The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-03-05

emptylng FIanaganS cellar With the
fire engine yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Paris Gibson,,- tfre-rrorti1ern. Mon
tana boomer, was at Chicago on the 18th
inst, and will return to Fort Benton
about the 1st prox.
The flood was about five feet deep in
Mike Lynch's house across the river, SO
hat most of his household effects will
be badly damaged. ~
Frank Mcguire, from the Marias, re-
ports plenty of snow still after you cross
the low hills between the Teton and
Marias. The chinook did not reach
that far north until Saturday, SO that
there is now a Lad crust on the snow.
The cattle are now pretty thin, but no
dead animals have been found yet on
the upper Marias- range.
From Thursdays Daily:
John r. Dean, of Helena, died last
Sunday.
The West Shore for February con-
tains a small map of the new mines,
and some views Of the places in that
vicinity.
Thos. Morgan, the late telegraph oper-
ator at this place, is now in Deer Lodge,
and expects to enter into business there
very shortly.
Missoula's water works have been
''bustedn by old Jack Frost, and the re-
spected citizens have fallen back on the
old stand-by-the tin pail.
Two Helena freighters, Belden and
Ford, have purchased for $50 a head the
cattle of Duffield 81 Wilcox, on the
Iudith inst above PhilhrOOk.
Allen is the latest aspirant for the
honor of possessing the shortest trailn
to the new mines. This new town is
located four miles this side Of Belknap.
Four great irrigating bitches are to be
dug in the Sun River valley this coming
summer. One is to be 40 miles long,
and will carry enough water for 1OO,O0
acres of land.
In Justice Kanouse's court yesterday
Billy Moore was bound over in the sum
of $500 to await the action of the next
grand jury on the charge Of stealing
John Evans horse.
We have iust received the prospectus
of the Occur d'Alene daily and weekly
Eagle, which is to be started in the me-
tropolis of the new gold fields, Eagle
City, on or about March 1st.
Cans & Klein have purchased Ell. Ja-
cob's interest in the clothing house OF
II. Jacob & Co, at Butte, and the BUSH
ness will hereafter be carried on under
the well known firm name Of Cans q
Klein.
Charley Sheridan has cut a road right
through the masses of ice which line the
river bank, so hat u respected citi-
zens can now get their water in quanti+
ties to suit, instead Of having 1t dished
up to them cd libituna. as was the case
Sunday night.
The Southern Pacific railroad was.
graded in the Colorado desert with
blocks of pure salt tor the distance Of a
quarter of a mile. This must be the
spot where Lots wife took the last
squint at her trail in the olden days that
we read about.
There is quite a rush for the grain /,
flour and groceries which We're slightly
injured by the late flood, and a good
deal was sold yesterday. Corn at 81 a
hundred, good -four at So SO a sack, and
granulated sugar for S. a sack make
purchasers think they have the plumber
given tOthem.
The ice is now being blasted away
from the upper ferry boat, SO they will
soon be able to tell how much damage
has been done to our remaining boat.
Travel across the river will have to be
| suspended now for q few days until this
boat is repaired, as d skiff is the azE1yss
only means of transit just at present.
The citizens Of Deer Lodge want a
new court house in order to make a sure
thing of the county seat, Which may at
some future day be moved to a more
central location further down the valley.
The citizens of Philipsburg and Pioneer
enter their protests against this new eX-
penditure and debt, in view Of the finan-
cial s%tagnation that seems to have over
taken the territory in the last year.
A steady boarder at the territorial
p%enitentiarv for the last seven years,
one VIM. Hamilton, escaped last Satur-
day from "durance vile.o Gov. CROSBY
refuses to offer d reward for his capture,
on the grounds That sufficient guards
are not furnished for the retention OF
prisoners, and he does not believe II
burdening the taxpayers with large
b0unties for the recapture OF escaped
r~aScals.
The letter froni James Shelton pub
lished in another column should be
carefully perused by those Bentonites
who are just now suffering from q severe
attack Of the Coeur d'Alene fever. Our
correspondent says that it is folly to
think Of going into the mines before
April LIST at the earliest, SO the afflicted
ones should indulge only in cooling
drinks, and try by that means to allay
the gold fever until the melting OF the
Y feet of snow will enable them to pick
up and sack the golden nuggets.