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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
SEN sIBL.E TALK
What Mr. Paris GIBSON Has b Say on a
Subject he Knows Good Del About.

What Mr.. Paris Gibson Has b Say q
Subject he Knows Good Del About.
Meeting Mr.. Paris Gibson a Friday a
RIVER PRESS reporter proceeded to in
teryiew him with special eferenee to
the wool question, upon whih he is as
well posted as any other nan in Mon
tana, having made it for sonn years past
a business study.
'sWhat is the outlook foI the wool
trade,n inquired the scribe.
''That depends upon just what you
wish to Get at he answered. ''If you
mean will there be a large YIELD in Mon
tana, / can say there will &c, undoubt-
edly; if you speak with ssecial refer
ence to Fort Benton's trae, | think |
can safely say the outlook lsgood-that
there will be big lot OF Wod marketed
here
.How will prices range tbs year."
at looks now as if Wods would be
down. The market is dul3at present,
but a change may occur Very soon. l
tllnk, however, tHdt VIC " ~ Aiol Soo 90
much for our woods this year as last
Beyond any question, though, we can
and will pay as. much money for wool III
Fo.t Benton, if not little laore, as will
be paid at any other point n the terri
tory. This you can tell your readers,
and emphasize It,"
"Does Fort Benton, in your opinion,
| present any advantages overother points
| in the territory as market for the wool
grower?"
"Most assuredly it does. As look at
it, every wool grower in the country
tributary, including the Teton, Sun NV
er. Dearborn, Judith and other sections,
should bring their wool to this point
when they can get as much for it. They
are interested in sustaining the naviga-
ton Of the Missouri river, which makes
it possible to secure low rates over the
railroads, and should do what is LA thell
power to sustain it. Without the river
the railroads would scinch' US on every
| possible occasion, and it stands II
hand for those who can aid in sustain
ing the river to do 50 always. Bu
this is only one reason. Those Wh'
are SO situated as to be- able to sci
their wool at Fort Benton, or shil
from this point, can purchase their sup
plies at least Is per cent. cheaper thai
elsewhere in the territory. There is n
town in Montana that carries such mag
nifcent stocks as do the III ss2asnants 9
, this city. The best stores IN Helen
J seem only as retail stands beside them
! while Billings and the other railroa
towns would make poor out at supply
ing some Of our prominent sheep mel
) They haven't got the stocks, and Go ne
as vet know the wants of the country
! I predict that many Of the wool grower
who try to buy at these places will afte
wards have to come to Benton to CON
t plete their purchases. In this respet
there is a decided advantage in favor {
Fort Benton as the market and suppl
s point for the wool growers, and it wi
: tell in attracting them this way frol
: points that may be many miles neart
:, the railroad. So I look cit it, at least.'
Having thus evoked theeopinions d
sired, the reporter put away his lit
pencil and proceeded in search OF 9th
i victims.
@dESsA-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
HAIL COLUM MBIA !!
How the Congealed Ram Did Four DOWN
In Benton Sunday Evening -

In Benton SUNDAY Evening
Fort Benton and vicinity were visited
Sunday evening by perhaps the seVerest
hail storm that has ever been witnessed
in this section. Such, at least, IS the
unanimous verdict of the ''old timer,
ana he ought to know all about 1T. Inc
storm set in about o'clock in the even
ing, coming from the north, and lasted
in its full fury some fifteen minutes.
Fortunately it was not very general, pe-
ing scarcely more than mile In wlotn.
But it's course was zigZag, and on tnat
account the damage to crops was much
greater than il it had moved IN
straight line. Striking the Teton at the
Elbow it followed the valley down u
Embleton's ranch, then took more or q
southerly course, passing over this CITY,
and lust bevond the river turned toward
the east, making an unwelcome visit TO
the Shonkin, while Highwood was not
SC honored. What it did after passing
the Shonkin we have not heard. .>~re
The storm at this point, we learn, was
hardly as severe SIS OIL the Teton, ana
Charley Bristol thinks the hail was big
ger and fell faster and thicker at his
ranch three miles up the Missouri than
anywhere else. But the fact that the
ground was covered with hail to the
depth of two or three inches; that the
grass and weeds were almost buried II
the ground that the trees We're stripped
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
Working Towards Fort Benton.

The following item from the Fargo
Republican illustrates one Of the effects
of the location of the capital of Dakota
at Bismarck speedy settlement of
the splendid icountry northwest OF that
city, up the Missouri slope. Bismarck s
good fortune will result in Benton hav-
ing direct eastern rail communication
two years sooner than she would other
wise have had:
i'll. Cotton, ESQ.,, the first settler al
Lisbon, came up last evening and Left
for Bismarck on the 9 o'clock train. He
has located about one hundred and fifty
miles northwest of Bismarck, and has
eight or ten car loads of lumber, print.
ing material, household goods and mer
chandise on the way to his new home
where he intends to open a store, start !
newspaper and create town.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
Change on the Benton and Billings Line.

T. C. Power & Bro, who are the con-
tractors for the mail route between Okla
and Billings, have bought the contract
of A. Il. Pound between Benton and
Okla, Mr. Pound retaining the Martins
dale and Maginnis line. This change
will place the line clear through from
Benton to Billings under the control OF
Z. G. Power & Bro, under Walter
Burke's superintendency They will
take such Of the stock as they care to
retain at certain stipulated price, and
will Immediately proceed to stock up
the road in first-class shape and put on
Concord coaches clear through. They
have also reduced the fare from Benton
TO Billings from s36 to SIS. It is under
stood that daily service will soon be
had. and then this line will be the best,
as it is already the most important, III
the whole territory.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
Boston Wool Market.

BosToN, June 12.-Wool dull; Ohio
and Pennsylvania fieeces 37(942; Wis
consin and Michigan fieeces 35fa942; de-
Iaine combing fieeces 4O@4o; unwashed
woods 1900; pulled Wools 25CD45.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-20
Letter List.

The following is list Of letters remain
ing in the Benton post office for the week
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
PERSONAL.

Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme
Court has almost entirely recovered from the effects
of his recent accident
Ii is reported that the Marquis of Lorne is to be
called to the House Of Lords by of his fathers
minor titles, shortly after his return from the
Dominion.
An inventory of tho estate Of the late Mr. Stirling
Crawfurd. of English turf fame, has been lodged
with the Sheriff of Lanarkshire. The personality is
valued at pI72.0OO.
Queen Vlctorias recovery from the effects of her
fall on the stairs of Windsor Castle, nearly five
months ago. is now almost complete Her general
health has greatly improved. and she is III good
spirits again.
Nine Jenny Lind Goldschmdt now and then
breaks through the rule she made long ago, to sing
no moro in public She recently appeared ON the
stage at concert given for charitable purposes at
Malvern. England and gave the audience a deli ht-
full surprise by fresh and vigorous rendering of
Mendrssohns Lift Thine Eyes aud Rubinstein's
" Song or the Birds"
Judge Albion w. Tourg6e is familiar figure at
Chautauqua. Ills summer residence is at Mayville
at the head of the lake. about four miles from Chau
tauqua. The house Is a three-story cottage, sur
rounded with trees shrubs and flowers and COM
mands fine view of the lake. THE Growlery,"
as the Judges study is called, is DRY, lead
colOred structure occupying a front corner of the
yard several rods from tho house. The occupants
OF Judge lOurgsos home. besides himself ana wife,
are his wife's two sisters, the Misses kilOurn.
Martin Lather's memory will be houored on
Thursday next at grand open-air jubilee near
Frederick, Md. to bo participated in by all the
Lutheran congregations in that part OF the State.
The Rev. Dr. Morris, Of Baltimore. will be tho
orator Of the day. and the Rev. Dr. Domer, OF Wash
ington will deliver address the idea set forth
by the historian Froude, that " had there been no
Iuthar EnUlish American and German people
would be thinking differently. would be acting
differently, would DO altogether different men and
women from what they are at this moment"
Among tbs stories of the Compile de Chanlbord's
last sickness related by Vienna correspondents Is
ono TO tho effect that his passion fox hunting re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
Democratic Legislature mast go.
THE LABOR INVESTIGATION

The investigation of the subject of labor
strikes, which the Senate Committee on Ed
ucatOn and Labor have been carrying on in
this city for nearly a fortnight past, is q fair
sample of the foolish and useless things that
are sometimes authorized in haphazard way
by Congress, through a failure OH the part of
some of its members to appreciate the limite-
tons of its functions. Congress cannot legis-
late upon strikes, trades unions, the wages and
hours of labor, the relations of corporations
and their employees, and the like, except, per-
haps, so far rs they may come under its super
vision In connection with la borers employed by
the Government. These constitute, however,
very small fraction of the laboring class,
and about the only demand which even the adj
vocates of labor could consistently ask, with
regard to these, has already been taken in the
adoption of an unwise and mpractlcable law
limiting days work to eight hours. Never
theless the Senate has authorized one of it's
standing committees to investigate the whole
length and breadth of this vast subject of
which it has no real Jurisdiction, and the Com
mittee are new laborOusly engaged in gather
ing "a large amount OF SPECIALIZED infOrmation,"
with the certainty tefore them that when the
aIduOus process has been completed it will be
of no use to them and of very little to any one
else, and will pass into the limbo OF Govern
ment trash, printed at the public expense.
The Investigation might have been indirectly
of benefit to the public. if the testimony re-
ceived had been Of sufficient value TO increase
the possibilities Of an intelligent discussion of
the labor problem. But the value of it is very
nearly an unknown quantity. The Committee
have opened their hospitable ears, and every
one that listed has poured in his assortment Of
views The kinds anu varieties OF social, po-
ltical and economic reform that have been sug-
gested to the Committee would make queer
patchwork of the world IL they should all he
put in force. Several witnesses were opposed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
GENERAL NOTES.

The twenty-ffth anniversary of the dis
coyery OF gold in Cherry Creek will be celebrated with
banquet at Denver September 10 by the early settlers
OF Colorado.
The mighty family of Smith will hold ih
eighth annual reunion in the grove on tho farm OF Pe
H. one mile east OF Peapack. Somerset County, n j. %
Wednesday Angus 90 All the relatives and friends d
the family, which is equivalent to saying all mankind
are invited to be present
Albuquerque, n NJ, boasts, and doubtless
Justly of being the youngest iowa in the world Lighted
with electricity. Albuquerque is an infant of three
years which, after twelve months experience with sal
outgrew that Anticipated iluminatOr and installed tho
electric light In It's streets aud public buildings
The steepest railroad gradient in the world
ia said TO DO that OF line from Montreux to Glon,
distance of 1000 feet Just finished by Nicolas Rggen
bach the Swiss engineer who constructed the Rg Rail-
way On August Is NJ. Riggeubach made the descent
with sing car without the cable, in order to demon
strae the efficiency OF his brakes aud stopped the c
three times on the way. He is constructing similar
line up the Neilgnerries for the Madras Government,
TIE constituents of Mr.. Arthur Peel, mem.
Der OF Parliament for Warwick. set an example On
August lS WHOM doubtless other British Legislators
hope will not be contagious. Mr.. Peel mad promised On
that day to conduct forty Of his constituents oSe inc
House OF Commons but he was amazed TO learn on the
preceding evening that one train had already stared
for London with 800 OF them on board aud na ahola
was about TO depart with as many more. The party ID
but the member equal To tne emergency aod shgsea
them all the wonders that they had come 10 See tnen
they went back, ali tue 600.
An illustration of the absurd changes intro
duced in French school books in obedience to the IA"
recurring all religious references to be expunged fa'
nshed by the letter OF father lately published In ts
journal dAieneon. Thus. in the "GrsmInaife ~
rEnrance" tue example. "The catecnism Is BOOK aA'
been changed to Iron Is q metal; "Nore Danen'
proper name to "Corsics is proper name' and "csa
killed his brother Abel" to "Italy resembles o0o'u
shape" A little poem "rhe Goodness of God, Isl sup
pressed, and "The asses fower-the t0stle. suv
THANKS, whoever tnou arg" and A chld 70 sa s.
Proyidc nee has given such parents Is shortened ios
child W no has such parents. These no"e'eT s 80
NOT so silly ma some OF tue other alterations inus
Ths Creator heard the horse with patence appessM
Jupiter neard," etc: and Jupiter" Is suDsu'ueu
=. Create" wherever Il occurs III the lesson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25

to all ownership Of land. One of them declared
that the catinet-makers should control tne
business of making furniture, the Duiiders 'ho
building trade, and so on through all occupa-
tiops. This arrangement seemed to count out
the capitalists altogether, whose existence mas
usuallv been supposed to be of benefit TO the
worl,inrmep. Ole witness deprecated trades
unions because they tended to discriminate
against unskilled labor, whereas it has been
suppvsed that one of the evils of trades-union
ism was that it forced employers to put the
poorer workmen on the same level with the
skilled. A lady who appeared before the Com
mttee was evidently under the impression
that the Senate exercised all the functions OF
government-National, State and municipal.
She suggested that tho Senate should give
few dollars to women instead OF voting so
much for jails and charities She urged that
the Senate should appoint women to go from
house to house in the cities to Instruct servants
in their duties, especially how to COOK. b"C
she was hardly to blame for having vague no.
tons of the functions of the Senate. The Sen
ators seem to DO troubled little that way
Themselves One witness wanted all the laws
repealed which conferred privileges on cor
porations not enjoyed by individuals. He
thought the Brotherhood of Telegraphers
should be made an organization" by act Oh
Congress, and a postal telegraph service
placed in It's hands. Instead Of O Civil Ser
vice Commission, there should be committee
from the Brotherhood to examine applicants
In the future, one witness said, all legislation
will be industrial, not political, --and all legis-
lators will be men who have graduated from
the workshops. One witness defined tramps
as men whom the employing classes have made
superfluous," and woman made the Com
mittee her telephone for call to all the
women of the United States to unite in labor
organization.
There is plenty more of the same kind. NO
body is likely to be benefited by this investi-
CATION but the stenographers, the printers In
the Government Printing 0fice, and the trunk
makers who will eventually line their trunks
with tins testimony" All the members OF
the Committee could have been furnished
with Mr. Henry Georges I" Progress and Pow
erty =" for small part of the money it will cost
to report and print his explanation OF his
theory of land. The reports of various Blu
reaus of Statistics would have supplied the Com
mittee with more exact and useful information
than they have had from the trades unions.
But the Committee have gratfed tbs strange
legislative fondness for listening to unimpOr-
tant statements under oath, and the witnesses
have evidently enjoyed themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
THE VINEYARD HAVEN FIRE SUFFERERS

yb;Ie tho anneal in oehalf of tho sufferers
From, tne yineyarI ,Iayen fire has literally re-
sponded to- much larger contributions are heedeh i
villagers naturally industrious and sei-aepchus"1
began at once repair, 20 the best OF their aoy 'S
misfortune: but the fact remains that IL Is alnos luz
possble for them to put themselves without aia iaD
position where they can escape actual suherios a.
IA well known the village formerly owed It's pro'pe'
ent,rely 10 tue sea and chiefly to the whaie usaeV
When the latter failed the fortunes OF the vdAs'"
fauel with IL. Recently the influx OF summer
visitors to the coast has revived the ola Wv
lage But the OF earning Is OF coa'H
short and many had DO source of revenue oeyOu'
the hoinesteads which they could rent for ioug"s'
The fire DESTROYED sixty.two buildings. nearly all ave-"
i,gs and even the shops were usually in part ussa
iepements Very many saved Absolutely no'mht
clothing bsyond what they wore, nor OF houseno"
nituro. They were left in fact absolutely su'u'
their opportunities Of obtaining work are almost
cut on by the fire. Every shop save one IN tne VIZ"
was destroyed. Every hotel or clearinghouse saw
was destroyed also. Temporary lodgings n"'
secured and few temporary buildings nA'0 80, =
erected Autumn Is cese at hand. anu a''o ''
winter OF ths New-Engand coast. -,
The need OF these sufferers IL genuine; their pnvds
ia gone. their occupation for tho time Is go"e W.
not know how beg; they ara not Ia sun eEe hci
mercal connection with great elites rs wiz rae 10
wants known without urgency. o"0 Sws u,d
lief committee on the spot writes; -, n 90
and ought u nave $4,000. We now nave g toi and
That will supply present need thai ~ ~ 10 DO cg
clio hing But w1at the sufferers Dy nte s na, kuOs'
fall and winter 10 keep from suherns 90 ,oy aid sha
New.York responds promptly to every cav 1 conntry;
disaster falls upon tuc remotest parts OF r aso tie
money even was forthcoming when a ~" ',S.t by hfe
little SWISS village OF McyIingen was Iost 3"os At h
Surely she will not let village whicn IL A
Tnnse who wish TO contribute would oes' ne Re II
contributions directly to tho Treasurer iiayea
Commtlee. Captain James L. smith. vmrsy send %
Mass bur il they prefer TO do so, they ~, 70 Thsuss
Carey Yale u Lambert No. SO bros ST. o., ~ Capsa
DunHIm's Neuhew & Co, No. Us Sout!-sI' VI III N4l-
Ricrara Lace san orr Snug HarOor OIiee N@ rsnatcA
ST. Ncw-York CIV. The New'York ana ossothng bed
Company Will deliver free any parrots fces Nos ~
ding etc that may be- sent Ia ther oni0ss 81. noas
CsDal-st., 63 or $40 Broadway, Va VIA car '~
10 do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
PEE LAST or THE BOURBoNS.

BY the death of the Comte de Chambord one
of the most fororn and ridiculous OF Royal Pre-
tenGers is removed from the European stage.
Apostrophized at Ills birth by Lamartine as the
@Child Of tue Miracle" ard proclaimed Henry
", King by Divine right, in his eleventh year,
when his grandfather abdicated the throne, the
last of the French Bourbons has passed half a
century In eIile, surviving three revolutions.
with essing the gradual decadonce of the Con-
sntu.ional Monarchy. the short struggle of the
Second Republic and the tawdry sDendOrs and
sudden collapse of the Second Empire, capri
oiously sQuandering the chances of Restora
ton when coalition Of the Monarchcal and
Clerical factions was definitely arranged, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25
Neau;a1ork Daily Gribn'1s.
FOUNDED eYH HORACE G r EEL er
NETWORK, SATURDAY. AUGUST 25.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRErGN.-The Comte de Chambord died yester-
sav. - Twenty-three villages have been aban-
doned by the Christians in Albania because OF the
murders committed by Turks. - Matthew
Arnold has been granted pension by the Govern
msnt. - Sir Stafford Northcote will probably
resign the leadership of the Conservative party
An uprising has occurred in Afghanstan
Observation-Disclosures Arthur encamped on the
Snake River during his journey To Yellowstone
Park on August 81. 80 Loftn, Apollo, boz
Sedan and Miss Moulsey won the races at Saratoga.
yesterday. - The Northern Pacific Railroad
xas completed on Thursday afternoon. - Dol
laryille. Mich was nearly destroyed by hre &C.
Several persons were drowned at Ogunquit Beach
Me. YESTERDAY - Wallace Ross was the winner
pf the Point of Pines Regatta near Boston. Mass
g. A bark from Vera Cruz, suspected 10 Dc IN
fected with yelow-feyer, arrived at Portland, Me-
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge arrived By the Celtic yesterday and was re-
ceyed by the New-York Bar Association; dinner
in his honor was gwen by Elliott +. Shepard -
The Grand Jury made presentments on the coupon
frands and the abolition of the practice OF
aending witnesses to the House of Detention. 60
The salaries of three members of the AQueduct
Commission were fixed by the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment. - Comments by leading
Democrats showed that the action of the State Com
mittes will not produce harmony. - man
was killed IN the masb-tub of a brewery. -
The Congress of Federated Trades beld its closing
session. - Colored people celebrated the pass
age of the Fifteenth Amendment. - The New
York baseball nine won an easy victory over
the Phladelphis nine in a League contest: -
Gold yalue of the legal tender silver dollar t412l2
grainsl So cents 60 Stocks after opening
steady and higher were feversh and lower, and
closed irregular and unsettled
THE wEATHER-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate cooler and clear or fair weather. Iempera-
ture Yesterday: Highest SO; lowest o0O !;
average 1882