The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20

LOCAL NOTES.
From Saturdays Daily.
y. 6. Brownies train will roll out to-
ward Fort Macleod to-day.
Orders left at City Bakery viii be at
tended to promptly at any hour.
Second hand furniture and dishes. lust
AZ good as new, at Robertson & Ken
dalls.
Joe Kipp's bull train loaded yesterday
at T. G. Power & Bros with supplies
for the Blackfoot Agency.
DR.. Miller, u. S. A, who had fully
intended going down on the Helena, got
left yesterday morning and will now be
required to wait for the next boat.
Peg Leg has immigrated to Fort Mac
Ieod, taking passage on n of the sew
eral mule trains moving that way. We
sincerely trust the climate will agree
with him.
The total amount Of bills allowed by
the commissioner of Custer county last
meeting was $43, 375. 23-which is itself a
pretty fair sized quarterly expense bill.
F. w. Bucksen & Co. have stored
away in the basement Of their store an
immense stock of lemons and
enough, it would seem, to supply all
OF Fort Benton.
The man who was shot by bis brother
at Clagett II weeks ago and who was
brought here for treatment is getting
along nicely and to-day will break in a
pair of crutches.
The construction train reached Helena
last Tuesday, and nearly everybody in
the city was out to gaze in rapture upon
it,. The newspapers are making a good
deal Of fuss over the event.
~'Prince Leopold" one of Paris Glib
son d Sons fine thoroughbred Shrop-
shire bucks, died o few days ago, the re-
suit Ct injuries received from a bucking
Merin0 ram. If the finest horse on the
ranch had died the loss would not have
been so great.
S.. Pageh, who arrived here some days
since with a band Of horses from Oregon,
had the misfortune to be thrown from a
wagon yesterday, resulting in the dislo-
cation of his shoulder and other injuries.
He will not be able to mount q broncho
for some weeks.
It is said by some people who know
nothing about it that there IS no farm
ing country about Fort Benton, and yet
it is an actual fact that there are twice
as many agricultural implements ship
ped to this city, and sold here, as in any
other town In the territory.
We are inclined to believe that Jack
Johnson, the Custer county sheriff, is
soiourning somewhere down in the
states and keeping his weather eye open
for Briggs, the absconded commissioner,
and Steve Taylor, ex-clerk, and we fur
Their believe that Jack will run down
his men.-GZendiUe Times.
From Sundays Daily.
Work on the new court house should
begin this week.
Regular trains commenced running
to Helena last Friday.
Judge Spencer heard the evidence in
three inal entry cases yesterday.
The Helena reporters now spend most
of their time riding or the construction
train.
The Sun river roundup party camped
IGdl LllC 1dhES, OA 1CiCA o1S ICs0O
night.
Yesterdays Helena coach, to the sur
prise of all, got in on good time, bring
ing a big mail.
The Independent has been enlarged a
column to the page and presents quite a
boom appearance.
Robertson & Kendall have a room
chock full of good furtiture for sale
cheap, Call and see it. -
I. c.. Powers mule train, Jim Bender,
master, pulls out to-day for Fort Shaw
with goods for Joe Mcknight.
The Helena coach, due Friday even
ing, did not arrive until three O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. Bad roads. y
jim Massie. Of the Benton stables, is
rigging up some stylish turnouts, and
has also some excellent saddle horses.
Hay Bros. have now twenty-six shear
ers at work at their Shonkin sheds, and
the force viii be increased next week.
Cans 81 Klein have consolidated their
stores at Helena in their fine building al
the corner of Main street and Broadway.
Johnny Guthrie, at the City Bakery,
will fill any order with dispatch. lie
can make a cake to the queens taste"
The railroad bridge across the Missouri
ut Bedford vas reported Friday as III
danger of being washed away by the
booming waters.
The new hotel and bath houses at
White Sulphur Springs will be COM
pleted in about sixty days. Then the