The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-15

assortment of holiday goods, besides the
usual drug stock, which is expertly handled
BY Kelly.
The Benton and Helena stage company
killed three horses in trying to get the mails
through during the recent cold snap, and
Superintendent Rowe tells us that " others
are as good as dead.
# ever there was an onery steer, Billy
Rowe thinks it was the one which deliberately
stepped half across a buggy tongue belonging
to him, and then laid quietly down on it and
died. But it furnished a job for our wagon
makers.
A little blaze occurred at Fort Shaw last
Sunday morning, in which some OF the out
buildings suffered. Report says Lieut.. Floyd
greatly distinguished himself, and ought to
be brevetted chief engineer of the Shaw fire
department.
There is scarcely any necessity for telling
any one to call on Webster, in Helena, for a
good cigar or anything in the way Of con-
fectionery. Web. has a Territorial reputa-
ton, and his cigars are as well known as
brakes Plantation Bitters.'
The coyotes having become too familiar
with the turkeys N DR.. Turner'S ranch, he
brought the remainder into town, and now
the ~disconsolate coyotes are heard il the sub
urbs seeking their lost friends. Two or three
have been seen lately quite near the Doctors
residence.
: If you want to play your chest game" OF
billiards, drop into the Metropolitan Billiard
Hall when you are in Helena, and try those
new tables of Max Showers. The Metro
politan is the largest and finest hall in Mon
tana. and Max keeps none but the very best
liquors and cigars.
The U%ndaunted Dancing Club Of Sun river,
will give a Christmas reception at Choteau
hall, on Christmas eve. Dec. "a. They will
doubt have a splendid time, as the people
Of Sun River always do in their social
gatherings, and nowhere is there better ma
terial for sociability.
The Helena mails, which got two days be-
hind during the late snow and cold snap-it
being almost impossible to drive nights on
account of the intense cold and the inability
to distinguish the road-have caught up and
are now running on time, thanks to the indie
fatjgable efforts Of the rustling superintend-
ent, VIM. Rowe.
We are informed that near the mouth of
Twelve Mile Cooley there exists any quantity
Of the finest kind Of building stone. It is
said to be five feet deep, and in layers of
from four to ten inches in thickness, and is
easy to get at. This will prove very valuable
in the future, and We would advise our build
ers to look into the matter.
The Barker in the new tunnel is looking
fine. They have out about sixty tons of ore
On the dump. The Wright & Edwards tun-
mel is progressing finely. The Lynch s. Con-
way mine bids fair to be one of the best leads
in the district. They have about sixteen in
ches of silver ore, Work has commenced on
the Summit and DeSoto, owned by Wright, |
Carpenter and Olinger.
The american is a new weekly journal, |
about royal folio in size, which cannot but re-
ceive popular appreciation and support..When
shall become known. To the student of |
history it is a most valuable acqui-
and the ability displayed in its editorial
on contemporaneous, political, social
and historical events is superior to anything
have in the United States. It has all of
he solidity without that display Of pedantry |
which is our great fault with the Nation.
On Saturday last, while the workmen on
Murphy, Neel s. Co.'S new building were
putting On the iron roofing, one of the men,
yoing near q trap door, stepped on q board
which gave way, and the man fell
through the roof, through the first floor,
md into the cellar. Strange TO say, he was
lninjured, and when the other men anx-
ously ran to his assistance, he locked up to
he builder and said, tsYou didn't nail that
BOARD on very good, Jameson" 1t was q
lose call for q serious, if not fatal, accident. |
As an exhibition of dwelling idiocy, pure |
md simple, we boldly state, without fear of
contradiction, chat Freeman's last article in |
he Atlantis, on his trip to Benton takes the
Rhort Horns.
We have nothing to say in contradiction
# the above, but we do wonder at the daring
# the noble three in making an issue with
he .'drivelling idiot from whom they derive
heir inspiration. We don't know how they
would have found q nickname for the editor
# this paper If they had not copied Free
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