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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

said he advertiser. "Want it inside
next to the leading editorial?" Either
page will answer" replied the other.
"Want a cut of a deaths head and mar
row bones or a sore leg to make it at
tractive. or a portrait Of the advertiser
with long hair and a turn down shirt
c~ollar?n ''Clear type, black ink and
white paper, are good enough for me-"
was the response. "All right; want
line in type an inch longer than Jen-
kins' adj, in next column, or will you
have it put in upside down, or your
name in crooked letters like forked
lightning all over it!n mo; a plain,
straightforward advertisement, in a
space Of four inches, will answer my
purpose &"Good enough. Want
| about ten inches Of notice free don't you?
Family history; your grandfather
BACKED Washington's boots once; men
ton of yourself as a member of a clrcu-
lating library, church, club and other.
important public positions The GUS
tomere said he did not care for any no
tice. "Of course said the clerk, "you
want a free paper sent to each member
of the firm, one for yourself, and the
privilege of taking half a dozen copies OFT
the counter every week for he aext
year or two because you advertiser 9he
gentleman expected to pay for his paper,
and asked the price of his advertisement.
The delighted clerk figured it up, and
then asked, eff we send you the bill
around in about a year, you can tell the
boy when to call again, can't your"
mo; I will pay you now.' said the
other, taking out a roll of bills. The
newspaper mans eyes bulged as.he said:
"Ah! you want to ask for seventy-five
per cent discout, and twenty-five per
cent off for cash?n II am ready to pay
a fair price for value received. Tell me
your regular rates, and here is your
money" A beetifc expression spread
over the wan face of the worn clerk, and
he murmured: "Stranger, when did
you come down? And when do you ex-
pect the apostles along?o
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17
RATS IN MINES.
How They Warn the Miners of Impending
Danger.

Old miners have a great respect for the
rats of the lower levels. They neither
kill them nor suffer them to be killed by
green hands. In the first place, were
there no other reason, q dead rat left I'M
derground would scent up a whole level,
and, in the second place, the living rats
devour any bones, scraps Of meato or frag-
ments of other food left in the mines,
which would, by their decay, vitiate the
air, generally hot and unpleasant at best.
Rats also give warning when a cave is
about to occur. They feel the pressure
Of the settling ground, even before the
cracking of the timbers is heard, and
come forth upon the floor and scamper
uneasily about by scores. For these and
other reasons the miners have a friendly
feeling toward the rats, feeding and pro-
tecting them. In nearly every mine the
men have one or more of the little ami
mails as pets, and these are quite tame,
coming out Of their holes to be fed at
lunch time.
When rats come into o new drift or
crosscut it is considered a good sign
thought to mean that the mine will
strike ore. The other day when the
men were at work at the face of q new
crosscut on the 200 level Of the Sierro
Nevada mine a lat came in to them,
travelling along the line of the com
pressed air pipe. When the little rod
ent was seen some of the new hands
wanted to kill it, but the old miners
would not allow it to be hurt. They
said it would bring luck to the crosscut.
So they fixed up in the roof Of the drift
a box as a house for the rat and placed
food near at hand, in.order that it might
find its new quarters profitable as well
as comfortable. There is Lmuch talk
among the miners about the coming Of
this rat, and the men in the new crosscut
are very prond Of it and have high
hopes on account of its presence. Woe
unto the man who shall Intentionally
kill that Sierra Nevada rat.- Vrginio
City, Neg., Enterprise,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17
THE RIVER PRESS.

principal purpose it is desired to effect is
to secure the enactment of new laws, or
the enforcement Of the present one, to
the end that the ''scabn evil may be
abated. In other wool growing states
and territories the laws on this subject
are most stringent, and SO they should
be in this. Other matters that should
receive the attention of our law makers
will also be brought up, and it is hoped
that by organization better results can
be reached than could be hoped for with
out it. It is a good move, and one that
should receive the hearty support and
cooperation of the wool growers of Cho-
teau, Meagher and Lewis and Clarke
counties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

A LARGE number of the wool growers
Of Choteau and Meagher counties were
yesterday at the office of Messrs. Griffith
g. Caldwell and organized a wool grow
ers' association, its object being TO adj
vance the interests of that important
industry, and at the same time as far, IS
possible protection in different ways to
the members of the association. This,
we understand is the first organization
of the kind in the territory, and it is
expected that osher portions Of the terri
tory will follow the good pattern set.
Another meeting will be held in this city
soon to complete the organization. The
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

SEVERAL democratic members OF con-
gress have under consideration the advi-
stability Of an effort to have incorporated
in the army appropriation bill a clause
which will compel graduates from West
Point to serve three years as non-com-
missioned officers before they can be
commissioned or promoted to a second
lieutenantcy, thus compelling them to
have some actual and practical knoWl-
edge of the service before being placed
in command. The argument used in
support of this Measure is that it has
been in vogue for many years in France,
Germany, etc., and has been the means
of producing splendid officers in the
armies across the water.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

THE New York Times says: It is too
soon to forecast with certainty the polit-
ical complexion of the senate after the
Sd of March, but there is a probability
that the republicans will have a majority
only by the aid of the Virginia readjust-
ers, in which case it would be far better
to leave the organization of the senate
to the democrats than to purchase the
cooperation of Virginia's senators by
such concessions as they have been in
the habit Of demanding.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

The capital of our neighboring coun-
ty, White Sulphur Springs, is likely to
have a big boom next season. The
change in the proprietorship of the
springs and the proposed extensive i'm
provements Of the property, which are
to begin in a short time, have had a
booming effect, and confidence in the
future of White Sulphur Springs is many
fold greater than ever before. The
RIVER PRESS is pleased to note the IA
vorable prospects of "Montana's Sarato-
ga
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

THIS is what the New York Sun says
of Cleveland, the governor: 1--WE are
sorry to say it is a very weak and made
Quate commission. It almost provokes
regret that Folger was not chosen gov
ernor The democrats somehow are very
unfortunate in the kind Of men they
raise into high places" Only a few
short weeks ago the democratic papers
were booming Cleveland for 1884!
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

LITTLE, if any of the freight for the
Northwest territory will be shipped by
river this year, as the Canadian Pacific
railroad has invaded that field. There
will be, however, as much work as ever
for the steamboats, on account of the
rapid settlement OF northern and eastern
Montana and the consequent increased
demand for supplies of all kinds.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

The governor of Idaho territory in his
message to the legislature nov in session
at Boise City, warned that body against
the further tolerance Of polygamy in the
territory. He referred to a scheme Of
the Mormon priesthood, the realization
of which he said meant the entire sub
version of the rights and privileges en-
joyed under free institutions.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

THE RIVER PRESS hopes to see ar
engagements made at once for running
through and direct coaches between
Benton and Billings. It is Of the great
est Importance to this city, and any
effecting that purpose should be freely
Oiunn
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17
A Paralyzed cad Clerk.

II would like to have an advertise
ment Inserted This is slogan that
would resurrect a dead man behind a
newspaper counter, and the clerk turned
as by on electric current, and CALCULATED
Eyes, sir; Want the top of the column,
( SUPPOSED mo; { am not p~articular,u
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

MONTANA is out of debt and has a sur
plus of $14, O05.9 10 in the treasury. This
is a healthy condition Of financial affairs
and speaks volumes for the growth and
prosperity of the territory.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17

1T seems that it will require a bigger
fire than the one of last week to impress
upon the citizens of Benton the neces-
sity of being prepared to fight the fire
fiend. And it will occur n Of these
dave
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-01-17
RATES OF ADVERTISING:

THE Newhall house, of Milwaukee,
was burned on the 10th, and some sixty
lives lost.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS

SEVERAL heavy failures are reported
in the cotton trade at Liverpool.
The Free Traders in England want 4
light import duty on foreign wheat.
The mineral collection at Amherst
College was seriously damaged by a recent
fire.
FRANK NIEEsBAUM was fatally burned
in New York the night of the Both by
Kerosene lamp explosion.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massachu-
sets. and Congressman Maybury, of Mich
igan, had a long conference at Boston on
the 30th.
Two freight trains collided on the
3Oth on the S., c. & w. l.. Railroad at Fay
cite Junction, o. An engineer is reported
killed and fireman injured.
CHARLES G. MCCAIN, a Camden, N.
j., mail carrier, convicted of stealing post
age stamps, has been sentenced to pay
$1,000 or go to the State prison for year.
ROBERT KERR, a dissipated member
of wealthy Scottish family, was burned
to crisp few days ago, at his home on
Oak River, Winnipeg. He was intoxi-
Gated.
LILLE RICHIE, alias Howell, of In
dianapolis, was found dead in her room on
the 30th. She had quarreled with a man
known as her husband, and committed sui
eide with laudanum.
Two men digging sand at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the Both unearthed a pine
box containing a skeleton. There is dis
pute among citizens as to whether the re-
mains are those of man who was muir
dered or one lynched.
A HURRICANE passed in a northeast
ern direction about three miles west of Ia.
lequah, l. T., on the morning of the 2Sth.
Dwellings were blown down and trees up
rooted in strip of country about 800 yards
wide. No loss of life is reported.
M. f. BELL of Des Moines, Ia, has
been appointed Supervising Architect in
place of Hill, resigned.
THREE men were asphyXiated by foul
air in a well at kiefer & Stiefel's tannery
in Pittsburgh ON the morning of the 3Oth.
COMMODORE A. @. RHIND has been
promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, and
Captain John H. Russell is made Commo-
dore. .r
The Canadian Department of Agri-
culture has ordered the slaughter Of all
fiocks of sheep for shipment in which cases
OF seab are found.
Ben BUTTERwoRTH took charge of
the office of Commissioner of Patents ON the
3lst, and General Phil Sheridan assumed
command of the army on November LIST.
The keeper of the Richmond (Va.)
morgue has been arrested, charged with
being accessory to the theft of bodies under
his charge by resurrectionists.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
A COSTLY FIRE

Destruction OF the Springfield MOI wagon
Manufacturing Compauy's buildings
with IA Large Amount of stock Loss
About $4,000.
SPRINGFIELD. Mo, Oct. 2s
The most disastrous conflagration that
has visited this city for ten years occurred
at $3.50 o'clock this morning, resulting in
the destruction of the buildings, machinery
and most of the stock of the Springfield
Wagon Manufacturing Company, two build
ings on the south belonging to Emory &
Scholten, formerly used as brewery, the
Pacific Hotel and dwclling-house, both
located east of the factory. The fire origi.
mated in the drying-room of the wagon fac
tory, and when first discovered by James
Thompson, the Waterman, could have been
easily extinguished had a few men with
buckets been present, but the grounds be-
ing filed with frame buildings, sheds and
wagon stock the flames spread with such
rapidity that by the time the alarm had
summoned the fire companies the principal
buildings were all sheets of flames. The
water-works of this city have just been
completed, and hose for the fire company
were used, but with imperfect success,
owning to the non-arrival of nozzles. The
use of the hose. however, checked the
spread of the fire both on the east and
west, and the boys worked nohlv. There
was $50, 900 worth of stock at the wagon fac
tory, considerable portion of which, in
the way of wheels and aXles, were carried
out on the street and saved. The loss of
the wagon factory is approximately esti-
mated at $4,000. The total assurances
amounted to only about $4,000. Spring
field has lost it's most valuable manutac-
tory except the Frisco shops, and the loss
throws seventy-five men out of employ
ment; but it is understood that the com
pany will rebuild at an early date. n. F.
Fellows is President of the company; Fla.
Wishart, Secretary; w. w. Fellows, Treas
urer, and John Massey, Superintendent.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the night of the 2Sd two strangers
went to the house of an aged couple near
Clinton Falls, Ind, and knocked both down
with clubs infficting fatal injuries. They
plundered the house, securing $40, and
left.
AT Germina, Mimi, David Stein
bach was murdered the night of the oath,
supposedly as the result of neighborhood
quarrel.
On the 25th disastrous fire occurred
in the lumber district at Pittsburgh, Pa.
A FEW nights ago one of the Mexi-
cans Engaged in the murder of four men
near Garner, Arizona, was caught by Wig
ilantes and dragged by the neck at the
pommel of a saddle till dead.
On the 25th Stephen Jones, in the
employ of Gaskill, Greenlie & Co., New
York, fed with the box containing the
weekly wages of employees.
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RAIDED BY BURGLARS.


q
Valuable Watches and Jewelry.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Oct. %.
The large establishment of l.. S. Stowe g.
Co., of this city, was operated upon last,
night to the amount of $4,000, diamonds,
gold watches and valuable rings compris-
ing the booty, silverware and other cheaper
goods being evidently of no value to the
burglars. The robbers were without doubt
professionals and understood their bust
ness, as they singled out the largest store
of the kind in the city, also choosing the
early hours of Sunday morning for their
operations, as the robbery would not be
discovered until very late hour. 1t was
first discovered by clerk Thomas Nc
Hugh, on entering the store at 1915 a. m.
A sledge-hammer, screwers, ETC., lying
| about the floor, and bits of paper pasted to
the windows, at once aroused his suspi-
cions. On going to the rear of the store he
noticed the gas-light was burning low,
which usually was left at full head, and
upon further investigation found the safe
open, the contents strewn about, and kit
of burglars tools told the story. He at
| once notified the police and his employer,
Mr.. Stowe, who was at church. Entrance
| to the store was obtained through a
| basement window in the rear of the
building. After gaining entrance to the
cellar and crawling over boxes and up
the stairway they found the door at the
head of the stairs locked, They bored
| hole through the panel, but finding it too.
slow work they pried the door open with a
| jimmy, thus leaving the way clear to the
safe and its valuable contents. Turning he
gas to glimmer they commenced opera
lions at breaking the safe. The bar across
| the two doors was removed, and the cover
| ing to the keyhole was taken from its pad
| lock fastenings next. To separate the
wrought-iron shell of the door from the
cement case inside they inserted small
wedges, thus leaving small space into.
which a large jimmy was driven, and from
this point by aid of powerful tools the bolts
were sprung from their sockets and the Job
was done, and nothing remained but to take
their choice and quietly make their exit.
| One feature of the job was the selection of
the best of the stock, ignoring silverware
and even gold watches, which were in pos
session of the firm for repairs, evidently
wanting no secondhand stock. They, how
ever, overlooked unset diamonds valued at
| $1,000 Parties rooming on the next floor
above heard no noise, and the Waterman of
the Evans House, in the performance of his
| duties, saw nothing wrong and the light
| burning usual at 4:10 O'Clock, which
suggests the probability that the job was
done after that hour. The burglars had a
soft snap, as the safe YEAS an old-fashioned
one, guaranteed fire-proof but not burglar
proof City Marshal Hamilton is using
every means in his power to trace and cap
ture the burglars, who are no doubt many
! miles from here, and of whom no trace has
been found at this late hour. The burglary
being the most extensive ever performed in
this city, occasions great excitement on the
streets.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

SUIT has been begun by the Peoples
Railway Company, of indianapolis, con-
Germ organized with an authorized capital
of $175,000,000, against the Chicago Times
for 100000 for reflections on the company's
character.
A STATEMENT is made by ex-Collec-
tor Beard, of Boston, to the effect that dur
ing the administration of William A. Sim
mons as Collector of that port, an extern
sive system of smuggling was carried on
with the knowledge of the officials.
On the Goth Captain Rand and Mate
Fender, of the steamer Tropic, were sem
fenced in Philadelphia to one years impris-
onment and to pay fine of $500 and costs
for violating the neutrality laws by fur
nishing arms and ammunition TO the Hay
ten insurgents.
ADvICEs of the, Goth say the three
Irish informers who were refused a landing
in Australia had reached Calcutta.
In the report of Indian Commissioner
Price decided advance among the abo-
rhymes in the matters of husbandry and in
dustrial schools is noted. He recommends
that Congress confer civil and criminal ju.
the reservations.
The surrender of seventy-five hostile
Apaches to Lieutenant Hunter at Silver
Creek, Arizona, is reported.
DURING the past year over 100000
postal orders were issued, having value
of more than 100000.
THE Pope will declare the Pantheon
a pagan temple if the monument to Victor
Emanuel is erected in the center.
THURSDAY, November 20, is named as
Thanksgiving day.
The frontier ornaments of Germany
and Russia are being increased.
THE reserve in the New York banks
is S3O7 $50 below the legal requirements.
IT is reported that cholera is again
becoming general in Egypt, and panic has
resulted. There were twelve deaths at
Alexandria on the 9th.
The Spanish authorities disarmed a
battalion of troops guarding the Govern
ment buildings at Madrid, on suspicion Of
revolutionary leanings.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
EXPORTS from Germany to the United

EXPORTS from Germany to the United
States have decreased less than one-third
Of one per cent. in the past year.
1T is estimated by District Attorney
Corkhill that soldiers and their relatives
have been defrauded of 100000 by the
crooked pension agents.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, is grinding 49,
600 barrels of -four per day.
The Orangemen in Ireland are arm
ing and the prospect grows more threaten
ing.
OK the 2Sth another severe and de-
structive earthquake visited the city Of
Smyrna.
THE United States coast survey
steamer Eagers is supposed to have been
lost OFF the New England coast.
A RECENT investigation of the Office
of United States Marshal McDougall of the
Northern district of New Y ork has resulted
in bringing charges of fraud, conspiracy
and illegal collection of fees.
For the past year the coal product of
the United States was S7,0S3,134 tons, of
which Pennsylvania produced more than
81, 100000 tons, leaving 100000 tons for
the rest of the country.
AN association has been formed by
the wool-growers of Washington Territory,
which will work for the restoration of the
tariff on wool.
CIRCULARS have been issued by the
Spanish cabinet officers promising reform
in the departments.
ALL the Peruvian political prisoners
in Chill have been released and are on their
way home.
CHOLERA has appeared at Mecca.
THEssALY is suffering from from dis
astrous floods
For the last fiscal year the surplus of
the postal service was $2,6l0,000.
ORDERS have been issued for the
French iron-clads to be in readiness to sail
for Tonquin.
A DETACHMENT of Egyptian soldiers
was recently cut off to u man by the hill
tribes in Nubia.
THE Secretary of the Interior contem-
plates establishing an industrial training
school for Indians at Sitka.
A DEMONSTRATION on large scale
in favor of universal suffrage is proposed
to be held in Brussels, Belgium, in jan
uary.
COMBINED efforts are being made by
the British and Canadian Governments to
promote emigration from Ireland.
For nine months of this year the i'm
ports of iron and steel from Great Britain
were 54O,O79 tons, being 100000 tons less
than for the first nine months in 1882.
IMPORTS have decreased in the past
twelve months $54,744, 1862 and exports in
creased $4,000, 739 as compared with the
preceding twelve months. Excess of ex-
ports was $117 ,326,909.
DURING the past season, out of 400
boats plying upon the Mississippi River in
the Dubuque District not one has furnished
fatal accident from explosions or fire.
GOVERNOR SHELDON, of New Mexico,
has offered the sum of $4,000 for the appre-
hension of three murderers, Moore, Court
right and Mcintyre.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 2s.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 2s.
A fire broke out in the EUeniRg Star
newspaper Office early this morning. The
origin of the fire is mystery. 1t started
in the northwest corner in the composing
room, quickly spreading in all directions.
The building was three stories high, owned
by Lathrop e. Smith, lawyers, who had
offices on the second floor. The first floor
was occupied by the Star as counting
room, with tobacconists on either side. The
second floor was rented out for law offices,
and the third was used as the Stars COM
posing and editorial rooms, and the rooms
of the Union Publishing Company. The
fire department responded promptly, and
saved the building, but much damage was
caused by water. The total loss is put at
about $2l 900. 1t is divided as follows:
Lathrop 81 Smith, on building, $4,000; on
office. 800; e. L. Thornton, tobacconist,
$4,000. He is the heaviest loser, his stock
being ruined by water. X. C. Stockton, to-
bacconist. $1,000; Evening Star Company,
$4,000; Borgess., Cravens a. Moore, law
ysrs, $500; Homer Reed, G. ID. Doggett,
Dobson & Douglass, all lawyers, 500 each;
Union Publishing Company, 500. All the
losses were well covered by insurance, all
In Eastern companies The Star announces
that it will issue as usual tomorrow.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03
FIRE IN NEWSPAPERDOM.

The Office of the Kansas City Evening
Star" Cleaned Out Together with Other
Property.
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Destruction Of the Springfield MOI wagon
Manufacturing Compauy's Buildings
with large Amount of stock Loss
About 5000.