The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-06-13
rom WednesdaY's Daily.

Frank Hughes, formerly of this city.
died recently at st. Louis.
w. S. Wetzel loaded two teams with
general freight forFort Shaw Yesterday.
Frank Smith loaded at w. S. Wetzel,s
yesterday with government freight for
Fort Missoula.
The Fort Macleod coach left yesterday
morning with a big load Of express and
ten passengers.
The Butte dia not remain very long.
arriving one day and taking her depar-
ture the neXt-yesterday. 1
Lord Clinton'sn attendant rode him
through the principal streets of the city
Yesterday, and the fine animal was the
subject of general admiration. y
Another railroad outfit of several.
teams passed through the city yester-I
day, en- route to the g. P. r. r.. This ID
now getting to be almost a daily occurl
rence
Baker 3 DeLorimier are receiving am
immense lot of new goods, and it will
not be many days now until their hand-|
some little store will be a place Of EN-
chantment for ladies.
jim Wells reports that Sam Dustin,
whom he had employed as q herder DUR
ing the winter, butchered a number Of
his (Wells9 cattle, sold them and after
wards skipped the country.
John Dempster, aged sixteen, while
rounding up cattle on the hills west Of
the Ten Mile hot springs, was on Friday
thrown from his horse and dragged to
his death, his foot becoming fast in the
stirrup.
The West Shore, Of Portland, comes
to us this week profusely illustrated
with National Park scenes. It is q
handsome and valuable number, and
will result in sending many a tourist to
Wonderland.
ID. III. Weston and D. G. Holbrook
nave purchased 1000 head Of Oregon
sheep Of a Superior grade. They are
now on their way, and are to be deliver
ed at their sheep farm by September LIST.
They SHARED this spring from seven to
ten pounds each.
A. b. ,Keeler informs us that horse
thieves are numerous in the lower coun-
try, and that they are getting in their
work in good shape. Frank Martin,
who stole a horse in this county and
skipped out, was at Poplar river not
long since where he sold the animal.
Mrs. Marston and Miss Nelson's milli-
merry and dressmaking establishment up
stairs over [. g. Baker & Co.'s store has
no connection whatever with the latter,
except that they have leased rooms from
that firm. They will be pleased to re-
ceive the patronage of all who have
work in theirine.
The steamer Helena got away yester-
day afternoon for Benton. She took 2751
tons of Benton freight and twenty-one
bIooded balls and eleven blooded horses
for the Cochrane ranch company in the
Northwest territory. Her passenger list
amounted to twenty-mostly for Benton.
Bismarck Tribune, June /. Il
Last week Major VIM. Wallace drove
in between 900 and 1000 fat vethers
from his sheep ranch in Judith Basin.
They were sheared here and to-day were
shipped to st. Paul, where they are to
car loads of them. The Major has left
yet about 1000 head of sheep at the
ranch.-BiNings Herald.
The large warehouse that has been
built on the levee at Bismarck, and re-
ferred to last evening by the other pa
per, is the property of the Northern Pa
cific railroad company, by whom it was
recently erected, and a notice of which
fact appeared in this paper two weeks
ago. Neither the Coulson nor Power
line have anything whatever to do with
it.
Our steckmen will be interested to
learn that a meeting was held IN Chlca-
go recently Of representatives OF north
western railroads to consider the ques-
ton of rates for transportation Of live
stock from Montana, Wyoming, Nebras-
ka, Idaho, Dakota and Colorado via
Omaha and St. Paul. Last years basis
was reaffirmed, with unimportant modi-
tications. The roads interested in the
business to California appointed a COM
mitfee to transfer with eastern seaboard
trunk lines with reference to a proper
ton of the through rate to be allowed
the roads between Chicago and Missouri
river points. A meeting will be held In
New York at a date yet to be fixed.
"A horse belonging to Mr.. Paget, who
arrived the other day from Oregon with
a band Of 200 fine animals the other day,
had its hind legs torn and lacerated in q
fearful way Monday by some barbed
wire that is scattered premiscuously
around on the reservation addition to
the townsite. 1T is doubtful if the ami
nal will ever fully recover from the in
Juries. Messrs. Harris & Rowe inform
us that this is the third animal, to their
knowledge, that has been injured in the
same place, and it is about time that the
nuisance were abated. They do not
complain of the wire in the fences, but
that which is scattered on the ground,