The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-01-30

iaoo ouludy I'll INOuuey street, With
OF % Benton line Of coaches on run
ners. Tearing down Rodney, the team,
when 1T got 10 Zeigler's stables, ran
over one of his fine cutters standing
there, smashing it to smithereens. No
Nbody hurt.
In speaking of the reduction in the
size OF the Butte daily papers, the Dillon
Tribune about hits the nail when it saws
the public will conclude that it is a far
better policy to publish a red-hot little
newspaper than it is to propel a big ir-
sipid sheet in which there is ne money
and no significant amount of empty
glory"
Mr.. w. j. Morphy, president of one
OF the largest cattle companies in Texas,
quotes for June delivery at Fort Worth
as below: Yearlings, $3.50; two-year-
olds, S2O.50. These are bottom prices,
but are from 81 to $3.50 higher than at
the same season last year, and they are
fully sustained by other large dealers.
This does not look as if the cattle bust
ness was playing out, by any means.
Clark Tingley, writing from Dakota
under date of January II, says: 1t has
stormed continually from the time of
my leaving Benton for a few days the
thermometer showed 18o below zero, all
though it felt like 400 to me. I do not
think there will be much loss of cattleI
perhaps none. Yesterday a chinook
started up n cut into the snow in good
shape; six inches has been the greatest
depth OF snow so far.
From Fridays Daily. /
The Fort Assinaboine coach arrived
at 3 o'clock yesterday.
The receipts of the travesty on We'd
nesday evening amounted to $242.
Frank Pottle will leave on the Billings
coach this morning to visit friends in
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Lieut.. Geo. S. Hoyt and Father Ebers-
vile were passengers on the Assina-
boine coach this morning..
Mr.. c. L. Spencer leaves this morning
on the Billings coach for a trip east. He
will return in five or six weeks.
Mr.. t. A. Cummings has been ap-
pointed deputy clerk Of the district
court during the absence Of Mr.. Spen-
Ger.
The music for the Travesty, furnished
by Mrs. j. M. Rasin, was excellent and
fully sustains that lady's reputation as a
sklllful accompanist.
Tom Mead arrived from Judith City
on Wednesday last, and reports matters
quiet in that section. There has not
been much snow and stock is looking
well. 4
The RIVER PRESS holiday edition is
a credit alike to publishers, town, and
country it represents. It gave a very
favorable report of Maiden and the
Warm Springs mining districts.-Mine-
raj Argus.
Pete Mitchell came in from the Coal
Banks on Wednesday. He has been
cutting wood in the Bear Paw noun
tains on the Broadwater contract for
Fort Assinaboine. All wood cutting
has been stopped for the present.
The ice crop is being harvested in
good shape the last few days. The em-
ployes Of I. G. Baker & CO. have slowed
away ITO tons for the firms use. Chas.
Bourassa intends to put up 1900 tons for
town use at the ice house in the lower
part of town.
Thomas Worthington, an able steno-
grapher, has been engaged by the Her.
aid to report the daily proceedings of
the Constitutional Convention. Mr..
Worthington has reported for news
papers many years, and is an expert in
shorthand writing.
The invitations for the fremen's ball
will be sent out in a few days now, and
those living in the surrounding country
should make their preparations to attend
this ball on the I'D of February, as they
ma rest assured that it will be the
grand affair of the season.
Just to show that Fort Benton real
estate is not such worthless truck as
some imagine we mention that Messrs.
Overfield and Churchill sold one lot yes
terday in Delatraz addition for the snug
little sum of $3.50. This is not so bad
considering the desperately hard times
Pat Hughes returned on Wednesday
evening from an extended trip east. He
visited st. Louis, Chicago and other
cities, and took his New Years dinner
with his mother and brothers at Fergus
Falls, Minnesota. This is the first visit
Mr.. Hughes has made east in nine
years.
! A private letter received from Colonel
Delany states that he is busily engaged
in looking after the interests of the Old
Dominion yeast company, of Kansas
City, Mo-, OF which he is general mana
ger. The Colonel from all accounts has
struck a bonanza, and the claims Of the
Old Dominion yeast ought to be recog-
nized.
We were shown the new ice bot last
evening and were informed that she
Twill be launched upon the ice-bound