The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-08-06

Mlllvllle, Iowa, Miss Sadie KOlker be-
ing the lucky lass he has captured. The
RIVER PRESS congratulates.
Miss Mary Holiday has purchased of
Mrs. Eliza Scott, the Co%pperopolis sta
tlon or hotel property, between White
Sulphur Springs and Martinsdale-con-
sideration, $1,000. Miss Holiday has
Kept the M~artinsdale hotel several years
and is a deservedly popular landlady.
D. G. Browne, assignee of w. S. Wet
Eel, declared another dividend of five
per cent. on the 1st inst. Notwith-
standing the dull season Mr.. Browne is
making favorable progress in disposing
OF the large stock Of goods On hand, and
his management of the business IS most
satisfactory to all concerned.
John P. Foster, an old time restaurant
keeper along the Northern Pacific rail-
road, suicided at Billings, by taking
morphine. The coroner's inquest re-
suited in a verdict OF suicide by poison
ing. Foster had just been married, and
has not been regarded during the last
-four years as altogether sane.
Chas. Francis Adams, president of the
Union Pacific Railroad company, and
several members Of the directory, visited
Butte last week. They expressed I'M
bounded surprise at Butte's resources
and the extent and Importance of the
mining industries at that place. 1t was
to them, as it was to Jim Hill, a revela7
ton.
Capt. John Todd has returned to Pitts1
burg from the Saskatchewan, the three
boats, the Alberta, Baroness and Min
ME, together with fifteen barges, having
been laid up at Medicine Hat on account
Of low water. Capt. Todd says they
have had a very successful season. The
Canadian Pacific company are talking
OF running a narroW-gauge road from
Medicine Hat to the coal mines.
ZThe-reports from down. the river as to
|the number of horse thieves who have
been hung and shot are greately exag-
gerated, so the passengers who arrived
yesterday say. They met a number Of
men going down the river in boats, to
get out of the country. They are all
pretty we'll frightened and are pulling
Aout for other fields as fast as possible,
most of them leaving via the Big Muddy
Mr.. Baifou, the representative of the
Hudson Mining Co., has signified his
willingness to take the Mountain Chief
mine, the bond of which runs until
some time in September, but failing to
make satisfactory terms with the own
ers as to the amount OF discount, 1t is
now proposed to let the bond run until
near the time OF it's expiration before
the SIS, 900 and taking the mine.
+Husbandman.
The Harness and Saddle Gazette, pub
1lished 10y William Glassnlan, the lead
ing and popular saddIer of Fort Benton,
was distributed in the city yesterday
and will have a wide circulation
throughout the country tributary to this
city. The principal object OF the paper
is to set forth the merits OF Mr.. Glass
mans establishment, but in addition it
contains much to amuse n instruct
the reader. The Gazette is to be pub
lished quarterly and will be looked for
with interest by the public. Those who
require anything in the line OF saddlery
should peruse it carefully.
The steamer Bachelor arrived last
evening at 7 o'clock with 900 tons OF
freight for L. G.. Power & Bro, [. G..
Baker & Co., Murphy, Maclay & Co.,
and a few small shipments. The follow
ing are her passengers; Mrs. JeWe1t,
sou and grandson, Horace r. Buck, Geo.
Croft, wife and child, Miss McKinna,
Chas. Downes, Col. Donnelly, Miss Ma
ria Healy and Miss Savage. Ninety
tons of freight, included in the above
22O tons, were left, at Dauphin's rapids.
The Bachelor will leave on Monday
morning and bring up this freight, and
will leave on the 7th or 9Th for the
states. She will clean up all the wool,
bullion and hides now Oh the leyee.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad COM
pany are seriously agitating the subject
of a railroad to Fort Benton, and it need
not occasion surprise it the road was
commenced in the spring. The ship
ment of cattle is the important object IN
view, and this is of sufficient importance
to make the railroad a paying n from
the beginning. The opening of the res
ervation at the next session Of congress
will be an additional inducement for
the building Of the road. We are IN
formed by a gentleman just from the
north that the authorities are in earnest,
so we may take hope that the present
depression in business will give place to
renewed activity before another year.
Articles of incorporation Of the Butte
& Atlantic Railroad company have been
filed with the secretary OF the territory.
The object for which the company is Or
ganized is to construct, conduct, main
tain and own a standard guage railroad
from Gallatin station, on the Northern
Pacific railroad, in Gallatin county,
Montana, up the Jefferson river, through
the Jefferson canyon, to a point near the
junction of PipestOne creek with the
Jefferson river, in Jefferson county
thence up said Pipestone creek to the
summit Of the main range Of the Rocky
mountains; thence by the nearest and
most practicable route to Butte City.
Branches to Dillon and Virginia City