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THE RIVER PRESS. LOCAL NOTES. Prom ~sturday's Daily. Portland advices of the 19th inst. say that on that clay the first through freight for Missoula, over the Northern Pacific, was shipped. Assistant Surgeon R. W. Johnson has been relieved from duty at Fort Assina hoine and ordered to report for duty to tho commanding officer of Fort Buford, Dak. Henry Courtney has been engaged as head waiter at the Grand Union, and no better man for the place could have been found. lie is par exellence in the din ing room. Maj. A. G. Robins;on, the disbursing quartermaster at Helena, has been or cdericd to take charge of the business of placing in position near Big Hole pass the monument which will commemor a:t the battle which took place there with the Nez Perces Indians. Max VWaterman, Choteau's candidate lor district attorney, who reached home nIiiJhil before laut, says the boom for Bot kiit wherever he went during his recent trip is almost incredible to those who do not know the feeling in the center of the territory. Mr. Waterman speaks in" mio(lcest tecrnts of his own candidacy, but anyone can see he is full of hope. The vote for the dressing gown pre sented by the ladies of the Church of the Sacred Hieart in Helena to the more pop tllar candidate for Congress stands as fol lows: Maginnis 42, Botkin 61. The vote for the gold-headed cane, for the more popular candidate for county treasurer, is as follows: W. K. Roberts 20, Charles M. .Jeffecris 43. It is reliably reported that a man p~,nied Magiunis, of Minnesota, is run ning on the democratic ticket for dele gate to congress. Maginnis is now in lheleina,in the subsequent pocket of Sam iiauqer's pantaloons. Sam will let him out. in a few days and ship him to Butte where he will make the same old speech th:t he cleared Loeber hall with two years ago, and will again lift up his eyes to heaven and swear that he will never run again.-Intcr-Mountain. From Sunday's Daily. Mike Lynch has purchased Ed. Flint's interest in the lower ferry, and now goes it alone. A correspondent writing to the Hus bandmnan says he believes Maiden will be the banner republican town of Meagher county. The desert land case nf Hopr.rn va Wallace, in reference to some land in the Judith valley, has been decided in favor of Hopkins. Marshal Botkin is now canvassing the Westside and is receiving a warm re ception. He spoke at Stevensville, Bitter Root valley, last night. Charley Rowe's children, in charge of his sister, returned yesterday from Phillipsburg, where they had been visit ing relations for several weeks. J. J. Kennedy's residence on Frank lin street took fire last evening about eight o'clock, and came within an ace of being burned to the ground. The fire caught from the stove pipe. The damage is only nominal. Near the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific railroad a half a mile of track was laid, recently, in thirty-five minutes, the best time on record. Be tween four and five miles of track a day have been laid on this road. c en. A. J. Smith is paying a visit to the territory and is at present at Helena. The General has a life appointment as secretary and treasurer of the Soldiers' Home at Augusta, Maine. After closing up his business affairs in Montana he will return eastward. Louis Heitman and Charles Mayne will leave soon for White. Sulphur Springs to remain permanently. It is very probable that they will go into business at that point, and if they do we predict for them the fullest measure of success. Both are well and favorably known in that section. Thomas Goff has accepted a position with Murphy, Neel & Co., being in charge of the hardware department. Mr. Goff hai been "brought up" in a hard ware store and is thoroughly familiar with every part of the business, and during the past year andahalf was with Kinna & Jack at Helena. He is evi dently the right man in the right place. From Tuesdays Daily: A girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Higgins, of this city, Sunday. Democratic l;g:llative ticket-For council and house of representatives, I. 3. Baker & Co. If 'attan would make another speech at Sun River Clingan would get every single vote in the precinct. A joint stock , company has been or ganized at Sun River for the construe tion and operation of a ferry boat on the Missouri at the mouth of Ban river. The Record talks about aocutsations of dishonesty. WI it Itorm n Iai3efM ofsoot~te~me 40 a and even crime, publicly made by Tattan two years ago against prominent men in his own party, and which he was never able to prove. Rufus Payne contemplates a trip to White Sulphur Springs for the benefit of his health. We regret to learn that he is physically under the weather. Which will Messrs. Baker, Hamilton and Settle represent in the legislative assembly if elected-Choteau county or I. G. Baker & Co.? Don't everybody answer at once. The republican rally Monday evening will be held at Wackerlin's old store on lower Front street, which will be com fortably seated for the occasion. Ladies are especially invited to attend. Sol. Yates got in with Dutch Patricks' train which he had gone out to bring in. The teams are comning in from the Blood Agency. The teamsters report two feet of snow on the Milk river range. George Sample's train arrived Sunday from McAdow & Dexter's mill with 10,000 feet of lumber for the Masonic building. His outfit returns to-day loaded with goods for Maiden, and will bring back another load of lumber. M. D. Chambers treated us yesterday to a number of transcendant crab apples, which were grown in the orchard of his uncle, D. T. Goodell, who resides near Helena. We do not believe that any country can grow finer fruit of that variety. The ball to be given by the Knights of Pythias, at the Grand Union hotel, on Thanksgiving eve, will be, if we may judge from the arrangements that are being made, a most pleasant and suc cessful affair. The committees are working hard to render it such. How about the Record's attacks and accusations of dishonesty against Tattan two years ago, which necessitated a jury of democrats to try him, which jury did not care to sift the thing to the bottom, for the sake of "party," and so brought in a Scotch verdict of "not proven." Were they of a purely personal nature? Propositions have already been re ceived for the rental of the new Masonic hall which is expected to be completed by the first of January. The contractors are rushing the building through, and fully expect to turn it over to the own ers the first of the year. It will be a fine structure and a splendid business loca tion. The deputy sheriffof Lewis and Clarke county was in tho sun river oountry, Sunday, looking for a man named James, who secured a team at a Helena livery stable and failed to return at the appointed time. The team was secured at Eagle Rock, at which point James took a valuable horse and rode off. Up to Sunday he had not been found. Who will vouch for the honesty of either Collins or Stevens of the RIVER PRESs. No one, indeed, who has any regard for their reputation.-Record. And yet the Record talks about accu sations of dishonesty, and attacks of a per sonal nature. Will the person who wrote that article please name a dishon est act of either of the parties named, and prove it? Last year George Steell, of Sun River, planted a few pounds of Mammoth Pearl potatoes, a new variety, and the yield faiirly astonished the natives. This year from a half an acre of the same variety he has harvested 253 bushels of as fine "Murphies" as ever grew anywhere and Mr. Steell is beginning to believe that he deserves the palm as a potato grower. The telephone line between Fort Shaw and Su~ River is proving a great success, financially as well as otherwise, and the citizens of the latter place and Ulidia are now considering the proposi tion of connecting their towns with the talking wire. The project if carried out will put the people of the Chestnut val ley in direct communication with the outside world. ° PERSONAL From 8unday's Dalty. -W. S. Wetzel returned from Fort Assinaboine yesterday afternoon. -John Killally, of Hughesville, is in the city purchasing goods for hise store at that point. -Ed. Maclay and bride will return to Benton next week, or as asoon as the Grand Union hptel is in ipration. --H. D. Burghardt, superintendent of the Clendenin Mining and Smelting company, arrived& I e cit~y y.terday from Barker. -Maj. Bartlett`nd Lint. St&e t ar-k rived from Fort Maginnia yesterday. The MsDor is on way to Fort Shaw, and Liout. fteei go4_o 14"na. .f-rMr. and Mrs. . H. Vhu of An River are in the 4lty, ad r at the Ohotean Hoae& Mt' t!Methil surprise at the rapid progress of our town in that time. From Tneeday's Daily. --Charles Bayliss, of Baylis Roby. ley, Wolf creek, is in the city. -0. H. Churchill and wife leave for their home in Sun River valley to-day. -Frank Huy, who has turned wool grower, came in from Wolf creek yes terday. --I. S. Corson, of Sun River, is in the city on business. He has not been in Benton for a year, and is simply aston ished at the imptovements made in that time. -Jos. S. Hill went to Sun River yes terday, and will return in a few days, accompanied by Mrs. Hill, who has been visiting relatives in that valley several weeks. -Peter McDonald has received a letter from Charley Dean, in which he says that he got home all safe and sound, and that he would start back for Benton some time in December. NAUSEATING. The way in which some of the demo cratic editors of Montana have pros trated themselves before Maginnis is absolutely sickening to a person of or dinary intelligence who possesses a spark of manliness or can feel a shame for those who lack it. The editor of the In dependent, when nominated by the democratic convention, declined the prize for which he had striven, at the bidding of his master; the editor of the Record worships at the feet of Maginnis and callf ; im the creator of Choteau county and the savior of Montana. But the worst instance of sycophancy comes from the Husbandman, which pretends to be neutral in politics but whose editors are dyed-in-the-wool, unreconstructed democrats. It says in substance, in an article which is reproduced in the Inde pendent as another item in favor of Ma ginnis, that St. Martin himself states that the HIusbandman furnished the argu ments and the proof which defeated a great land steal,, but the editors of that paper, (following in the wake of the rest,) seemingly afraid of claiming the credit of what they ought to be justly proud, hand it all over to Maginnis-all the same as the balance. This is as it has ever been. Legislatures may petition and memorialize congress, private citi zens and federal officials may have jour neyed to Washington and devoted their time, money and such influences as they could bring to bear on-that body, news-z papers may have advocated measuree and used great exertions to secure and publish facts and proofs in favor of the same, but Maginnis claims and gets it all from the fawning sycophants through out the territory who are amply re warded and happy if they chance to receive a smile or a pat on the back once every two years from the great man from Minnesota. Offcial Fees. BENTON, October 27, 1882. Editors of the Rivua Puss. Like many others, I filed my applica cation for two town lots upon the new reservation addition, with Judge Tattan, and was obliged to pay the sum of $28 before the statement could be filed. On paying my money-I asked for a receipt, but Judge T. at first refused to give me one, and had not I insisted upon it pret ty strongly I should have gone without it. I had always supposed that an offi cer receiving money was obliged to give a receipt, but I was made to understand that the demand was equivalent to a doubt of the integrity of his honor, and I was snubbed quite severely. Afterwards I went to the judge's of fice and asked to be shown the record of the filings, as I wanted to know the number of my statement, but was told it was not numbered. Then I asked again, and was shown a sheet with the numbers of the blocks and lots thereon, with a red circle drawn around the fig ures as'the only record in the office of the filing. Now, what I want to know. is whether I was entitled to anything as evidence hat. I had paid over my money for cer tain specified town lots? In case the records of the probate office should be sccidentally destroyed, I should have no means of proving that I had paid for any lots whatever, and in case the judge should not be his own successor I would have been in the same predicament in reference te the eight dollars which I paid for fees on the two lots, the receipt for which was the only one I received. I got no receipt for the twenty dollars. iCn you exitghtetn me and othie s ho have filed as to their rights, and how to sire them. h LQ .PEE-EMPTOR. wou l ref e:'rr tiespondet to set .p1,. page -34 Revised Statutes, Eidas t4u .REvery o1cer ,t kad if rdq iriby t: ren yl.ag . M e egive a receipt ediaM P> iott the teau th? particularly in regard to the four dollar The PRIs8 denies that Todd wrote per lot, although that need not have the article in yesterday's issue, but Todd been paid ye t is a proper precaution himself does not deny It. Todd isa rob beenpad ye It is a properprecation ably ashamed of his work, and well he to take a receipt for money paid out, one may be.-Record. that is taken in everyday business af fairs, and should be taken by every per- When Tattan gets back from his Sun son who files on lots. It is casting no River excursion and apologises to Mr. reflection on the honor of an official, Todd for falsely accusing him, we ex pect to see his echo prostrate himself be and no one with a grain of common fore Todd and beg forgivenes also. The sense would so consider it.-ED present aspect of that journal reminds For sale. us of Nast's cartoons during the Greeley campaign, wherein he pictured Grata The undersigned have twenty head of Brown as a little tag on Greeley's tail. fine thoroughbred Cotswold and South- In the present campaign Buck repre down sheep which will be disposed of sents the tag. at a bargain. PARIs GIBSON & SON. *18. *18. *18. $18. An American Watch, in a 4-oz, SilverCase,for $10 * FULLY WARRANTED. Initial Sleeve Buttons, A ent for made from Montana WHIT;E'S Gold, always in stock. Sewing Machine. Watches, and orders sent by mail, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction guaranteed in every instance. W. C. BAILEY, Helena, M. T. J. H. McKnight & Co. Pos0 KTR ADERS AND DBALERS IN General Merhanediue FORT SHAW, M. TJ ------:0:---- We are in receipt of a large and complete stock of goods, consisti g of Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Drugs, Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Hardware, Wooden Ware, Crockery, Harness, Wool Sacks and Twine, Tents, Wagon Sheets, Agricultural Im plements, Etc. Agents for Wood's Improved Mowers, Improved Sulky Rakes, Hapgood Plows, and STUDEBAKER WAGONS. · ---- :--O---:-?---- We have on hand and to arrive a larger stock than ever before. Raneh men and dtek mn ars repecttaly nvIted to examine our goods and prices before prchaesing eisewhere. ' 8-tt INO. T. MURPHY, W. W.HIGGINB. WA'L NHEL. H.. MAL&T. MUR RPHY, NEEL & CO. WHOJISALE AND RETAIL DEALbR8 IN CROCERIES Crockery and Queensware, Wines, Liquors and Olgars, Bar * Furniture, Tents and Wagon Oovers, SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE IR ON AND STEEL, Wagon Timbers, Miners' Tools, Scutts' 4 point Barbed Wire. Tinware, Horse and Mule Shoes, Oooking and Heating Stoves, Iron aad Wood Pumps, Sheep Dip Tobacco, Wool Sacks and Twine, SCHUTTLER WAGONS, Buckeye Machines, Harrows, Drags and Plows, and the Genuine Singer Sewing Machines. Tin Goods of Every Description lade to Order. Our stock is complete in every dewart-tent, and we are prepared to giye our customers werry advantage of the tmarset. Iear in mind that we carry the Largest Stock of Seetly FURB LIQUORS in the Territory. A fual supply of the celebrated Carlisle, Bume~, and Falor'sTUKY 80UR MASH WHISKIES, 1*4 O'DonealeAs Bhlue Ribbon "O. K." Whisky, and Schlitz's Milwaukee Beer always eon and. We leve the Laget St 4 WIhouses Montana1. Oar Easru a a thre stock fo tout large wholesale and retal establish. ntents, thus ta u to t the closest competi t. Don't tail to some xad see tw when · NEL&. Szn· ''- .a n. , .