The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-10-24

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the driving up of the roads to take it
4, home with him.
A lot Of new recruits under Lieut..
Griffith, who have just arrived from the
east by the way OF Fort Shaw, are on
/ their way to Assinaboine. Dr. Adams,
who is SO well and favorably known
here, accompanies them.
one Of our prominent business men
got a letter the other day addressed >.
DeBlre k. Can any one guess who
it was? The writer must have taken
him for a F~renchman, judging from the
way he addressed the letter.
correspondent who has been in
snectinp western cities says: Helena,
the capital of Montana, is accented,
orally and morally, on the first syllable.
It is probably the richest and wickedest
city of its size in the ceuItry."-N. Y
San.
The Marquis de Mores is to build a
Strengthening establishment at Billings,
as well as Miles City-provided the clti-
zens come down with a liberal subsidy.
The Marquis has been in the country
long enough to know how to work the
''racket.o
Work has been commenced on the big
~irrigating ditch which is to take about
5000 inches of water out Of Depuyer
creek. When finished this ditch will
water a big tract of land and help amaz-
ingly in settling UP that section OF the
northern part of u county.
For pulling a pistol on Il old towns
man, Sol. G%enzberger, Eugene Meyer
was made to pungle fifty dollars and
trimmings in the Helena police court
1o,+ Lrr;3ou 1FYdicODin91
1t was not Sol, but a brother who re-
sides at Helena, that had the pleasure(D
Of looking into the barrel Of Meyers
gun.
Doc Zahl, one Of the wide-awake
scouts and buffalo hunters Of this Sec
ton, has lust come in from the Missouri
river, where he reports having met X.
Beidler, who is in That section, rustling
among the natives. x. is almostinstant
death on horse thieves, and this is most
likely the cause of his being found in
that desolate locality.-li1es city Press.
The posts under the portco of the Pa
cifc were removed yesterday and braces
put in their places. This will be quite
a convenience to passers by on q dark
night. Those who have been in the
habit of taking drop too mich in the
neighboring saloons will no doubt miss
their old friends. the posts, which have
so willingly held them perpendicular
on such trying occasions.
We were lucky enough to get the
mail yesterday morning which should
have been in the previous evening. The
few unfortunate passengers report the
coaches as next thing to blockaded in
the Prickly Pear canyon, with at least
three feet of snow. The walking on
that part of the road was first class for
all on the coach-at least they got a
great sufficiency of exercise thereby.
Captain John Barr wilIleave for Mon
tana in few weeks to select a tract Of
land for q cattle range, which he will
stock in the spring. The captain has
come to the conclusion that cattle raising
is about as profitable a business as can
be entered into and will select a num-
Der Of fine animals from which to
breed.-BismnrcE Tribune.
The RIVER PRESS is pleased to well
come Captain Barr to the high rank Of
q Montana cattle king.
We were shown two beautiful wall
& pockets for papers at Cranes yesterday.
They We're hand-carved here in Benton,
and show fine design and skillful work
manship. One is made of native Mon
tana pine, the other of black walnut.
The design of both is the am and the
fine work on the two griffins with
which they are surmounted is especially
noticeable, Ittook considerable ingen-
uity and patience to make them, as may
be inferred from the price set on them
S24 apiece. They are to be ratified oil as.
soon as all the tickets are solds
Geo. Patterson informs us that Alex
ander StolIee, who has been cooking for
him on the Shonkin, had met with a
painful and probably fatal accident while
loading a rifle. The cartridge exploded,
a part Of it f~racturing his forehead, it is
supposed. 1T is to be hoped the accident
may not be as serious as is now feared.
At the present writing we are unable to
give the condition of the wounded man
and can not state whether the wound
has proven fata, or not.
We learn from official sources that
the long expected and much talked Of
branch to the coal mines in the Bull
mountains is to start from q point about
ten miles east of Pompey,s Pillar and
twenty miles west of Junction City.
The surveyors arrived at the starting
point on Sunday evenings train and
the cross-section survey began Monday
morning the route having been sur
veyed some time ago.. The line will be
twenty-nine miles long and finished be-
fore New Years. Grading will be COM