The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-11
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A 0rist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana EXCHANGES
Carter Herald: Ranchers are grad.
ually drifting into hog raising and .
quite a few importations of thorough. |
breds into this section have been
made recently. Nothing is too good .
for the Montana farmer and he spares |
no pains to secure the best that money |
car buy. !
Big Sandy Mountaineer: Another
quarter of land on the prairie sold
last week for the nominal sum of
$4,000 cash. 1t is located in section |
2, township % north, range IL east,
the south half of the northwest nuar-
ter and the south half of the north
east quarter, and was proved up on
recently by John Logan.
Conrad Observer: A poor u~ueort,,.
nate named Matson died in the John
son bar last Thursday afternoon aud
was later buried by the county. The
fellow came into town the day before
and on the day Of his death had been
playing a violin in the saloon and in.
cidentally drinking up to the time It
was seen that he was dead sitting in
a chair.
Chinook Opinion: The county clerk
and recorder has received from the
federal land Office at Helena certified
copies of the two judgments, cancell-
ing the patents issued to B. D. Phil
lips for two tracts of land in the east
ern part of this county. The govern.
ment contested the claims of Phillips
in a number of cases in which patent
had already issued on the ground of
fraud and irregularity in the securing
of the land. The DEGREES just receiv-
ed are in two of the cases.
Chester Signal: We would like to
see our farmer friends keep in mind
the great importance to them as we'll
as the community, of getting in line
for dairying and hog raising. We
cannot profitably raise wheat and
sell at prevailing prices, but we can
grow small grains and feed to swine
and COWS and poultry at a most sat-
isfactOry profit, and the sooner VIC
make up u minds to this the sooner
we will place our section in the Black
column-which means w shall have
a snug balance always to our credit.
Choteau Acantha: A. o. Pond, pro-
prietor of the Gem restaurant has en-
tered on a thirty day fast in the hopes
| 0f rodV10in0 hic fash hn hoC ~1n1 -
days, including today, without eating
any food, and he proposes to Keep up
the fast until the end of 80 days.
When he began the fast, he weighed
80 pounds. He weighed himself to-
day and found he had lost &c pounds
He has tried all kinds of dieting and
%ransacked all the drug stores to re-
duce his fat. He has continually
= grown heavier until he was forced to
take some drastic measure.
r Shelby News: That a colony of
= something more than 500 families to
be brought from Russia will be locat.
ed in the country between Gold Butte
and Sweet Grass is the belief of the
ranchers from that section and they
expect the first colonists this spring.
In fact there is already something
more than $4,000 acres under option
to be sold to the men directing the
: colonization and the first of the op.
tons expire on March 1. The fore
going information was brought to this
city yesterday by Max MANS, a ranch.
er near Sweet Grass, who has option.
ed his holdings and he says present
indications are that the options will
be claimed by the company back OF
: the movement.
Lewistown Argus: Fred Warren
has sold his 6,500,acre ranch near
5 Utica for $225,996. The purchasers
are Joseph R. Liberty of Geyser and
!. Weaver of Madison, Wis. The sale
price includes the land. buildings
livestock except sheep and all i'm.
provements. The new owners have
farmed the Warren Land Company
with headquarters in Hobson and will
proceed at once to sub.divide and sell
the property to small holders, prefer
ably in 100 or 800 acr tracts. Prac
= tically the whole acreage can be SOLD
Z In this way. The sale price for the
$500 acres including everything ex
cept 4,800 sheep already sold by Mr.
Warren, is $35 per acre.
y. Havre Plaindealer: The large
~heartedness that is SO characteristic
:, of the west was pretty we'll illustrat
, : ed this week when it became known
chat som few people, most of then
: newcomers of this fall, were in neet
=. of some of the commonest necessitie.
:. OF life. 1t was the severe weather
that brought the matter to notice, fol
when some of the little children cam
to school %shivering with the cold ant
= without proper provision for thei1
;, noon lunches, it was at once apparen,
- that they must be taken care of. Sew
\ eral of the active organizations of til.
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