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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Gold on the Missouri.

The finding of gold colors on the bar be-
low town has revived some of the talk Of
ten years ago relative to the possibilities of
large gold deposits at the great falls. Gold
was taken out Of French Bar, on the Mis-
souri,, in 1869 in large quantities, and
the claims have been worked every year
since. On a bar in the Missouri river
near Chestnut, parties were working last
year and making good wages. Many old
miners reason, and justly, too, that all of
the great discoveries of gold in Montana
have been made on tributaries of the Mis-
souri,, and they seem to think that large
quantity OF float gold must have been car
ried down and deposited below the falls.
The fact that good colors are found any
where in this section would indicate that
their deductions were correct. In 1876,
we believe, one of our residents wrote
long article to the Record giving informa-
ton that a party Of New York capitalists
had engaged in gigantic scheme to turn
the channel of the Missouri above the falls
lOI Tile uIpOSC VI lNlu1uS aL sOluC pOlub
below for the fabulous sums which were
supposed to be deposited there. The in
formation came like thunder clap upon
our people, and for several hours excite
ment ran high. Land below the point
claimed by the company was secured by
other parties, and a general stampede
would have taken place to the falls had
not some Individual discovered that the
date of the paper containing the account
was April 1st, and then the hoax of one of
cur fun-loving residents was discovered.
However, the theories advanced were
good, and were it possible to change the
current of the Missouri river, an immense
amount Of gold would probably be found.
We heard a gentleman say day or two
ago that he has had it in his mind for years
to go to the falls and prospect on the is
land just below to see if the theories Of
gold deposits could be verified, and it need
occasion no surprise if several people went
there this fall.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
The Trials at Regina.

REGINA, N. w. T., September 8.-Thos.
Scott, one of the Prince Albert white reb-
els, was arraigned this morning on a
charge of treason-felony. Messrs. Clarke.
@. c., and Maclise defend the prisoner.
The Indictment charges Scott with incit-
ing to rebellion at various meeting held in
March last, and with writing seditious
letters to the French at the ridge in the
locality of Batoehe. Mr.. Clark, @. c.,
entered a demurrer OH the plea that he
had not been served with copy of the
charge, and that the prisoner had had no
preliminary examination. Counsel, in a
long speech argued against the jurisdiction
of the court, asserting that history had re-
peated itself now as in 1774, when the OBJ
|noxious Quebec act was passed. Then. as
now, men were flung into jails, and JUS
tice became farce. The objection was
oyerruled, and the trial goes on tomorrow.
Big Bear will probably be tried tomorrow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
She Really Resigned.

CHICAGO, September 9.-Regarding the
change made in the United States pension
agents office here it is authoritiyely stated
that Miss Ada G. Sweet, the outgoing Of
fetal, was not removed. but that she sent
in her resignation last Saturday, and not
because of any demandor request, but be-
cause she had received from an extensive
manufacturing enterprise the general
management Of its business in the east.
The announcements is made that Miss
Sweet has accepted the offer and will es-
tablish her headquarters in New York.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
New Pension Agent.

WASHINGTON, septemger 9.-Mrs. Null
ligan was appointed pension agent at Chi
cago to-day. Sheis the widow of Col.
Thos. A. Mulligan, organizer and colonel
OF the famous ''Mulligan brigade whose
gallant service in the Union cause during
the early days Of the late war are familiar
to every reader OF the history of that strug-
gle. He was killed at Lexington, Mo-,
while gallantly defending that city. Mrs.
Mulligan is about 10 years of age and is
quite prominent in society and religious
circles in Chicago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Bad Outlook.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1.-THE
Sacramento river is so filled up With de-
bris and slickens washed down from the
mines worked in past years, that pa~sen-
ger and freight boats can no longer reach
Sacramento. Passengers and freight have
to be transferred to light barge, at the
bend of the river below the city. All
grain from the upper valleys ship
ped by water has 10 be iightered down.
The shoaling of the river has increased SO
rapidly during the last three years that
unless measures are promptly taken by
the government to thoroughly dredge the
lower basin there is every probability that
Sacramento city and all the great grain
growing valleys of northwestern Calfor-
MIA will be cut off from water communion
ton with San Francisco.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Maynard and Admiral Jouett.

WASHINGTON, September 1l.-Second
to Rear Admiral Jouett, in regard to the
item of 81 900 paid for the entertainment
of visitors to the flag ship Tennessee, at the
the New Orleans exposition, In which I've
reviews the whole question in the light of
the points raised by the Admiral to the
defense Of the expenditure. He takes is
sue with the Admiral on the point that
the expenditure could properly be made
from the laval contingent fund and quotes
from the decision made by Attorney Gen
eral Devens that contingent expenses, as
used in the appropriation acts, were such
incidental, casual expenses as are necessa-
ry or at least appropriate and convenient
in order to perform the duties required by
the department or office for which the APP
preparation is made.' The comptroller
says he has been unable to find any law
which requires either the navy department
or any officer of the navy to entertain
public officials at the expense of the gov
ernment, and adds that he cannot assent
to the Admiral's statement that it has been
the practice Of accounting officers to allow
such disbursement under the head of con-
tingent or extraordinary expenses.
But whatever the practice in this respect
may have been, he says, it will be conce-
ded that, if unlawful, it cannot be too
promptly discontinued. The comptroller
adds that the records Of the treasury de-
partment will bear him in this statement
that from time immemorial it has been the
practice where public officer had receiy-
ed money belonging to the government
to which he was, for any reason, not en-
titled, to make a stoppage in his pay ac.
count until the amount illegally received
has been made good.
In concluding, the comptroller suggests
that the Admiral bring suit for the portion
of his pay withheld and SO test the whole
question.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
indians After Cinnamon.

PORTLAND, Or, September "A. Seat
tie, Washington territory, special says
Last night party of Indians, headed by
white men, attacked party of Chinese
hop-pickers, thirteen miles east of this
city, with clubs and stones, killing two
and wounding four ofthe Chinese. The
cause of the row was that in former years
Indians had been hired exclusively to
pick hops, and this year one firm hired
Cinnamon. They were warned to leave,
but refused to 60.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
The Puritan's Fault

New YORK, September 8.-The Puri-
tan was entirely at fault for to-day's col
lision off Scotland light. The ship Genes
ia was on the starboard tack and had the
right OF way. The Puritan was on the
port tack, and in attempting TO cross her
bow less than one minute before the start
ting signal was given, fouled the Geuesta,
the bowsprit of the latter going through
the clew of the Puritan's mainsail close to
the boom, making a hole two feet square.
The foot-ropes of the sail held the end OF
the boWsprit, which was broken off close
to the stem head. The committee then
ruled the Puritan out and told Sir Richard
Sutton he might sail over the course if he
wished. The latter promptly declined
the offer with thanks. No one was in
jured. Both boats were towed to Staten
island and will probably race on Friday.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
a Smart Coon.

''Is the coon a smart animal?" asked
stranger of old ST Jackson, on Onion
creek. ''Talk about coons being smart, I
should say dey was smart" ''Well, how
smart are they?" "A coon played me de
meanest trick you eber heard tell on. I
foun' hole whar do coon went into de
groun', and | waited dar all day long to
shoot dat coon, and when he did come out
he was polecat. Texas Siftings.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16

The claim of Henry A. Fry for $244. 80,
constable's fees, was laid over. The clerk
was directed to write to him in reference
to the illegality Of certain items and re-
quest him to file new bill according TO
law.
The report of the viewers of the upper
Teton road was accepted.
A petition from residents Of Great Falls
for road to the Choteau county line was
granted, and r. Vaughn, j. Coon and Da-
vid Wilson appointed viewers, to serve
without pay.
The report of the viewers of the Great
Falls road to Red coulee was accepted.
The report of the sheriff showing the
property in the jail was accepted.
The clerk was directed to request the
sheriff to invoice all property in the court
house under his control and report.
The meeting then adjourned until 8 a..
M, Sth inst.
SECOND DAY.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Callers at the White House.

WASHINGTON, September l1.-ro-day
was busy day at the white house, and
the president received larger number of
visitors than on any day since his return.
Among the prominent callers were Secre-
tary Bayard, Assistant secretary Porter
and ex-senator Mcdonald. The president
held public reception in the east room in
the afternoon, lasting nearly an hour.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Curing a Bad Memory

Your memory is bad, perhaps, but I
can tell you two secrets that will cure the
worst memory. One-to read subject
when strongly interested. The other is to
not only read, but think. When you have
read paragraph or a page stop, close the
book and try to remember the ideas on
that page, and not only recall them
vaguely to your mind, but put them into
words and speak them out. Faithfully
follow these two rules and you have the
golden kew of knowledge. Besides mat
tentiYe reading, there are other things in
furious to the memory. One Is the habit
OF skimming over newspapers, al in a
confused jumble, never to be thought of
again, thus diligently cultivating habit
of careless reading hard to break. An
other is the reading of trashy novels.
Nothing is SO fatal to reading with profit
as the habit Of running through story after
story and forgetting them as soon as read.
know gray haired woman, A life long
lover of books, who sadly declares that
her mind has been ruined by such reading.
st. Nicholas.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
R1el's Appeal Denied.

CHICAGO, September 9.-The Daily
News Winnipeg special says: The full
court of Manitoba, composed of Chief JUS
tice Wallridge and Justices Taylor and
Killman, to-day gave judgement on the
Riel case, disallowing T nneal and con-
firming the death sen sssed by the
Northwest territory c III held that
according to the evidel. j jury could
not come to any other deci 8nthan they did
that by the Dominion statute, confirmed
by the imperial parliament, the Northwest
territory court clearly had Jurisdiction;
and that while the prisoner acted strange
" at times, he is a clever, designing man,
who sought to advance lis own personal
interests by using the half-breeds as tools.
There is a growing conviction in Winnipeg
that Riel will be hanged on the 18th.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Board met at 8: 30 a. M; all present.
The following bills were allowed:

The report of the probate judge was re-
ceived and accepted and ordered filed.
After reading several letters from the
clerks of other counties. the board ordered
that the assessment of sheep be placed at
the rate of 1926 per head.
The report of J. w. Tattan, justice Of
the peace, was read and approved, and it
was ordered that the witnesses and jurors
as reported be paid.
The report of the county treasurer was
received, the money in his hands counted,
found correct, and the report adopted.
1t was ordered that Judge Wade be re-
quested to permit the October, 1885, term
of criminal court to lapse, and that the
county clerk be instructed to forward a
copy of this preamble and order for his
approval.
The petition of the residents Of the low
er Teton and Marias asking for school
district with the Endorsement of the coun-
ty superintendent was granted, and the
superintendent of schools was directed to
organize said district with the boundaries
as furnished.
THIRD DAY.
The following bills were allowed:
Jno T Athey Observation-Disclosures. 80
Chas Rowe ......................-..... 2 bO
Jn0 w Tattan. - 6O
frank Lepper l3 70
Morrow X Miller. .-+..~......-...-,.- = 70
The sheriff's bills dsallowed during the
August meeting were reconsidered and
ordered paid.
The appointment of Willis f. Parker to
be deputy district attorney for Choteau
county was approved, he to file Q bond in
the sum Of $1,000.
The clerk was ordered to notify the su-
pervisor of road district No. to do no
more work until ordered by the board.
The question of the condition Of the
poor farm was considered and acommuni-
cation forwarded to the commissioner oI
the general land Office at Washington on
the subject.
The county superintendent OF schools
was requested to transmit to the boarG at
the next meeting a report OF all scnool
districts and to define the boundaries ex-
plicitly.
The clerk was instructed to notify DO.
Blevins and Raphael Morgan that afEer
October 1st, 1885, the county will not make
any allowance for the board of George
Weipert.
The matter of the claim of JULIAN +.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
TO be Retired.

WASHINGTON. September 1l.-Inspector
General Nelson H. Davis will be placed
on the retired list on the goth inst. His
successor is understood to be either Gen.
Roger Jones or Gen. Baird.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16
Military Uprising.

LONDON, September 11.-Advices from
Madrid say that the military uprising in
that city is limited to one of the largest
barracks. The soldiers seized their arms
and shouted death to our chiefs.'' The
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16

authorities, who had feared an outbreak,
were prepared for the rising and vigor-
ously suppressed it before it had time to
assume formidable proportions.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16

Brethren, is there man with soul so
dead, who never to himself has said-sI
will my local paper take, both for my own
and family's sake p II such there be, let
him rep, nr, and have the paper to him
sents for If he'd pass happy winter, he
in advance shonld pay the printer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-16

Book and job Printing !. specialty ut
the RIVER PRESS office.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15

nearly all the necessities and even Injuries
OF ifs, and that prices and wages through
the sheer force of supply and demand, are
trying to equalize themselves and
adapt one to the other. The tre-
mendous stimulation and consequent over
production, of past years is having its
legitimate sequence. The vast fortunes
amassed IN few years through speculation
and unhealthy trading has concentrated
capital and in . great measure arrsyed
labor against it II steady, slow growth
could have been maintained by q wider
distribution ofsmaIl manufacturers, so that
that the accumulation Of from $4,000 to
100000 in an average business lifetime, say
from thirty to forty years, would have been
considered fair accumulation Of wealth
it is quite likely that to day there would not
exist that general dissatisfaction between
skilled labor and the manufacturer. Fewer
milhonsires and more citizens worth from
ten to twenty-five thousand dollars would do
more to rszee the present social and 6nan-
cisl anomalies and restore to q more har-
monious basis these two great but op-
posing forces than any other condition.
Such q condition is the logic of
genuine and prosperous republics. When
the people graVitate to the two extremes Of
great wealth and great poverty, crash is
inevitable and out of the chaos strong
government arises where the weak become
weaker and the strong stronger, that is sure
to bid farewell to the ideal republic. Just
now both sides are discontinued and in the
estimation Of each other, unreasonable. How
they will satisfy one another as to the reason,
ableness of their claims is difficult to tell, bat
nearly al people with the fair use of their
reasoning powers can see that there is
gradual drifting to a hsrd,pan basis and
until that point is reached the agitation and
surging disarrsngement Of the two great
factors in the countrys prosperity and
peaceful course. viii continue.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15

l.. G. DENNIS, of Gainesville, Florida,
died last Monday of deleriuu tremens on q
wager that he could drink two quarts OF
whisky. The whisky is gone and 50 is he.
DENNIS is notable as the man who made
HAYES President. 1t was he who eoncoc-
ted, and with the aid of his satellites, sue
cessfully carried out the Archer precinct
frauds which gave the State to the Republ-
cans, by 2O2 majority. This precinct it
viii be remembered returned 209 more votes
than were actually cast
The dispatch which relates his death also
says this OF him:
Mr.. Dennis went to Washington soon
after the Inauguration Of Hayes, and Tor
making Hayes President he said he
was offered an insignificant revenue ap'
poiutment in Ohio" On his return to
Florida he denounced Hayes in unuessured
terms, and never again showed the ardor OF
bygone days for the grand old party" and
was ever after warning against certain lead
ers. The last speech he made in this city
was last fall, against the election Of Fl. Bis
bee Jr., Republican nominee for Congress.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15

THE following extract from a Washing
ton special, dated the 18th, to the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, reads very ssnsa.
tional and is doubtless greatly exaggerated:
at is reported from Romney W. Va
that considerable excitement was produced
there by the fact that Revenue Collector
McGraW, Democrat. has reapPointed
Harvey Wooden, the Republican Dep
uty Collector at that place. It is
said that the Democrats there were
iucensed ever the matter and that to day an
indignation meeting was held, at which
speeches we're made, and the Cleveland and
Hendricks pole, erected during the cam
main. was cut down. The broom which sur
mounted the pole was sent bV express to
Governor jackson, of West Virginia, to De
presented to an oficeholder who will use 1t
"a intended"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15
INCIDENTALLY.

There is much talk about the dizziness OF
the times. Persons on Main street
Saturday night would not have thought
there was anything in it. The retail stores
were full of buyers to overlooking. EVi-
IDENTIFY good deal of stuff is being sold.
In the matter Of carpets one prominent
dealer said last week, that every family
in Wheeling must have bought carpet this
year so many had been sold, Carpets are
very cheap this season which perhaps &C.
counts for it. Speaking Of cheap goods
there Is q great drop as compared with for
mer years. A good lawn dress can be
bought for Eve cents q yard, the better
qualities for ten cents and upwards. Good
calico can be bought for four and tive cents
a ward, and the best for seven. Running
ND the scale of finer goods there is summer
silks we notice are advertised as low as
fhirty-thres cents per yard, and choice pat
terms as low as fifty cents. This is drop
Of over fifty per cent from last year. Double
width, all wool goods are offered at Fifty
cents Many other articles are likewise down.
Head and foot gear are also in proportion.
Our merchants have no hesitancy in saying
that staple and standard goods of all dis
criptions are sold lower in Wheeling than
in the metropolitan cities. In fact this is
cOrro5orated by the prices We observe in The
advertisements of the merchants in the e1
changes on the REGISTERS table. These
conditions ought to be taken into cOnsiders-
t;on BY our rural citizens who have the ne
csssities Of life TO sell And indeed it seems
If they are looking upon the situation very
practically. We observe the best butter is
retailing as low Is fifteen to twenty cents.
The freshest eggs are down to fifteen cents
Strawberries that sold last year at the start
~ The season ct twenty-five cents box are
rov offered at half that price. Vegetables
Ell k;pSs are down. Although wheat Is
o,.h,,rt croD the best family -four is selling
:, ~ dollars per barrel, while low grade
onal;ty Is As low 81 four, and 9 tAE quality
at ave dollars. ,.,
There Is much more that might Be SAID
10 show the general downward ssodsnoI Oh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15
Trustees Sale of Real 6

yIRTuE OF A DEED OF Tays
ID ing date the I'D day Of Fsbruky.
by CiRktian Seibke md Kate eeibke, HI
me a. srustee, and recorded In deed Of Se,
II, psze go, OF the land records OF Or
West Virginia, TIN said trustee will, 90
Saturday, June s7th, 1885,
ell at paSlic auction. ct the front door e.
House % aid ohio county, commencing 81
q. M. tho following described rcai e.tals, /
Thirty ret Oh Of the north side OF 10, !
sixty eight t6s) In joseph Caldvell's addis !,
city Of Wheeling, In Ohio county, In n,
West virsinta. said part OF aid lot Is n
fronts thirty (3ol lee. sa the vest side q
strp<t, between Twenty-dxh and Tserh,
streets, and e1ts1ds back In Q westerly a,
even width nfty six (56l feet more or les ,
street, In the Si1th ward Of said city.
Said properly Il the same which wa' COZ,
the said Christian Seibke By samuel N. 4
and wife BY deed dated The ID day OF Fshrs,
and recorded In the clerks Office q. n,
Court Of Ohio csanty. VEST Virginia, in y
No. 81, pages 4Qf sud <2a
TERNs OF SALK-One-third 1.-THE purrA,,
shall he paid IN cash on day OF sale; |,
.hersof In one ysaf, with interest, and u,
derthtrsof In two yeafs with Interest IN.
sale. the purchases giving his notes With n,
ity for the deferred pay msnts, and the los,
the property 20 be retained until u, ,
money shall hsxe bsen paid In full.
Iny4si r q. BARR, 7,