The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
AMONG OUR NElGHBORS.

| AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A crlst Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges
Hinsdale Tribune: Several persons
were found to have registered twice
or three times for Fort Peck land. It
is reported that some Of the parties
/ will be prosecuted and all will lose
their rights under the provisions of
the drawing.
! Dodson Idea: j. n. Jones and John
Bridges report the banner yield of
oats in this locality-a little over a
hundred bushels to the acre-which
was raised on the latter's farm just
south of town. There were seven
acres in the piece, and it was under
irrigation, which shows that irrigation
helps some in dry seasons.
Saco Independent: A terrible acct.
dent occurred at the home of M. H.
Andrews, even miles northeast of
here, when little Wilbur Andrews,
six years of age, said "hands up" to
his older brother, Raymond, pulled
the trigger to the shot gun he had in
his hands and killed his brother in.
stantly. The two children were play.
ing together in a room and in some
manner happened to get hold Of the
gun.
Glasgow Courier: Dan Lodge, who
has a homestead south of Adam Lent
ses, was killed by a train Saturday
night while walking along the Great
Northern tracks about a mile east of
town. In the second railroad accident
occurring within a week, Ed. Ross, a
farmer living about six miles from
Wiota, came to his death while cross
ing the railroad tracks near that place
Wednesday night.
Havre Democrat: Clinton Sailor,
the we'll known ranchman, who re-
sides mead Clifford, was a business
visitor here Friday. MI. Sailor says
he is not yet through harvesting flax,
and that there is quite a lot of harvest
work to be done in his vicinity. The
crop yield in that part of the country
has been excellent and 800, 900 bushels
of grain have been put in the elevat-
ors so far this fall.
Harlem News: Charles Kemp, who
located a great number of people
north of town on the second bench,
last spring, states that a hundred or
more homesteaders will arrive here
this month to establish their resi-
dence. They have already started to
come in and in a few weeks the prair-
lie from five miles north will be dot
ted with busy people hauling out
their goods and building new homes.
Big Sandy Mountaineer: A scheme
is being tried by Mcnamara & Mar
low near Big Sandy, which may mean
the biggest boom to this territory of
anything yet tried in this line. The
electric line has been extended about
one mile south of town to the Whit
craft ranch, where the power will be
used at a pumping station for irriga-
ton purposes. Several hundred acres
will receive the water and the ranch
will also be lighted.
Dodson Idea: Some two or three
weeks ago J. A. Testu, who lives
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that some of his hogs were acting
rather queer and, within a few days,
a number died. The malady seemed
to spread rapidly until his entire herd
was affected and with such fatality
that in all he lost IA head of fine
brood sows and about IS spring pigs.
The disease proved to be hog cholera.
Chinook Opinion: Governor Stew
art has appointed 43 delegates from
Montana to attend the dry farm con-
gress at Tulsa, Okla, Oct. 22d. The
Blaine county delegates appointed are
Jas. Griffin and D. B Watkins of this
place and Thos. M. Everett of Harlem.
It is expected that a special effort
will be made to get a party from Mon
tana together to attend the sessions
of the congress and work was done
at the state fair towards getting ex.
hibits from Montana to compete for
the prizes at the congress farm pro-
ducts show.
Chinook Democrat: A. w. Ziebarth
broke away from his official duties
last week long enough to superintend
the threshing of his alfalfa. The yield
on 30 acres was a good four horse
load, of 40 bushels of the valuable
seed, which is the Grimm variety.
This is not by any means a heavy
yield, but Mr.. Ziebarth expects to get
around $12 per bushel for the seed,
which will mean ove $50 per acre
from the land. The only real expense
connected with the growing of alfal-
ia for seed, aside from the minor item
of moving it, after the crop has once
been established, is that of threshing,
for which a pretty stiff price is charg.
ed.
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