The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-30

v.om saturdays Daily.
The Helena & Fort Benton railroad is
now an assured thing
Noise Vaillaux, at the Teton crossing
r. the Macleod road, expects a school
Io1se erected On or adjoining his ranch
thic simmer, this being a central loca-
t tinn with several families of four or five
oohiIdren each both above and below
him. --
o G. Griffith and Benz. Webster re-
.,rned Yesterday from Sand Coulee.
me- report great interest manifested in
tho coal lands of that section. The big
,,;ne owned by Culbertson & McGiffin
- hoing developed and is looking splen-
didly. J..
Cecil. Thompson, Moore, Harmon and
Henry. the delegation sentenced for
carving terms to the penitentiary dur
mo- the late session Of court, will take
th99ir departure for Deer Lodge this
t,orning on the Helena coach. They
viii be in charge of Deputy Healy.
Mr. r. f. Morgan is now at Stanford,
where he is building a store 26x4O feet
IN dimensions, and before many weeks
viii omen there a first-class general mer-
cbondising establishment. Tom is a
aood r~ustler and business man, and is
certain to succeed, as Stanford is going
70 be a first class business point.
The fifteenth annual exhibition Of the
Montana Agricultural, Mineral, and
Mechanical association will be held in
Helena September 8th to 13th'lnclusive.
Resides the annual fair the association
viii hold racing meetings at Helena
- ,I - E+I. Of p,tta Ann,,ct I 9Th
and Goth and at BoZeman on some date
TO be announced.
Richter & Hunt, the sheep men of the
INNER Teton, are putting in a substan-
tiai two-span bridge over the Teton,
above their premises, to replace the por-
fable bridge which was carried down by
the breakup last December. They are
also erecting a powerful windmill to
force water up to the house and stables,
eighty feet above the surface of the
river.
Michael Doran, Of St. Paul, has begun
suit against S. s. Eaton and Gen. q. d..
Mead. the leading shareholders in the
Collar Mining company, of Maiden, to
recover S., 600 being the amount paid by
plaintiff for shares Of stock in said COM
panv. He claims that he was induced
f. buv the stock by false and fraudulent
renresentations on the part Of the defen-
dants.
The evidence taken by the c%oroner's
iurv i'm the Barkley case, in Jefferson
county, goes to show that the doctor
was Observation-Disclosures down without
warning,-and that it was probably
done by a party with whom he was at
enmity on account Of a water right dis
pute. Persistent efforts are being made
to fix the heinous crime where it be-
longs.
From Sundays Daily.
Frank Hodnutt arrived from Barker
last evening.
A post office has been established at
Thompson, Missoula county.
The firm Of Cummings & busch, of
Glendive, was closed on the 2lst, on an
attachment for 81 800.
Messrs. Leaning and McIntire, the
delegates to the Bozeman convention,
will leave by way Of Billings for that
city tomorrow morning. The conven-
ton will be held Oh the I'd prox.
The friends Of Jack HezeKiah, who
may have missed him the past few days,
are informed that he is paying a visit to
the capital of the territory. 1t is gener-
aIly understood that Jack will not re-
turn alone this time--~--~
Three potatoes, from the ranch of Mr..
Newton Sheppard, of Highwood, We're
exhibited in our sanctum yesterday, the
combined weight of the three tubers be-
ing seven and a half pounds. They are
"whoppers,n and as sound as a dollar,
toe.
And now come recent arrivals from
Sand Coulee with the statement that
immense lodges of fine iron ore-just
what is needed for fuxing purposes
have been discovered on Sand Coulee
recently. BENZ. Webster feels N
what elated over the fact that his pros
pecting talent aided in bringing this III
portant discovery to light.
We see that the firm of Cassell, Stin-
son Il Co, of Montreal, leather dealers,
has failed for 500, 900. Mr.. Stinson,
who visited Fort Benton about three
years ago, and who is interested ia stock
in the northwest, was, we believe, a
member Of the firm. Capt. Winder, it
seems, was also intimately connected
with them.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Col. Guido Tlges is in Chicago.
IT. G.. Power was in New York yes