The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-05-14

man, however, and landed him In jail.
In the justice court this afternoon the
prisoner was fined e25 and costs on
the third degree assault charge, and
will answer later to the crime Of re-
sisting an officer.
from Tuesdays Daily.
Fred Bauer, of Shonkin, was re.
ceived at the S%anitartum ~yesterday
for medical treatment.
Girl wanted for general housework
on a ranch. Address Mrs. II. A.
Bartlett. Box Elder, Mont.--Adv.
Miss Eva Russell left today for
Great Falls. 10 attend the Methodits
Sunday school institute in that city.
A li-t of recent ~postof1ce appoint.
mepts In Montana includes the nom
ination of j. A. Wright ss postm asser
at Chester.
Arbor day was observed 10 this 10.
cality by the arrival OF q gentle rain
that continued throughout she day.
It wac . welcome visitation for she
farmers and other residents.
Wanted, breaking contract Of sec.
ton or more. Will be In Benton week
after May IL to arrange. Reeves en-.
CINE; Cockshutt plow. Write O River
Press ofice.-Adv.
The Hill county authorities have
been Investigating the mysterious
death OF c. G. SAKE, . homesseader
whose body vas found in his shack
about four miles southwest OF Galata.
II developed that death was caused by
carbolic acid that was evidently taken
with suicidal intent.
The eight companies and regimentsl
headquarters of the Second regiment,
National Guard of Montana, will be
visited this month by Adjutsnt Gen.
eral Greenan and Lieutenant A. A.
Hoffman,, U. S. A. i%nsrtuctor inspec.
tor. Company NJ, OF this city, will
be inspected May "a.
A Washington dispatch says Sens
tor Myers has introduced 30 amend.
meut to bis former bill opening Fort
Assinniboine to settlement, providing
that atoms shall be held sub.
ject to the applications of Laura E.
Devlin, Hazel G. Kennedy, Marie
Violet Lepper and Geo. W. Dewar.
The new county OF Shsrid an, which
Was recently formed from the eastern
part of Valley county, begins house.
keeping with = debt of sl08, 1876. The
adjustment commission appointed to
adjudicate financial matters between
Valley county and the new county has
made report that Sherid an must a..
sumo that proportion Of Valley coun.
tvs indebtedness.
Great Falls Leader: Probably the
greatest mob that ever faced q police
magistrate in q Great Falls court wa.
lined up before the bench of Judge
Hall this morning There we're 81 cul
prits of greater or lesser degrees o
bad order crowded into the small
SOu' III oou oOjOluluE duUIuOrluul
and there was q troubled look on tht
visage of Judge William Hall as hi
surveyed the mob.
E. r. Russell 10 in receipt OF in
quiry from Grinnell, Iowa, seeking
inform alton regarding the buria
place OF a party of ton men who were
murdered by Indians 10 this vicinity
in 1865. The request from
son OF one of the victims who wishe.
to place . monument on the grave
According to early day residents, tht
party came here from Virginia City
in the fall of 1865, built q boat .nd
went down the Missouri river, bu,
while camped in the timber about two
miles from the mouth of the Maria.
they were attacked BY q band OF Pie
gan Indians and all of them killed.
The bodies IRE said to have beer
buried together in . trench near thu
scene of the massacre, but there i,
no definite knowledge a. to its exact
I%lOcatiOn.