The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-12-19
Geo. Wells and wife are expecting to
axe a short trip to Cora creek in a few

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Helena this morning and lecture at
Ming's opera house on Thursday even
ing.
Howell Harris teams loaded at Wack-
erlin's yesterday for Geo. Steel, Garrett
& Gibson and Ed. Reinicke, of Sun
River.
w. j. Stevenson, formerly an attorney
at Fort Benton, has given up the prac-
tice of law al White Sulphur Springs
and has left for his old homein Jackson
vile, IL.
Miss Maud Waterman is expected
home from Helena to spend the holi-
DAYS. All the young folks will be glad
to see Miss Maud again as she IS a great
..favorite in Benton's s~ocial~eircfes. -
A new post office has been established
on Cottonwood creek, in the judith Ba-
Bin. This will be a much needed con
4enience to the settlers Of that section
and no doubt WILDE we'll appreciated by
them.
Billy Rowe is improving steadily. He
is not suffering as severely as he did,
but we are sorry to say his injury IS OF
quite a serious nature, and it Will be
some time before the use of his arm is
fully restored.
Mr.. Henry Nafus, of Townsend, is in
the city. He seems much pleased with
Fort Benton and predicts a prosperous
future for the river metropolis notwlth-
standing the present cloudy appearance.
Of the business horizon.
We are glad to see that the ladies of
the Episcopal church made a financial
success of their bazaar, $165 being made
clear of all expenses. The ladies IN
charge desire to thank the parties who so
kindly assisted in making the affair a
complete success, also the press OF the
city for their kind notices.
Sam Robertson has secured the ser
vices of Chos. Gabisch, a first class
baker from Helena. The City Bakery
is now in first class running order, turn
ing out fine bread, pies and cakes OF all
kinds. The patronage OF all who like
rood eating is solicited. Give the new
baker and his bread a fair trial.
The rash young man who donned his
summer garments upon the arrival OF
the first swallow had reasons to regret 1t
| afterwards. So those who think M
| business failure is going to materially
| iniure Fort Benton's prospects Will be
badly deceived. One swallow does not
a summer nor one failure a panic
|Ior anything bordering on it.
From Chas. Crawford, who is justin
from the coal mines on Belt, we learn
that Cashiers mine is now well fixed to
send GOOD. clean coal to our market.
They have lust finished putting in a
first class coal chute forty feet long, with
two I-foot screens in it. The dump has
a 24-foot front with a capacity OF holding
ffty tons. 1t has four gates, SO that sew
eraI wagons can be loaded at the same
time. This will give us coal free from
the miserable dust and fine coal, OF
which it has always been full.
Information has been received that on
"Wednesday evening ABOUT supper tlne
fh rec men entered Eddy, Hammond q
| Co.'s Stevensville store by force OF arms
and compelled the clerk, Geo, Solsick,
| to open the safe which they then robbed
| Of about $3.50. They then took a Win
chester which was in the store, walked
ont he door. mounted their horses and
rode away. Part Of the money taken
belonged to all Indian who had left 1t
on a special deposit. It is understood
| that the Indians have been sent on the
robbers trail. and if SO there is d proba-
bility Of their being captured.-lndepen-
dent.
All who love to laugh will be glad to
hear that some of our local talent in the
funny line are talking seriously OF or
ganizing a company to give us a hrst
class variety show some time in January.
Such an enterprise will be hailed with
delight by all, a since the days OF
%railroading in Montana Fort Benton
is getting the grand go by as far as
entertainments of all kinds are concern
ed. and we are left almost entirely to
the tender mercies of our home celebri-
ties. So hurry up the show, boys, and
we will all take a ticket or two. ~
We acknowledge a pleasant call yes
terday from the Hon. T.. d. McCutcheon
of Helena, who is the attorney for the
Montana National bank and is looking
after their interests in the matter of the
Weztel failure. Mr.. McCutcheon is
esteemed one of the brightest lawyers
of the territory and has already built up
q fine practice at the capital. He was
the first to give the infamous printing
law a black eye and as counsel for the
plaintiff in the mandamus case assisted
largely in securing its overthrow. For
this the people of the territory W a
debt of gratitude to Mr.. McCutcheon.
"Hello! il Sport! What IS the Matter
with you?u "Oh, / am all broke up; |
have got a pain in my back and side