The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16

work on the new scnool mouse next
Monday.
Or, VIM. Parberry and wife, of White
sulphur Spring, have returned from
California.
The opening of additional saloons,
,,;th several more talked of, goes to in
Gicate that business is pieking~ap
Mike Lynch is having his lumber
sawed, and is making general prepara-
lions for building a new ferry boat. j
cant. Wall has started up the mill Of
Y tho CJendenin LAUNDERING company,
and expects to keep her running right
along.
The steamers Josephine and Rosebud,
which were left high aud dry for a time,
we're got into the water again without
damage to them.
r NJ. Arnoux is still prospecting for
coal on Highwood, and hopes to strike
If vet. A good vein of coal hat near to
the city would be a bonanza.
Burge & Bowers are fitting up in nice
stvle the room formerly occupied by
IoDis Gross for a saloon, and will be
ready to-day to receive their friends.
Can't. G.. r, Paul and Or. F. J. Adams
Of Fort Assinaboine arrived in the city
yesterday. Capt. Panl is on his way to
charleston, S. c., where Mrs. P. spent
the winter, and will return with her to
the post in q few weeks.
Work on the new court house is pro-
crossing very favorably. AT the present
rate it will not be very long until the
brick work is completed, and with the
arrival of the finishing material on the
first boats, the building a be quickly
pushed through to completion.
Tie new city council will consist of
fthe following members Sol GenZber-
ger, w. j. Minar, Jere Sullivan, G. E.
Conrad, Il. A. Cummings, w. F. Rector,
D.. G. Browne and J. J. Kennedy.
| With these gentlemen at the helm it is
safe to say the city administration for
| the ensuing year will be geod~ene-
The Belt creek Land and Improve
ment company, recently organized, are
having their big ditch dug, and are
making the dirt fly pretty rapidly OH
the banks Of the Belt. The ditch is
taken out near J. A. Yore's, and again
empties into the creek at the bridge,
near Peck & Lacy's. 1t will make
valuable for agricultural purposes a fine
body of land.
The council canvassed the votes last
evening. The figures are the same as
published in the RIVER PRESS, except
in the case of the candidate for mayor,
who received 80 votes instead of II in
the fourth ward, the latter being the
first summing, the result of a clerical
error. This gives Mayor Roosevelt a
total vote of 1874, more than any other
candidate received, thus proving his
popularity. /
A correspondent writing from the
Coal Banks says: The Coal Banks for
the last eight or ten days has been great
ly increased in population. There are
at present between twenty and twenty
five men stopping here, together with
twelve or fifteen lodges of Gros Ventre
Indians, and the sweet strains OF the
tom-tom can be heard any evening after
a successful days foraging by them on
their white
From Thursdays Daily:
H. J. Wackerlin & Co. have been
busy for a week putting up goods for
Sun River parties. -
The farmers are taking advantage OF
this good weather to get their crops in
and very few of them are seen in town.
Freeman, the irrepressible. is about to
start a paper at Thompson's Falls, one
of the QUILTING points to the Occur
d'Alenes.
The clerk of the district court is kept
pretty busy these days getting ready for
the forthcoming session OF court, De-
ginning next Tuesday.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
for the first three weeks in March were
thirty-three per. cent. greater than Tor
the three corresponding weeks OF last
year.
Mike Healy and Miss Mary Healy
were married at Sun River last night,
and are expected to arrive in the city
this evening. The RIVER PRESS ex-
tends its congratulations. -
Fort A~ssinaboine will require l80, 900
pounds of fresh beef this year Fort
Maginnis, 81, 900 pounds; Fort Shaw,
81 900 pounds. The bids will be opened
May Sd at Fort Smelling.
The immigration rush for the north
west has got fairly started. On the 4th
inst. the number Of arrivals at st. Paul
was between 1900 and 1890. all going
to points in the northwest.
Comptroller Lawrence, in a letter TO
Delegate Maginnis, says the rebate on
to Montana dealers will be pald
with all possible expedition, and the
amounts due to our dealers VIII
soon be forthcoming.
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