The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-04-22
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS,

'N''ONO VIII VeVOuuOOUSOs
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our |
Northern Montana Exchanges
Conrad Observer: A report comes :
from Solid, 20 miles east of Conrad,
that surveyors are in the field again
this year. Last summer lines were
II in the Solid country by
reported to be for the 500 railroad
company. |
Harlem News: E. B. Smith, the
Great Northern agent, reports that in
the past six weeks, SO car loads of
emigrant effects have been unloaded
at this station. All of these people
have settled in the vicinity of Harlem.
Malta Enterprises: An Italian living
southeast of town had four horses
burned in a prairie fire the first of
the week. n of them being so badly
burned that it had to be killed. 1t is
hard luck at this time of the year and
just as he was getting ready for seed
ing.
Glasgow News: Reports from the
north country" are that a prairie fire
burned ove a large stretch of country
, near Ophiem and destroyed several
barns, a number of stacks of hay, and
miles of range that homesteaders
were depending on to help them out
with spring and summer feed.
Glasgow Courier: Sheridan county
, Ills finally paid up" County Clerk
and Recorder Ben H. Johnson of
Plentywood, was ir the city Tuesday
and turned e a check for $685..
j3.9S, the amount of the Indebtedness
of Sheridan to Valley county, without
the interest. The question of inter-
! est has not yet been decided.
T! Stanford World: Some idea of the
Important place the COW is taking ON
the west side can be obtained from
the fact that at the Harry Smith sale
near Merino last Friday one ordinary
cow brought $116 and another $40.
The horses sold for an average Of bet
ter than $500 per team and other stuff
went equally we'll.
Conrad Independent: L. H. Stump,
representing the sales department of
the Waller Farm Sales company, has
been here and at Waller for the past
ten days, and has brought in a large
number of settlers for the project. He
says the people in the western states
are more interested in Montana lands
this spring than w before, and he
expects to see a large number come
} here to locate during the year.
Havre Democrat: County Assessor
R. H. Fuller made a special trip to
Willow Creek, Canada, to %apprehend
two men who were attempting to
emigrate into Canada, so as to avoid
paying their taxes. The names of the
parties were VIM. Phillips and Perry
Fish and they were residents of Ches.
ter, Montana. Their household goods
and livestock, including seventy-five
| head of horses, has been assessed fol
: the year 1914. The men had previ
7 ously disposed of their homesteads.
Chinook Opinion: Word was receiv
ed here Thursday of a serious accident
to Mrs. Anna Wolfe, a homesteader's
wife out neal one of the Miller ranch.
es in the mountains. Mrs. Wolfe went
out into their field to chase a stray
bull out of the field and the animal
turned on her. He knocked her dowi
+ and rolled her for several yards ovel
the ground and through a barbed wire
. fence into another field where he coult
no longer get at her. He had no horns
or the woman would surely have beer
killed.
- Lewistown Argus: Turkey Rec
| wheat is the standard by which Fer
gus county agriculture is judged. ST,
or seven years ago, the Judith basi1
! began setting records which needed
=. the confirmation of succeeding yield.
q to force the world to believe that Mon
tana could raise more bushels of win
ter wheat to the acre than was pos
x sible in any other country. Such rec
a ognition is now universally accorded
J. to Montana and Fergus county is a
the head of the procession.