The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-09-13
TIE RIVER PRESS.

Mrs. A. r. Barrows, her sister,
nephew and a Miss Goodspeed, of Ubet,
are enjoying q visit to the National
Park.
J. w. Patrick is SO far recovered that
he occasionally down town now.
He expects to return to his ranch in a
short time.
The iron cells that have SO long lain
upon the levee, both on the lower river
and at Benton, are now being put in
place at the Jail.
The friends of +. ID. Weatherwax gen.
orally regret to see him step down and
out as commissioner, knowing it will be
difficult to fill his place.
Billy Rowe must expect to put ona
good many riding bailiffs after he is
elected sheriff. We notice that he buys
a horse or two every day.
A woman living on the reservation,
one of the late and memorable Missouri
colony, and said to be ~ifty-eight years Of
age gave birth to a child night before
last.
A buffalo put in an appearance az
| George Patterson's ranch on the Shen-
kin Sunday. The boys gave him a
chase and soon succeeded in getting his
hide.
Major Maginnis is at Helena and on
Friday evening last was serenaded at
the Cosmopolitan. He had the immac-
ulate gall to tell the people that he came
to the territory not expecting to get the
nomination!
Therei is fire raging in the timber near
Hotter Bros. mill on the upper Mis-
souri,, and is doing a great deal ofdamage.
It is supposed that the fire was set out
by q night herder in that vicinity, and
the fact that the fellow has left for parts
unknown gives color to the charge.
A prominent politician informed us
last night that there is a movement on
foot to organize a new party in BENTON
the anti monopoly party. One object
among others will be to prevent one
clique from monopolizing the county
offices.
Commodore IL. G. Power, of the upper
Missouri and Montana generally, arrived
from Helena Monday Ell route to Bill
lings. Mr.. Power doesn't talk, act or
loov like an aspirant for congressional
honors; thinks Maginnis has made a
good delegate-likes him-but will give
Marshal Botkin q hearty support if he
receives the republican nomination.
Courier.
Tom McDevitt has returned from the
hay camp. where he has been engaged
putting up hay and fighting fire, the
latter the more arduous part of his
labors. Tom helped put out a fire that
started at a freighter's camp, and he
worked like a hero to keep it away from
the wagons. Since he came to town he
has learned that the wagons were loaded
in part with powder, and it makes his
blood run cold even yet when he thinks
of the chances he took.
The RIVER Press is owned by the
Helena Herald, and the said Herald by
the Blaine family. That accounts for
the ill-feeling those two sheets always
display towards Judge Wade, and of
which we have an evidence in the sneer
of Yesterdays RIVER PRESS, although
the Judge is a member of the republican
party.--Record.
The Record is owned by an idiot or it
would not print such stuff. The RIVER
PRESS has no ill-feeling towards Judge
Wade. and never has there appeared in
these columns a single word derogatory
of him. We ask the Record to show to
the contrary Or quit its Internal lying.
AS to the Herald, we have the state
ment Of Judge Wade that that paper has
always been most friendly to him, and
that there is no ground whatever for the
fimsy charges Of the Record.
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PERSONAL.