The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17
LOCAL NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily.

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the Masonic hall for the ensuing year.
The Catholic fair recently held at
Helena netted the handsome sum Of
$4,000.
Foster will call his new saloon 1.-THE
Phmnix,N after the tabled bird that was
supposed to rise anew from it's ashes oc-
c~asionally.
Clark, one of the party who s'jumpedn
the Silver Belle mine, was one Of the
original locators Of that property, and he
disposed of his interests to Benton par
ties at a good figure. He seems disposed
to "double chuten the thing.
Spopee, the Piegan Indian who MUIR
dered Chas. Warmleyi in 1880, and whose
death sentence was committed to impris-
Onment for life, died in the Detroit house
OF correction about a month ago.-Her-
aid.
Gu citizens will remember this case.
Spopee was to have been hung at the
same time with Pelkey, the murderer Of
Chas. Tackle, but his sentence was COM
muted by President Hayes. Good Ri
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quilted.
The owners of the Silver Belle in this
city say there has been work to the
amount of $500 done on the mine last
year, and that there can be no possible
ground for Jumping" it. They are not
uneasy about recovering possession.
The Boom company have secured the
services Of an expert in the business, of
st. Paul, and he has been t~elegraphed
to come on Immediately. The boom is
a thing Of certainty, and it will assist in
no small way in booming Benton.
Medicine Bear, Big Thunder and The
Comet are stopping at the Grand Union.
X. Beidler tells Mr.. Todd it is a big
thing for the house, because when they
60 back to his (X.'s) people they will
give the Grand Union a glorious send
off.
The court house vault was open
ed yesterday and everything found
in good condition. Col. J. J. Donnelly,
who designed the vault, and Frank
OOOI1bS, ltlC Oul10Cl, ldhO jill SICu1U,
and justly, to themselves on this &C.
count.
Fort Logan, owned by Judge Gaddis,
has recently been sold to eastern parties
for $45 600. The property consists of
four square miles of and and the mill
tary and sutler buildings. 1t is, we un-
derstand, to be used for a horse ranch, a
purpose to which it is we'll adapted.
Judge Gaddis purchased it about two
years ago from the government for $4,-
500.-Husbdndmun.
From Thursdays Daily.
There have been an unusual number
of deaths at Benton and vicinity the
past few weeks.
During the calendar year ending Dec.
81, 1882, monies to the amount Of SOL
664.68 were received in the q. S. land
office at Helena.
Sergeant A. r. Frame, Of Fort Magin-
mis-, and Miss Lizzie FL. Gardner, Of
Maiden, were married at Big Spring
creek by Justice Toombs, on the Sd inst.
Mel. J. Keith has purchased J. j..
Kennedy's ranch on the Teton, and dur
ing the past week has built him a house
ON the same. He has also a winters
supply Of grub" on hand, and proposes
to batch it for the next few months. The
indications are, however, that the batch
ing is not to be Of long duration.
The horses for which Albert Hunt was
searching when he was killed have been
found. They were not off of their
range, and were found about ten or
twelve miles from the ranch. This dis
covery disproves the theory that Hunt
was killed by horse thieves in the act Of
getting the horses from him.
Major w. p. Turnero Of the Marias, and
Sam Spencer of Sun River, took their
departure for the states some days ago,
going by way of the Canadian Pacific to
Winnipeg and thence by the Manitoba
to America MI. Turner returns to
Nashville, Tenn, and doubtless will
bring out some more fine stock to Mon
tana. His thoroughbred herd or the
Marias is left in charge of his two sons.
The distinguished gentleman from the
Great bend of Milk river, Medicine
Bear, Big Thunder and The Comet, who
are temporarily sojourning at the river
metropolis, guests at the Grand Union,
witnesses in the case of the United States
VS.. the whisky traders, dined out yester-
day with Lieut.. Cummings and family.