The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

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cutting ice to-day, and will put up i'm
mense quantities Of that article. The
ice is very thick and in splendid condi-
ton to be harvested.
The holiday number Of the RIVER
PRESS, and the general favor with which
it wa received, has set poor little Buck
beside himself with rage. ftis the worst
attack he has yet had, and evil conse-
quences are feared.
We are informed by a party Just from
the North that the new town Of Fort
Macleod viii, in all probability, be laid
out about q mile north Of the present
fort, on the Bow river road, and that
improvements viii begin early il the
spring.
The crank learned from yesterday
mornings RIVER Press that the legis-
lature had come to a dead lock, and he
made a Il line item of the. fact. This
is the first piece of news he has had
about the legislature which has been in
session several days.
The county hospital, which has not
been a very %creditable institution here
%tofore, has recently been fitted up in
good shape, thanks to the efforts Of our
new commissioners, Messrs. Wetzel and
Arnoux. There are at present four or
five patients at the hospital.
Postoffice department orders Nos. los
1 and 10E ipcfr41o rnr4r,,n c4ana n y, 4 1yo@ 49,.
mails for q large number Of Montana
offices to be forwarded via the Northern
Pacific railroad to the end Of the track,
thereby saving from one to four days
time in their transportation.
"Taylor's Tourists" are atthe Twenty
Eight Mile springs on their way to
Benton. In coming from Sun River to
the springs On Tuesday Mr.. Taylor's lit
tie girl suffered severely from the cold,
and they are laying over at the latter
place waiting for milder weather or a
covered coach.
We would respectfully advise IL
cranky neighbor not to continue to wor-
ry himself about the RIVER PRESS. 1t
is absolutely needless on his part, and
his time might be much more %profitably
employed in looking after the interests
of the white elephant, in the way of g
newspaper, he has on his hands.
Mr.. L. w. Peck, secretary of the Mon
tana Wool Growers association, will
send out to-day a large number Of circu-
lars calling attention to the recent organ
ization in this city, and asking the CO.
operation of all wool growers of the ter
ritory. Another meeting is called in
this city for January 31st, and it is hoped
there will be a large attendance.
The crank has given us another install
ment in the history of the RIVER PRESS.
In the next chapter he ought to inform
his readers how in two years it has built
up a better business than the sleepy old
sheet over which he presides, and which
is in a fair way to go bankrupt any day.
By doing SO the crank could, for the first
time in his life, say something truthful
about this paper.
Bi-monthly mail service has been es-
tablished between the end of the c.. P.
r. r. track and Fort Macleod, and the
contract went into force the first Of the
present month. Louis Cabele is the con-
! tractor who receives $500 a month for the
work. With this mail route established
there will be a big falling off in the
amount of postal matter passing through
the Benton p~ostoffice for the Northwest
territory.
Mike Larkin, of Barker, writes a long
rambling letter to the evening sheet in
behalf of the parties who have jumped
the Silver Belle mine, but throughout
his vindictiyet TRADE there is not a sing''--
reason assigned in support of the action
of these parties who have, by arms and
force, taken the property Of others. It
is not denied by anyone, as far as we
have heard, and not ever by Larkin,
that the mine was fully represented the
past year.
The RIVER Press evidently does not
like the send-oH we gave its holiday
number The cruy.k.
You are very much mistaken. Your
:tnotice," followed By your crazy efflsion
last night please us very much. They
prove more c~onclusively than anything
we could offer that you are growing
worse every day. Cranks can be toler-
ated, but crazy men must be looked after.
We would suggest to the friends of the
poor unfortunate devil that a term at the
territorial asylum might effect a remedy.