The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
THE RIVER

vi accouut OI the amount or wafer sur
rounding the school house, making it impos-
sible for the pupils to attend without taking
the chances OF wet feet and possibly serious
consequences, Mr.. Ciingan has closed the
school for a few days. A drain cut from
the school house to the large ditch on st.
John street would carry this water off, and
we hope to see one cut before many days.
A few cases have occurred before the Pro-
bate Court within the past week in which the
defendants were fined in various sums. From
the remarks of the Judge to those arraigned
it will hardly be necessary to say that they
will not care to appear before such Court
again under similar circumstances. The re-
marks of the Court, however, show a thor
ough determination to let no guilty manor
Woman-escape.
The RIVER PRESS is having made a neat
cabinet for the purpose of holding and dis
playing ore samples from different mines,
and invites contributions of the same from
our friends. The specimens will be careful
ly labeled with the names Of the leads from
which they were taken, the assays, when OBJ
tainable, ETC., and the cabinet will be placed
in our office where those who desire to do so
can inspect its contents.
.Workmen commenced excavating, Friday,
for Baker & DeLorimer's new store building,
on Main straet, near the Court House. The
building is to be 25x50, brick, and the base
ment will extend the entire length and be z
feet high in the clear. The store room will
have 10 feet walls to the ceiling, and the
building is to be finished by the Goth of next
month, in time to receive their stock Of dry
goods, which will be brought up on the early
boats.
Milt Wolf was arrested on Friday last,
| charged with the crime of rape, and
arraigned the following day before Judge
Tattan. After examining q number Of wit
nesses, His Honor decided that the evidence
was sufficient to warrant him in binding the
defendant over in the sum Of $500 to await
the action Of the grand jury. Wolfnot hay
ing the necessary security, now fingers in the
Sherif's coy hot house. We learn that ap-
p%lication has been made for increase Of bail
and the Court has the matter under advise
ment.
A letter received at this Office from Steph-
ems, at the Judith Gap, says that game is in
great abundance in that vicinity. The coun-
try is now almost entirely free from snow.
there being none at all except where piled
into drifts by the winds before the thaW
| came, and stock are doing well. There is a
| store, a hotel, two commodious stables, cor
| rails, ETC., at the Gap, and we are pleased to
| learn that our old friends the Stephens Bros.
are doing well and much satisfied with their
location at that place.
Robert ELS has been IN Benton for the last
week making arrangements to start an extern
sive lumber yard in the spring, or as soon as
the river is open. He contemplates rafting
his lumber FROM just above the canyon to the
mouth Of Sun River, where it will be taken
out and hauled to Benton by wagon. Mr..
Ellis is the right kind Of a man to engage in
an enterprise Of this kind, and we are salts
fed he will make q success of it. Nothing
has so retarded the progress Of Benton as 9
general scarcity of lumber which we hope
this enterprise Of MI. Ellis will remedy.
Charles Lavente and G. s. Alice arrived
from the Barker Tuesday morning, and
brought with them some fine specimens OF
ore. being Of carbonates from the tunnel run.
ming into the Snowstorm. They ran through
several veins Of this deposit in the fifty feet
they are in. The Red Cloud ore looks well,
being q quartz with red oxide OF iron anc
galena. Another opening, from the Morgan.
is u blue blende mixed with carbonate matter.
The Morgan is developed by 8 shaft doWr
forty feet, with a ledge three feet wide. They
report things booming, and q good prospec
for the summer
Two weeks ago our columns contained ar
account Of q deaf and dumb man having
been seen camped close to the river a shor
time before the breaking of an ice gorge 8
little above him. Fears were entertained a
the time that he had been caught by tht
downcoming flood, and that he had persisted
but late advices from Clagett state that ne
had turned up at that place, badly frozen
He had stopped on his road down the river a
the camp Of some Indian, by whom he wa
taken care of and provided with moccasins
etc, but after leaving the hospitable aborig
ines he encountered some very severe wealth
er, and on his arrival at Clagett the mecca
sins had to be cut off his feet, SO badly Wer'
the latter frozen. His hands and face Wer'
also severely nipped.