The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-05-24

here is no small pox in Benton.

s. C. Ashby has been appointed agent for Fred 7.
Evans at Helena.
Samples train from Maiden, with 1000 feet of lum-
Der, is due this week.
Four boats at once made the Benton levee look
rather lively last week.
The horses stolen recently from the Teton have
been seen at Fort Walsh.
The reports from the Montana district are of the
most encouraging character.
There are several hundred tons of freight here
waiting transportation to Helena.
The 'Trade Topics" in this number Of the RIVER
Press are worthy of a careful perusal.
Pres. Lewis train left for Helena this morning
loaded with furniture for A. T. Curtin.
The office of the Benton and Helena Stage Com
pany has been moved to Cans & Klein's store.
t. A. Cummings is erecting a neat frame building
on the corner of Main and Bond streets, the old Jail
site.
T. A. Cummings is preparing to erect a brick
building on Front street, adjoining the Centennial
Hotel.
Several of our merchants have been kept busy this
week putting up supplies for the Sun River roundup
party.
Lorey & Meinhardt, the boss painters, are now 10
Gated on upper Front street, adjoining Davidson &
Mofitts.
All squaw men are to be removed from the Crow
reservation, in accordance with the edict recently Is
sued by the Agent. :,
A lady friend informs us that in her opinion the
original and only Mrs. Bender is now a citizen of Ben
ton. Here is d clue for the detectives.
Quite a number of the Sun River roundup party
were in Benton this week purchasing supplies for
the ir long excursion over the prailies.
John S. Mellon informs us that if he receives suhi-
cient encouragement to warrant it, he can have a
Touring mill planted in Benton within four months.
Dexter brought in gold dust to the value Of $500
the result of the first cleanup in the placers at Maid
en-. He says there is plenty more where this came
from.
Sam Smith and brother are making preparations to
90 into business on an extensive scale at some point
in the Northwest Territory-probably at Fort Cal
garry.
Meadow q Dexter are working fifty men at their
mill near Maiden, and about fifteen in their placer
claims. They have done as much as anybody to build
up that camp.
Lieutenant W. G. Bartlett, Third Infantry, is re-
lieved from duty at Fort Maginnis, and will join his
company at Fort Shaw. Captain Hathaway, A. G. M,
succeeds the former at Fort Maginnis.
The authorities of Dawson county should come for
ward and claim the taxes" collected by Healy in that
cou nty last winter, while he was playing the role of
an american officer who wishes to enforce the law"
Bismarck wants 500 900 from the Government to
build a levee at that place. Better expend the money
in making the upper river n~ayigable eight months of
the year. 1t would put more money in Bismarck's
pocket.
Oscar Olinger claims rank as the discoverer of the
Ba rker District. He claims to have discovered quartz
in that district in 1873, several years before Buck Bar
ker and p. II. Hughes located the Barker and Gray
Eagle lodes.
The Benton and st. Louis Cattle Company, to which
reference is made elsewhere, will have about 10000
head TO start with, and additions to this large herd
will be made from time to 4 time. No better manager
than Jack Harris, of Highwood, could have been Sc
lected.
The evening Handful was way off it's base in stat
ing tha the Red Cloud left st. Louis at a recent date,
and as well as to the number Of passengers on board.
She has at present $50 passengers, 2O5 of whom are
policemen. The Red Cloud Will show up at Benton
in four or five days.
The surveyors are now engaged in running lines for
the Benton branch of the Northern Pacific. We
would not be surprised to learn of work being COM
menced on this branch the present season. 1t is des-
tlned TO De one OF The most prollhC feeders the
Northern Pacific will have.
The last number of the Coulson Post received at this
office has the following piece of Information, of in
terest to the people of Benton: 1.-THE engineers
started on the Fort Benton survey last Friday. They
tapped the main track at a point near Clark & Co.'s
powder house, then skirted the bluffs until they
reached Alkali creek.
"Peg Leg whose other nameis Thomas OGorman,
was arrested Monday for the theft of a valuable coat,
the property of Major Walker, His case has not yet
been disposed of. 1t is supposed that Mr.. Peg Leg
knows something about the burglary at Murphy, Neel
g. Co.'s store some time since, and an effort will be
made to wiring the facts from him.
Malcolm Morrow, Sr., is the most progressive
farmer in Choteau county. Having all the other im-
plements needed on a 'tway up' ranch, Mr. M. has
this season completed the list by adding a fine, new
Massillon thresher Emu . Miller & Aultman self bind
er. We bel eve this is the irst of the latter machines
purchased in Choteau county.
The Building Association il about to let q contract
to Mr.. Hepler for the construction Of another resi-
dence. 1t is to be built of concrete, will be a story
and a half, with five rooms and cellar. This is to be q
cosy home for somebody, and in the matter of the
material used is something of a new departure. The
location is IN Washington street.
Ben Dexter and George Samples have let a ~contract
for the construction of a new road from Arrow creek
hill to the saw mil at Andersonville, which vii
shorten the distance from Benton to Maiden about
twenty miles, making it not more than eighty miles.
The merchants of Benton contributed literally to-
ward the enterprise, and in a few weeks this road will
be in a good condition for travel.
Among the go-ahead firms Of Helena are Roberts &
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