The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23

rTom 1uesudys DAILY.
s. n. Dickey of Box Elder is in town.
Our June rains are coming in July
this year.
&C. @. Records of Stanford arrived in
town yesterday. -
X Paymaster Blaine and party will re-
turn tomorrow.
Daniel Thomas and wife of Wolf
creek are in the city.
J. w. Johns of Clendenin arrived in
the city last evening.
Col. G.. A. Broadwater left for Fort
Assinaboine yesterday morning.
We had supposed the wool was all in,
but see that it continues to arrive daily.
M. D. Scott and Granville Turner are
prospecting in the Big Horn mountains.
c. w. Bayless, a prosperous ranch
man OF the Judith Basin, is in the city.
Steve Spitzley and Harry Ringwald
took passage for Helena ia yesterdays
coach.
Hugh Graham and E. j. Jarkin, Of
Calgary, are registered at the Grand
Union.
Commodore Wheeler will bring an
other party from Helena to Great Falls
this week.
Ashby Conrad must give up that
handsome gun case. He lost his laurels
last Sunday.
The remaining portion of Maltby,
Croft q MeIcalf's wool, from Wolf creek,
arrived yesterday.
Mrs. Stevens, the dress maker at T. G..
Power & Bros, will be a passenger
down the river on the Bachelor.
Z Col. J. J. Donnelly goes down on the
Bachelor to meet the Helena, IN which
boat his niece, Miss McKenna, is a pas
Mr.. A. S. Carter, a prominent cattle
man Of the Judith Basin, arrived in the
city yesterday and is at the Grand
Union.
Yesterday Theo. Gibson sold to E. r.
Beck, of Helena, a lot on Central ave-
nue., Great Falls, the consideration be-
ing $l5O.-Independent.
A team attached to a nagon ran away
last evening and went up the hill on the
Helena road at a rapid rate, without a
driver, SOON disappearing from view.
4 E. E. Peterson went out to Highwood
Sunday and caught LOT nice trout in a
few hours. Pete was born and raised
on u trout stream and knows how to
catch
The wedding that was to have taken
place last evening has been postponed
OH account OF the non-return of Father
Ebersville. 1t will be a sure thing for
Thursday night.
Redmond, otherwise known as Neal
rested in Idaho by the Madison county
posse, and, it is supposed, one of the
men who held up the Benton coach, had
a preliminary examination before Judge
Alden, at Helena, last Saturday OH the
latter charge.
The town of Belknap, erstWhile a
boom trail town and supply point Tor
Occur d'Alenes, was almost reduced to
ashes on Friday last. Only five houses
are left in the burg.
Mr.. M. E. Miner, secretary Of the
Shonkin Stock association, having con-
Guided the work of settling up the
roundup business, leaves for his ranch
on the Shonkin to-day, and will be ac-
companied by Mr.. .John-L eplleey. --.
The late rains have given the river a
boom and it is actually on the rise, near
the end of July. This is something un-
precedented, and it looks now as il the
tighter boats could run until October If
there is any occasion for il.
J. II. Rice and NJ. J. Leaning return
ed yesterday from Wareham's ranch, on
Wolf creek, where they secured the
sheep sold to Alex. Begg, Esq, and
which are to be driven to the northwest.
The band is now on the Way
Messrs. J. M. Mulroney and G. w.
Maher, Of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who have
been visiting with John IL. Evans for
some weeks, yesterday purchased J. M.
Arnoux's band OF horses, sixty-siX IN
number, at $$35 a head all around.
yRev. J. Mills makes tie following APP
pSointments for preaching: Sunday,
July q, at 10 a. M, HighWood 8 p. NJ,
Mr.. Blacks, IN Belt creek. Sunday,
August Sd. 10 a. M, Sand Coulee; 3p.
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