The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-03-26

residence Of Mr.. John Hunsberger.
The board of trustees has decided to
bonds for the amount lacking to
build the new school house, and an cleo
ton for that purpose will be held in due
AT a meeting of the conference COM
last evening it was decided to
hold the city convention at the city hall
on Saturday evening, March 18th, at
3 o'clock.
The Livingston Tribune will COM
mence the erection of a new brick
building about April LIST, to be used as
a publishing office for that enterprising
newspaper.
The farmers are complaining that the
season is a little backward, but most OF
them will be blowing next week. In
the States they don't think of beginning
work in March.
4 No further information has yet been
received in reference to the injuries sus-
tanned by Mr.. J.. H.-McKnight. The
press dispatch giving an account OF the
wreck simply says that Mr.. Mcknight
trader at Fort Shaw was amongst the
wounded.
J. w. Beckney, an old time resident
of the territory, died at Cove Station.
Penn, on the 18th inst. The deceased
had been suffering with dropsy for q
long time, and went east a few months
ago, accompanied by his wife, in the
hope Of finding relief.
Tongue river got on another thigh
lonesome on the 18th, and again in
vaded the sacred precincts OF Miles
City. The families residing in the low
lands were compelled to move out, and
the water flooded several houses. The
damage done, however, was not very
great.
A private letter received from John
LeDIey. who has been spending the.
winter on the Pacific coast, states that
he intended leaving for home on
the goth inst. Mr.. Lepley was impri-
soned at Los Angeles nearly a month,
being cut off from railroad and tele-
graphic communications with the out
side world by the flood:
Major Blaine and his clerk, E. d.
Rhey, arrived in the city last evening,
but were compelled to take the coach
from the Marias, as that stream was SO
hiuh it could not be forded. An effort
was made Yesterday to get the ferry BOAT
working, but in making the first trip
one of the ropes broke, causing further
delay. It will probably be III running
order to-day.
The bid presented by w. G. Jones for
the erection Of the school house was
larger by about $27, 900 than he intended.
In adding up his several estimates ne
made 1929, 600 out of what he intended TO
be So, 900, and in this way the grand
mistake occurred. The bid he intended
to offer was really 81, p less than that
of Mr.. Wilton. 1t is unfortunate Tor
the district that he got off wrong IN his
figuring.
A gentleman who has compiled a ia
BILE Of the going out of the ice at BIS
marck since 1915 (withfthe exception Of
the wears of 1S67-9-9, of which there is
no known recerd), states that for
twenty years the break up occurred in
April, and for thirteen years in March.
The earliest date recorded is March 10th,
1878, and the latest April 18th, 1853.
The record in 1916 and for many years
thereafter was kept by Fred Gerard, an
Indian trader now a resident at Man
dan. At this place, however, about a
thousand miles above Bismarck, the ice
frequently goes out in February, ana
scarcely ever later than March.
This morning Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Glassman start for Helena by private
conveyance, where they will tax the
cars en- route to Salt Lake. At Garrison
Mrs. Glassman will meet her father,
who is one of the solid men of Salt Lake,
being president of the Utah Lime and
Cement company, proprietor OF the Salt
Lake smelter, and owner OF the northern
addition to Salt Lake, where he has just
completed a $40, 900 residence. lie was
about to visit his daughter and son IN
this CITY, but the information was re-
ceived that their mother, who has been
sick for the past few months, was in a
critical condition, which is the cause OF
the hasty departure Of Mrs. Glassman.
There are many people who like to
nut their ewes on rich specimens OF min
eral. All such can be gratified by visit
inc the Merchants National bank,
where samples Of Drum Lummon ore,
taken from the lower tunnel workings,
can be seen. These extra fine specl-
mems are from a rich vein IN the bonan-
"a body, producing ore that assays from
/. 900 to 1000 ounces in silver to the ton.
The tunnel from which this mineral is
taken, is 900 feet below the out crop:
From the point of contact the tunnel
has been advanced into the ore body a
distance of forty feet. with no signs as
| vet Of reaching the opposite wall. The
average of the ore runs from $40 to $50,
as far as penetrated. The mineral now
exposed in the Drum Iummon is claim
ed to be the largest and richest ore body
lin the World.-Herald.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Work on the new court house was re-
sumed Yesterday.