for some OF the farmers. l. N.
Fleenor reports that he has several
acres of oats that is covered with snow
and says he has neighbors who will
also be losers unless they get some
warm weather.
Box Elder Press: Two cars of lum-
Der which are to be used in the con-
struction OF the new grain elev ator
arrived here this week and it is ex-
pected that construction of the came
will be started at an early date. The
delay IN receiving the material was
caused by the mills being overcrowd.
ed with orders which necessitated q
delay In the shipment.
Chester Signal: L. F. Chadek, who
was accused of shooting some horses
belonging to Alex. M. Keith. north OF
town, about six weeks ago aud bound
over to the district court by Judge
Wellborn, was tried last week in the
district court at asvre and given one
year in the state penitentisry. This
certainly should be q lesson to others
who are disposed to take the law in.
to their own hands.
Big Sandy Mounssineer: Eighl
royal boosters were added to the al
ready large list for Big Sandy lac
week with the arrival and fling OF tina
number of fret class farmers from
Armstrong, Iowa, who we're induced
to come here through the efforts O.
Charles Vallie, now q resident Of thi.
country and formerly a neighbor O.
the new entrymen.
Malta Enterprise: Information wa!
received here this week that work ha,
been begun On q 1000 foot tunnel ir
the Ruby Gulch mine at Zortman
The tunnel will tap the body Of or
now being mined at q point 400 fee
, below the present level. Shafts viii
be driven down to the tunnel. Thi,
new work will mean the employmen
of q considerable force Of men fol
some time to come.
Havre Plaindealer: Thos. D. Lloyd
a stenographer and bookkeeper, VIII.
' was employed in that capacity up un
|. til about one year ago by E. c. Car
ruth of this city, was instantly killed
Sunday morning in the Southern
rooming house in Butte. Lloyd wa
ascending stairs at the time Of the &C
cident and was about at the head o
the stairs when he stumbled and fel
to the bottom, breaking his neck.
: Glasgow News: Last Sunday even
ing John Zograff vas caught in
gasoline engine in the Great Northern
pumping plant at Frazer, and so bad
~ injured that he died in q few hours
He was brought to Glasgow on No.
and taken to the Deaconess hospital
t but on examin alton, it was found tina
he could not possibly live, as bone
were broken 10 nearly all parts of hi
body, and his skull was also cut open
Milwaukee Railroad Towns.
A news item from Lewistown report
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