The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-18

-r1,os O'Hanlon took his departure
49, Relknap yesterday afternoon.
~ T Todd 81 Co. received on the Hell
several car loads of Anheuser-beer.-
w RI. Hunt will deliver the Grafton
n utbe Fourth of July celebration in this
city.
2o D Chisholm of Illinois has been
o.inated for register Of the land office
at Bozemah'
robn Cashier boasts of a natural Gu
-:ositv at his ranch-a genuine three
legged chicken.
Fridley's bridge across the upper yell
tame was washed away last week.
wv" was an individual enterprise, and
cost S. 5000.
Helena republicans held a grand rati-
eaotion meeting on the evening of the
11th Col. Sanders was on hand to give
- acconnt of his stewardship.
Mr. Martin. the we'll known Boston
-rnni handler, was at Billings a few days
ono and may be expected in Fort Ben
az eesn the latter part of this month.
THE Bozeman Daily Chronicle has
Loon discontinued. Mr.. Langhorne
o@ntinues the publication of the Weekly
SChronicle and is making it a bright,
newsy sheet.
Rem Lapeyre, postmaster F%lanagan's
oaicinnt clerk, returned yesterday from
St. Louis, where he was called by the
illness of his father, who died the day
following Ben's arrival.
Horace r. Buck leaves for the east on
tho Helena, on a business trip to New
Haven. Conn. He will visit st. Paul,
chicago, New York and other cities Of
the east. returning in a few weeks.
The first load of wool arrived in Fort
Rpnton Yesterday from Hay Bros
ahnarine sheds on the Shonkin, near
thp CITY. They have 81 shearers at
work, and will have 10000 sheep to
shear.
The ore from which Assayer Monroe
rot such a fine silver button, demonstrat-
2nr the ore to be worth 1921 per ton, is
ron the Montana Bell, at Neihart. The
mine is owned by Messrs. Chamberlain
and Bell.-Independent'
The Helena stage driver reports that
hail almost as large as hens eggs the
said almost remember) fell near Bull
Head station Yesterday afternoon. He
was compelled to stop the stage and take
refuge till the storm was oyer. -
The Merchants National band has Just
.received six bars of bullion from the
Montana company (limited), the pro-
duct of the Drum LummOn, at MaryS-
Vile. The bars are beauties, carrying a
commercial value of $13, 900, and are a
counterpart of those that come from the
same source four times a month.-Her-
aid.
A letter received from w. P. Tuner,
of the Marias, informs us that his son,
w, p. iun.. is now on his way from
Billings to this city with a grand lot of
Jersey COWS. and will arrive here about
the Goth inst. Some of them, he says,
will furnish two pounds of gilt edge
butter q dav. A limited number of the
band will be offered for sale in this
city.
The RIVER PRESS acknowledges a
pleasant call, yesterday, from Mrs. Gra-
ham and Miss Hosmer, ladies who made
a pleasure trip from Bismarck to the
head of navigation on the teaner Hell
ena. They found the trip a pleasant one
and are agreeably surprised to see SO
large and thriving a city as Fort Benton
1000 miles above Bismarck. They re-
turn on the Helena.
We learn from the Belknak Sun extra
of the Sth inst. that in the disaster at
Thompson Falls on Saturday last there
were only three person drowned, whose
names are as follows: j. Stout, Paul
Ducharme and J. Denaut. Those rescu-
ed were Perry M. Shuck, P. S. McDer-
mott, VIM. Fisher, the two Finleys, a
Mr.. King and two others. The three
persons drowned were all single men.
Henry Blythe, the owner Of the eleven
animals drowned, says his loss is about
$4,000, and the total loss OF property is
estimated at SIS 1000.
The Kansas City Presse Germany has
several articles in it's daily issue eulogis-
tic of Colonel Guido Ilges, a gentleman
well known and with hosts OF friends in
Montana, as the soldier poet and n
Of them gives one of his poems, a rem
iniscence of the battle of Gettysburg,
entitled Rock Me to Sleep Mother"
We translate the following forthe benefit
of our readers: Colonel llges Will
most probably deliver another lecture III
in this City in German language. We
learn that he is also to deliver a lecture
soon in English, and probably another
in German, at Leavenworth. We wish
our distinguished countrymam the best
of success at our neighbor city,
Herald.
From Sundays Daily.
Col. NJ. J. Leaning returned yester-
day from his eastern trip.
Mr.. 0. A. Parsons, of the Shonkin,
left upon u desk yesterday a hand
some boquet of flowers. Thanks!
A Butte saloon keeper had $l,7o0 sto-'