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Benton, Montana, Wednesday, July 4, 1883. No 37.V o... . . . .. .. . . . .. .. -7-I . . . . . . .. ... ,
LOCAL NOTES.
From Saturday's Daily.Anotler man made happy. His nam4
is James A. Yore, and the cause is a fineboy, born last night.
James Kinney and John Dwyer wer4mulcted to the tune of $19.25 each yesterday, for disturbing the peace and dignity of the city of Fort Benten.
Frank Egbert, better known as "th(dude," was arrested yesterday for tear.ing down and destroying the fenctaround the house on upper Front streelwhere he roomed a short time. Jailor('aldtw'ell has furnished him a suite o0rooms for the present.
fJohin. Murphy- coulfy clerk, andW. S. Wetzel, chairman of the board oicounty commissioners, have a nice littlejob, on their hands in the way of signingthe court house and jail bonds, sold sometime since. They are required to puttheir signatures to the documents about:3,o00 tidmes each.
The trunk stealers referred to in ourla.st issue were taken before the probateiuldge yesterday, when they gave theirminies as Martin Pendergrast and Gus..1 anlbert and waived an examination.fiI default of bail they will continue asintimtes of the bastile until the nextt('riit of the district court.
vwo!,e & )Davenport, wool growers, lo-(.attred con Dlog creek, are shipping theirwool to, Clagett. They are shearing2.5,!'0O sheep this season and will buytheir supplies in Benton, but as they are,tut ::5 miles fromn Clagett will send theirwol to thie boats at that point.
'We copy the above from our (learlybeloved contemporary. It is correctwith the exception that the firm namedhlas just been formed, and that theyhaven't got a single sheep on Dog creek,, itllin a hundred miles of it. Some-,bldy has been "guying" No. 10. Won-icr if (lark Tingley is in town ?
'We publish to-day the annual state-I l1ent, showing the financial conditionI ' ('lioteau county the 1st of March,::. The l)publication of the report has
.I eC• delayed to this time on account ofthe abs;ence of a majority of the boardof ,e(om.nlis'sioners at the March term,u:•,d it co,•seqluently went over until the
Jiu a seeting. The report shows theftiiinacial ai!hirs of the county to be in a•iica:thv condiition, the net indebtednesstof ;- 3,75.7o being a s•mall item indeed
for a county with an assessiient roll thatwill foot up 84,000,000. The new courtious, will swell the indebtedness this:-ear, but on its completion Choteau. willevs ,a• nyo.:a, t•,e JI!: et e publi c.hike -
'mn Su iay's Daily.
We understal gd that Alex. Tarbett, of.utte, was in Helena a few days ago mn-dute tB) ]enton and the mining district.uth of us.
turInor says that H. W. Filbert, of(iliatili City, telegraph operator in the(ilploy of the 'Western Union, has sud-.nlyv disappeared, but that no deficien-_s have been discovered.
l'illy Yard has purchased a one-halfiwerest in the Arcade Restaurant, andit1, firm will hereafter be styled Yard &l'eber. Billy is well known as a first-c.ss caterer, and the Arcade is a first-clss restaLurant.
Ln effort is being made to have a tel-eyaph line constructed between Liv-inston and White Sulipher Springs, tohiduilt by the citizens of those towns.Aelephone line would cost less, couldhe>perated at less expence and wouldanwer every purpose as well.
kipt. John Smith of Bozemnan pur-cheed the bar privileges of the Nation-al iark and will leave for there at once.H[Ewill establish a place of business atthfPark hotel, at the geyser basin andthe Yellowstone lake. It is estimated,y ie company that 50,000 people will\'visi the park this summer, and if thenullber is only 20,000 the captain willr,'ala large benefit.-Bozeman Chroni-
Tie Marquis DeMorres, the Frenchcatti king on the Little Missouri river,is sal to outdo himnself in politeness andhosptality. For the entertainment ofstragers he has a large, well.built house,a siQ-board on which are wines andliques of every country. In his stablelie ha a number of horses, and the vis-itor irat liberty at any timeto order onehlarnesed or saddled. A gentleman whoh.ts jIst returned from a visit to theMarqis, says that the courteous treat-i'ent't e received while there, went a
little head of any thing he had everseen.-C(hr.oniclh.Froin TUeday's Daily.
I'ari Gibson shipped a lot of sheeppelts eit on the Helena.
Vice President Edmunds and partyare at lelena, coming from the west.
12. C Roosevelt is using a portion ofthe old ort for a furniture warehouse.
John ,agan, a bad man phen he get$on hisi. nuscle, was put in the cooler lastnight.
FrankStrong returned to Benton yes-terday 1om his trip to Oregon. Hisband of ors• reat Sun river.1)h e oters took a very drunk and
,)oisterou, steamboat roustabout to theIcalaboo#t eleven o'l.
t rd-up lin the vicinity of FortMacleod" a over and the number ofeaes braided._ uto the a e
' Judge ,encer worked off five Sunka yfdrunks y rday and swelled the fdWdsof the cit:reasury to the amount of 6
iCommo reweeer l ano r.boatconsdtruct at Helena and is organizing
for a second trip to the Great Falls. Hisnew craft will carry ten passengers, andit will soon be launched.
e J. H. Evans & Co. of the breweryand brewery saloon have dissolved part-nership, Messrs. Hirshberg & Nathane retiring.
The first 19t of wool from the Teton,a portiomZf Richter & Hunt's clip,came in yesterday consigned to T. C.e Powei & Bro.
John C. Tutt can now be found behind
the counter at W. H. Burgess', wherehe will be pleased to attend to the wants
f o ufirchasing public.A purse of $200 in gold was presented
o Father Camp last Sunday by some ofis Benton friends. The presentation
fvas made by Judge Tattan.
S e tine as comefor an excursion~steamer to ply the waters of the uppert Missouri above the falls. An enterprise
t of this kind would prove a paying in-
vestmiei.t.--ierald.
J / ct. McKnight is in the eity, hav-ing returned from Governor Brooks' do-main in the Judith Basin, where heturned over the cattle purchased by theWolrond ranch company.
J. R. Craig had a valuable horse badlycut by barbed wire yesterday. The ani-rial is so severely injured that Mr.Craig gave him away rather than under-take the task of curing him.
Mr. Maurer, proprietor of the Phoenixsaloon, on Bond street, has moved hissaloon to the building on Front streetformerly occupied as a drug store by W.J. Minar, and where he will be pleasedto meet his fri.p . ..... .
eiThe trustees of the Sisters' hospitalheld a meeting last evening at the officeof T. A. Cummings and decided to'ad-vertise for bids at once for the erectionof the building according to theplansand specifications in- the posse~ron of,the trustees. M- ..
ecef•I• v frb1om Jos. S. Hill afew days ago contains the welcome in-telligence that he is improving and isgaining avoirdupois-at the rate of abouta pound a week. Mr. Hill is probablyin Boston now and will take in NewYork and other eastern cities. We hopeto hear of his complete recovery soon.
A dispatch from Washington says thatQuartermaster General Ingalls has re-quested to be placed upon the retiredlist of the army from the 1st of 'July.He will then be forty years in the ser-vice. There is considerable speculationas to his successor. Generals Hollabird,
A railway from Livingston to GreatFalls would pass up Shields and downSmith river valleys, would be easilyconstructed, inexpensive, and with onlyone divide, the grade of which wouldbe very, light. The route would laythrough a rich country, and would bethe shortest and best railroad connec-tion the manufacturing city could havefrom , hi south..--- t
John Green was in town Sunday aftera load of supplies for the Shonkin roundup party. The boys have moved up to-wards Deep creek, from Which pointthey will work down. They will reachDeep creek to-night, and will have aregular cow-punchers' picnic on the 4th. rJohn Green will deliver the oration,and the festivities will- be brought to aclose With a grand stag dance in the
he advancea o eattle belongingto the Walrond ranch company, andnumbering over 2,000 head, arrived atthe river Sunday and about 300 of themwere crossed a.t the upper ferry yester-day. When that number had beencrossed the boat was found to be sprungand it was necessary to stop for repairs,.These cattle are in charge of "DiamondR" Brown, and another band of over1,000 head, in charge of Doe. Frields,are but three or four days behind.
e •lrmlan rim- man, Pete Mc ona d !and Charley Merrill went down theriver in a boat Sunday to meet the Da-cotahli, on a special invitation from Capt.Simms when here last. They rhet theBatchelor at the Coal Banks, however,and finding Capt: Simms in commandreturned on that boat. Mr. Brinkmanis an old Mississippi steamboat man,and took his first lessons in the businessupder Capt. Simms. Naturally enoughthe old time friends are always glad tosee each other.
A telegram signed by a number of ourcitizens was sent to Gen. Terry yester-day requesting a postponement of thecourt martial in the case of Col. Ilges,as that officer is in the field in commandof a most important expedition. Wesincerely trust that Gen. Terry will actfavorably on this request, as the peaceand security of the northern frontierwould be hazarded by withdrawing Col.Ilges from the fieldat %his time. He isjust the person to give the hostile Crees,who are coming into bour territory, justsuch a lesson as they need.
We have heard a riinmr Jtthe Ca-nadia PFatfi railrcad Jib~i wga ig tsroute near Calgary, lead•g trtownout in thec' cld,, ab 16mleles away.The following froMhe Ci a•ry corrie-ponmdence ofthe~ Fort Mad eod Qaettowouid seem to confirm t4e report: "Cal-gary is wild over the r a i~ ti ; thea Mlway is to claPge Moute.s Ad proceed viathe governmen ri. "e;~i-.y e-pected some such shQlA. It woulnd otbe characteristic of the C, P. R. 4idthey do otherwise," Thi will esdegnashing of theth:anongthe hunfi dg redof specuin tow s wre have t .vMt .eav-ily in town pr6j erty a t .
Fine stationery a h
RIVBR RIPPLES .
The Butte, of the Benton P line, letBismarck at noon last Saturday.
The Black Hills started up streanagain yesterday, and will make an efforto beat the time of her last round trip.
The Benton left Bismarck Saturdayand will only come up as far as the CoaBanki, being loaded entirely for ForAssinaboine.
The Batchelor arrived yesterday wit-250 tons of freight for Fort Benton, besides 50 tons put oft at the Coal Banks
The government steamer Emily arrived Sunday and yesterday left for the
cfuarries above the city, where--he wil:Joad with stone for the wing dains to bconstructed at the ' r
he Black Hills, of the Bento's P line,an down to Bismarck in two days and
twenty-two hours, making the roundtrip from Bismarck to Benton and re-turn in thirteen days and twenty-thre,hours. This is the fastest round trip onrecord. Joe Todd must have "poundedher on the back" all the way, but a greatmany people have attributed her fastime to the whistle she carries. `
Arrival ot the Dacotah.
The Dacotah, the "Big D." of theCoulson line, arrived here at 5:30 Mon-day afternoon. Capt. Williams is incommand, with Mr. Parr clerk.
MANIFEST.Broadwater, McCulloh & Co, 5,399
sacks flour; Murphy, Maclay & Co, 1,052packages; F C Roosevelt, 411; I G Bak-er & Co, 211, 3,750 sacks flour, 480 sacksfeed and 1 threshing ,machine; W SWetzel, 31, 1 ca.r lumber, 1 buggy; Gains& Klein, 18; Lyons Bros, 95; fi Pfaendt-ner, 8; R S Ball, 2; Hirshberg & Na-than, 2; Lieut F 0 Cummins, 1; HenryBackard, 1. In all, some 700 tons.
Arrival of the Helena.
The Helena, of the Power liie, camein Sunday and left for down the riverMonday afternoon. She mad- the tripup in eleven days, which is •ot a badrun by any means. The fol wing isher manifest:
T C Power & Bro, 796 and 2 ars lum-ber; H J Wackerlin & Co, 1'015; I GBaker & Co, 1,000 and 1 car w: gons; WVF Cresap, 6; J Sullivan, 4; Dyas & Mur-ray, 4; F Nichol, 2; R W CuMmmins, 1;
S H Crowell, 1; Paris Gibson, 1; Broad-water, McNamara & Co, 225; 9 i:oadwat-er, McCulloh & Co, 1,500; T C Power &Bro (Coal Banks), 350.
Batxqhelor, which left Bismarck on the20th and ought to be here by Saturday:
W S Wetzel, 785; F C Roosevelt, 321;Hamilton & Hazlett, 36; Barney Tier-ney, 16; Ford Bros, 11; Gans & Klein, 7;L H Rosencrans, 4; Dyas & Murray, 5;Sellew & Ladd, 5; Spitzley & Travers, 3;CM Farrington, 3; G W Crane, 2; L JHowell, 1; Joe 9treit, 1.
TX. of P. Installation.
The officers of Crescent Lodge, No. 4,Knights of Pythias, were installed lastnight by Chas. Crawford, D. D. S. C., asbelow:
C. C.-Jas. E. Stevens.V. C.-Will C. Riddle.P.--M. of E.-J. L. Stuart.M. of F.-Jere Sullivan.K. of R. and S.-Mell. J. Keith.M. at.A.-Gus. Senieur.I. G.-J. W. Dewey.O. G.-W. C. Warner.
The Ilges Court Martial.
The court to try Lieut.-Colonel Ilgeswillconvene July 17 at Eort Snelling.It will consist of the following officers:Colonels Luther P. Bradley (president),L. C. Hunt, C. C. Gilbert, John P.Hatch, H. M. Black, WV. P. Corliss,
mrnd William B. Royal; Lieut. Cols.James W. Forsythe, A. J. Alexander,Leorge Gibson, H. R. Mizner, H. L.Chipman, and L. A. Rhette. L. L.Livingston, and Captain J. "R. Wyrick,
ndge advocate.
Thoroughbreds for Montana.
At a recent sale of thoroughbrads atTaylorsville, Ill., the following lot werepurchased by Col. W. B. Hundley, ofHelena:
Bay colt, foaled 1882, by Larkin-LadyFerris, for $200.
Chestnut filly, foaled 1881, by RedBluff- Peggy Morgan, by Asteroid;$350.
Chestnut filly, foaled 1882, by Scot-land-Calamity; $200.
Chestnut filly, foaled 1882, by RedBluff--Lady Bassett, by Asteroid; $225.
Chestnut filly, foaled 1881, by Glenelg-- Cordelia, by Lexington; $1,000.
Col. HIundley has already a numberof fine thdroughbreds, including L dyPreuitt, winner of- the Pioneerstakes In18~1 and the Montanda Derby in 1882,and these late purchases g Ito show thathe is not Only well satiafed with histreseit ventre in raising ine ho~res,1but :is enc•mge: r to, ogo into th usi4.
Th is iu4t [ the cor-
n gratining t the mi .-
vear wilel s ems g ,te
we hate I ba , h
in thathAgtnow 14' ,l:iea ag
round ;sum no difficult matter. A 7.5feet tunnel has been run along the vein,and in the middle of the tunnel a shaftis sunk to the depth ciF20 feet. In thetunnel the width of the lead varies fromfive to ten feet, and at the bottom of theshaft it is eight feet wide and the hang-ing wall not found. Another tunnelhas been run on the lead 120 feet belowthe main one, and here the vein showsup a width of fourteen feet, while at thenorth end, near the top of the mountain,it starts in with a width of three and ahalf feet (the narrowest vein found) butwidens rapidly with depth. The ore isof good grade, carrying black sulphur-ets, and will assay way up. These state-ments about the mine, which can easilybe verified, establish the fact beyondquestion that the Samson is going to beone of the great silver producers of the'Little Belt mountains.
'he May and Edna Mining and SmeltingCompany.
k The prinfcipal owners of the May and]dna mine met yesterday afternoon athe office of Waterman & McIntire and
took the preliminary steps towards or-ganizing a joint stock company to beknown as the May & Edna Mining andSmelting Company. T'he capital stockwas fixed at $1,000,000, consisting of500,000 shares of two dollars value each.The original locators are the trusteesunder the temporary organization, whichcontinues for three months, viz: PeteMay, Frank Aldrich, John Murphy,John Castner and P. J. Moynahan.The comnpany will own and operate theMay and Edna leads at Barker. Theyare the owners of the little smelter atthat camp, which they propose to havemoved to the mine and rebuilt in firstclass style. Within a. month or sixweeks they will be ready to start up thesmelter and keep her going. We wishthe new enterprise success.
Completod to Misscula.
MissoULA, M. T., June 23. - TheNorthern Pacific track reached this cityfrom the west at 3 o'clock p. mu. to-day.The entire population was out to wel-come the construction train, whichsteamed into the depot 'grounds amidthe plaudits of everybody.
Good For Capt. Fuller.
WAsHINGTON, June 59.-The Presi-dent to-day made several modificationsin the recent executive. order relating tothe consolidation of Internal Revenuedistricts. In the original order the dis-tricts of Montana, Idaho and Utah wereconsolidated, and O. J. Hollister, Col-
Fuller, of Helena, Collector of the pres-ent Montana district, as Collector of thenew district, vice Hollister, dropped.The change was made because of great-er collections in the Montana district.
The Quickest Time on Record.
The Rosebud arrived here from FortBenton Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock,sixty-two hours from Fort Benton tothis place. This is the quickest timeever made by any boat. She made theround trio from Bismarck to Fort Ben-ton and return in one hour less thanfifteen days. She brought down a largeconsignment of buffllo robes and dryhides and furs, which go east by theNorthern Pacific. The Rosebud leavesfor Fort Benton on her fourth trip.at 7a. m. to-day with 250 tons of freight anda full complement of passengers.-Bis-marck Tribune. 26th.
\/ The Shonkin Round Up.
Mr. M. E. Milner arrived in the citylast evening frdm the round up and re-ports the work at Spring. coulee com-pleted and that the party has moved onto Cherry creek corral, at the mouth ofHighwood. The branding thus far hasnot been quite as good as last year. Twocauses operated to produce this result,viz: the severe March storm and thefact that the round up has been operat-ing in the heart of the cattle country(Arrow creek and tributaries) a monthearlier than last year. This will resultin an unusually large crop of calves atthe fall branding and will bring up thenumber for the year to a big average,considerably in excess of last year'sbranding.
The Beef Bonanza.
There is a new business being startedat Little Missouri station, on the North-ern Pacific road, which bide fair to be apaying investment, and to do away withthe shipping:of live stock. Itis to dressbeef at this point and ship in refrigeratorears, to all important points on theNorthern Pacific road east of here. TheMarquis DeNMorres (an accomplishedgentleman and most courteous host)has been working at the idea for quite awhile and is now engaged in buyingcattle and in building slaughter yards,residences and a : store. His inten-tiQnuis to kill eighty loeves, or two earoitds per dy, Apd i to conammeteshipping Mout the -lfet of August. Aompazy hasbr9 ieb te inS8t. Paul,indethe amem f h brnhe Pacide
R4frtiat i~O o;eCa y, -w .rvI aitor teu ners with thhe No. *t~i Pc
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~~ WOOL NOTES.
From Sunday's Daily.R. S. Ball arrived last evening with
his second and last installment of wool.Nat. MeGiffin, of Sand Coulee, arriv-
e'd with his wool yesterday. There werefour wagon loads, or 34 bales.
The sheep of the Belt creek companywill next be relieved of their wool at theShonkin sheds, and then Henry Me-Donald's.
A portion of the Poole Bros.' wool ar-rived from olf f creek yesterday. The .teams unloaded and returned for theremainder of the clip.
James Allen, who is just embarkingin the wool business on Wolf creek, wasin the city yesterday buying supplies.New sheep men, so to speak, are turningup at every point in the country around"Fort Benton.
A through rate on wool has been se-cured by our shippers, which, if any-thing, is more favorable that that of lastyear. The rate, we believe, is $1,90 toBoston, including insurance on the rail-road and lakes.
The work of shearing Hay Bros.' bandof sheep was concluded yesterday at theShonkin sheds, and it is all sacked anddelivered in this city. There will bebetween 50,000 and 60,000 pounds of it,quite a nice clip for one firm.
Besides the sheep ranch located onDog creek by Swope & Davenport, three -or four others have been selected for thesame purpose. That section promises todevelop into a great wool growing regionas, now that attention has been called toit, others will invade the field.
Severance & Co., who are the ownersof 10,000 sheep; A. McGregor, with 8,-8,000; Miss Jennie Corson, the "sheepqueen," with 4.000 or 5,000; P. I. Moulewith a large band, the number of whichwe have not learned, and most probablyothers-all of the Musselshell country--will market their wool in Fort Benton,notwithstanding the fact that they areseveral miles nearer the railroad. D. B.H., the magnificent liar who furnishesSun River news (?) for the IIusband-hmn, probably had not correspondedwith these parties.
Private advices received from Bostonquotes medium and medium fine woolfrom 27 to 28 cents per pound. Thisheavy advance over the Chicago iuota-Hions published in our last night 'issuleads us to believe that those quaottwere incorrect'--El'ening Post1r.
This will indeed make the heart of twool grower gl. as on accouto t
have their heads dipped. e believe itwould help them out a little. Mediumnand medium fine western wools in theeast are now quoted at 40@42.
S The First W'ool Sale. "
The first wool jurchase of the seasonwas made yesterday by Sam'1 Wilkin- ison of L. B. Berthelote, of the SouthFork of Sun river. There were about8,000 pounds in the lot, and the pricepaid was twenty cents.
The wool growers who ship their clipo Fort Benton have the advantage
1. Of a lively competition. Therie will,be at least five regular buyers (four arehere now) in the city during the season,which will not be the case in any othertown in the territory.
2. Of low freight tariff to the easternry,,nmarket, which, in connection with tthe-competition among buyers, will insur ( "better prices than can be paid elsewhhy -. .
3. They can buy their supplies at RCAINScheapest and best supply point in
tana.There are other reasons why
Benton is the best marke in thetory for the wool growei~iiing almost cover the gr •nd and wil
found powerful enoui to bring 1,t-•000 pounds of wool to the river metroe- erielis in the next two months. The cetainty of a late river will help the Bei* t: iton wool boom along.
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A Goose Story.
For the past few months Steve Spiley, of the Grand Union hotel, has .beenItenderly caring for four or five young tgoslings, now grown to considerab isize and kept in the rear of the house,and which yesterday took the liberty togo on a little excursion up the rivers'with the view, possibly, of enjoylntswim with the current downz as fadthe hotel. However', if this was theprogramme on the part of the younggeese it was not carried out. Whenthey were about to plunge into the Wa-ter a colored man appeared on the s. eand captured the whole outfit. Sh tlyafterwards he might have been seen atthe back door of the Grand Uniongeo-iating with Mr. Spitzley for the sale ofthree young geese, finally clsin thebargain at? fifty oents apiece. '
"Roast goose would come in 1rit rate;or 'a Fourth of t y. dinner, •t u,
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