The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12
NOTES.
From saturdays Daily.

LOCAL NOTES.
From saturdays Daily.
Bill Blevins brought in the first load
( of watermelons of the season yesterday.
They-were-fn ones.
Cashiers train loaded at Murphy,
Maclay & Co.'s yesterday for Peterson &
Price, of Little Pittsburg.
The walls of the Grand Union barber
shop are decorated with the ads. of our
merchants. They make an attractive
appeafance- ~
/McDevitt & Wright's teams arrived
/ Yesterday with a load of stone for the
( court house. They are from the-Hig4f>
wood quarry.
Capt. William Gould, who made such
q good record on the Rosebud this sea-
son, is now in command of the govern
ment steamer Emily.
NEieut. Guy Carleton, of Fort Assina-
\ bOine, with detachment, arrived in the
city yesterday and will go out to 28-mile
springs to-day to meet-the paymaster:
John Glass, an old citizen Of Fort
Benton, arrived from Deer Lodge on the
Helena coach yesterday, and will remain
a few weeks before starting on a visit
east.
- The time having elapsed in which to
! build sidewalks the city fathers must
show their hand and see that the work
is completed as the ordinance contem-
plates.
Jack Comegys was arrested yesterday
by Constable Finuegan for driving his
team on the sidewalk on Front street,
after being requested two or three times
not to do so. He settled the matter with
Judge Spencer.
Trevanion Hale found a package of
bills of lading on the Barker road yes
terday, which are supposed to belong to
Mr. Perren, whose teams left for Barker
yesterday morning. The documents
can be had at this office.
J. E. Stevens, n of the publishers of
the RIVER PRESS, and 0 the reporter
of that p in Helena during fair
week, has the enterprise to send his pa
per, by telegraph, a full column of each
days proceedings.-Herdld.
The district court docket will be quite
a respectable one this time, a large num-
Der of new cases having been COM
menced already. Yesterday a case was
filed with District Clerk Spencer involv-
ing five or six thousand dollars.
We understand that a couple of our
prominent and enterprising young men
are about to start a steam laundry IN
this city. The details of the enterprise
are not yet ready to be given to the pub
lie, and this general statement is all we
can make just now. n
Jake Wackerlin put the finishing
touches to his galvanized iron BOAT yes
terday. 1T is a dairy, and no mistake,
being scarcely more than one-fourth the
weight Of a wooden boat of the same
size. 1t skins over the waters OF the
Big Muddy like thing OF life.
Marshal Healy, was around yesterday
serving notices on property owners IN
regard to the building of brick f1ues, as
provided by ordinance. This is a matter
Of the greatest importance and we bt-
lieve the ordinance will be complied
with readily and with pleasure by ali.
Major Ed. Dunno, one Of the school
trustees, informed a RIVER PRESS re-
porter Yesterday that action would be
taken soon to relieve the teachers OF the
I public school, who Just now have more
than their hands full. Another teacher
will be secured, and probably a third
room fitted up. ~-
Y There IS a general expression of regret
on the part Of the boys of the fire de-
partment that the engine house was not
made two stories instead of one, thus
giving them, on the second floor, an ex-
cellent fireman's hall. 1t would GER
tainly be a pice arrangement, and the
additional expense would not be very
great.
Bob Bell, a colored man who has been
in the employ of Billy Yard for some
time, took, by mistake, a tablespoonful
of oro+op o;I Dirbt hafnrn last and has