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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18

fton q half-breed who could talk English
it vi 8 learned that the Indians were all op-
pos d 20 tt 9 railroad and did rot want it to
cross the reservation. We have a permit
from the Chief to survey our line through
the reserve, but the Chiefs authority is no
respected, and the Indians threaten to
s'bounce' him, so to speak, and elect q new
man.
All the lndians are now gathering with
the purpose, tomorrow, Of stopping the
surveying party at work twenty miles above
here. Engineer Hamilton, the head of our
party, went to the agency yesterday to con-
suit with the Indian and tomorrow will 90
to Missoula. In the meantime we have to
lay idle and await an adjustment of the
trouble.
AT this writing the Indians are collecting
at a village five miles away from our camp.
and every few minutes some young buck
rides by hooting and yelling, seemingly ex-
ultant over their success in stopping the sur
vey. II 9 belief is that it we lay quiet and
do not attempt to work we will have no seri-
GUS trouble, but ''Lo" is in earnest, and in a
defenseless state we are not disposed to fool
with him. We thought we were all O. z.
by having a permit from their Chief, but as
they do not recognize him as such any long
er, we will have to quit operations for the
present until it is settled some way.-Corr.
Helena Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
INDIAN INTERFERENUE.
Surveyors Compelled to Stop
Work ON the FIathead Reservation.
FLArHEAD RESERVATION, M. T.,

FLATHEAD RESERVATION, M. IT,
January 8, 1882.
Our party is in a hub-hu5 of excitement
over a happening of yesterday. While en-
gagged in surveying on the reserve, thirty-fve
miles from Missoula, we got to q place where
we were cutting our way through a lot of
underbrush and timber, when out of the
copse came an Indian who gave us to under
stand that we were not to survey any fur
Their. The buck emphasized his sign Ian
guage by showing one of our men side, who
in turn gave a push back, when the Indian
grabbed his knife. We looked around and
saw q half a dozen other Indians suddenly
appear from the brush. The conclusion
quickly arrived at was that we had better
quit until we could find out what the trouble
was.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
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For one subscription price we thus furnish
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18

certain knowledge of the amount of goods
which will be needed to supply the trade.
The holiday edition of the RIVER PRESS is
every way creditable to the editor and pub
fishers, as we'll as to the enterprising pro-
~gressiye town and county in which it is pub
lished. geographically the paper is fault
less. In it the business interests of. Benton
are ably and fully written up the stock
ranges Of Choteau and Meagher counties re-
ceiye deserved attention the sheep, cattle
and agricultural interests of Choteau are
truthtully and handsomely portrayed the
Judith, Montana and Barker districts are
fully described by able correspondents, and,
altogether the paper is the %neatest, most com
pact, and yet comprehensive holiday paper
that we have seen for many a day. As an
immigration paper, in our opinion, it is su-
periori in many respects to any OF the holl-
day editions published in Montana this year.
Courier.
The Good Templars of White Sulphur
Springs will give an amateur entertainment
on the evening of the 10th of next month
aud a masquerade ball on the 18th. The
proceeds of both entertainments are to go to-
wards the debt incurred in moving the hall
from Diamond and putting it up. The OBJ
iect for which the entertainments are given
is a most worthy one, and we trust our friends
on the Musselshell and Smith River countries
will atten. IN force. The writer has been
present at some u these given by this same
management, and has attended no more en-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Mother, may ! 60 off to school,
And get an education ?
Oh, no, my child, don't be a fool,
But learn the situation;
Altho' I'd like to have you 60
And learn to read and figure,
You'd better be a Ounce, you know,
Than go there with q ~''nigger."
Dave Brown has . few tons of coal for
sale.
The Frontier Club will dance on Friday
night.
VIM. Foster appears to be having a good
run at the Eagle Bird /.
The Independent has recommended its war
on the Helena postmaster.
Kleinschmidt 9 Bro. sold a large bill Of
goods to Geo. Steel last week.
Tom Kane passed through Benton last
week with a load of coal oil for Assinaboine.
There was no mention of 'sthat yawning
gulf in the sermon at the Court House last
Sunday.
1t is reported that Col. Alexander will
soon arrive at Fort Maginnis and assume
command of that post.
The people of Meagher county appear to
be enjoying their fill of balls and other fes-
tivities of the winter season.
1t is reported that Herman Brinkman in
tends putting up q brick residence on his
hillside property next spring.
While on his way to White Sulphur
Springs w. J. Stevenson disposed Of several
Benton town lots to Helena parties.
Specimens of bookbinding and blank rul-
ing can be seen at the RIVER PRESS Office by
those wishing any work in tina. line.
Two or three more new brick business
houses are being talked of for next spring
besides those already determined on.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18

joyable parties. So, we say to our friends,
you will not only be doing good and helping
a worthy cause, by attending, but can rely on
having a way up time and thoroughly en-
joy yourselves at the same time. It is sell
dom that a good action is one as purely
pleasant % perform as this one. Give the
Good Templars a rousing benefit, and you
will never regret it.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
PURELY PERSONAL.

-
Jas. H. Marshall is stopping at the Over
land.
Frank ..Coombs is paying a visit to the
mines.
Jas. Fitzgerald returned home from the
East last week.
Col. Clendenin returned to the Barker
district last Monday. (.
commissioner Weatherwax returned to
his Teton home yesterday.
-Supt. Rowe is in Helena, looking after
the interest of his stage line.
Joe. Hamilton and Jno. Burke came in
from Vaudeville this week.
IT. G. Power and John T. Murphy are
expected in Benton the last of this week.
Lin Mcfarland is in Helena ana receiv-
ing a warm welcome from his capital friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Crandall, of Benton,
registered at the Cosmopolitan, Helena, on
the 10Th inst.
Mr.. J.'C. Ward left for the States on
Mondays coach and will be absent the rest
of the winter.
WIN. Allan, representing the boot and
shoe house of SELF, Schwab 6 Co., Chicago,
is in Benton interviewing our business men.
WIN. Pollinger arrived in Benton from
Fort Mcleod last Saturday. He reports that
the Blackfeet have killed over one hundred
head of cattle belonging to the Cochrane
Cattle Go. On Bow River.
DIR. W. E. Turner returned from the Ju-
dith mining district this week and speaks in
glowing terms of the camp. He has Sc
cured an interest in some leads that he
thinks are veritable bonanzas.
Mr.. McSweeney is improving slowly,
but it will be some time before he will be
able to leave his bed. The case has been q
very serious one, and we will not say that he
Is yet entirely out of danger.
w. s. Wetzel and Sam Kohlberg, who
are sojourning in the Judith country, are ex-
pected back in a few days. They have taken
in the country from Benton to White Sui
phur Springs, including the Barker District.
Mr.. A. Nathan, of the firm of Hirsh-
berg & Nathan, the pioneer clothing mer-
chants OF Benton, departed for the East on
Mondays coach. He gees to buy goods for
next spring, and will probably not return
before April or May
Mr.. Mat. Carroll, formerly one of Ben
toms leading merchants, passed through
town last week on his way to Assinaboine.
The coach on which Mr.. Carroll came down
tipped over on the Bird Tail divide and the
gentleman was thrown some twenty feet, but
fortunately received no serious injury.
Mr.. Henry G.. McIntire arrived in Ben
ton from the East last week, and has entered
into a law partnership with Mr.. Waterman
Mr.. McIntire is a young man, but has had
considerable practice in his profession. He
is a very pleasant gentleman, and we predict
that it will only take long enough for the
citizens of Benton to become acquainted
with him to ensure his popularity here. The
firm is Waterman & McIntlre, and their card
appears on the first page of this paper.
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
CATHOLIC.

Catholic Church services will be held at the several
churches as follows: Fort Benton-First and last
Sundays of each month. Sun -River-Second sunda
of each month. Fort Assinaboin and Fort Shaw (al-
ternately)-Thlrd Sunday of each month. First Mass
8 a. m; High Mass and Sermon, 1880 a. M; Sunday
School, $3.50 p. M; Evening Service and Lecture, 7:s0
D. m. Rev. II. J. Camp, Sd
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
CONGREGATIONAL.

Rev. W. A. James, under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Home Missionary Society, is holding services at
the Court Houee twice each Sabbath, at Ii q. m. and
p. m. Sabbath School at 10 m. The public generally
are invited to attend.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
THE CHURCHES.
EPIsCOPAL.

Episcopal Church services are held every Sunday at
II a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at $3.50 D. m.
Rev. s. C. Blackiston, Pastor.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
First National Bank
AT FORT

AT FORT BENTON.
IN THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA, AT THE
CLOSE OF BUSINESS SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 31sr, 1881.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
FRANK JAMES.

The Brother OF the Murdered Jessie
Throws Up His Hands and Solun-
tariiy surrenders to Governor Crit
teuden of MissOuri-His Plea for
Mercy, Etc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
A Fatal EnOch Arden Case
Philadelphia Times.

An Enoch Arden tragedy was enacted
here to-day. MRS. Meyers is doctress
on the ysrb plan. Seven years ago her
husband, disliking the attention paid
his wife by Frederick Grubb, a boarder,
arose in the night and left his home,
first firing the house and nearly cremat-
ing Mrs. Meyers and the boader. Mr..
Grub, the boarder, had wife and
seven children, and his attention to
Mrs. Meyers had the effect of causing
them to pack up and quit for Cleveland.
Thus the grass widow and grass widower
were left to solace each other. Grubb
wanted to marry the yarb doctress, but
she declined, hoping her husband would
return. Year after year passed and
Glubb continued to press his suit, urg-
ing that Meyers and his own wife must
be dead. Wesried with Grubb's per-
sistent wooiAg, and having given up all
hopes of Mey ers the dcclress consented
10 become Mrs. Grubb four weeks ago.
A few days sitter the wedding Meyers
returned to claim his wife, now sixty
four years old. Grub resented the
Intrusion and the first husband was
disposed of by being clapped in the
almshouse. This interruption of the
honeymoon caused rupture between
the bride and bridegroom, and things
became so lively for Grubb that he de-
cided this morning to divorce himself
with revolver. He blew out his brains
and died instantly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12

France where the mountains have been
cleared irretrievable damage has been
done. The fields of Provence have
been deprived of a screen to cnt of the
chilling Alpine blasts, and suffer for
the want of the moisture that would
have been gathered up in rains and
SHOWS on the wooded hills. Mr.. Cleve-
land quotes prediction by the late
George P. Marsh, that if ever the
Adirondack forests were destroyed
similar results would follow in New
York. The selfinterests of the moi
viduals OF the community cannot pre-
vent such calamity. Some supervis-
ion by the State in necessary. The
obiteration of the pine is proceeding
in the West at a ruinous rate for the
lack of some intelligent control of the
greed of individual owners, who are
entalling great losses on the whole
country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
The Milk of Paris.

Paris authorities for some time sus-
pected that the milk of that metropo-
lis was watered. Then they decided
to stop it, bat first 10 assure themselves
that it was watered. The milk cans
are all unloaded IN q large warehouse
at the side of the Batignolles station,
and twenty five policemen were posted
outside, loop-holes having been made
in the wall to enable them to watch the
movements Of the milkmen. Just
when they bad brought in the water
and were beginning to make their Gus
tomary mixture, the police rushed in
and caught them. ThI were at first
inclined TO resist, but the presence Of
the commissary with his tri-colored
scarf seems TO have overawed thym,
and they allowed him to make very
important capture. They were also
found to have large quantity Of bicar-
Donate Of lime, together with a con-
trivance for removing the sealed COW
ers which some of the milk-cans have,
and for putting them on again after
the contents have been adulterated.-
Sdnitnrq Enqineer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12

Last Monday evening Major John N.
Edwards, editor of the Sedalia Demo
crot, q lifelong friend of the James
boys, walked up to the front gate of
the Governors mansion. He YVES ac-
companied by man little above the
medium height, with dark eyes and
brown hair, and who walked triiie
lame. The two entered the yard in
front of the Governors residence and
walked into the Governors Office. The
Governor was in at the time. Major Ed
wards entered the office first, and as
the man behind him followed the
Major shook hands with the Governor
and then wheeled about saying; Coy
ernor Crittenden, allow me to intr4.
duce to you Frank James," The GOV
ernor advanced and accepted the prof
fered hand. Then Frank unbuckled
his belt, and, handing it and his revolt
yer to the Governor, he said: "No
living man but me has had hand on
this revolver since 1861"
A letter from Frank James ad-
dressed to Governor Crittenden, st.
Louis, October LIST, and the latter's re-
ply, we're given out for publication.
The letter from james is profier to
surrender. He says that he is prompt
ed TO this act tnrough consideration
for his wife and children, and desire
to retrieve his name from the shadow
which has been cast upon it, and
through it upon the good name of
W estern Missouri. He makes II plea
that he is not as bad as he has been
painted; that the outlaw has the
thought and impulses of man, and
his desire is to return to the house of
his parents, and there, with his family,
to pass his days in peace, and thus
gain the respect of his fellow men. He
think 1t Is necessary at present to re-
count the history of his life. He thinks
that his sufferings have already done
penaace for his acts. He denies the
authorship of any of the letters threat
enipg assassination in retaliation for
the murder of Jessie which have been
attributed to him. He submits the
question whether Frank James, hum
bled, repented and reformed before the
world, will not be an example more
fraught with good to the rising gener-
alton than Frank James the outlaw
and wanderer. He says that this let
ter is the result of determination
formed the last four years of industri-
Gus farm life which he has spent. He
asks for an amnesty if possible, and
states that an answer will reach him
through his wife, VINO is at lndepend-
ence. Mo.
On receipt of this letter Governor
Crttenden replied that he would make
no definite promises, but would
recommend that James present him.
sell before the courts where charges
now rest against him, and answer them
| as best becomes man. In accord
apce Herewith James appeared be
| fore the Governor accompanied by
MAJOR Edwards, as council, and sur
rendered himself. He will have q
hearing at Independence, the county
seat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
Won ans Rights liz Switzerland.

From Letter to the Cincinnati Commercial.
Look there" said one of the tour.
lists, pointing out of tue car window as
We neared the village of Vernaysz,
Switzerland.
A woman was leading little milch
COW, pulling her along and encourag-
ing her. The little COW was drawing a
loaded cart. A man sat upon the
loaded cart. He was most healthy
looking man. He held the reins OF
the machine in his hands and drove
the COW and the woman in the way
they should go.
That is one of Swiss woman's rights
incident. Here is another: At Yer
nayaz, one afternoon, two of the lady
tourists assembled mountain path. Ii
WAS a long climb, 30 steep and trying
that less than half dozen Of the
party cared to try it. Up and up the
ladies went, taking their time. Now
they paused awhile to take breath, and
sometimes they used both feet and
hands and made canes of their UNI
brellas to give themselves a lift. They
thought they had accomplished feat
worth while when AT last they paused
at the top and looked about them upon
one of the most glorious views they
had seen on the whole trip. At length,
after resting awhile, they started down,
feeling slightly set up ever what they
had done. But they felt very mall a
few minutes later. They came sud
denly TO one of the steepest turns in
the path. There they came face to
face with a chutiy little Swiss woman
who was going up the mountain way.
On her arm she carried a good sized
basketful of something. Upon her
head was an enormous bundle. 1t was
balanced so rs to keep its place. In
her two hands she held long stock
ing, and was knitting away for dear life.
The woman was actually carrying a
load heavy enough for horse upon
her head, the basket mentioned upon
her arm, and was knitting, while she
mode an ascent which two healthy
American women hsi been rather
proud of accomplishing without carry
ing anything, and with the assistance
of their hands and canes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
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The Health of American Boys.
New York Herald.

There has been some alarm mani.
tested by the press over the statement
that nearly nine-tenths Of the boys
who recently endeavored to enlist AZ
apprentices in the navy were rejected
on the ground that they were physi-
cally unfit for the service. From this it
is argued that the American physique
is degeperatipg. Our contemporaries
could not have made this mistake had
they seen the boys who applied, for the
youngsters were not, as a rule, children
who had been reared with ordinary
care. The majority Of them were I'M
fortunate enough to be sons Of drunken
parents or members of families too
poor to buy sufficient food and cloth
ing. Many OF them had been picking
up their own living and not succeeding
very well, and some were itredcemable
little vagabonds who had run away
from home and added to the careless
habits Of roaming animals the vices of
men. Very few Apprentices to the
academies of Annapolis and West
Point are rejected on physical grounds,
although the reguirem ents at these in
stituiions are higher than those Of the
naval apprentice system. According
to men who were in the peanut and
short jacket state twenty or thirty
years ago there has. been marked
improvement in the physical condition
of American boys; it may not be no.
ticeable in large cities, where the young
have little or no opportunity for tie
exercise that is 80 necessary to pro per
development: even here, however, boy
invalds are rare in respectable circles
such as contained many of tn EN- a
quarter of q century ago. Food and
clothing are better and more apPropri-
ate than they were in old times, and
the change is working wonders in boys
as well as men.