The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-04-18

Baker & DeLorimier are in receipt of
a large lot OF ladies' trimmed and I'M
trimmed hats. Also a fine line of ladies'
spring suits, which they are selling very
low.
Mrs. Whitehead and the Misses Laura
n Martha Morrow left by private con-
yeyance yesterday morning for Helena,
where the ladies will spend the summer
months.
4 We always knew Butte was a fast
RtoWn, bnt when, on the evening of the
14th, we receive a paper from that place
dated April 10th, we think they are a
klittle too far ahead of the times.
One Of the eastern sporting papers
publishes the portrait Of Cy. Mounts, Of
Bozeman, among its gallery of promi-
nent sporting meh of the United States.
1t is a good likeness, too.
Necessary arrangements are being
made to perfecC the organization Of the
town of Ashland, already laid out on
the Tongue river, about midway from
Miles City to the Wyoming line.
"A party of nine Piegans have started
north toward the Cree country to steal
Ihorses. They are determined to get
feven on the thieves who recently paid
kthem such an unappreciated visit.
The river opened ut Bismarck on
Sunday, and kilograms announce that
the Rosebud will leave that place for
Benton next Saturday. We will look
for her smoke Over the bluff about the
9th of May.
NEW ORLEANS, April 5.-Purse $3.50,
owner to handicap, one mile and one
eighth. Fellowplay was an easy win
ner, with Hickory jim second, Nc
Whittier third, and Malyolia fourth.
Time, 2:O4a.
Archie Mckinley, a former resident
of Gallatin valley is supposed to have
fallen off the Yellowstone bridge at
Benson's Landing and drowned 0 n
Thursday night March Goth. He had
been imbibing quite freely and started
alone for Livingston.
The Chronicle gravely asserts that
there is a young lady in Benton who is
six feet tall and engaged to be married.
Many of the Bozeman girls might be
over six feet tall and would stand a bet
ter chance for matrimony, If their lower
extremities were not turned up so much
to make understandings.
We desire to call the attention of the
county fathers to the condition Of the
grade across the river. 1t is almost i'm
passable in some places from the dirt
which has fallen and been washed down
from the upper side, and parties who
have travelled over it recently inform us
that it is even dangerous.
w. II. Burgess writes that he has pur-
chased a heavy complete stock of goods
| for his growing grocery trade. He will
| remain at Bismarck until the most of it
is on the boats, and then return by way
of Billings. BY the first of May Mr..
Burgess will be located in his handsome
and commodious quarters in the new
Masonic building, and, judging from
the past, he will grow with the rest of
the town.
h Judge Galbraith, JOS. X. Toole, Jim
Matkin, Sydney Edgerton and F. M.
Eastman took a notion yesterday morn
ing that they wanted fish-lawyers re-
|lquire brain food at this time, you know
land so they started down the river by
lprivate conveyance ION FOOT to put out
lines. They, walked about a mile and a
half down the bank on the other side
lferriage $3.50 and at last found a place
(which they thought suitable, and then
they set their lines and tramped back
talking Of the nice mess of fish they
would have. Evening came, and across
and down the stream they went again
$3.50 more). They got TO where their
lines We're and proceeded very carefully
to haul in, but nary a fish was there on
any of the lines-not even a "blind eel"
And now they all swear they don't like
fish, anyhow.
MI. Bakers Horses.