The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-06-14

GU. Mf. sullivan, not MIR. GOss. as renorted.
will occupy it.
Many of the Missouriana have secured
employment, and they are all beginning TO
THINK oy this time that Montana is the best
country in the world.
The news from Barker continues favora.
BILE. Everybody who comes in from the
gulch grows eloquent in describing the rich
ness of the Wright & Edwards strike.
Kleinschmidt s. Bro. received 1000 cases
"a. 600 bottles-of Anheuser beer on the
Far West, the largest invoice of the .sfoam-
ing ever received at one time in Montana.
The physicians who waited on the sick
emigrants have not charged for their services,
but the druggist who furnished all the medi-
cine ought certainly to receive something
for his goods.
Rev. Leonard's estimate Of Montana's eli
mate is given elsewhere in these columns
The reverned gentleman spent last winter
in Benton, and he ought to be good author
ity on the subject.
The Benton hotel registers are being
filled up at a rapid rate. The handsome
books furnished the Choteau and Overland
by the RIVER Press a few months age must
soon be duplicated.
A member of the Shonkin round up party
who arrived in the city yesterday reports
that a few calves have died of the black leg
this spring. The disease is not likely to be-
come general, however.
Eleven hundred dollars have been sub
scribed by non-residents for the erection of a
Congregational church in Benton. It is full
~ expected that the new house of worship
will be erected this season.
In the case of Thos. Nolan, the man men
toned in the RIVER PRESS of Thursday, a
commission of De 5unatjco jnQuirendo will
be ordered, and the man will probably be
sent to the Warm Spring asylum.
Twenty three lots in Deletraz's addition to
the town of Fort Benton have been pur-
chased by Messrs. Churchill, Overfield and
Bowen, and four lots by Mr.. r. j. T.
Muckle. The consideration in aggregate
is 81, 700.
Twenty thousand pounds of freight started
Monday for Maginnis and twenty IONS are
ready for shipment. There seems to be a
disposition to crush Evans, the freight con-
tractor, by exhorbitant charges. We predict
a total failure. - Glent7ve Times.
The Congregational Sunday school has
purchased a handsome organ Of Murphy,
Neel & Co. They nave also funds sufficient
to buy a book case, which will be the next
purchase made. The Sunday school has
about 800 volumes and is withal in a flourish
ing condition.
A deed of trust to Il. e. Collins securing
the first mortgage bonds of the Benton Hotel
Company, to the amount of $15, 900, has
been filed in the Office of the clerk and re-
corder. The bonds in question were recent
" printed by the RIVER PRESS, the neatest
job ever turned out in Benton.
As will be seen by a notice elsewhere in
this issue Messrs. Ba-rows g. Allis have dis
posed of their saw mill, on Big Casino
creek, to W. Fl. Watson, of Wisconsin. The
latter gentleman is now in charge of the
business, and as he has had extensive expert
ence as a lumberman will no doubt make it
win.
We acknowledge the present from Mr..
Barry, the photographer who came up on
the Far West, of several photos of celebrat-
ed Sioux chiefs, including Sitting Bull, Gaul,
Grow King and Low Dog: also a photo of
Comanche, the horse ridden by Captain
Keogh in the Custer massacre, the only
thing that came through alive. They are
finely executed, and will be priced by us.
Mr.. B. left for a visit to Assinaboine yester-
day morning.
Six hundred head of cattle of the Morrow
herd, recently sold to JOS. A. Baker, were
yesterday on the upper ferry, and
within a few days 800 additional of the same
band will be brought ON this side of the
river, destined for the Marias range. D. g.
Browne, proprietor of the ferry, has had a
chute made on the opposite side Of the river
to facilitate the crossing of cattle, and the
work is now performed with the greatest pos
sible ease.
Some days ago Louis Legarre, a half
breed trader of Good Mountain, while on his
way over there with an outfit of goods from
Buford, was held up by a war party of
Crees for all Of his provisions and his guns.
They left him his horses and carts. He re-
ported the matter to Capt. Mcdonald, of the
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