The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-09-20
LOCAL NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Wacxerlin's new store begins 70 look
nice.
Dick Stanton brought III q load Of oats
from his ranch on the Shonkin yester-
day.
Paris Gibson & Son yesterday sold
sixtetn merino ANS to Bayliss & Huy,
Of the Basin.
Toney Moseberger was fined ten dol
lars Yesterday for being tardy atjury call
some few minutes.
Frields & Neehoff's teams arrived yes
terday evening from Fort Macleod. They
are loaded wit coal from the Whoop Up
mine.
Johnny Tingley found a dark purse,
day before yesterday, containing q small
amount o money. The owner can secure
same by calling at this Office.
D. G. Browne & 90. are building a
house at the ferry boat landing on the
til IF side Of the river for the accommo-
dation of the public in cold and dis
agrt cable weather.
Three of the best suits of rooms in the
Benton hotel have already been engaged
for q year, and parties are negotiating
for others. The hotel bids fair to start
off under most favorable auspices.
The Montana Stables ad. appears else
where in these columns. Under the
management of Mr.. Chas. Crawford
these stables have become widely known
to the travelling public and are enjoying
amerited prosperity.
A letter from Paris Gibson toa Benton
gentleman says the Northern Pacific
railroad surveying party are running
another line to Benton from o point
eighty miles above Billings. This will
shorten the BENTON branch from thirty
to fifty miles.
We would in ali candor advise the
Record to- look after its own financial
affairs and the RIVER PRESS will en-
deavor to do the same. To the numer-
Gus contemplate insinuations Of that
sheet we nave this to say, once for all,
that the RIVER PRESS meets its obliga-
tions promptly, and its credit il probably
as good i'm Benton and elsewhere as that
o it's vain Boosting contemporary. The
latter will probably learn in due season
that it is not making much capital by
such ~dlsreputable tactics.
The Record is respectfully informed
that the Helena Herald has no more to
do with this paper than the New York
Journal of the same name. The Herald
was paid more than a year ago, and
promptly on time, every dollar due 1t
bv the RIVER PRESS. We do not like to
refer to these personal business matters,
and thus far have taken no notice Of the
R5cord's malicious statements, but the
persistence with which that sheet seeks
TO make us out dishonest or d~ishonorable
REQUIRES that this much should be said.
We have an idea the Record will need
to have all its wits about it to meet its
own obligations without concerning
itself with those Of its neighbors. People
who mind their own business get along
q good deal the best.
Er I'm Thursdays Daily.
The gu ltb.e reporter Of the Record
will give Clark Tingley 8 wide berth
hereafter. @#
Weacknowledge the receipt Of compli-
mentary tickets to the fair at Helena,
beginning September 25th.
Lew Roberts has surrendered the rib
bons and entered the employ Of Jack
Harris. He joins the Shonkin round
up.
r. Nj. Marsh has been engaged this
week in surveying and plating another
addition to the townsite for f. c. Roose-
welt. IT ad. oins the original townsite,
and extends from his former addition to
the river.
The Records item about the prospec-
I've movements Of Clark Tingley's bull
t am il the most remarkable piece ofintel-
li5ence that has been dished up to the
reading public of this section for a long
tine.
The case of Frank Gehring va. r. s.
Ball and Joseph Allen. in the district
court, was decided in favor Of the plain
tiff as to tho title Of the land. but he was