The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-05-14
LOCAL NOTES.
From Saturdays Daily.

robn w. Power and bride will return
70 Fort Benton in about three weeks.
lack Hammond left day before yes
to-day with a team load or
snnnIies for Neihart.
ems Senieur informs us that the brick
r,ork on the new court house will be
completed next~wee
Iohn Lepley and A. w. Kingsbury,
the cattle kings of the Big Sag, returned
to their ranches yesterday.
II. w. Reed and his sister arrived by
nrivate conveyance from C~lendenin yes
therday, and are at the Grand Union,
G. G. Griffith is in the Sand Coulee
co9I fields, making surveys for parties
uJho have located mineral lands in that
section.
Will Kelly has accepted 8 position
with Murphy, Maclay q Co., as book
keeper. He is succeeded at +. w. Buck
sens by Charley Kelly.
We see that r. T.. McCulloh and J.
n. Mcknight, two well known and
non1lar M~ontanians, were at the Grand
Pacific, Chicago, on the 9th Inst.
The bids for carrying the malls on the
several star routes of the west, accord
inc TO the advertisements, were opened
at Washington on the Sd inst.
George Meinhardt, the painter, who
was located in this city a short time last
season, has returned to Helena with his
family to remain permanently.
The population of Miles City, as
.bown nv a recent census taken in IN
tirination of an application to the dis
trict court for incorporation) is only
1888.
Hon. f. D. Cooper, the we'll known
wool grower, was married at st. Louis
on the 25th ult., to Miss Alice Green,
and has returned to Montana with his
bride.
Governor Crosby has passed the crisis
in the attack of pneumonia which has
frustrated him during the past week,
and is now reported to be out Of danger.
Herald.
Geo. 5. Hume has been appointed re-
ceiver of the National Park Improve
ment Company by the courts Of Wyo-
ming, and now there are two receivers
to fight for the control and manage
ment of the property.
A letter received a day or two ago
from the Cueur d'Alenes by II of our
citizens gives a hopeful and glowing &C
count Of the camp, stating h a several
claims are now being worked, and are
paving big-not less than $40 to the
man per day.
F. w. Reed was in Neihart two or
three DAYS ago, and reports everything
lively in that camp, with grand ex-
pectations for the future. He met +.
G.. K~ingsbury and party near Charley
Martins, on Belt creek, and thinks
they got into camp yesterday.
A freighting outfit belonginS to S. ?.
Smith, of White Sulphur Springs, pass
ed through town yesterday en- route to
Dickinson, from which place they will
transport freight to the Black Hills for
Asel Kyes, who has a large contract in
the freighting line from the Northern
Pacific to all points in the Hills.-Miles
City Press.
Citizens of Billings expect to see a
branch road built from the Northern
Pacific to the Rock creek coal mines.
The Bull mountain mines seem to nave
been practically abandoned by the rail
IOdu COfIlpduy " LIN OOOA ooA 49,
lings friends give Col. Clough as their
authority. The point of departure will
not be Billings, however'-Livingston
Enterprise.
The commissioner of the Western
Trunk line association has announced
the following rates from Butte and Dill
lon, Mont, upon shipments Of low
grade ore in car loads of not less than
"a 700 pounds: From Butte to Chicago,
Milwaukee and common points, 923 cts.
per 100 pounds; to Mississippi river
points, 875 cts. From Dillon to Chicago
Milwaukee and common points, o75 cts;
to Mississippi river points, so cts.
The following complimentary notice
of Col. M. J. Leaning, Of this city, is
from the Bozeman Chronicle Colonel
Leaning, of Choteau, was n OF the
delegates, who enlisted the warm com
mendation of even his opponents by the
manly straightforward declaration OF
his choice for president, when to all ap
pearance he was leading a forlorn hope
His history, as detailed to US by Mr.
Gould, is full of romance, and demon
strates the sterling qualities Of a man.
A German at Clendenin, who occa
~sionally gets a little off in the upper
story, started out a few nights ago OF
mischief intent. He got possessed 9
the idea that he ought not want for any
thing while the stores We're full Of goods
and proceeded to carry his notion int
effect. He broke in some window light!
at Al. Rogers and was abont to heb
himself to some goods when driver
away by a few shots from AIS revolver
but which, happily, failed to take effect
He then repeated this programme q
Max Kabaher's, and brought that gen
tleman and his musket to the front, whel
the crazad citizen was oYernOWered ant