The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-28
AMONG OUR NElGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana EXCHANGES

A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges
Big Sandy M~ountainecr: Big San
dy has n g t.c NEST loyal bunch
Of citizens to be found anywhere, for !
the dance given last Saturday even
ing by the Commercial club for the
benefit of the electric lighting sys-
tenn in our city was largely attended
and in return the boys gave value re-
ceived for the money.
Conrad Observer: A report says
that James Wilson recently had seven
or eight head of cattle shot and kill.
ed at his homestead claim near the
knees and that he lost three or four
head that were ranging south of town
on account of eating fax straw. An
investigation is being made as t. who
killed the cattle on the homestead.
Harlem News: A bunch Of horses
belonging in the Bearpaw. mountains
to the south have been rounded up
by som horse thief, and he probably
has now disposed of them across the
line. 1t is reported that the party
stopped on his way north and traded
a couple of fine draft houres to Harry
Bauer. The officers here are making
every effort to %apprehend the guilty
party.
Geraldine Review: Miss Brady,
postmistress at Hawarden, has sent
to Postmaster WEIGH a petition con.
tanning 103 names of heads of families
living on the Hawarden bench who
are moving for a rural route to run
from Geraldine to that section. Mr..
WEIGH will take up the matter at
once with the department and it is
hoped the service will be inaugurated
at an early day.
Carter C%hronotype: The big hunt
last Tuesday did not prove to be a
very large success. A goodly number
of nimrods participated in the sport
triumphant in thought but not in re.
suits. Mr.. Johnson of Great Falls
succeeded in bringing down a coyote
on the school section adjoining the
Weatherwax cOulee, which was the
only one killed. Two were sighted
an the river bottom but escaped cap
, ture.
Glasgow Courier: Ezra Ereaux. q
farmer near Malta, recently shipped
, a carload of hogs to the Great Falls
market. There were ~ in the lo>
, and they averaged 225 pounds each
t This farmer and others along the
t Milk river valley find the raising o.
! hogs more profitable than selling al
l falfa and the grains at regular mar
ket prices. Turning these products
into meat brings them much NOR
money.
l Lewistown Argus: A passenger
car will be connected to the new
l freight which runs over the Lewis
town-Great Falls branch of the Mil
waukee. Mr.. Whiting the local su
: perintendent of the Milwaukee say
> that the company is not putting this
: a on because they want to carr,
passengers, but for a convenience fol
those who absolutely have to go owe,
Z this road. No guarantee of sefety Of
convenience is made.
Havre Democrat: The remains O
Chas. Daum, who vas found dead up
y on the prairie north of Durham las
, Thursday were shipped to his ole
, home in Mortified, Mimi. Friend.
of the deceased are of the opinion
8 that Daum must have had an epilep
tic fit and while in this condition h,
, froze to death Sunday night. Other
, wise 1t can not be accounted for hi
being found in a frozen condition, a.
the weather was not very cold.
y Havre Plaindealer: Montana lie,
all states of the union in settlement
and development, and the Havre Ian,
r office led all others in the state il
number of individual entries, durinl
the fiscal year ending July 1, 1913
according to the report Of the commits
sioner of the general land office, COP
r les of which have recently been re
0 ceived here. The report is replet
with interesting figures showing tn
rapid growth of the Treasure state.
Lewistown Argus: Walter Winnet
has been adding to the gayety of ma
tons and the fame of his section O
= Fergus county's orange belt by SOW
: ing thirty acres of oats, beginnin,
= January ~. There was no frost t,
interfere with the planting and tn
. surface mulch was as fine and dr.,
' as in midsummer. This record TO
: late planting can go with Raphae
Spencer's blowing of February Z
. 1913, the two standing as records un
til displaced. Either record can cas-
lily be broken if Jack Frost continue
' to ignore the existence of Fergu
county.