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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Gus Senleur Has Learned 70 His Satisfac-
tion that Parties, as Well as Repub-
1ics, Can be Ungratefut.
MAJOR MAGINNIS Is ENDORSED
FOR A SIXTH TERM.

The unterritied OF Choteau county
went through the form of holding a con-
vention Saturday. At twelve o'clock
the convention was called to order by
Gus Senieur chairman Of the central
committee, when G.. Il. Conrad was
chosen temporary chairman and FL. r.
Buck, secretary. Committees on Gre
dentials and arrangements were APP
pointed, when the convention adjourned
to meet at four o'clock.
THE CAUCUS.
Soon after adjournment d few of the
delegates met at the court house and de-
cidcd who should be the candidates
They were i'll session about two hours
with closed doors, and finally evolved
the ticket that was nominated. Men
who would have stood a fair show be-
fore delegates who We're not trammeled
by a caucus pledge were ruthlessly
slaughtered, and they had no other re-
course than to grin and bear it. Some
Of them were present and had to take
the bitter dose whether they liked it or
not. After the caucus had fixed up the
ticket the farce of indorsing the work
with open doors was next gone on with
THE CUT AND DRIED PROCEEDINGS.
The convention was called to order
again at four o'clock by Chairman c. e.
Conrad. Col. Donnelly, from the COM
mittee or credentials, reported the dele
gates who were entitled to vote or
more than one vote. j. NJ. Arnoux, of
the committee Of arrangement, among
other things, recommended I'LL. R. Buck
for permanent chairman and Joseph S.
Hill secretary, after which the latter
gentleman assumed the pressure.
4 BOOM FOR MAGINNIs
On motion j. w. Tattan Col. Don
nelly and J. f. Murphy were appointed
a committee on resolutions. They con-
suited a few moments when the chair
man read the following pre-prepared
send-off for Delegate Maginnis:
Rcsoyued, That this convention, in
behalf Of the democracy of Choteau
county, tender to the Hon. Martin Ma
glnnls thanks for the able and efficient
manner in which he has served the in
terests of the territory at large and of
Choteau county particularly, and trust
that the wisdom Of the democracy Of
the territory will permit the people of
this county the pleasure of recording
their unanimous vote in again declaring
him delegate in congress from Montana.
j. w. TATTAN, chairman.
THE CANDIDATES.
Except in one instance, that of sheriff,
the voting was by acclamation, and If
the chairman had some snap about him
the work of ratifying the caucus proceed
lngs could have been done in fifteen
minutes instead of two hours James
McDevitt and Charles Crawford were
put in nomination for sheriff and the
former received thirty-one votes to the
latter's five. Following is the ticket
nominated in the order given:
Probate judge-John w. Tattan
Clerk and recorder-Joh ohm f. Murphy
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Upper Teton Range.

Mr. Ira Myers furnishes us the follow
ing additional list of stray calves branded
on the upper Teton range When fur
nishing the list before he overlooked
these:
FloWeree, Is. o OH left hip, !.
H E right hip, /. Mrs. NJ. Ford, /.
Hogan, 2. Nichols, l.
Clark & Uln, Q Clark 4 Ulm, COW.
Dipper, 2. G on right side, 2.
T. Spencer, 4. Con Kohrs, /.
.IV, J.. Churchill, /.
Annual Meeting
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Annual Meeting.

The regular annual meeting and elec-
ton Of directors of the Benton Building
Association Limited Of Fort Benton, M.
T., will be held at the court house, Mon
day, September A. 1882, at s o'clock.
r. "A. LUKE,
Secretary and Treasurer.
August 8. 1882.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
THE TRUSTEES SUSTAINED.
And Major Dunno Re- Elected by Hand
some Majority.

The natural interest attending the
love-feast Of the democracy yesterday
afternoon did not cause those citizens of
Benton who have the welfare of the ris-
ing generation at heart to forget that at
the same time an election for school
trustee and a clerk was going on at the
school house, and there was an unusual
turn out for a school election. The large
vote was really the result Of the strenu-
Gus exertions to elect Mr. Payne which
were made by those who took such a
strong stand last spring against The adj
mission Of the two colored children to
public SCHOOLS. Mr.. Dunno, the retiring
trustee, had no intention, up to a few
days ago, Of allowing his name to be put
up, and only came forward at the last
when convinced that the opposition was
intending to make an issue of the color
question. Learning this to be the case,
he did not hesitate fo give the citizens OF
Benton an opportunity of passing on his
action in the premises, and the result
was full and most satisfactory endorse
ment by vote Of 167 to So Mr.. Payne
is not personally unpopular in Benton,
but the principle he represented is.
For clerk of the school board Mr.
Crane received 1873 votes, and Mr.. Rasin
s5 scattering, 8.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Stray Calves Branded by Sun River Round
Up.

James Armstrong, I; Samuel Spencer,
i; John Lepley, |; " Ralstrain, 8; d
Orcherd, |; Thos. Aumbran, |; Patrick
Murphy, |; Con Kohrs, l; = McLain, /;
diamond one, /; Y, |; Louis Climmans,
l; anchor, L Frank Burd, ?; Al on side
and w on hip, |; Sands 4 Taylor, 10;
Benton 4 St. Louis cattle company, II;
Kennedy & Kelly, II; Thomas Healy,
/; Q Olstun, i: p, 2, 4, |; +, |; Henry
Martin, 2; ii, /; Ks, |; + B Cans, 2;
Myres, Buck & Co, 5; I, |; /, |, J[, |;
circle II, |; Narcise Vain, |; Thomas
Howard, /; Samuel Burd, |; Main 4
Dennis, l.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30

Dunno is the favorite color
That was a payne-ful defeat
The colored troops fought nobly
Five dollars to each rustler wouldn't t
win.
The Rasin Joe got left was that he was
too heavily handicapped.
It was amusing to see Geo Crane his
neck to read those open tickets.
The opposition commenced Wilton as
they saw those as votes come down like
a thousand O. brick.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

TIE resolution for q committee to
Investigate charges OF corruption in connec-
ton with the distilled spirits bill was adopt
ed in the Senate on the 9th. The Court OF
Appeals bill went over.
DE LONG and eleven men have been
found by Engineer Melville. They were all
dead.
AT Opelika, Ala, on the 4th, Henry
Hart and W. Williams, policemen, were
shot during difficulty with Robert and
Samuel Love, T. j. Key, and w. II. Han.
son. Hart will not recover.
JOHN BIRD and Samuel Hines, of
Muncie, Ind, imbibed too freely the other
day and got into a quarrel. Bird drew a
revolver; Hines took it away from him and
threw him on q railroad track with fatal
force, and then surrendered to the police.
HENRY LoCKHART and Frank Nelson
were killed and Jennings Wethers was seri.
ously injured by the explosion Of boiler,
near Newburg, Ind, on the 4th.
JOHN CLARK, while working in well
fifty feet deep, near Waupaca, Wis, May
4, was buried beneath a mass of falling
earth.
GEORGE HANKEY, a confectioner, of
Brookline, Mass, unwisely loved Boston
belle, named Mabel Raymond. who could
not confine her affection and made him
jealous. Burning with this passion and
liquor, the infatuated man decided that
Mabel should die on May 8, SO he called up
on her with revolver and informed her
that her time had come. But Mabel threw
shawl over his head and ran upstairs,
whereupon George sent bullet through his
own heart and expired.
A QUARRELsOME drunkard named
John Davidson killed his aged mother, in
Philadelphia, Pa, May 4. There had been
an alteration over some money matters,
during which pans and chairs were thrown
about the rooms, and John seized a Ratchet
and struck his mother savage blow on the
top OF the head. This he repeated time at.
ter time, until the woman's brains were
scattered on the floor, when the neighbors,
started by the tumalt, rushed into the
room.
CHARLES ANDERSON, a prominent
farmer of Marshall County, Ind, while I'm.
der the influence Of liquor, May 4, threw
himself in front of freight train on the
Fort Wayne Road at Plymouth and was in
stantly killed. He leaves a large family.
The engineer saw him plainly, but too late
to stop.
PROHIBITION Is enforced with dyna-
mite in Cedarville, Ohio. One end of s.
Sweeney's saloon, near the railway, was
blown out on the 4th, the owner, his wife,
and children being thrown from bed to the
floor. An attempt was made to destroy
Caldwell's drug store. but the charge did
not explode.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A circular from the Committee of
Thirty -eight sets forth that the second an
nual reunion Of the ex-soldiers and sailors
of Kansas will be held in Topeka, Septem-
Der II to 16. The Kansas delegation has Sc
cured the passage Of bill BY Congress
granting the use Of 1 eco tents. These tents
will be pitched in . suitable locality, and
the camp supplied with wood, water, cook.
ing utensils and everything except subsist-
ance stores, free of cost. Arrangements will
be made to provide the regular army ration
to all old soldiers and sailors and their fam
lilies, the bands Of the State. and such other
persons as may be entitled to the privileges
OF the camp, at actual cost; not exceeding
twenty cents per ration. A large pavilion
will be erected in the center Of the camp,
capable of seating from five to ten thousand
persons, to be used for business meetings
and campfire purposes. Prominent speak.
ers have been secured to address the ''vets'
every day during the week, and their names
and the time Of speaking will be announced
in due time. A camp-fire will be held every
night under the auspices Of the Grand En-
campment of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public. It is the intention of the committee
to thoroughly systematic everything con-
nected with the management Of the camp,
and to this end they recommend the follow.
ing organization: 1. The ex-soldiers and
sailors Of each county to organize into one
or more regiments. 2. Each judicial district
to form brigades. and at least one division.
8. Division commanders to elect COM
handing officer for the camp, who shall
have entire control of everything connected
with the reunion during the week, with
power to select his subordinate officers. The
Association of ex-PYisoners Of War will
also hold their second grand reunion on
Wednesday, Sept. 18th, to which cordial
invitation is extended. 1t is expected that
this will be the grsndest reunion Of ex-prfs-
oners Of war ever held in the West, and ev-
cry ex-prisoner in the State * requested to
assist in making it one OF the most memora-
BILE events in the history Of Kansas. The
Kansas Band Union will hold their second
annual meeting in the city during the Old
Soldiers Reunion.
The minutes of the Twenty-seventh
session of The Kansas Annual Conference of
the NJ. E.. Church, give the following fig
uroa.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

VENNoR predicts q s'season that will
well merit the designation Of cool to cold and
wet, generally, marked not only by great
precipitation, but by mugginess of atmos-
phere, caused by the reeking condition of the
earth and the long continuance Of clouded
sky. This will result in periods of extreme
euliriness and heavy weather, during which
the thunder and hail-storms will occur.
There Is likelihood of June and August
frosts in Northern, Western and Southern
sections, and general cold wave may oc.
cur toward midsummer. The autumn
months will continue moist. September
will probably give rains and floods in Vest
ern Canada and in Western and Southern
sections of the United States. October will
be much the same, with early cold and
snow falls. November will begin the win
ter of 1SS2-s3-a winter likely to be memo
rable on account Of its exceptionally heavy
enow-falls and very cold weather over the
whole northern hemisphere"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

49,
Cincinnati claims to have taken I. 500
converts into her churches this winter.
There is in New Orleans colored
sisterhood of the Catholic Church who
are devoting themselvest the education
of young girls of their own race.
"A young lady recently received into
the First Baptist Church at Burlington,
Iowa. dated her, first religious convic-
tons to the reading of Longfellow'
psalm of Life. Chicago Journal.
The Brooklyn Board, of Education
charges its teachers with using slang,
dressing loudly, and showing lack Of
refinement and cleanliness. In short,
/" they are totally unfit to teach Brook
lyn's children.
"A sect called tho ..New Israeli has
risen among the Jews Of Russia. Il
abandons circumcision, abstinence from
certain viands, changes the Sabbath from
the seventh to the first day and abolishes
usury. M Y Independent.
"A railroad conductor was recently
chosen deacon of . church. When il
became his duty to take up collection,
he surprised the congregation by start
Jul Will eQ0 CudIdCt1IlStlC cIstCuk6r
ton: Tickets, gentlemenr'. The con-
tribution that day was large.-Chicags
Herald. sFT4
Sands Street Methodist Church is
the oldest of its denomination in Brook
lyn. The rules which were in force in
1915 required that the sexton should
have the church opened and the candles
lighted at least q quarter of an hour be-
fore the time of evening meeting. He
was also to see that the candles were
snuffed before the meeting began.
The steady progress Of missionary
work in India may be judged of BY what
is said by the Rev. James Smith, an
English Baptist missionary of long ex-
perience in Delhi. He says that thirty
years ago it was considered encouraging
if a new convert could be reported every
two or three years. Now, at every mis-
sion station, they are counted by scores
in each year.
AT the meeting of the Unitarian
Club in Boston the other night President
Eliot, of Harvard University, told good
story of Professors Day and Dwight. Of
Yale. The former, he said, is long Of
speech, and the other is concise and
pithy. The two were out taking a walk,
spiced with conversation, when they
were met by friend, who greeted them
with the paraphrase of Bible text:
ebay unto Dwight uttereth speech;
Dwight unto Day showeth knowledge. J"
N. Y. Post. sa 10.
The suggestive and inspiring teacher
is the man who is born to his work
and who alone should perform it. A
patron of a school was once heard
to say: 81 wish we could get such
a teacher as we had last year; he taught
the children hundreds of things they
never thought of before, and my boy
has pestered me with questions ever
since; he will scarcely give me any rest;
he tells me everything he has heard there
and relates to me all the stories in his
reading book and comments upon every
thing. Such teacher has value be-
yond expression; he remains an inspir-
ing influence in his pupils lives to the
end of them. These teachers may be
found and they are always appreciated
abstractly; it has not been discovered
that they are paid more literally than are
the billiards Of their professionally T.
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"My wife," remarked Fitznoodle,
lis fairly crazy over the fashions. She's
got the delirium trimmins.' tr,fs
| Tomorrow never greets US; to-day
never bids us farewell; yesterday never
recalls u.s. Whitehall Times.
The hardest rocks are made of the
softest mud, just as the biggest swells
are made from the smallest men.-Loau-
ell Citizen. ltI8
-'Lemmy, you're pigr' said
father to his son, who was five years old.
Snow, Lemmy. do you know what pig
is?" "Yes, sir-a pig is hogs little
boy."-Meriden Recorder.
Sympathetic lady to beggar, who is
standing with hat off: 80, sir, won't
you take a cold?'' Beggar: '.No. thank
you, ma am; only takes pennies or five
cent pieces. ''-Philalelphia San.
"A chap who sent us poem begin
ming ''When twilight dews are falling
fast upon the rosy lea" has since mar.
ried Rosa Lee, and now the weekly dues
are falling faster upon him.-Free Press.
The presence of spongil1a fuviatiis
in most of the city water in the land is
regarded as a sufficient excuse by manv
for the insertion of four tablespoonfuls
of spiritus .trume'ati in small tumbler
OF aqua pur0.-NorristoUn Herald.
Now that the fact has been demon
strated that the earth will continue to
revOlve on its axis for at least ten mil
hon years more, we would request our
subscribers to hesitate no longer about
paying up for one year in advance. We
may be sanguine, but we think this op-
portunity for displaying faith should not
be Observation-Disclosures Republican.
"A New York athlete named Donald
son wants to bet that he will jump from
the centre of the Brooklyn bridge into
the East River. He is safe enough in
that bet. Wen bet thai. neither be nor
any other man can jump from the centre
of the Brooklyn bridge and come down
anywhere but in the East River.-M. Y.
Graphic.
1t was an Independent looking fel-
low who was standing on the railroad
track, apparently paying no attention to
the fact that . train was rapidly ap-
preaching. 81 say" said the station
master, '.you had better get off the track
or you will get run over.h Il fancy that
is my own affair if get run over" was
the reply. Eyes, reckon so, but who
is going to attend to taking up the mess
afterwards? JIt'snot me. And, reach
ing out his right foot, he kicked the in
different man fifteen feet and nine inches
by actual measurement. Texas Sitiinqs.
We have studied with great care an
essay ION the Application of Electro
Puncture to the Treatment of Pulsatile
Exophthalmos Of, the Orbit y and on the
whole conclude that it is indispensable
for family use. Night after night have
we been kept awake by the ''pulsatile ex-
ophthalmos'' getting on racket and
knocking its own orbit askew. If We
had only had an electro puncture'' Or
or even a bell punch in the house We
should have been happy. =. But now
science has stepped in and filed this LONG
!et want we are comparatively happy
Nec Hauen Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

In the Italian Chamber of Deputies,
recently, Blanca said Europe had no reason
to fear invasion by the products of America.
The question of disbanding the huge armies,
and giving back to agriculture and manu-
features the forces penned up in barracks,
would be the next one to consider.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
FoRTY.sEyENTH CONGRESS.

/ Wild 0TaIC IN MS pOCkeL IOI V1,VVVs
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS.
THE Lynch. Chalmers contest came up in
the House of Representatives on the Goth, and
the majority resolution, declaring Lynch en-
titled to the seat was adopted-l25 to So. The
| conference report on the postal apprOpria-
! ton bill was agreed to. The franking prfvi-
| lege amendment was rejected. resolution
was adopted to send sub committee TO New
! York to take testimony in the Chilf-Peru In
vestigation.
| THE bill to repeal discrimination against
the appointment of ex.Confederates to the
army was discussed briefly in the Senate,
| May l, and.a division upon the pending cues
resulted 81 in favor, 10 against. Mr..
| Saunders advocated a constitutional amend
ment making elective certain offices now ap-
pointed by the President. -. The House. by
resolution designating May for the
tiers Of national banks. Bills passed: Divid-
| ing Iowa into two Judicial Circuits; for the
| sale of Miami Indian lands in Kansas; for the
erection of public buildings at Detroit Mich,
Colo, 100000; at Greensboro N. c., $4,000; ut
Council Bluffs, Ia, 500 600; at Lynchburg, Va,
500 900; at Peoria, ILL.,, $4,000; at Galveston,
Texas, $l2S,O00.
| "A
mittee the bill removing disqualification of
ex- Confederates for army appointments was
defeated in the Senate, May g by party
vote-yeas p, nays "a. Davis, of Illinois, voted
yea with the Republicans. The bill then went
over. House amendment to the bill for pub
appropriation from $4,000 to s.5OoOO. was
concurred in and the bill passed. Mr.. lap
ham introduced bill proposing an amend
NAL or abridgment Of suffrage on account Of
sex Referred. The bill to establish q court
of appeals was then considered and commit
Up 70 bs S sSe
s bal, No., passed BY vote Of iss to IS. Mr.
hssss then e ess 81 n S Mr.
Hewitt of Alabama said while the present
protective system needed revision 1t had
proved blessing to the people and the eoun.
took the floor, but yield to q motion and the
committee rose. Senate amendments to the
Chinese bill were concurred in. Diplomatic
Israelites in Russia was presented and
referred.
In the Senate, on the Sd, Mr.. voorhees,
called for a committee to investigate charges
of corrupt influence in connection with the
bill to amend the laws regarding dis
titled liquors in special bond ware
tsp about consrons vose se
Immediate consideration was objected to.
The political disabilities bill was warmly dis
cussed and laid over for one day. The bill to
create Court of Appeals then came up as
unfinished business Committee amendment
in regard to appeals in patent and copyright
cases was rejected by q tie vote The remain
ing amendments of the Judiciary Committee
were agreed to. House amendment to bill
for the sale of Miami Indian lands in Kansas
was concurred in and the bill passed. ...In
the House the bill to allow the army to be
used as a posse comitatus was reported and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hampshire,
appeared before the Peruvian investigation
committee, the other day, and read long
defense Of his action. He admitted having
accepted retainer of stock for his services
rs counsel, but returned it to Shipherd be-
cause Of the probability that the subject
would come up for congressional action.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

Findlay, Ohio, recently started for Fort De-
fiance to enter into business with the post
trader. In New Mexico he lost his reason,
and was found wandering about Las Vegas
with draft in his pocket for s., 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

Mrs. SCovILLE, Guiteau's sister, lee
tured to eighty persons in New York City,
April 30. She read from manuscript, and
alluded to Guiteau as her "poor, crazy
broiher.'' She believed that he was both
insane and inspired, and said President Ar.
thur must know that her brother is insane.
She was occasionally applauded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
MAJOR upper, of the Sixth Ca,

MAJOR UPPER, of the Sixth Cav
airy, has had fight with Apaches at Clover
dale, on the boundary line between Arizona
and New Mexico. He reports one man lost
and two wounded, while the savages left
fifteen dead on the field, including s6h of
Loco, and seventy-ive horses were cap
tured. Topper then joined Col. Forsyth's
Nouomaud
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

POLK WELLS, the bank robber, and
two accomplices, escaped from the Iowa
Penitentiary, May 1. by chloroforming an
attendant in the hospital, breaking through
the iron roof, and overpowering the guard.
John Elder, one Of the latter, died from
the effects Of his injuries and the chloro.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

The steamer Glamorgan, just arrived
from Liverpool, was badly scratched by ice.
The vessel steamed $50 miles on the south.
ern edge of an ice-field and passed fully one
hundred large icebergs, on which were
polar bears and many seals. Several ice
bound sailing vessels were sighted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

CHARLES H. REED is looking up the
law points for his argument in the case of
Guiteau. The assassin still coolly claims
that the Lord will take care of him. From
the sale of autographs and photographs he
gave ScovilIe $500, and paid like amount
for having his book printed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12

The Garfield monument committee
proposes to open subscription lists on Dec
Grafton Day in every city and town through
out the country. rr