The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
LOCAL NOTES.


The thermometer at the signal office
registered 200 below zero at six o'clock
this morning.
Holiday presents are selling rapidly,
and it is doubtful if the supply will
equal the demand.
Mr.. Mike Healy and wife Of Fort
Assinaboine, have taken rooms at the
Grand Union and will spend the winter
in Fort Benton.
The matter of securing a land office at
Fort Benton was not referred to last
evening and it is one of the mostimpor-
tant of u many wants.
A private letter from Col. J. IT. Rice
states that he is still under treatment.
He received injuries which it will take
him a long time to recover from.
Al. Rogers, the new county clerk, is
doing all the work himself, and will
not appoint a deputy until there is a big
increase in the business of the office.
The Bozeman Courier urges the con-
struction of a railroad from Butte, via
Bozeman, to Fort Benton, and thinks it
would be a valuable piece of railroad
property.
Dave Jenkins, an old-time resident of
Fort Benton, arrived last evening. It
is five years since he went away. He
has been for the greater part of the time
on the Yellowstone.
The price of barbed wire has been ad-
vanced to 81 cents a pound that the pa
tent lawyers may secure their January
dividend. The farmers will be required
to meet the obligation.
Some Of the old-timers have been
making incidence and prophesying
that within ten days the river will be
open and free from ice. They offer to
back their prophesies with money.
w. S. Wetzel who has recently re-
turne d from Helena reports business
very dull at the capital at present, with
about as much CRU milling IN the score
of hard. times as lie has heard elsewhere.
A new charter for the city of Missoula
is being drafted and the same will be
presented to the legislature for it's action.
Several important amendments to the
Fort Benton city charter will be asked.
The initial number of the Boulder
Valley Times, a new Montana publica-
ton, will be issued at Boulder city about
the 1st of January, with Benz. K. Lam
as publisher and proprietor. Thus a
slong felt WANT will be supplied in
Jefferson county.
The finest assortment of jewelry ever
brought to Montana is now displayed at
G. ?. Reeves & Co.'s, Helena. Any one
visiting the capital city should not fail
TO call and view the display of so many
beautiful articles. Whether you wish
to purchase or not, do not fail to take a
peep at them.
Mr.. George p. Fiske leaves in the
morning for the east. He has secured
an interest in the firm Of Weston &
Fiske, dealers in oils, 81 Water street,
New York. The many friends of Mr..
Fiske will regret his departure, and the
RIVER PRESS joins in wishing him sue
cess in his new field of labor.
Yellowstone county it seems has not
escaped the evil of ring" rule. The
Herald newspaper was recently allowed
$4,000 for publishing a delinquent list.
We did not see the list as published but
there is hardly reason to doubt that it
was an outrageous price which should
not have been allowed by the board Of
commissioners.
Mike Healy, who was of the first
in the Little Rockies, after the discov-
cry of gold, and who has spent a good
deal of money in the development of
his mines, has unlimited confidence III
the camp and expects to return to re-
sumo operations as early id the spring
as possible. Mike has good ground and
expects to make a stake.
From Thursdays Daily:
The thermometer registered 16o below
zero at 6 o'clock this morning.
Thos Fossom left for his home in
Lansing, Iowa this morning, going by
the way of Billings.
Henry Hepler Of Sun River will bring
$50 turkeys to town in a few days for
the Christmas trade. That is q pretty
good crop.
The following letters are held in the
Fort Benton postofice for non payment
of postage Miss Olive Keelar, Helena,
Montana Mrs. Richard Smith, Dexter,