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

Hurrah/for Choteau county! Rob
Vaughn's giant %trotter, Great Western,
won the big race yesterday.
DR.. Will E. Turner and family will
start for Maiden this morning by pri-
vate conveyance, to make a short stay.
The Indian commission will be in
Fort Benton before very long, if the
programme marked out is~netlvaried
from.
Messrs. Wilton & Coombs commenced
work yesterday on the engine house and
VIII have it completed in two or three
weeks. ~
Geo. Whitman, Helena, and S. O'Con-
nor, Pomeroy, w. r., arrived on the
Helena coach yesterday and are at the
Grand Union.
On Tuesday t. G.. Power and Bro.
shipped 10000 pounds of merchandise to
their Reedsfort store, loading the teams
of Dan Nevin, Ben McMann and Chas.
Walker.
A. S. Lyle, of Sun River, passed
through the city on Saturday on his way
home from Washington territory, where
he purchased a band of several thousand
sheep.-Herald.
The plat Of the city Of Great Falls is
completed and has been forwarded to st.
Paul for the inspection of Mr.. j. J. Hill.
A visit by the latter to northern Mon
tana is n of the probable events of the
near future.
Toney Moersberger the brewery will
start in a few days for Alaska, and he
wants to asaartaip haforn ha Ioaxroc tho
name of the man, woman or child in
Montana who has a bill of any kind
against him.
d. G.. Wilkins came in from the gov
eminent hay fields yesterday. He in
forms US that they will finish cutting in
eight Or ten days, but that it will be d
month or more before the hay is deliver
ed at the post.
Lieut.. William H. Baldwin, Seventh
cavalry, now on leave of absence, will
report to the superintendent general re-
cruiting service, New York city, to ac-
company a detachment of recruits to
Fort Smelling, MINI.
The Miner says: Jack Waite don't
ton pugilist in public, but a little affair
On the quiet might possibly be arranged.
Waite goes into training to-day for his
fight with Burns, which comes off o.
September Goth.
Ina few days Sam Mitchell, in COM
|pany with Capt. Higgins, will drive out
of this county some 1000 head of cattle
and $50 calves. Their destination is the
other side of the range, on the Teton
river, where the Captain has already a
very large band.-Missou1ian~
n Rev. Father Guidi, Of St. Ignatius
mission, Missoula county, arrived yes
terday on the Helena coach and will re-
main in Fort Benton some time-We
wish we could say permanently, as
Father Guidi is most highly esteemed
by his many friends in this city.
Joe and Arthur Conrad and Miss
lAlice will take their departure for the
least tomorrow. The former has not
fbeen east for some six years, and will
Hspend a month Or two in the principal
cities and then return. Arthur and
Miss Alice will enter school, the former
at F~aribault; Mimi, and the latter at a
(seminary near st. Louis.
A-yeuHg-n1an, at least twenty-five
years of age, came down from Benton
a few days since and gazed with awe
and wonder at a passing railroad train.
had never seen a railroad, having been
born and raised on the frontier. After
the train boy gets through with him he
will wish he never had seen a passenger
train.-Bizn1arck Tribune. Who is it?
From Fridays Daily.
;. O. Hudnutt, Of Helena, arrived on
yesterdays coach.
Charley Peterson and D. G. Price
leave for Little Pittsburg this morning.
Let us call things by their right names.
This is no longer Benton, but Fort Ben
ton.
T.. S. Tranum moved J. c.. Walker
out to his saw mill on the Judith yester-
day.
The government steamer Emily ar
rived at the Coal Banks last evening at
$50 o'clock.
Jos. Mosler loaded at T. G. Power &
Bros yesterday for Tom O'Hanlon, of
Fort Belknap.
Messrs. Peterson & price purchased a
big lot of goods yesterday for their store
at Little Pittsburg.
Henry Linenkohl and Joe Either,
with their families, will leave in a few
days for Eagle creek to stay a week or
ten days.
John Burd loaded at It. C. Power &
Bros and II. j. Wackerlin's yesterday
with goods for Frank Farmer, of the
upper
John Hackshaw is in town. John is