The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-07

From Fridays Daily.
Judge Tattan left yesterday for Hell
ena.
Miss Johnson, from Barker, is at the
big hotel.
The Yellowstone National Park con-
tains 3,312 square miles.
Livingston has one man who has the
requisite sand to Wear-a-plug hat-
-McGuire's teams came in with anoth7
Ter load of Cobells big crop yesterday
James Gray and wife are IN the city,
the guestsor Howell Harris and-wife.:
kphe new territorial secretary, John l.
Tooker, is an ex-merchant of Lansing,
Mich.
Mr.. w. S. Evans has gone to Rodman,
ILL.,, his old home, to spend two or three
months.
G. E. Conrad and John Harris leave
by private conveyance to-day for the
capital city.
The annual ball Of the United Work
men takes place on the 9th inst, at the
Choteau house.
The shipments of the Montana cop
per company, of Butte, amounted to
81, 800 900 this year.
James A. Yore and family, from their
residence on Belt creek, are registered
at the Grand Union.
Another Montana town-Livingston
wants to be transformed into a city by
the magic touch of incorporation.
An artesian we'll t115 feet deep, near
Salt Lake city, discharges 100 gallons of
water a minute. 1t only cost $427.
Butte shipped 100 car loads Of ore and
40 Of copper matte over the Utah q
Northern during the week ending Oc-
tober 27.
An inmate of the Warm Springs in
sane asylum got hold of a razor, a few
days ago, and cut his throat from ear to
ear. He bled to death in a few minutes.
One thousand dollars have been sub
scribed by three parties toward the bor-
ing of another artesian we'll at Miles
City. They evidently have faith in the
water to be found in the bowels of the
earth on the Yellowstone. -
While up at his brick house ON the
island yesterday, Mr. F. G. Roosevelt
found out that some hungry mortal had
broken out a window light and craWled
in and had got away with a side of ba-
con and a sack of -four belonging to
the Boom cnmpany-
Private Conner of company f, 18th
infantry, Fort Assinaboine, died Tues
day night from the effects Of an overdose
of morphine. He was a confirmed
opium and morphine eater and his
strong appetite for that seductive drug
led to his death.
Henry Wareham, who lives at the
old MI arfi n M la arpcSinr on WIZ ornnk
is the only one near there Wb has his
oats threshed yet, SO he hasShltplenty of
demand for them and is selling right
there at the ranch for d ceHtb, which is
a fair price for this year of good crops.
r. Al. Chisholm, of the firm of Two
by Bros. 81 Chisholm, left yesterday
morning for White Sulphur Springs.
He is accompanied by Robert Merrill,
who goes to the Barker district in the
interest of capitalists, to inspect mines
in that locality. Enterprise.
The citizens of Custer county do not
think that either party gave the out
siders q fair deal in choosing candidates
stitutional convention. Quite a lot OF
the prominent men Of the county are
out in a card asking three good men I'd
run as Independent candidates.
We acknowledge the receipt from Mr..
Morgan, of the signal service office, OF
a quaint little volume issued by the sig
nal service department, and giving in
well arranged form about all the wealth
er signs and prophecies that have ever
been heard of, as we'll as a great deal
other meteorological information.
Jim Massie has his mackinaw all
built and ready for the launch. In a
few days he will be gliding down the
Missouri to Carroll, where, with his
family, he will spend the winter. The
wolves and coyotes are plentiful in that
country and with the aid of plenty OF
strychnine Jim expects to make quite a
Mr.. J. E. Stevens and mother take
their departure from Fort Benton this
morning, via the Billings coach, en-
route to White Snlnhnr Snrinrs and