The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.
From Saturdays Daily
Charley Ladd, of Barker, is in town.
The Shonkin~ roundup mmence
Monday. -@
( n. T. Dinsmore is expected back in q
few weeks.
John FL. Green starts upon the round
up Monday.
A. W. Kingsbury came in yesterday
from his ranch. :
Gov. Crosby expects to return to Hell
ena September 9Th.
VIM. Norris returned this morning
from a trip to Barker.
Judge Tattan leaves this morning for
a short visit to Belt creek.
Col. Donnelly will leave for Helena
by private conveyance Monday.
NJ. Morrow & Sons thresher is now at
Geo. ID. Patterson's, on the Shonkin.~
Will G. Riddle leaves for Helena Mon
day, and will remain at the capital some
time.
Wizards train will consist Of forty
coaches. run in four sections. thirty
minutes apart.
Goods consigned to the Billings For
Wardlng company will be sent through
to this city promptly.
We again rise to remark that it is fully
time that the preliminary arrangements
for the fall races were made.
John Giesey delivered about seventh
tons Of merchandise yesterday to our
merchants, aabeing the cargo of the Rose
bud.
The White Sulphur Springs hotel and
bathing houses at the Springs are for
rent. There is a bonanza in them for
some live man.
Paris Gibson and T. +. Collins will
leave by private conveyance tomorrow
morning for Helena, and will pay a Wis
it to Great Falls en- route.
Our readers will be pleased to learn
that anne Rowe has a big crop of wa
termelons this year, and that some of
them Wlllberipe in a few days.
VIM. Maurie loaded 5000 pounds at
4. G. Power q Bros yesterday for their
store at Reedsfort, and another big team
will load for the same point to-day.
The RIVER PRESS received yesterday
. handsome bouquet Of flowers from Mr..
u. Parsons, who has probably the finest
hover garden in northern Montana.
w. J. Minar displays a handsome bou-
quet on his Q d fountain, plucked from
Mrs. Max. Waterman's flower garden.
lt is a beauty and is generally admired.
The horses stolen from the surveying
party at Arrow creek station on Monday
night last were average size cayuses, one
a roam the other a sorrel, and were
branded r on the hip.
Charley Rowe came in from his ranch
yesterday. He has just finished thresh-
ing and reports a yield Of 2,10O bushels
of oats, which is not quite as much as
he expected, but still a good yield.
Mr.. Wetzel is displaying some of the
handsomest gentlemen's dress suits we
ever saw made up. He also received
yesterday an enormous stock OF BUSH
ness suits and fine wool underclothing
Our evening cotem. says VIM. Nor
row sold his oats at $3.50 a bushel, which
strikes us as being a pretty big price.
Even $3.50 per hundred pounds would
not be considered bad at the present !!
time.
Several members Of the Benton bar
VIII attend the term of court at White
sulphur Springs, which begins on the
llth inst. They will go by way of Hell
ena and take in the fair and railroad
celebration.
Tuck Lambert and VIM. Kane, the
dlscoverers and owners of the celebrated
l. Il lead on Snow creek, are in the
city and will remain a few days. They
think they have a big thing in the 7 X l.,
ana such seems to be the opinion Of all
who have seen the lead.
Messrs. Stuart, Peterson, Early and
hanouse will leave this morning for the
ialls OF the Missouri, to be gone three or
Iour days. They will take in the whole
business, going up on this side of the
river and returning on the other side.
W. S. Wetzrl now has on hand as
good a stock Of dry goods as can be
1ound III Fort Benton, or Montana. His
present store is much too small to show
his new stock in, but anything a lady
wants she will find here if she asks for
MIS-. Milo Rosencrans took her de-
pattQre on yesterdays coach fol Helena
70 attend the fair, after which she will
p1oeeed to America" to spend the win
Sr with relatives and friends. Milo
wears q fOr~lOrn-lopkinp cOuntananca al