The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.
from wednesdays Daily.
q r. Morrison arrived in the city yes
..Jay from Sand Coulee.
r, II H. Willard of Fort Assinaboine
lived in the city yesterday.
Cohen, a dry goods merchant of
n;ii;nys, has assigned with liabilities
Of $4,000
Inn Render, John Galbraith and Po-
va pepiOn, the posse in pursuit Of the
~" thieves, reached Clagett yesterday.
The Shonkin roundup will conclude
.bair work in a few days, after which a
nepting of the association will be heidi in
this city.
The Mineral Argus gives a good &C
aunt of the fatal fight at Lewistown on
the 4th, illustrating the situation with a
diagram.
Alike Lynch commenced crossing
+oams on his ferry boat yesterday, hay
ing completed the landing at the other
side of the river.
me. Brownies mule train and George
Maior's bull outfit were on the Cra-con-
\du.Nez hill yesterday, en- route to Fort
Essinaboine with oats.
\If the hail storm yesterday was not
any worse elsewhere than at this place
# IS safe to say it has not done much
damage to the growing crops.
The remains of the half-breed who
was shot near Clagett some days ago
we're taken in charge by the friends Of
the deceased day before yesterday and
conveyed north tor burial.
daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. +. Severance Of Okla on the 10th
inst. and Charley is now the happiest
mortal on the Musselshell. The RIVER
PRESS extends congratulations.
It rained long and hard at the Coal
Banks Yesterday morning, so Clark, the
stage driver, reports. The oldest in
ha6itant' at the Banks says it was the
heaviest rain that had fallen in that Sec
ton before i'll his recollection~
Col. Norris, of Judith Landing, spent
acouple of days in Maiden, this week.
The colonel has received the appoint
ment of postmaster at the Landing, and
expects the new mail line from Maiden
to the river to be in operation in d short
time.-Argus.
The following are the. amounts paid
out monthly by the different mines of
Butte: Anaconda, $3.50, 900; Lexington,
$4,000; Parrot, $4O,O 900; Colorado, $685.
600; Alice, $50, 900; Silver Bow, Bell and
Dexter, $50, 900 Montana, sos, 900; mis-
cellaneous, SIS, 900 total, $500, 600.
From a gentleman who recently left
Butte for Neihart, in Meagher county,
we learn that Mr.. Kingsbury has a full
force of hands working night and day
on the Queen of the Hills. The district
is booming. The Queen Of the Hills is
said to be immense.-Butte Miner.
The Maiden reduction company have
shipped the machinery for the smelter
and the work of construction will soon
commence. The citizens OF Maiden are
to be commended upon the enterprise
they have shown in this matter. which
We trust will be a complete success.
David Bell, while bathing in the Vel
lowstone at Ignite, was drowned. Sew
eral hours search has failed to recover
the body. Bell was the son of w. ID.
Bell, foreman of the Northern Pacific
Coal company at that place, was eighteen
years of age and a general f~avorite of
the miners.
Mayor Roosevelt returned yesterday
from Helena. 1t is several years since
Mr.. r. has been to the capital and he
says it has grown entirely beyond his
knowledge. There are few Of the old
landmarks left, and he recognizes in Hell
ena to-day an active, progressive, pros
lerous city.
Mr.. E. d. Reynolds, representing the
firm of Griffith u Wedge, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, manufacturers o fquartZ mills and
mining machinery, is in the city to
negotiate with parties for the erection Of
atwenty-stamp chloridiZing silver mill
complete. The above firm have built the
largest quartz mills in the United States.
We are not informed as to the location
of the new mill, but understand hat
Helena will be its nearest point for sup
plies, and that the machinery is to come
by river.-Herald.
Major Wallace of the Judith, n Of
the leading wool growers Of the terri
tory, arrived in the city yesterday. He
reports having had remarkably good
success with his fiocks this year, having
had no loss to speak Of during the win
ter. Major Wallace is not vet through
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