The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-20
CITY N STATE.

See Sheldon before you buy tina
new wagon or farm truck.
Send your watch and jewelry repair
work to D. G.. Lockwood's jewelry
store.
Mrs. Chas. P. Heron, of Havre,
was admitted to the Sanitarium this
morning for medical treatment
LOsT-A small satchel Feb. Goth,
on Benton Sheep Co. road east OF
O'Hanlon Coulee, finder please adj
dress Chas. Howe, Iona, Mont. +
G. E.. Bourgonne, representing the
Champion Shoe Machine Co.. of St.
Louis, Is in the city installing an up
to.date shoe repairing machine for P.
W. Burnett.
A p%ostofice bulletin announces the
establishment of q postof1ce at Teton
Bench, Chouteau county, with Max A.
Jahnke as postmaster. Service will
be from Carter.
A we'll filled opera house greeted
Alton Packard, the cartoonist. last
evening, and his performances were
highly appreciated by all those pre-
sent. This is the last number In the
Fort Benton Lyceum course
w. K. HARDER, member OF the CON-
mission for Hill county, appointed
to apportion the Indebtedness of Chou
teau county, left THE morning for
Havre, to be present at the organiza-
ton of the board, which takes place
today.
A big shipment of sheep, consisting
Of about 40, 600 head, will be made by
J. B. Long & Co. the latter part of
the month. The shipment will include
various bands that have been wintered
in Cascade and Teton counties, and
which will be transferred to q summer
range in Valley county. About 200
csrs will be needed for the shipment.
Great Falls Leader: According to
q telegram received this morning by
W. L. Dodds, Great Falls passenger
agent OF the Great Northern Railway
company, from General Passenger
Agent H. A. Noble of St. PAIL, q
special car Of settlers will leave St.
Paul tonight for this city. The car,
which will arrive Thursday morning
attached to passenger train No. 235,
carries about 25 settlers, a large por.
ton of whom, it Is believed, will take
UP homesteads in the immediate vicin.
ity OF Great Falls. The car will leave
St. Paul tonight attached to No. 3.
From Thursdays Daily.
Found, on Main street, near the
Meat Market, q pair of sp~ectacles.
owner can have same by applying at
this Office.
Passenger train No. l on the main
line of the Great Northern brought a
delegation Of land seekers from the
east. About forty of them left the
train at Havre, and continued the trip
to points along the Montana Central.
Expenses incurred by cities and
counties in enforcing the provisions of
the pure food and drug act under the
direction of the state board of health
are to be borne by the state and not
by the city or county, according to an
opinion given by the attorney general.
Workmen are engaged today In
tearing down the old tumble-down log
and frame buildings on Front street
above the express Office, known as the
Cans & Klein buildings. These old
landmarks were CONDEMNED some time
ago as unsafe and undesirable, and
their removal will do away with an
element of danger to that part OF the
business district.
The Blaine county board of CON-
m%issioners met at Chinook Tuesday
and organized by electing Thos.
Dowen chairman. Among the fret
matters to come before the board was
the resignation of j. Dwight Jones,
who was recently elected clerk of the
district court for Blaine county, but
who finds he will be unable to attend
to the duties OF that Office. 1t will de.
volve upon the board to appoint some
one to the vacancy caused by Mr..
Jones' resignation.
Judge J. E. Erickson, of Ka|ispell,
and O. G.. Skylstead, OF Havre, mem
bers of the commission to adjust fl
nancial matters between Hill county
and Chouteau county, were among the
arrivals today. The commission was
organized at Havre yesterday by
electing Judge Erickson as its chair
man, and appointing Matt Ferguson,
of Ravre, as clerk. The commission
was in session at the court house this
afternoon, matters connected with
county business being under consid
Grafton.
The first meeting of the Northern