The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-10-31

LOCAL NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Eighteen inches of snow IS repofteo
in the Judith Basin
Coo Houk is building a comfortable
frame house on upper Main street.
Cbas. BLACK and Mrs, Van Blarcum
camei in on the Barker coach last night.
6 Rogron is fitting up a building at
tho corner of Main and st. John streets
for a bakery.
The steamer Helena, of the Power
line, is on her way up to Rocky Point
with a big load of 240 tons Of freight.
John Green, in from his cattle ranch,
is shaking hands with his Helena
friends, from whom he has been --lsolat-
ed for the past two years.-Her0Id.
We see that c. E. D. Wood, editor of
the Fort Macleod Gazette was married
on the 18th to Miss Anna Diehl Parker.
The RIVER PRESS extends its congratu-
lations.
1GlC IJdDbIlC 10 ablh 81 ~
Bro 3 for their branch stores at Living
ston and Lavina. He will 60 on to Bill
lings and bring back q load for the firm
]. A. Mcknight, with T. G. Power s.
Bro, leaves for Pocky Point in q mack
NAV this morning. He will see to the
/ shipping of the freight by bull and mule
teams from there to this city.
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The Fort Macleod Gazette ome to us
this issue enlarged and otherwise inn
proved. The Gazette has been a live
newsy paper from its first issue and its
coming is looked forward to with de-
light by the RIVER PRESS.
Mr.. Babcock, who started to cross the
mountains at the head of Sheep creek
with a flock of sheep about two weeks
since, only got to the foot Of the noun
tain when the storm began, and the
snow is now so deep that he Will PROB
ably have to change his route and go
around by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The land case of Chas. Peterson VS..
the heirs of Stephen Armell has been
decided by the commissioners of the
general land office at Washington in
favor of Peterson, and sixty days given
for apDcal. This case involves the title
to a ranch on Highwood. Waterman &
McIntire were attorneys for Peterson,
Buck & Hunt for the Armell heirs.
We learn that the owners of the Mas
sachusetts mine which was recently
bonded to Hauser g. Hotter, notwith-
standing the developments made; are
somewhat sore over the result. Work
on the mine was abruptly suspended ten
days before the expiration Of the bond
and the expenditure does not reach, by
several hundred dollars, the amount
agreed to be expended. While the mine
is somewhat advanced by development
the owners feel that they may have been
barred from selling the property to other
parties. There seemst to have been someA
bad managementin s~tspending work at
the time it was done, as the shaft was
being sunk a depth of four feet per day.
Had the work. continued up to the date
of the expiration of the bond the veins
would have been tested to the depth of
80 feet, and no doubt Mr.. Green would
have felt justified in taking the respons-
Utility of purchasing the mine.-Hus-
6073dn102o.
From Thursdays Daily:
Phil. Gibson and wife left yesterday
for Belt creek.
Thos. f. Coryell, recently of Neihart,
is now at Livingston.
w. B. Shanks goes down to his wood
yard near the Coal Banks this morning.
A. Kelly's teams pulled out yes
terday for Kipp's after a load of lum-
Der.
w. S. Wetzel and Surveyor Griffith
started ont for Belt creek Yesterday
morning with the red flags.
Invitations are out for the silver we'd
ding of Colonel and Mrs. Sanders, Sat
urday evening, October q.
Weatherwax's teams loaded with
lumber for the new court house are
camped just across the river.
The walls of Ed. Smiths fine brick
house are completed, and the building
noW-leemsup finely across the river.
Chas. A. Lewis, charged with the
murder of Eva Clark, was found not
guilty by a Beaverhead county jury.
J. f. Perron reports 100000 feet of
good lumber ready for purchasers, say
ed by the two mills of the Clendenin
LAUNDERING Co.
Little Henry Brinkman is recovering
from his severe attack Of fever aid will
soon be able to be out playing with the
rest of the children.
Daniel Kelly has returned from his
Boston trip. A glance at Billings seems
to have satisfied him that Fort Benton
is a good place to winter afterall.
The knights of Pythias have decided
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