The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-04
LOCAL NOTES..
Prom Saturdays Daily.

chased q large lot CT supplies OF WIS.
Wetzel.
Every hoy who purchases a suit Of
clothes at Cans & Klein's is entitled to
a box Of dominoe4.
w. W.. Austin. who has been suffering
with dropsy forsomet time, was tapped
Yesterday, and is now agreat deal better.
C.E. Conrad isa st subject FOR con
gratulations This morning. It is o ten
pound hoy, born at eight O'Clock last
evening.
IT. \. Lewis twain Of four teams ar
rived yests rday loaded with lumber from
NcAdow & Dexter's mill for I. G. Baker
q Go.
r. S. Culbertson served supper TO his
guests in his new house las5 evening, the
first meal partaken Of III the Pacific
hotel.
w. %. Dexterfs steam thresher is now
at Jim Cellett's, on Willow creek, and
his horse power tbresher st Boyle's, on
Highwood.
Lieut.. Hardin informs us the trans
portatiop has been sent for the MIX
river expedition, and that the boys are
expected back at the post Don
Mrs. Joseph n. Either presented her
husband with q fine boy baby yesterday
morning, and at the present writing Joe
is one Of the happiest mortals in Mon
tana.
We are informed by a gentleman just
up from the vicinity of Fort Maginnis.
that tie hanging Of Bowles - a fact, or
at least it is so reported in that vicinity.
-Endepcadont.
4. telegram to H. r, Rolfe, one of the
counsel for Kingsbury, that
the general land office has decided the
Kingshury- Carruthers contest in Kings
bury'a.favor.
The. grand lodge Of Montana Masons
will meet at Deer Lodge next Tuesday.
H. r. Rolfe viii represent the Benton
lodge, and will take his departure this
morning for Deer Lodge.
observation-disclosures Weatherwax re-
turned yesterday from Utica, where he
had gone to look after his business affairs
at that place. He has purchased the in
terests of his partner, j. IL. Cutting, and
will now conduct the business alone, and
will give it a large share of his personal
attention.
Lieut.. Hardin, OF Fort Assinaboine,
with a force of ten men, is In the city,
and will return to-day, repairing the
military line where needed on the return
trip. This il Lieut.. Hardin's first trip
to Benton, and he was agreeably sur
prised to note the evidences of progress
and prosperity to be seen here on every
hand. He informed a RIVER PRESS re-
porter that he had heard a great deal Of
Benton, and expected to see q right live
! ~ burg, but the fine brick L.ocks and
mammoth business houses took him COM
pletely by surprise. He regards u city
az the most promising he has seen in the
west.
From Sundays Daily.
J. C. Rutherford has traded his Teton
ranch to d. G. Wilkins for the Eight Mile
Springs ranch and is now living at the
latter place.
Asa Sample, of Fort Benton. superin-
tended in person the shipment-of n car
car loads Of his cattle from the Mussel-
shell, yesterday afternoon, at the stock
yards. They are pronounced the best
lot, so far, Of the season.-Miles CITY
Press.
A shooting affair occurred at the Mus
selshell roundup recently. John Coll
Inns, the foreman of the Montana cattle
company's herd, had q difficulty with
his cook, who fired several shots at him
with 4 rife, and then placed the gun to
his own head and fired, blowing the top
Of his head off and leaving his brains
exposed. q wound from which he will
not likely recover. It is supposed that
the unfortunate mar thought he had
killed Collins, and shot himself to avoid
diificuIty.-Indepeadent.
From Tuesdays Daily.
The first snow Of the season In Benton
fell yesterday, October Ind.
A young mems republican club will
be organized at the court house this
evening ut the close Of the meeting.