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LOCAL NOTES. From Saturday's Daily. Jerry Vetzel is in town. S hlk Tiingley will leave for the Hot a bprilgs, Arkansas, in a few weeks. d J('lln LaMott, of Arrow creek, has bcn ini town a few days this week. d T n Ma:rtinl and J. G. Anderson, of th l;r sag, are at the Grand Union. C i. l. Hunt, Jr., left for Barker yes- h tcrdtay morning to take a hand in the r legal fight for the Silver Belle. Johin Cook was tried for petty larceny iF (stealing a watch) before Judge Kanouse i yesterdlay, and being found guilty, was s sent uI) for thirty days ..... . a M. D. Chambers leaves for the east this morning on the Helena coach. He will buy a mammoth stock of furniture for F. C. Roosevelt & Co. General Ruger arrived on the coach at 1 1 o'clock yesterday morning, and tookl c hii dleparture for Assinaboine early yes-j ( terday with Lieut. Cabaniss and escort. i Althc,ugh Judge Tattan agreed to ac cealt hail in the sum of $4,000 in the I 1McCowaln case, the latter is still an in miiate of the jail, as bondsmen have no 1 been forthcoming. John Harris returned day before yes terday from a visit to his brother-in-law, Mlr. Norton, of Stuart, Deer Lodge coun ty. MIr. Harris spent about four weeks in the upper country. Mr. (. W. Settle received more valen tiues than anybody else in Montana, and he indignantly scouts the idea advanced by some parties that they were sent by his young lady friends. Mr. D)uncan, of Helena, arrived yes terday to take a bench at A. S. David son's saddlery establishment during the absence of Andy Carson on a visit east The latter leaves this morning. Yank Smith, who hu ir teenel snow bound on Highwood all winter, showed up in Benton yesterday. His appear ance does not indicate that he was short of grub during any of the time. Clark Tingley has co~rls ,-tft" hearing John Green's report of the cat tle on the Shonkin range, to establish a candle factory in Benton. He thinks there is big money in the enterprise. rph . . r.otnrs of the Missoula Fair The directors v1 LLLU I.7LIL" .. association, at a recent meeting, decided ' -· to offer a programme of races for the Tra coming 4th of July, and also to hold a me' fair on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of the Sepltember, of this year. To( The fool killer has not made the Gri rounds of the river metropolis lately or ple: the public would have been spared that frie "Reply to Rev. Blackiston." But we warn the author that she cannot escape bee his (the f. k.'s) wrath much longer. B8 We understand that some town lot cia speculators are about to file on the 8-Mile tov Springs property, and will have the gel same surveyed and platted and annexed av to the Benton townsi:e. The next thing na we know Jimmy Arnoux will have his lat Highwood ranch annexed. The Niner says that an examination of the books of Judge O'Meara, who sui cided Sunday morning, disclosed the B fact that during the entire year of 1882 only two cases tried in his court had ri) been recorded on the docket, although cases were tried before him almost every dii day. at There are fourteen prisoners in jail now, eight of whom are held in durance M vile awaiting the session of the district Ri court., The latter are: Win. McCowan, charged with murder; Mike Lynch, as- g sault with attempt to kill; Frank Labee, re Thos. Bryant and four Indians, horse stealing. be During their recent session the com- B, mlissioners visited the jail and found nc everything in first-class order. They ascertained just what irons are lacking 1( to complete the cages and corridors, and (luring his trip east Mr. Wotzel will secure the same, and have t1i shipped up the river. t A Miles City man opened correspon dence with a woman in the east with a view of matrimony. Arrangements were finally consummated and he sent her $300 to come west on. She came, but she hadn't been twenty-four hours fl in Miles City before she married some fi other fellow. The Livingstone Tribune furnishes the following piece of startling news: Six hunters, writes Ben R. DeVoe, froze all t in a bunch between 'Miles Cit and the r Missouri river on last Monday night. Their mules were also found frozen to t death. Duritig the sti t.-Ey o(t Up and burned their wagons for fuel. They t belong to Dillon's outfit. Attention is called to the change in Ganz & KXlein's ad. in this issue. This I firm announce a big reduction in the price of their clothing, as they desire to I make room forthe immensd stock which Mr. Kohlberg, whlo is now in the east, will start comting on the fast boats. This firm is one of the most reliable in the territory, and our readeriean depend on it that they will do what they say. The annual election of municipal of- 1 ficers for Virginia City was held last coi Monday, and resulted in the election of is S. R. Buford, Mayor; Thos. Deyarmon str and George Thexton, Aldermen in the Fo first ward; J. H. Baker and J. M. Hern- ses don, Aldermen in the second ward; J. De B. Lowman and Stephen Edmund, Al dermen in the third ward. to The Bar association, or probably the spl comnmi;tees appointed, have from one to in half a dozen meetings every day. The tu: : reports will be fulmigated Monday night. go The committee on fees will fix the min- th r imum rates in the different cases, and - Sit will be "unprofessionable" to accept a s smaller fee, entirely professional to bleed S. a client for as much more as possible- st yven if they take all he has and run him ro In det tii e The Helena coach which got in yes erday morning was from supper ta breakfast time in making thirteen miles over the Birdtail divide. The drivers on the road regard it as a good joke on their superintendent, Mr. Powers, who L handled the lines on the drive. But the passengers tell us it was a human impos- a e sibility to keep the road in the midst of tb the blinding snow storm, accompanied to by a brisk wind, with which he had to cont K Brown's people-the Gros Ventres-went back on him the other c c day, and hence those scjatches on his T genial countenance. It seems that he. got to ordering four or five bucks around b d- rather promiscuously, and probably re- b d sorted to force to insure prompt obedi- a ence, when the copper-colored citizens t, y turned on him and threw him over a cut o, bank down into Beaver creek, about fifty s 8- feet. Jack may deny this story, but c d- Tuck Lambert tells it on him, and e makes it even worse than we have. s Last week three Chinamen from d gorse Plains came to Missoula hunting 'W two of their countrymen who are ed 4ýarged with murdering the paymaster v tnd dangerously wounding a member of >rt e Wing Sing company. It is supposed a e paymaster (who was a Chinamen) e r as robbed of some $3,000, but the pur- c at- suing party gave no information con- s sh cerning the amount. The murder was ks committed an the 29th of January. The company offers a reward of $400 for the air murderers. led 7 We are pleased to welcome Mr. M. C. the Travers to the ranks of Benton business 1 a men, Mr. T. having just become one of of the lessees, with Messrs. Spitzley & Todd, of the finest hotel in Montana, the the Grand Union. Mr. Travers is a most or pleasant gentleman, and has hosts of hat friends throsghout the territory, not a: of uom are .in Bentoe. ".e.-Va 3kpe been 6f clei to Major Blaine, U. S. Paymaster, and in his offi -;,n m0anvitv has visited almost every cial capacity has visited aimost evrys. town in Montana, and he is just such a sh genial gentleman as will make friends GI wherever he goes. It seems to us that of nature endowed him especially to be a as landlord, and the RIVER PRESS believes in he will make a most popular one. From Sunday's Daily. John Maguire, the monologue, is at w Bismarck. su Phil. H. Whaley, of Hughesville, ar- hi rived in the city yesterday. pl The infant child of William Copesticks w died yesterday, and will be buried to-day Fr at 10 o'clock. During Mr. Chambers' absence east w M. J. Keith will fill his place at F. C. Roosevelt & Co.'s. One of the drivers of the Benton li Southern coach was lost for three days recently, between Ubet and Philbrook. Mr. Richardson, H. J. Wackerlin's 1l book-keeper, will bring his family to S Benton as soon as the boats begin busi ness. Among the arrivals at Billings on the n 10th we notice the names of Mrs. Jacob b Severance, Oka, and Mr. A. McGregor, F M artinsdale. "Broncho" is the name of the postoffice to be established at George Hyde's ranch on Froze-to-Death creek, a tribu tary of the Yellowstone. t "Micky, the Mike" was sentenced to I thirty days imprisonment in the county f s jail yeysteray, for indulging in a little 1e funny business with an ugly looking t knife the day before. me heartless wretch caught two x ts,tied them by their tails, and flung 1 them into the cellar of a church. Th 1e residents of the vicinity heard the noise < the animalSiri, ),t . thought it was I to the choir rehearsin .`-l p Our county fathers will expend rbe ýy tween six and eight thousand dollars on in They have a fun4 of this saie and pro t1s pose to apply the money where it will Ee do the most good. Correct. o Bismarek Tribune: And now Montana eh is trying to get into the union By af st, ~xean let her in.. Next t bei.ng one of ts. the grand sisterho" ~efja~o in knows nothing more agreeable to her ad feeling than to be..ndwitohed in: b tween two of tbhe sIt .. It was announced in the territorial -J council a few days ago, that a company is organizing for the purpose of con structing a railroad from Miles City to Fort Assinaboine and the British Pos sessions, and another from Miles City to Deadwood.--Mtles City Press. Capt. Woolfolk, who went to St. Louis to see if there would be any sale in the spring for the two transfer boats belong ing to the railroad company, has re turned. He finds they can be sold to good advantage, and will therefore take them down as soon as the river breaks. -Bismarck Tribune. .We are pleased to report that Mr. Jos. I S. Hill and family have at last got started from Sun River and are now en ' route to the sunny south. If they con tinue to make as rapid progress as they ave thus far, we may confidently ex a ect to hear of their arrival at Charles s n, S. C., by the Fourth of July. j A recent order from General Terry's (headquarters announces that Second ° Lieut. J. F. Bell, 7th cavalry, Fort Bu e ford, after leave ot absence has returned of as far as St. Paul, and will conduct all sn the recruits and casuals now at Snelling to Fort Buford, they having been as 0 signed to that post and Forts Custer and Keogh. ! A general knock down occurred in the r court house at Glendive, on Thursday. I The judge of the probate court and a e. young attorney by the name of Trum d bull, recently from Mandan, were the e- belligerents. The difficulty arose over 1- a point of law, in a case that was being 1 tried before his honor. The judge came it out best,.but now has one of his fingers Y shingled. He says the dignity of the court must be protected. Sd ays a Miles City dispatch: Already several car loads of dressed beef and m dressed sheep have been slaughtered lg here and shipped in refrigerator cars. A re stock company is also organized who er will, in the spring, build large slaughter of houses here, and go into the business on ed a large scale. It is claimed that this way n) of shipping meat to market is 20 per ir- cent. more profitable to stock men than 'n- shipping cattle on hoof. Superintendent Conger of the National he park has been instructed by Secretary Teller to prevent the killing, wounding or capturing at any time in the park of the following list of animals and birds: ess Buffalo, bison, moose, elk, white tailed f or black tailed deer, mountain sheep, Rocky mountain goat, antelope, beaver, ohe otter, martin, fisher, grouse, prairie Schicken, pheasant, wild goose, duck, robin, meadow lark, thrush, gold-finch, Sflicker or yellow-hammer, blackbird, as oriole, jay, snowbird, or any of the small or birds commonly known as singing birds. rV In a lengthy article on the Mussel .In a lengthy article on the Mussel a shell, the Billings Herald says: "Paris is Gibson, one of the leading wool growers fc ,t of the territory, has described this region sa a as being better adapted for sheep farm es ing than any country he has ever seen. In a few years the Musselshell ranges fi will support immense flocks of sheep, i while the ranches along the river bot- ti tom will produce crops sufficient for the sustenance of the settlers, with, per haps,.a certain' amount of grain to sup plement the vast exports of mutton and ks wool. From Tuesday's Daily. Billy Claggett was in Deer Lodge last 1 st week. H. P. Rolfe reports that investment in ranch property about Benton is pretty i on lively just now. ( ys Col. J. J. Donnelly took his departure 1 k. for Barker yesterday morning to give i's legal support to the "jumpers" of the to Silver Belle. - Griffith & Caldwell commence work ( on the boom to-day with a full force of 1 ;he men. They will have six or eight teams ob hauling rock, and expect to make rapid or, progress with the work. a es eWf Is . ng ange Ice ' ents to open up a brick yard back of Le's he butte, on J. J. Kennedy's ground. bu- he work of .manufacturing brick will begin as soon as possible. Mr. DeWolf to has already contracted to make 400,000 aty for W. S. Stocking. ttle . n W: Power and E. ing G. Maclay took their departure for Hel ena on the coach yesterday morning. tw Messrs. Wet :ai P ower are en route ng east to miaketheir purchases for 1883, and h Mr. Maclay's journey will end at the oise i *ill rgi('i Ak oia was business. frU.i a San Fran be- cisco paper is behlieed to refer to a for 3 on maet nr dint of_ zelea "Wee. Travis, pro- 0ou1.0 l 4aof Pioche, will was broughbrroqt 1 O6old Camp, Arizo za, a feW "'days i Kr adjtudgd insane, tana t o ftýtýl . ... ra Stuart, the -new town in the Deer Le of L a g aey is to be made au iamport t nt tAn on the Ut & Northern rai i t tr stok vrds and fare t and JNO. T. iMURPY, W. W.HIGGINS. SAM'L NEEL. E.Q. GMACLAY. MUR PHY, NEEL& CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN GROCERIES Crockery and Queensware, Wines, Liquors and Cigai., Bar Furniture, Tents and Wagon Covers, SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE IRON AND STEEL, Wagon Timbers, Miners' Tools, Scutts' 4 point Barbed Wire, Tinware, Horse and Mule Shoes, Cooking and Heating Stoves, Iron and 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. ---0-- Our stock is complete in every deoartment, and we are prepared to give our customers everry advantage of the market. Bear in mind that we carry the Largest Stock of Strictly PURE LIQUORS in the Territory. A full supply of the celebrated Carlisle, Hume, and Taylor's KENTUCKY SOUR MASH WHISKIES, And O'Donnell's Blue Ribbon "O. K." Whisky, and Schlitz's Milwaukee Beer always on hand. We have the Larest Store and Warehouses in Montana, r Our .astern buyer purchases the entire stock for four large wholesale and retail establish 1 ments, thus enabling us to meet the closest competiton. Don't fail to come and see us when you visit Benton. MURPHY, NEEL & CO. f Receivers and Forwarders, Benton, Mont. ffi . . . . . . . . telegraph offices, which will be erected forthwith, and the. little burg promises to become, next to Deer Lodge, the most impor tant point in the valley." hfiil. Gibson returned Sunday evening from Belt creek, and brings the report 1 that the sheep in that section are in fine condition and that no losses whatever have occurred. Phil. brought in quite a trophy in the way of the hide of a huge s mountain lion, killed last week by San- n Sford Allen, manager of the Belt creek Br n sheep company. His lionship was mak ing way with a nice thoroughbred ram Ai * when Mr. Allen spied him and one shot s from his trusty rifle brought the an imal to the ground and released his vic- F tim. The skin measures over six feet te "from tip to tip," and Mr. Gibson pro r- poses to have it preserved as a relic. p. d W. S. Stocking informs us that he will begin the erection of his two-story brick TE business house, on Front street, adjoin- A st ing the Masonic temple, just as soon as the season permits. The lower room UI will be suitable for business purposes, n and the second story will be converted cel ty into a hall, adapted for shows, concerts, y dances, etc., and it will certainly "fill a re long felt want"' in Benton. The hall ve will be provided with stage, seats, and he other essential belongings, and after its completion Benton can offer some in rk ducements for theatrical parties to pay of us a visit. On Saturday last Mr. Stock ms ing let the contract for the brick for his - did building to Jas. DeWolf, and the other material necessary will be on the ground as soon as the building season begins. of It looks very much as if the criminal Id. expenses of the county were piling up rill at a rapid rate. The jail is full nearly olf all the time, and a few, at least, of its [)00 inmates are parties who are rejoiced to get three square meals a day at the coun E. ty's expense, and a comfortable place to [el- put up at. You couldn't please Peg Leg ag. better than to send him up for thirty ute days-unless yoe made the term even Lnd longer. We would respectfully suggest the tgt some other punishlment should be on } out to them perf0s3B ial dead s, a pUlfn "'Um.t tl-[t tii not please t them as wel as n nh'a board a4d( for lodging at the jail If these sellos 1i9 must bAided fr it w td be a gdd B deal 1cJ3~eapr to p"y their board at- a :he1rs1t.i~g..hotel. Tie intereat of the.tax izo- payer should be considered in the prem ise, ies.e deer [ ' tIITRNE _&'$#. $, arid . M, N_ VR. , 1. MERCIIA NTS' National Bank Of Helena. This bank succeeds the old established and well known Banking House or L. o. Hershfield do Bro. Authorized Capital, $500,000 Paid in Capital, - $150,000 President--L. H. HERSHFIELD. Vice-President-A. J. DAVIDSON. Cashier-AARON HERSHFIELD. Board of Directors: S. S. HUNTLEY, W. D. NICHOLAS, A. SANDS, MOSES MORRIS, THOMAS CRUSE, D. H. WESTON, CHAS. LEHMAN, L. H. HERSHFIELD, A. J. DAVIDSON, A. HERSHFIELD. Ecaehange on the commercial centers of the United States and Europe bought and sold. Collections and all business entrusted to us re ceive prompt and thorough attention. Deposits received and interest allowed on the same it left for a specified time. Buy gold and silver bullion, gold dust, ores, ter ritorial, county and government securities and war rants. Associate Bank: Bank of Northern Montana, Fort Benton M.T. C.M. LANNING DEALER IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver Ware 3 .EWING MACHINES, ETC. n Having moved into my new quar n ters on Front Street and added t largely to my stock, I res e *pectfully invite the in spection of my goods. 4 Geneeralepairs of Watches, Clocks, Pistols, Sewing r Machines, Etc., promptly attended to. Orders by ma.iwill nsive plompt attention. a FRONT ST., FORT BENTON, Next door to Hlihbeg & Nathan's. RIENICKE HOUSE, Sun River Ieavings. This house i. situated s' the Helena and Beton road, inst a nice day's drer from Benton mdin it the moast omveiit Vepr Iahe on tate*$d. It is kept in e , sty., ant hba th4veb bit seC