The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-11-02

railroad boom in that vicinity one Of these
days.
Judging from freight rates it must be a
good deal farther from Helena TO Benton
than it is from Benton to Helena. Freight
rates to Benton are So % per hundred, while
from Bentonto Helena they are only ST
~Independent
George Houk sold Jimmy Yore's chestnut
stallion yesterday at public auction. The
horse brought but Sill, which is considera-
bic less than james paid for the animal.
Toney LaChapelle was the purchaser ard he
got a bargain.
Jno. Fl. Ming, who recently returned from
the Sun River roundup, reports a falling off
in the fall brand of calves of about twenty
five per cent, compared with 1880. This is
a better showing than reported on the Mus
cleshell.-HerGM.
The dancing season is at hand, and that
reminds US that the RIVER Press has in
stock some of the most handsome pro-
grammes ever seen in Benton. The COM
mittees should not think Of ordering until
they have seen them.
This is the time Of year when the fellow
who has loafed around all summer, or has
spent his earnings foolishly, is cudgeling his
brain to know how he, will rustic food and
fuel during the winter. There are.not a few
Of this class in Benton.
This evening the grand festival and ball
given by the ladies OF the Episcopal church
comes off a; Aennedy's Hall. The band
will be on land to discourse enchanting
strains of music and a general good time is
anticipated. Everybody is invited.
John J. Kennedy will move bis meat mar
ket into his new building in q few days: The
building has been planned with special ref
erence to his business, and we. are ready to
gamble on the proposition that it is the neat
est and most convenient meat market id the
Territory.
The saslte Of The honanzA mine Of the Judith
| distric, to Messrs. Hauser and Hotter Of Hell
eDa has been concluded, the mine proving
satisfactory after a shaft of fifty feet had
been sulk. jim Dear, one Of the late own
ere, is now in the city, headauaEtering at the
Centennial.
The citizens of Big Spring Creek, Judith
valley, have organized 9 school district, built
a shool house, and employed Ell. Brassey, OF
Diamond City, to teach. There are about
seventy children ia the district, aud y j. ex-
pected they will have q nine months school.
| HusbnndmGn.
TT. Todd g. Co. have recently received 9
large stock of bar fixtures of every kind,
and the same are now neatly displayed on
shelving erected III the front part Of theii
establishment. Everything needed behind
the bar, including staple 'sWes goods, can be
found here. Orders are filled i. d. q, too.
A number Of teams left Assinaboin las
week en- route to Clagett after freight fol
Benton. Mtssrs. l.. G. Baker & Co. are put
ing forth every effort possible TO fulfill thei'
contract and deliver Ill the Coulson Link
freight in this city before winter sets IN. a
few more weeks Of good weather will 90 thu
work.
MIR. John McCabe is preparing to open
bakery IL the building recently occupied b,
John G.. Guthrie. He will bake his frs
batch OF bread to.moTrow and thereafter will
always be prepared to meet the requirement
Of the people in this line. Mr., McCabe /
said to be q first class baker and he ought T
do q good business.
There is some trouble about the owner
ship Of the Lynch & Conway mine. Thoma
Shearer claims the property, as his CLAM
was recorded before that Of Messrs- ~. EC
The latter were the original discoveries, bu
it seems they did not get to the Recorder,
efice soon enough. a law suit is likely +
grew out of the muddle.
Murphy, Gray and Brown, Wetzel's eH
cient aid le-campa, are bonarza Kings
There is no mistake about it this time.
generous friend gave them az interest 10 to
ssOregon' lead, and recent development
have convinced them that there's milton
ia it," Fifty dollars . foot is the prlc
they are demanding Tow.
The Independent goes into ecstacles an
rhyme over d turnip weighing eleven III
thraa n,,arter mounds raised by Nick Grede