The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-20
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.. IF
From Wednesdays Daily.
The thermometer registered SO at the
sional office yesterday.
G. ". Leavy, of Lewiston, is register
sd at the Grand Union.
Edmund Ingersoll will remain at Sun
piver for several weeks.
Nessrs. Webster & Westevelt returned
from Sun River yesterday.
Z Lewis teams left last evening to
load with coal at Millard's mine.
Onr esteemed contemporary, the Min
oral Argus, completes it's first year with
the issue OF August 18th.
If is learned that the Hudson Mining
company will take the Montana Chief
nine. Consideration not known.
Reports from Yogo state that J. D.
Weatherwax is making preparations to
ship ore to Baltimore from his mine.
Nessrs. Griffith & Ingersoll will short
w locate an office at Great Falls. One
Of the partners will take up his abode
at that place. --~
The Teton river is said to be packed
solid for eight miles with the wood driv-
on down by Houston q Mckay. Wood
lis bound to be cheaper this fall than for
years.
The Independent has advices from
Cottonwood, Meagher county, giving an
account of the killing of nine more
horse thieves on the Musselshell, about
fortv miles from Cotton wood
1t is reported and generally believed
that B. G.. Kingsbury will be back to
Neihart in a few days. 1t is not known
as vet what he will do with the mines
upon which work has been done.
The Glendive Independent has pub
llished a delinquent tax list, and in the
K entire list not a single name of the par
ties assessed appears. All are down as
unknown. The assessor probably did
not keep his books correctly.
Con Murphy, one of the robbers who
held up the Helena stage last spring,
and who escaped from jail, was recap
tured at Big Timber, on the Yellow
stone, and now occupies one of the steel
clad cells in the Lewis and Clarke
county jail.
The Mineral Argus is jubilant over
the fact that the stages of the junction
City and Benton Southern stage lines
are to make their terminus at Maiden,
and claims it will be of the greatest adj
vantage to the Judith country, and to
Maiden in particular.
T. F. Morgan has made extensive inn
provements at Stanford. He has a store
24x40; a two story hotel 22x26; saloon,
1Sx22; stables, 15x26 and 26x30; black
smith shop, 20x24; warehouse, 1Sx24,
and a bedroom and office l2x24. Tom
will corral all the trade in that section.
The Benton, under Capt. Barr, arrived
from Benton and intermediate points
last evening, after "a very successful and
pleasant trip. The cargo consisted of
900 bags of wool, $50 bales of pelt and
$40 buffalo robes. The Benton had a
large list of passengers Bismarck Tri-
bune.
Mr.. E. D. Webster, of Buffalo, N. Y,
internal revenue inspector for several
states and territories, was in Livingston
few days. ago. Mr. Webster was de-
feated for congress in 1872, in the Sd
New York congressional district, by
Gen. III. w. Slocum. He was after
wards appointed superintendent Of i'm
migration at New York, and subse-
quently to his present office.
Bill Steele, deputy sheriff, is having a
lively time trailing the man who recent
IL stole $500 from d drunken man at the
International, and ''skipped' the cityf
Jail after being arrested. Steel overlook
MIN at Thompson's Falls and exchanged
shots with him, but didn't get hold OIL
him. At Eagle City he captured his
man, but the fellow succeeded in escap-
ing. Steel took the trail on Friday,
determined to bring his man to taW.-
e Independent.
VIM. Mcqueen, of Clendenin, arrived
yesterday afternoon. He reports that
up to the time of his leaving McDer-
mott had not been captured. 1t is re-
ported that he was seen at Wolf creek
on Saturday evening. He was not
aware of Murane's death. He remark
ed to his partner that he would never
be taken back TO Barker alive. Public
opinion is somewhat divided on the
subject, some claiming he did right,
others d%enouncing it, although all agree
That the means taken to bring it about
could not be justified. 1t is thoughtl
McDermott did not leave the country,
put Is hiding somewhere. /
Mr.. Dodd, residing on Birch creek,
met with his death a few days ago. He
mad been to the mountain for a load OF
poles. On his return, when about half
Il mile from Burd'S store, OH Dupuyers