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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-01-03
& LOCAL..
Business is dull.
Sleighing is good.

Our law makers are now in session.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-01-03
NEW CL.M sl-ARKET REPORT.

tBorrected weekly by Il. PFEFFERLE, dealer IN
Grain, Provisions, GroceriEs and Country Pro-
duce.l
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Butte Over-run With Tramps.

For several weeks past Butte has been
infested with tramps, but as none of
them have been arrested, they are daily
becoming bolder and many bid fair to
develop into highway robbers unless
their practices are checked by the strong
arm Of the law. It is next to impossible
for citizen to walk down the lower
main street block without being struck
half a dozen times for enough money to
buy a meal. In nine cases out of ten
these starving unfortunates (?) take the
money and spend it in gin or gamble it
off. In some cases importunate fellows
become insolent if refused money This
morning four of the tramps simultane-
ously struck one of our leading citi-
Gems for enough money to buy them a
breakfast and on being refused, they
roundly abused him for exercising his
judgment on the genuineness Of their
destitution. Had police officer been
within call the fellows would have been
given in custody, but unfortunately not
an officer was visible. Instances like
the above are of almost hourly occur
renee, and it is high time that the va
grancy law should be enforced. Inter
Mountain
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
From the Husbandman,

c. w. Cook designs having residence
at the health resort next year. He will
select q site soon.
J. 2. Thomas, Of Wolf creek, sold his
wethers recently to Wallace & Hatch,
but we did not learn the price paid.
A man was brought in from the Judith
this week charged with horse stealing,
and has quarters in the log jail here.
A. NJ. Essler passed a few days ago for
Maiden with his family He thinks
that camp will work fully 200 men this
season.
We understand that the authorities
are determined to break up the gang of
horse thieves in eastern Meagher coun-
ty, let it cost what it may.
G. Barr Smith arrived a few DAYS
since with his stations and has taken
up his quarters at j. T. Anderson's
ranch seven miles east of town.
]. G. Taylor and H..Rothbart came in
this week with William Burke, Chest
nut cattle man, who is PROSTATE with
rheumatism. So severely is he afflicted
that it is only with the greatest difficulty
that baths are administered.
Solon Mccoy writes from Red Bluffs,
CAL, that the recently purchased flock
of sheep by Sam Snider and Dr. Par
berry are all one and two year old ewes,
and that they will be the finest that ever
trod the soil of Montana. He will assist
in bringing the flock through.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02

Indians pitched their wicliups near this
stream, and an old buck and his squ:tw
hearing the rushing waters below, went
down the natural stairway to the stream
The old buck seeing the trout in the bot
tom, made his squaw dive for thenl.n
And did she 90 it?'i ask ed Jackson.
You bet, for Indian bucks wont stand
foolishness. But the squaw didn't come
up. She went clear under that noun
tain and came out 'tother side, thirty
five miles,
Did it drown her?" said jackson,
who had become very much interested
in the fate OF the squaw' mo; she came
out dripping wet with two-pound trout
in her mouth and one in each hand
SAT- Like Iribu3ae
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Benton, Montana. Wednesday, May 2, 1888.

locations, Miss Corson could probably
sen out to-day for 900, SO that it will
oe seen she is six Or seven thousand dol
lars ahead, over and above expenses on
her investment already, and she has
been less than a year in the territory
MISS Corson is a bright, intelligent
young lady OF fine executive ability
ohe IS manager in chief Of the business
ana the success already achieved shows
sne IS fully equal to the task of ''run-
hlhg' a sheep ranch. There are few
young women who would do what she
mas and do 1t well. Her heroism. and
the word is not much amiss, must COM
nland the admiration OF all. Long NAV
she flourish.
Severance & Co. IS ranch is next reach
ed. 1t is about four miles from Okla, on
the MusselshelI side of the Gap. Mr..
Severance was the first to locate in that
section OF country, and having ''piek
and choice" as to location, it is hardly
necessary to add that man Of his
acknowledged good Judgment would not
fall to make the very best selection
Severance & Co. have now about 10000
head OF sheep and one of the best inn
proved ranches in the territory. This
spring they are inclosing 900 acres of
Sood nay lstHu aIu pasture, ana DeCCer
and more substantial fence cannot be
found in Montana. They have had no
losses whatever in their herds this win
ter, and while the wool growers of the
Musselshell generally had to feed hay
during the severe March Storm Sever
ance & Co. did not find it necessary to
touch the haystacks. They had the adj
vantage Of better grass and less snow
Mr.. Jacob Severance was east las far as
Illinois, six weeks the present winter
and had just returned when we reached
the ranch. He brought with him two
thoroughbred imported Clydesdale stall
lions and six fine brood mares. The
stations, one a six-year-old and the 9TH
er but two, can not, we venture to say,
be surpassed in the territory, and that is
putting it pretty strong, as there are
some mighty fine horses in Montana.
These animals are intended for the horse
ranch recently purchased by Severance
d Co. Of Fred. Alden, Smith river val
ley. A band of $50 head of horses was
included in the purchase. We spent
night under Mr.. Severance's hospitable
roof, and as it is a good place to stop we
will not pursue our journey any farther
in this article, which has already spun
QUITO sufficient length. vi
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
A Utah Fish Story.

They sat around the White House
stove yesterday swapping lies, and when
Jackson had exhausted his store Jones
opened his sample case and began.
Z was down in water canyon south
east Nevada, last fall, near Mormon
Spring, where the water rushes through
and under mountain thirty-fiye miles
'Funnelled perhaps said Jackson.
comes out boiling on 'tother side, then
runs off in big stream
How does it perforate the mountain?n
said Jackson. sThere's a series of beau
tiful falls, with nice steps leading down,
then deep pool as clear as crystal, with
plenty of mountain a trout sporting at the
bottom. One day a band of Apache
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
The Ideal Y ankee.

II never met our 1deaf la ankee, with
the tall body and lank hail" Writes the
Rev. Edwin Paxton Hood, an English
clergyman, who has recently returned
home from visit to this country; 1.-The
tobacco-chewing, expectorating stick
whittier never crossed my path; the
Dragging calculator, impertinently in
terrogating the stranger, never came
in my way. relegated him, therefore,
to the region of fiction. [ found, in his
stead, a pleasant and staid and usually
reticent man, or a bright, intelligent
cultured woman, both knowing how to
respect themselves, and usually COM
manding my respect, and how often,
my affection.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Fine Stock Raising.

Last Tuesday morning Len Lewis
lett Livingston for his extensive ranch
in Smith river valley, taking with him
a car load of pure Merino sheep, several
head offull blood Jersey cattle, SO deserv-
edly famous for their superior dairy
qualities, two blooded stations, one of
the English draft breed, the othera Cleve-
land bay, also a thoroughbred trotting
mare, Of Red Cross stock, besides several
wagon loads Of farming utensils, machin-
cry, and an elegant top buggy.
Mr.. Lewis has been seventeen years
in the territory most of the time he has
devoted to the raising and improvement
Of stock. AS far back as ten years ago
he paid 81, 100 for a full blpoded bull,
and he has ever since continued to en-
rich the blood and raise the grade of his
stock. At the present time, however,
he is not paying SO much attention to
cattle as to sheep and horses, having at
this time on his ranch 5000 head Of sheep
and 200 horses.
People who are not informed as to its
advantages have been accustomed to
think of Montana as bleak, mountain
GUS region, with cold, inhospitable cli
growth, either in vegetable or animal
products. This idea is as far as possible
from the truth, and was long ago ex-
ploded among the well informed in such
matters, who, seeing the success of Mr..
Lewis and others, have been forced to
admit that there are vast stretches of fine
grazing land in Montana, as well as
mountains, and who now know that this
territory as a grazing country is vastly
superior to either Dakota or Minnesota.
- Ti3ii2nsto,2 Trib7tne
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
In Hot Pursuit.

"Well, sir,n said a South Carolina reb,
as he toelz his seat on log at the mill
shed, speaking of poor horses running,
when [ was in the army, one day me
and some more fellers come up on a
Yank who was riding the poorest horse
you ever see. He was going along in a
slow, easy way, when he seen US. We
made for him. AS lie looked around at
us he gave the old nag first one spur,
then the other. We gained on him SO
fast that he just give them reins one
hard jerk, driv both spurs into his fianks
at once, lifted him clear off the ground,
struck him two or three times and let
him down, and-run! Lord, man, how
that horse fieW-so!'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02

Indian Deviltry

A letter received at this office yester-
day from Al. Olden, dated at Olden,
April %, states that on the night of the
10th the Montana stock company brand
79-had twenty-five head Of horses sto-
len by northern Indians. By this it
would seem that they were not much
afraid of being headed off by the troops.
About four days ago three Indians
drove large band Of horses across the
Missouri at the crossing above the mouth
of Highwood They were going north,
and it is barely possible that the horses
were those stolen from the lower coun-
try, as reported by Mr.. Olden. A colt
which had given out was left by the In
dians near the Butte.
1T seems to us that when the Indians
are seen with stolen horses, as these
were, if the news was quickly brought
to the nearest telegraphic point some
thing might be done to recover the prop
erty. In this case courier to Benton
and a dispatch to Shaw would have en-
abled the troops at the latter place to
head this outfit Off The stockmen
would no doubt reimburse the courier
for his time and trouble if by this means
the loss of stock could be prevented.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
An Open Letter.

BUTTE, M. T., April 26-Intense ex-
citement was produced this morning by
an open letter published in the Daily
Miner, addressed to w. I. Lippincott,
republican candidate for city attorney.
and signed by E. S. Thompson, in which
Lippincott is branded as coward, liar,
pultroon, etc. Thompson and III. T..
Brown, business manager of the Miner,
have been arrested on the charge of
criminal libel at the instance of Lippin-
colt. There is a considerable blood
thirsty talk, but it is believed the case
will be settled in the courts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
She Had Him There.

A Brooklyn girl, says the Eagle, re-
ceived present Of diamond cluster
ring from her sweetheart. She took it
to q ieWeler and ascertained that the
gems were Rhinestones worth about
91.75. During his visit the following
evening no allusion was made to her
discovery, but having inclosed the ring
in note she managed to slip it into his
coat pocket surreptitiously. On reach
ing home the very first thing he detect
ed was her missive, which read as fol-
lows:
II have no right to this costly gift
The cold weather is coming on and you
may need it. Call and see me seventeen
years from next Sunday night.
''AMEIA.n -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
-<~Sb~ N

Manuel Blasos, commonly called "Old
Blazes,n is New Mexican gambler,
with portable hell on wheels. This is
a car something like those used by trav-
cling photographers, but it is as bright
and gay as circus band wagon and is
drawn by six handsome horses. The in
terror contains a faro table, a roulette
wheel, and other fixtures for gaming.
Manuel has sever Il assistants, and goes
from place to place according to the out
look for profitable business. Thus he is
sure to appear at every large fair within
two hundred miles of the Mexican bor-
der on either side. A new and prosper
Gus mining camp offers inducements,
too, and lately he established himself
close to a Texas camp meeting with pc
cuniary profit. He has the reputation of
running square games, and his party
goes SO we'll armed that they defy rob-
bers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02

A young girl in a Memphis family in
sisted upon having something to say as
to the selection of a new carpet for the
parlor II don't care so much about the
colors,u said she, ''nor whether we get
a regular carpet or a rug; and most of
the pattern may consist Of small designs,
if you like, SO long as there area few fig
ures in it of oblong shape, and about s
by IA inches in size. really must insist
on those dimensions, and want the
outlines to be distinct. Why am par
ticular about these points? Simply be-
cause my feet are rather large. My
knowledge Of art is sufficient to teach me
that the eye judges ofsize by comparison.
If my foot is put out for view on or be-
side figure in carpet that is smaller
then itself, don't you see that it shows
for all its actual dimensions, butifit rests
on distinct design of three or four times
its own area, it is apparently reduced?
So our carpet must have few big fig
ures in it for my personal use. As soon
as you have made the selection I will
know by the colors how to make my pur-
chases of hosiery for the season. The
exactions of dress nowadays require har-
meny of hues."
Fine Job Printing speciality at the
E1v~rx x@<x44I
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
The Odd Fellows Party.

The party given by the Benton Odd
Fellow to their invited guests, at their
new hall on Main street, last Thursday
evening, was one of the most enjoyable
and pleasant Of the year Up stairs in
the lodge room, the members had decor
ated the hall in a most tasty manner
Pictures hung along on both sides Of the
room, and from them were suspended
the handsome new regalias, while the
parade caps and parade regalia hung in
regular order below the pictures on both
sides Of the room. Here supper was
laid, and two long tables We're loaded
down with the good things provided by
mine host Hunsberger, Of the Overland
hotel
The hall below was handsomely deck
ed with evergreens, and the floor was in
splendid condition. The dancing was a
little late in beginning, it being about
$3.50 when the Odd Fellows and their
friends filed down. the center to the mu-
sic OF the grand march. About eight
dances were had when supper was an
nounced, and then the two tables-seat-
ing about ninety-were soon filled. All
were unanimous in praise OF the COLA
ton, and indeed, no finer supper has
ever been furnished at dance in this
city. Supper over, the ball room was
again sought, and dancing was kept up
units halfpast two.
The entire entertainment was furnish
ed by the lodge, which bore ali the ex-
pense, and they certainly carried the af-
fair out in a handsome manner It was
a fit winding up of the social season,
and will long be remembered by those
who participated.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Over His Time.

"Well, how is your brother doing in
St. LOUISE asked the first, as he halted
moment at the door of q business house
on the Bowery.
''Vhell, he doan' fail yet"
"Seems to be doing good business?'
"Seems dot vhay.n
"Well, I hope he'll do first rate.n
II hope so, too, but | dunno. He has
been dere tree months und doan' fail
yet, und I can't exactly make out What
he means Six weeks vhas blenty Of
time to bust oop in place like st. Louis
und pay ten cents on der dollar.n
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Y oil. III.
GALATEA.

moments grace Pygmalion, Let me he
A breath's space longer on this hither hand
Of fate too sweet, too sad, too mad to meet,
Whether to be thy statue or thy bride
An instant spare me! Terrible the choice
AS no man knoweth, being only man:
Nor any, saving her who hath been stone
And loved her sculptor, Shall dare exchange
Veins Cf The quarry for the throbbnp puleeq
Insensate calm for sure-aching heart?
Rep0ee eternal for woman's lot?
Forego Gods quiet for the love of manq
To float on his uncertain tenderness
wave tossed on the shore of his desire
To ebb and flow whenc'er it pleaaeth him.
Remembered Ill his leisure and forgot
WO-shlpped and worried, clasped and dronnad at
Or soothed or gashed at mercy Of his will.
NoW Faradise my portion and now Hell
And every single several nerve that beats
In soul or body, like some rare vase thrust
In fire at first. and then in frost. until
The fine protesting fiber snaDs
FOreknoWing, ever chose fate like thisP
what woman, out OF ali the breathing world
Would De woman, could her heart select;
Or love her lover, could her.life prevent?
Then let me be that only, only one:
Thus let me make the sacrifice supreme
No wthcr ever made, or can or shall
Behold the future shall stand still to ask
What man was worth price So isoIate2
And rate thee ut its value for al time
For I am driven by an awful law.
See. while hesitate it mouldeh me-
And carves me like chisel at nv heart
lis stronger than the woman or the man:
Is mlghtler than the marble or the flesh
Obedent be the sculptor and the stonel
Thine am | thine at all the cost of ali
Inc Pahgs that woman ever bore for man:
1hlGe elect to be- denying them;
Thine / elect to be- defying them
Time thne, dare to be-, III scorn of them;
And being thine forever, bless them
Pygmalion! Take me from my pedestal
Ana Get me lOWer-lOWer love hat
May be woman and look MP to thee;
And looking longing, loving, give and take
The human kisses worth the worst that thou
BY thine own nature shall infict on me.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
Fine Stock.

A letter received by us last night from
Major w. 2. Turner, who is at present
III Nashville, states that he will return
to Montana about the first week in May,
and will bring up some fine stock cattle
and also car load of Jersey heifers. He
will probably come to Billings by rail
and drive across the country. Our
breeders should avail themselves of this
chance to purchase good stock.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02
NNn
Notice.

Persons crossing the upper: or lower
ferry will be required to pay cash,as no
books will be kept from this date.
DAVID G. BROWNE & Co.,
M. Il. LYNCH.
Benton, M. T., Feb. 10. '83.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-02

Fine Job Printing speciality at the
RIVER PRESS office.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-16
A JuStiilabIe Homicide.

Patrick Mulcahy, son of the Emer-
aid Isle, asAbefore Justice Ingersoll
charged by Philip Mousaucker, cor
pulent Teuton, with entering the lat
ter's yard and shooting his dog.
patrick, did you shoot this mans
dog?" asked the justice.
Faith, [ did, yer honor, but want
that Dutchman to prove the charge"
"But you acknowledge it," argued
J.P.
lido not, that. did shoos the dog,
but I deny the charge until it is
proved"
What was your dog worth p asked
the perple1cd jastise of Mousaucker.
ooh, dot kddie dog vas wort noting"
"Then what do you want done with
this man you have had arrested?" was
asked.
"Vat I want done nit him? I Just
wants to make him bay de value of dat
dog"
This confused the justice more than
ever. He declared the case was too
intricate for him to try, and referred it
to Capt. O'Donnell. That official said
he thought it was "a justifable homi-
eide" and the prisoner was discharged.
Chicago Herald.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-16
TacKs.

A tack is a simple, unpretending sort
OF a young nail, noted for its keen
repartee when pressed for a reply. and
possessing the peculiar powers. when
standing on its head, CT causing the
cold shivers to run down the back Of a
man in mere anticipation of what might
be.
Tacks are in season all the year
around, but the early spring is usually
the time selected by them for a grand
combined effort, and then they flour
ish everywhere for at least month.
Since the Inauguration of the time-hon-
ored ceremonies of house cleaning.
every thorough housekeeper, with long
experience in the line Of duty, so takes
up the carpets as to retain all the tacks
in their original places, thus prevent
ing it slipping from the shakers hands,
unless the tack breaks or the fingers
give out. But the triumph of the tack
is not complete at this early stage; it
patiently abides it's time, and Oh the re-
laying of the carpet issues forth with
double force. After searching the en-
tire house for paper of tacks, without
success, the unfortunate man drops on
his hands and knees to begin, and i'm
mediately discovers four tacks at least,
and as he rolls over to extract these,
finds the rest of the paper directly I'M
der him, and then unless he is q man
accustomed to put up stoves and
joint stove-pipe the chances of laying
the carpet on that evening are slight.
In selecting tacks from a saucer he al
ways inspects the point with his four
finger, as the tack instantly loses it's
head when they come to blows. In
argument the tack is sharp and pointed,
but the display of either or both, de-
ponds largely on the amount of pres
sure employed by its opponent. In di-
rect contrast to a good joke the amuse-
ment generally begins before you see
the point, and this fact is easily demon
stratod by walking the floor in your
stocEen feet, weil-kept room on such
an occasion averaging two tacks to the
square foot.
The future of the tack gives great
promise Of more extended usefulness
and unlimited possibilities, as several
of our most eminent college professors
having carefully studied the effect of a
sharp tack Of reasonable length placed
properly in a chair or under a cot, are
about to introduce tacls, and do away
with spring boards in our college gym
nasiumS-M QuGd.