The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-12-05
LOCAL NOTES.

From SATURDAYS Daily
Ed. Mann and wife are in from theil
Otter creek ranch.
r. j. Davidson informs us that their
stock of goods will be shipped to Helena
this morning.
Butte's police record for October show
As arrests; 36 of these were fined and
dismissed and the other two yet to hear
from.
John Gilkerson, of Gilkerson & Burge,
starts this morning for a visit to his old
home IN Ohio. He will return again in
the spring.
Butte has been honored with a visit
from Governor Littlefield, of Rhode
Island. The governor is interested il
the Colusa mine.
Frank Gehring and J. [. Lee are id
from Sand Coulee. They report plenty
OF settlers coming in and taking up
ranches in that vicinity.
A. G. Benson, of Sun River, is in town
for a few days. He reports the Sun
River valley as having been settled up
pretty fast this last summer.
Mr.. Paris Gibson leaves this morning.
via Helena, for the east, to be absent
during the winter months. Look out
soon for Great Falls boom.
Gov. Brooks is in from Warm Spring
creek. He had a pretty hard time COM
ing Over to Arrow creek, being nearly
lost on Wolf creek ia the storm.
The well-known Father KeIleher, Of
Virginia City, who has been laboring
;1,nozao N Nv fo, @Io Iaot ton woo ro nc, nae
tor at that place, will soon depart for q
visit to England.
President Arthur is one of the $780,
600 members of the Ancient Order Of
United Workmen.n He belongs to a
New York city lodge, and is in full and
regular standing.
The Rev. Ebersville will be at ASSN
aboihe for q few days, looking after the
spiritual interests of hat post, and in
consequence there will be no services
tomorrow at the Catholic church.
Diamond r" Brown, who came in
from the ranch Of the Benton IL st.
Louis cattle company, on the Marias,
reports fourteen inches of 10Y on the
level out there, which, as yet, has hard
3ly been affected by the chllnooks
= LIE Toys lOI TIC COlIlli1S SCuSOtl > uIlpc
by the Boom company will probably be
cut on Deep creek, about 20 miles below
Fort Logan, as there is said TO be fine
timber i'll that vicinity. The men that
are to chop the logs are all ready to start
and may be off now any day.
Gus Senieur, the new court house ON
tractor, informs US that work will soon
be resumed on the vault, and when that
is completed brick work will cease for
this season. His carpenters are all busy
now making frames for the doors and
windows of the new county building.
The Madison county treasurer heads
his annual notice to taxpayers with the
old strychnine bottle sign Of. the skull
and cross bones. Money must be as
scarce as hens masticatOrs in old Alder
guIch if it takes a death-dealing notice
like that TO make the natives loosen up.
Joe Martel and "Adobe jack badly
demoralized a saloon window and con-
tracted sundry bloody noses and fists by
q little friendly alteration yesterday
afternoon on lower Front street. The
officers were promptly on the ground
and marched the belligerents off to the
cooler.
& Ed. Smith, the freighter, is in the
city. His teams have been kept busy
the past summer hauling bullion from
4 Barker to Dornix, on the Northern Pa
4cific. He reports some 5000 bars yet at
the smelter, which will probably be-
brought here for shipment by the boats
next spring.
Geo. Samples is in from the lower Jul
dith to procure some material for th5
new addition to his house. When this