The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-02-14
From Saturdays Daily.
William Morrow, Of the Shonkin,

"Ihe mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse.n
A. B. Coe, Of the Shonkin, arrived in
the city yesterday.
The Macleod coach, due here on the
81, has not yet arrived.
Messrs. Kennedy & Kelly still find it
difficult to ecu cattle for beef.
Bob. Blankenbaker starts on a short
visit to Helena Monday morning.
Steve Stoner and Frank Wilkins, Of
Highwood are in the city. They filed
on theirranches yestefday
ID. w. Davis, Tom Todd and Ed.
Lewis take their departure in this morn
Iing's Helena coach for the east.
The snow on Highwood is SO deep in
many places-drifted--that travel with
teams is almost. checked~in-the valley.
Building association stock is booming
and certain parties are quietly looking
around seeking to buy up all they can.
Tim Sheehan's numerous friends will
be glad to know that he will stay ove at
Benton until after the masquerade ball.
w. S. Wetzel has finished the work
Of taking stock. MIR. w. will take his
departure for the east to buy goods about
the 18th inst.
Silver Bow county has adopted the
sensible course Of establishing a poor
farm, where the infirm and needy are
taken care OF.
George Farmer has only purchased
Dan Lombard's interest in the saloon,
and not the whole Of it. Levy Gross
retains his interest.
John Welch and Miss Louisa Wilkie,
Of Lewiston, Big Spring creek, Meagher
county, were married on the 9th inst,
by Justice John Toombs.
The report of the freezing to death of
a driver and stage load of passengers on
the Flint creek hills the other night is
without foundation in fact.
The Shonkin school, near Joe CobelIs,
A. B. Coe, teacher, closed day before
yesterday. There will be, probably,
another term in the spring.
A man was found in Rocky canyon,
near Rozeman, on the 9Th inst, with his
throat cut from ear to ear. This is the
second murder recently committed at
h e~plaee adieateds~
The masonic lodge in Benton is build
ing up very rapidly and is now without
question the strongest lodge of the order
in Montana. They have now nineteen
applicants "on the stringo and the goat
Ihas been put on double duty.
The number Of 1finaf entry notices pub
Nlished in the RIVER PRESS show that
1.-THE ranchmen of northern Montana are
PINOT now content with a 'squatter,s
right but want patents for their lands,
which are every year growing in value
I'VE knuw-of half-a~ dozen citizens. of
Benton who are going into the business
Of wool growing this year, and without
luuestion there will be a boom in this in
| dustry throughout this section of Mon
| tana, and Benton will become more than
lever headquarters for sheep men.
John Mofitt takeshis departure for
Helena on Tuesdays coach and will
remain at the capital a few weeks before
starting east. John made hosts OF
friends during his stay at the river me-
tropolis who regret to see him leave us.
May his lines ever fall in pleasant places.
Ed. Smith the popular bartender at
the Grand Union, met with quite an
accident yesterday. He slipped and fell
while carrying a bucket of hot water,
and was pretty badly ,scalded about the
face, but not so seriously, however, as
was at first supposed.
Our Representatives in the legislature
should secure the passage OF an incorpo-
ration act. Tt is time that such steps
were taken Ivy Benton, and it can be
most easily accomplished by legislative
act. Bozeman is seeking to assume
town authority in this way, and Benton
| should do so as well.
We are authorized to state positively
that the .'runlor afloat'' about a town to
be located at the mouth of Sun river by
ssinfiuential parties connected with the
Northern Pacific railroad has no found
alton in fact. Some good land in that
vicinity has recently been scripted by
certain parties. but they have nc more