The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-13

{ FIldy bIOS. COIi1AlCIlCU Swearing SOooD
at their sheds, Just across the Shonkin
grade, Monday. They will have $4,000
feeces to harvest at this place, and will
give employment to twenty-five or thir7
-ty
BY the survey made by City Engineer
Griffith, block No. / is found to be short
about rs feet, and several others will
check up in about the same way. The
first survey must have been made by q
blind man.
Ed. Lewis is loading four teams at I.
G.. Baker & Co.'s for Fort Macleod. Ed.
says that if he does not sell his outfit be
viii probably freight during the summer
between the terminus and the different
posts Of the northwest. '
w. B. Settle, secretary of the Pitts
burg mining and reduction company,
received yesterday a box of nice speci-
mems from John Lilly, Of Barker, show
ing ore from a large number of the most
prominent leads of that camp. Mr.. Set
tie has now quite a large and handsome
assortment of mineral specimens, which
he will soon have on exhibition at his
office. /
J. G.: Lawrence returned day before
yesterday from up the river, where he
had been to oversee the work of cutting
timber for the Boom Company. He re-
ports that the men are making fair pro-
gress and that by the end of this month
they will have several hundred cords on
the bank ready for the drive. The TIM
Der will be put in the river the full size
of the tree, and about the 1st of July the
first drive will be made. Mr.. Lawrence
is now haying a boat constructed for
that work.
VIM. Morrow, who has about sixty
good mares, has just purchased a fine
three-year-old Percheron-Norman stall
lion, paying $3.50 for him. He is called
Cicero, and was sired by JAS. Maui
din's imported Idol, his dam being by
imported Louis Philippe. He will keep
him for his own use, and he ought to
make a decided improvement in the
quality and size of MI. Morrow's band.
We like tx chronicle such purchases as
those, as it proves that the horsemen OF
Choteau county are keeping up with the
rest Of the country in the improvement
of their stock.
From Sundays Daily.
Butte will celebrate the 4th. What is
Benton going to do aboutit?
Quite a number Of horses were sold
yesterday at the Benton stables, and at
pretty reasonable figures.
Geo. G. Randolph, of Butte, has re-
ceiyedh i appointment as deputy United
States district attorney.
Work has begun on the ~sWitch-back
or overhead track at the summit around
the Mullan tunnel mountain.
IT may not be generally known that
Peg Leg is a pugilist. He knocked a
man clean out Of time yesterday.
James w. Whitlatch, of Whitlatch
Union and Owyhee fame, has returned
to Butte, and proposes to try his fortune
in that promising camp.
wv. s. Wetzel and force are busy open
ing up and marking the new stock Of
dry goods received a few days since by
Atchison's teams from Billings.
Capt. Bernard has almost completed
the work OF adjusting with our mer-
clients the losses sustained by them on
account Of the sinking OF the Big Horn.
The Bachelor reached the Coal Banks
yesterday and will throw out her lire
at Benton to-day. She had a considera-
BILE amount of government freight to put
offfat the Coal Banks.
XKennedy e KaTly have now 4 nice
lot Of fat beef hanging up at the Center
Market and hereafter will have no diff
Guilty in supplying their customers with
the choicest articleinIhefaeat-line.-
I 20. a. AIassie yesterday sold to Muir
ply, MacIay & Go. $50 buffalo robes for
5000. 70, being about $3.50 apiece. The
wolf, deer and antelope Were bought by |
|. G. Baker & CO., and the beaver by
n. We'll. -
Those who have subscribed different
sums to the Benton Library are respect
fully asked to call and leave the amount
OF their subscription with the librarian
IS soon as convenient after tomorrow
morning.
At Benton, last week, J. r. Craig was
holding Il horse with a rope, when am
other horse ran between, throwing him
under the horses feet and breaking his
leg below the knee.-Butte Miner.
This piece Of bad fortune did not hap
pen TO Mr.. Craig, but one Of his en-
ployes.
1t was lucky for the fellow that can
neda d dog on Front street h other
day that Sheriff McDevitt was not IN
the vicinity at the time. This is a fina-
bic offense, and the sheriff proposes to
make III interesting for anybody he sees
INDUCING in "funn Of that kind. ]
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