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Great Inducements! _= SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS AT COST! WE WILL SELL FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS the remaining stock of Spring and Summer Clothing, Fur nishing Goods, Hats and Caps, Boots, Shoes, &c., OS In order to make room for our Immense stock of Fall AI ' C~± and Winter Goods now on the way here. The Summer Stock .8Iust be Sold TIhis zs no HIumbu!? Wfe WHill do WIhat we Say. Orders by mail or express will receive prompt attention. HIRSHBERC & NATHAN. Front Street, - - - - FORT BETON, M. T. £ fnossrional Cards. B. LEROY POWERS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. .lpetial attention given to collections. Will practicein all of the Courts. mr22tf SHOBER AND LOWRY, Attorneys at Law and Collecting Agent¶ Jackson Street near Wood Street. HELENA. M. T. JOHN W. TATTATN, ATTORN EY AT LAW, Fort Benton, Montana Conveyancing a Specialty Office at County Clerk's Office, Court House ouilding. (se 12dwtf) J. A. EANOUSE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law FORT BENTON1T, 1I. T., NOTARY PUBLIC AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. OFFICE: MainStreet between Baker and St. John's Streets. W. B. SETTLE. C. W. SETTLE. SETTLE & SETTLE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, FORT BENTON, MONTANA. Will practice in all the courts of the erritory. buy, sell and convey Real Estate, Mining and Town Property. Collections of all kinds promptly attended Mc.H.McKAY,D. M.D., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, All Clendenin and Barker District calls promptly attended to. (janlldwtf) Estray Taken Up Came to my ranch, on the south side of the riv .er, below the mouth of the Marras, three horses, two sorrell and one chestnut sorrell branded cir cle K on left shoulder, and one branded with anchor on left shoulder, (brand partly effaced) and circle cross on left hip, On the chestnut is branded 2 on left shoulder. The owners can have the horses on paying charges and the cost of u si advertisement. j:O.l I. N. CHURCHILL John W. Dewey, CIVIL ENCINEER. AR C IITECT -AND U. S,. Deputy Mineral Surveyor. !'ORT BENTON, lION TANA JOHN H. EVANS. Broer andl Brewerys ooI, FRONT ST., FORT BENTON. I am manufacturing and selling Beer of the ~est quality, bottled or by the keg. IDelivered to fm ilies in all parts of the city, The Saloon iscarry ing the t nest stock of wines and liquors ever brought to the Territory. jys-ly CHARLES SHERIDAN, JOB & EXPRESS WAGON. Fort Benton. M. T DISSOLUTION NOTICe. The ao-pairtersbip heretote. existing be tween HoianUd & Hackle is this day dissolved by mutual consent to ai, Hollald retiring. All debts of the said concern will be paid By C. C. Hackle who will also collect eutstandlng debt. DAN. HOLLAND. C. C. KACKLE. Fort Benton, M. T.,,July C, '988. TOEL. J. TODD & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in WiNES, LIQ UORS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. WIISIIES. Hermitage, Lanhcaster, I 'McBrayer, Mellwood Rye, SBlue Grass, Blue Ribbon,O. K. Anderson, O. Horsey Rye, Stag, Nelson, Reindeer, Magnolia, Scotch and Irish Whiskies. r_ l>mooºted ,,Wines. mann randies ! Guiness Stouts, Bass' Ale, Ginger Ale, Double Soda, Cider, Mineral waters, Angostora Bitters, Hostetter Bitters, iReed'S rktalI bitters, Etc. W- Agents for Montana for O'Donnell's "Blue Ribbon O. K. Whisky." . ase Goods of all Kinds. Fort LBenton, Montana. STRAYED OR STOLEN. $50 Reward. From Seligman, Bailey & Kennett'sranch, near Fort Maginnis, 10 head of horses branded I J on left should-r or hip. One dark bay mare, white spot on forehead, branded seven and six connected on left shoulder; one dark bay mare, seven and six connected on lefr shoulder and I J on left hip; one two year old, clear bay stud, I J on left hip; one large bay mare, seven and six con nected on left shoulder; one bay yearling, I J on left hip: one roan pinto mare, E on left shoul der and IJ on left hip; one bay yearling L J on left hip. $10 will be paid for information lead ing to their recovery, or $50 for their delivery at the ranch. SELIGM AN, BAILEY & KENNETT. Fort Maginnis, M. T. F. W. BUCKSEN & CO. Have the Largest and Best Selection of TOYS, NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, CIGARS AND rJOI3ACCOO, Fresh Fruits and Fine Confectionery, Ever brought to Benton. "PARK" Q - -71 NOTICE TO CREDITO RS. Estate of Frank H. Burd. deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, ad ministrator of the (state o` Frank H Burd, de ceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary voucher within four months lafter the first publication of this notice to the said administrator ator at ld Agency, Chotean County, M. T', or to Messrs. Buck & Hunt, attorneys, at their office at Fort Benton. SAMUEL C. BURD, Administrator of the estate of Frank H. Bur 'Xeceased. Oated at Fort Benton, May 14th 1883. T, A CUMMINGS& CO REAL ESTATE, FIRE -INSURANCE LOANS. We Represent the Leading Fire Insurance Companies of the World. Assets over $40,000,000. Insurance Which Means Indemn Ity Against Loss. Pre-empters furnished money to Prove up and perfect their titles. We have money to loan secured by in dorsement or mortgage at current rates. Market prices paid for Choteau County and City Warrants. Mortgage Loans a Specialty. T. A. CUMIJINGS & CO. OFFICE: - - - Bond street, near Main, feb28-82dtf ARCADE estauralat Lach Room, JOHN KLEBEB, Proprietor. Front street, rear of Atlantic saloon, adjoining Joe Sullivan's harness manufactory. Open Day and Night. Meals at all Hours. Best Table in the city A1l? the Luxuries of the Season Served in first-class style. Famlies Supplied with Meals at Residences. Prices Reasonable. SATISFACTION G UAlRANTEED. apr2ltt $25.00 REWARD. Strayed from the wood yard of W B. Shanks, on the Missouri river near the Coal Banks, one buckskin horse branded S on left side of neck un der the mane, dim brand on left shoulder, weight about 800 pounds. Also one bay horse branded joined AF on left shoulder, weight about 850 pounds. A reward of $25 00 will be paid if de livered at the Park Stables, Fort Benton, M. T., or $20.OO will be paid for any information which will lead to their recovery. Aug25dtf. M ONTAN A COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, LOCATED AT DEER LODCE, MONTANA. This new Institution of Learning will be open for both sexes Monday, September 3, 1883, With an able Corps of Instructors. Boarding facilities for pupils have been provi ded and will be under the care of a competent Matron, and the personal supervision of one of the Pofessors. Tultien, per Session of Five Months .......$20.00 Roard, Washing. Fuel and Lights, per week 6.00 Music and Modern Languages Extra.......... For further information address either: REV. E. J. GROENEVED, DeerLodge, Montana. REV. J. R. RUSSEL, Butte, Montana. REV. D. J. McMILLAN, Salt Lake City. Utah. aug9wlt J. R. Wilton, ARCH IHTEC T, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.! FORT BENTON, M. T. Will contract for brick or frame dwellings, vourches, and public buildings. Plans and specit Qcations furnishedand work executed in the most satisfactory manner. PIONEER BOOK BINDERY --AND- BLANK BOOK MANUFACTOrY HELENA, M. MONTANA. This house is prepared to execute every thing a theline of Book Binding. Books and Blanks of all descriptions Ruled, Printed, Numbered and Bound to any desired rrder. All orders per mail receive prompt attention. GEO. E. BOOS, Helena, Montana. my97w DR. GOODRICH, #n a 60 w+orknte or er ateP THE THIRST DANCE. How it is Celebrated by Our Red Brethren. The Indians held a thirst dance on the Lacrosse grounds or race track, early this week. About fifty tents took part. The ceremonies were directed by Shining El bow, from Egg Lake, south of Victoria, who ran last year's dance also. The per formance began on Monday afternoon, when the poles for the tent were cut amidst great shouting and firing of guns. The tent was about forty feet in diameter, but was merely a circle of young poplars with all their leaves on, placed close to gether, and leaning inwards at an angle of forty-five degrees, so as to shelter the dancers and spectators from the sun and wind. Of course it offered no protection from rain, but none came while the dance was in progress. In the middle of the tent or circle was erected a large stout pole from which were hung the presents offered to the thunder spirit in whose hon or the dance was held. Around nearly one-half of the tent a few feet from the wall a breast work was formed of young leafy poplars and behind this the dancers were ranged, the men in one part and the women in the other. There were about eighteen dancers in all, six men and twelve women. In front of the dancers, outside the breastwork, the drummers were seated on the ground. Half the space of the tent on the side of the pole that the dancers were was sacred to the use of believers, while the other half was given up to unregenerate spectators who were charged an admission fee of twenty-five cents. The dance commenced about sundown on Monday and was kept up until the same time on Wednesday evening. The dancers were dressed as fantastically and painted as hideously as possible, and kept goose bone whistles between their lips ma king unearthly sounds with them while dancing to the music of the drum and the eternal "hi-ya," of all concerned. They were allowed to sit down when the music stopped, but as long as the drums kept going the dancers had to keep going too. They were not supposed to either eat, drink nor rest otherwise than by squatting down when the drumming ceased for the forty-eight hours that the dance lasted. On Tuesday afternoon an Indian named Tongue Master went through the mill by allowing two wooden pins to be put through the flesh of his breast and then fastened to a rope which hung from the top of the centre pole. His part of the performance was to lean back and let the greater part of his weight come on the pins, as he was dancing, but he found that it was a more painful operation than he calculated on and gave up. Another In dian went through the same performance on Wednesday, but with much better grace. A sham fight on Wednesday after noon was a little exciting as guns were fired at very close quarters, so close indeed that one of the fighters had his cap blown off by the powder from a double-barrelled shot gun. After the sham fight the brave ones, both men and women, related their experiences in killing Blackfeet, one woman saying that she had scalped a Blackfoot while he was yet alive. This statement was greeted with loud applause. We had intended to give a report of some of their speeches, but found that the lan guage used was not altogether as polite as was desirable, or indeed necessary for pub lication. Towards evening on Wednesday presents were made to the spirit by those, on behalf of those, who had been unable to continue in the dance the alloted time, or who had failed to torture themselves as theyhad vowved to. The show came to a close on Wednesday evening at sun down. It was not nearly as grand an affair as that of last year, in point of numbers or otherwise, the Rear's Hill Indians, who were prime movers in last year's dance not being present, and those who were present seeming to have very little faith in what they were doing, showing that the old order of things is dying out rapidly. A few years ago when the buffalo were plentiful and the Indians numerous and in good heart, and before the superstition had been worn out of them by hunger, hard times and contact with the whites, their thirst dances were great occasions, sometimes three or four hundred lodges taking part.- The thirsting and fasting sometimes lasting for three days, and a person who failed to keep his fast or could not hold out to the third day sank very low in the esteem of his fellows and was thought to be in great danger from the wrath of the thunder spirit. The offerings hung on the center pole were allowed to remain, no one daring to take them or lay a finger on them for fear the thunder would strike him. The tortures that some of them inflicted on themselves were also more severe than anything attempted now. A common practice was to make two slits through the muscles in the small of the back, pass small lines through these, and fasten them to a buffalo head, which the Indian had to drag so many times around the tent in fulfillment of his vow. No person was allowed to touch the head or assist him in any way. Even if the horns caught in the ground there was no help for it; he had to get them loose the best way he could, but without touching either the head or the lines except as he was first.fas tened. Sometimes when fastened to the centre pole by a line through the muscles of the breast they would lift their feet off the ground and swing on the muscles alone. Other times one or more guns were suspended from slits cut in the muscles below the shoulder blades, while the In dian walked around the tent so many times, and sometimes the slits were torn obut altogether by wild horses. The thunder spirit, to whom all these sacrifices are made, is supposed to be a large bird who shoots his arroiw at the earth, and. the thunder is the o ..i dof these arrows going through the air. He Is the terrible one~whe faor the Indians are especially anxiousio secure time o war. Thti ra d$e, oweer, is so much to meeatr vdr fa e future ap to express grtullue favors ? icvoeit in eas, Aih du tih Kaiyaddphtb h amount of sacrifices or the severity of the penance is expected to have some slight I effect on future occasions. In times of danger or trouble the Indian vows to his thunder spirit that if he will see him c through safely, at the next thirst dance s that occurs he will make certain sacrifices I or do certain penance, and when the occa - sion arrives he must fulfil his vow on pain of the displeasure of the spirit. The amount of the sacrifice or penance is regu lated by the amount of langer or difficulty t to be averted, by the depth of the faith of the person making the vow. or his or her desire to be thought very brave, very gen erous or very religionus. Some promise to give presents, some to dance and some to r torture themselves, just as the occasion or temper is. In all cases a person who promises penance may be, released from that penance by making presents of sulti cient value. The untutored red man un derstands thoroughly that the human heart and soul is situated in the pocket. The speeches that are made reciting warlike deeds in days gone by are also supposed to be pleasing to the thunder spirit. and in former times it was aconlted sacrileege to tell an untruth on such an occasion. It is to be feared that the latter superstit ion was not adhered to very strictly in this dance. -EdT on(ton 71i/ctin. The Indian Comnmnission. Senator Vest and Delegate IMaginnis, in the capacity of at sub-committee to inqtu ire into the expediency of reducing certain Indian reservations in Montana, and into the grievances of Indians therein, will visit the Gros Ventres ad Assinaboines at the Fort Belknap agency; the l'iegans, Bloods, Blackfeet, at the Blackfectagency; the Flatheads and other confederated tribes at the Flathead agency; Carlos, Flathead band in the Bitter Root valley; and make such investigations and dis chare such duties as devolve upon the full committee.-Ind.iependent. Sl . DISOIUITITON NOTICE. The co-partnership heretofore exieti nbetween S. A. Robertson and Charles Kendall, under ti,. firm name of Robertson &- Kendall, is dissolved by mutual consent, Charles Kendall retiring. S. A. Robertson assumes all debts and collects outstand ing bills. S. A. ROBERTSON. CHARLES KENDALL. Fort Benton, August 10, 1883. MONTANA CATTLE C0. (INCORPORATED.) JOHN T. 3MURPHY, Manager. Organized, name and brand recorded in 1879. Range--Museleehell Valley. Address--IIHlenn anr \tartinsdale. M. T. Mrs. ELIZA PHELPS. Address - David 5. I'hclp,; Iti a, Taaiaher county, M. T. Range-Judith Ba~sin. CHARLES CRAWFORD. Address-Fort Benton, M. T. Range-Shonkin and Highwood. Vent--U on left hip. KLEINSCHMI I)T & BRO. Fort Benton. Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Wines, Liquors aind Cigars. Canned Goods a Speciality. SUMMONS, In the District Court of the Third Judicial Dis trict of the Territory of Montana, in and for the County of Choteau. ERASTUS T. TEFFT, JOSEPH II. WILLUR, HERBERT R. CLARKE. GEO. C.CLARKE. I FRANK TEFFT and JOHN N. BEACH, Co-partners doing business under the firm name of TaFFT, WELLER & CO., Plaintiffs, ( Against, JOHN CLNNIAGHAM and JoHN B. GRIF FIN, Assignee of JOHN CUNNINGHAM, Defendants. The people of the Teriitory of Montana send greeting to the above named Defendants: You are hereby require' to appear in an action brought against you by the above named Plaintiffs in the District Court of the Thir.i Judicial District of the Territory of Montana, in and for the County ef Chotean, and to answer the complaint filed therein, within ten days (exclusive of the day of service) after the service on you of this Summons. if served within this county; or, if served out of this county, but in this District, within twenty days; otherwise in forty days, or judgment by de fault will be taken against you, according to the prayer of said complaint. The said action is brought to recover of you cer tain goods and merchandise or the sum of Eight Hundred and Forty-Six and 57-100 Dollare, the value thereof sold and delivered by plaintiffs to John Cunningham and by said Cunninghanm frau ? ulently assigned to John B. Griffin with intent to defraud and cheat plaintiffs, as morefully ap pears by the complaint on file in this action: also for interest upon said acco.t from March 8. 1883, and for all co sts.of t fat a o such other relief as may be epitable and necesri ry. And you areereby notifed that UOu fail to] Sappear anzper thi sald compalt, as above requirretbe eidplaintlfawiJI appifol i ~dpamst giatetoor said goodsandd oz the sumi of 846 57-100; the value thereft, and inter est, and cesof` suit and for such other elief as may be ý dtrand necessary as prayed for in Given nder my batd the of th of Sesli CI+s. +t Z r ea4~rr 'u.P ' A3 MONTANA CATTLE COMPANY. (Incorporated.) R. B. IfARr.rsoN, Pres. W. D. WHEELER, Treas. L. A. WAI.KER, Secy. R. P. RVAL.KER, Snpt. Address of ('ompany-Ielelrna. i. T. Address of Superintelnd(nt-sun River, I. T. Range-North side of lower Sun tiiv er. Vent same on thigh. Cattle branded , on left side and hip. i MONTANA CATTLE COMPANY. (Incorporated.) H. B. II.ARlaos. Pres. W. D. WnIIEEI.ER. Trea L. A. WALKER, Secy. R. P. WALKER, Supt. Address of Company-Helena, If. T. Address of Superintendent-Sun River, M3. T. Range-Sun River Country. Ear-marks--Half crop off right and upper hit in left. Vent-Brand inverted on left side. Owners of cattle branded and H-H Horses branded on left shoulder. Vent same on left thigh.. Saa Is dc o. J. I. Taylor, .Igent Vent-Same as brand inverted on left shoulder. SNYDER & JONES. Address--Fort Sh:w. 3I T. Range-),i 'ts,' -!in i it.r and Dearxborn. It '-ru - 1 ri' - icropt left. and upper hit right oear. Vent--Horizontal l !,ir above brand, thus, ~I • B. D. PIIILIPS. Address-Fort Benton, 3M. T, Range-.TJudith Basin. Ear-marks--Split in left enr, piece off of top of right ear. HIorsesbranded P on right thigh. Benton & St. Louis Cattle Co. Paid up e) Culital $i00,000o. (Correspond ence Poticited(. Also owners ol brands: Z on left id. * on right 1lil. X on left thigh. H on left shide. lan i -e-, a tins Valley. Atkiress--.'ort Bnton. 31. T. OXILEXY, IiANCII. Address-John R. Craig, Manager )xley Rainch, Dupuyer Creek, Old Agency, M. T.: or, Oxlcy, Fort Macleod, N.W. T., Canada. Cattle brand-O X, lefT hip and rib. Ear marks-Crop off left car, swt,llow fork oil rorse brand-O X left shoulder. Also owners of cattle branded I and I (w) S.A.1T d, CO. J. F. Taylor, Jlgent. Address-Helena or Old Agency, Mf. T. Range-Between Teton and Marias Rivers. Cho teau county. Ear-marls--Crop and tralt over crop in lelt ear. Calvos of the year 1879 and of succeeding years are branded only on left side. Horses branded same as ca'tie on left shoulder Vent-Same as brand inverted on left shoulder. l.VET %~