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THE RIVER PRESS LOCAL NOTES. sateress's Fort Benton's business houses were full I customers to -day and trade in all lines was brisk. Quite a number of Milk river settlers the vicinity of Chinook are in tbe .0. hav i n g been summoned as witnesses :3 the horse stealing ease. There was a sudden boom in court bus- s to -day. Lawyers, justices, consta- a l es and sheriffs all have their hands full. This is an evidence of flush times. • To -day has been more like aspring than ; winter day. The first week of winter as been a delightful one. We are mak- a gsstrocg medicine\ for open weather .;ntil after the holidays. The new bank, Stockman's National, will throw its doors open to the public a bout January 1st with a paid up capital s t $100,000. It will be one of the solid .nstitutions of the great northwest. We noticed to -day that the dry goods department of T. C. Power & Bro.'s mam- aoth establishment is preparing to take 2 0 its holiday attire. Mr. Authier in- !i)rmed us that the grand display would a open to the public Monday next. The county fathers have been putting in long hours and hard work this week, but the business of the session was so seavy they had to adjourn over till Mon- day to complete it. This session has been a trying one in many respects, but the gentlemen have mastered all the difficul- ties presented, and transacted their busi- fl ees smoothly to the satisfaction of all :hose who had business before the board. A man named Louis McDonald was ar- rested by Sheriff O'Neal and brought .n from Chinook by this morning's train. He is the same man who accidentally kill- ed his wife some months ago at his ranch near that place, particulars of which were given in the RivER PRESS at the time. The warrant against McDonald was sworn out by a Kansas farmer who lately ar- rived in the Milk river valley with his family. The farmer charges that McDon- ald took possession of one of his young iiurses, spirited it away to Fort Belknap, where he had it secreted in a stable. In the meantime the firmer went to McDon- ald'splace after the animal and could not tind it or obtain any information of its whereabouts from McDonald. The farm- er finally got an inkling as to what dispo- sition had been made of the horse and went to Fort Belknap to secure his prop- erty. He claims that McDonald, becom- ing alarmed, had mounted a horse and ridden ahead of him to Belknap to make away with the animal. The farmer caught McDonald at the very stable where the horse had been cached, but the ani- mal was not there, it having been eent, back to its owner's house. We give the particulars as they were given to us. The case is up for a hearing before Justice Crane as we go to press. From Monday's Daily. Mr. N. T. Dinsmore left Saturday on a business trip to his old stamping ground at Maiden. and will be absent for a few days. Mr. John Harris and wife will leave on Wednesday next for Stuart, Deer Lodge valley, where they will spend the holi- days with Mr. Harris' mother. The man, Louis McDonald, who had a hearing before Justice Crane Saturday afternoon on a charge of horse stealing, was bound over to appear before the grand jury under $300 bonds, in default of which he went to jail. Owing t ) the fact that several prisoners '.ere bound over under territorial laws to appear before the grand jury, there has been a grand jury summoned to be in at- tendance at the approaching term of Hereafter under the provisions of the constitution. a grand jury will only be sumenoeed upon special order of the court when extraordinary conditions may demand it. Mr. D. M. Arnold ard wife, of Cheyenne. Wyarning, are in the city, -aiests at the Grand Union where they .vill probably remain for a week or two. Mr. Arnold is interested in the ND herd of cattle ranging south of the Bear Paw mountains. The gentleman is a son of Mr. M. A. Arnold, a gentleman who made many friands during his stay in Fort i:enton last spring. 'We hear it whispered that the young en of our city propose LI give another ane of those pleasant social dances next Friday evening at Stocking's hall. We are glad to record the fact that the Fort Benton gallants are determined to keep Tip these pleasant entertainments during the whole winter season. This is as it should be and we trust that each sue- ireeding one may be more enjoyable than the One which preceded it. The county commissioners expect to 'omplete their work to -morrow evening, within the eight days allowed by law for 'seir regular 'session. They have had a arger amount of work than ever before at -ne sitting, the new election laws having - implicated matters and added much to Public expense. The board has given every detail of its new work careful serutiny, and they have done well to xind up all the business of the session in se short a time. Mr. Robert Blankenbaker and sister, Mise Ada Blankenbaker, arrived from fireat Faille yesterday, and are gneste of Their nint, Mrs. M. E. Kingsbury, of this eltY• Mr. Blankenbaiker is on a business 'IN) to Big Sandy, where he has a rela- tiv e iu the wciol •groeing buoinees, and will leave for that place to -morrow after- noon. Miss Ada will remain with her Fort Benton relatives during his absence and we hope longer, as our Fort Benton people will be glad of an opportunity to become acquainted with the young lady. From Tuesday's Daily. Mat Reagan, formerly with Mr. Joseph Sullivan, of this city, is working at his trade in Lewistown, Fergus county. Mr. Terrence McCune is at Seattle us- ing his old Montana teams hanling sand for builders on contract. So says a recent letter. Mr. Thomas J. Davidson, a gentleman formerly engaged in business in this city, but now a resident of Helena, arrived by this morning's train from Chinook, where he was called on a business trip. Mr. Davidson has hosts of friends in the river metropolis who are ha ppy to greet him once more, We have heard some good news relative to our former young townsmau, W. J, Pratt, who is now a prosperous business man of Whatcom, Wash., which we will take pleasure in giving to our readers to -morrow. Mr. Pratt spent his youthful days in our midst, and all will be glad to learn of his prosperity. Mr. John Bielenberg, of the great live stock firm of Con Khors & Bielenberg Bros.. is in the city. He resides in Deer Lodge, but his firm has large numbers of , cattle on Choteau county ranges. This is his first visit to our city though a'resident of the territory for over twenty years. He is surprised to see such a substantial lit- tle city. A nice mining deal was made to -day. Mr. James Ross sold a one -sixth interest in the Mountain Chief lead, Sweet Grass hills, to Messrs. C. I. Libby and Wm. Clark for something over $2,000. The Mountain Chief produces low grade ore in silver, copper and iron, but there are worlds of it, the lead being sixty-five feet in width. Messrs. C. S. Gibson, Kyle Price, R. W. Buckland, Charles Boyle and James Ross are also interested in this lead. The use of wind mills on our bench lands is the latest proposition which we consider it our duty to advanee. In a conversation with Mr. John Wasesha of Pen d'Oreille coulee yesterday, we learn- ed that he just purchased an Eclipse wind mill of Messrs. H. J. Wackerlin & Co. of this city. He is going to put over a well near his residence on the bench lands far the purpose of raising water for his stock and to irrigate garden stuff. He struck pure water in his well at four- teen feet. It has been proven that water can be found on our bench lands at from 14 to 20 feet. What is to prevent our stockmen from sinking wells on good ranges distant from running streams ,and putting wind mills on them to raise wat- er? Nothing that we know of. Think of it., then do it. A short time ago when a conductor slipped from the top of a freight car on the Minim hill and was killed, the RIVER PRESS, in commenting upon the great danger to which brakemen of freght trains were constantly subjected in win- try weather from frost and ice on the top of the cars over which they are obliged to pass when the train is running at full speed, suggested a safety railing along the sides of freight car tops. All old tuners who have ridden on the hurri- cane deck of the old fashioned Concord coaches will remember the iron railing to which as many as eight passengers could, and often did, cling for hours while the coach went rattling over a stony moun- tain road- The railing was only 4 or 6 inches high but nobody ever fell off over the side for they had something to cling to. Think of the icy top of a freight car, like the roof of a house, without a hand hold for an unfortunate brakeman to seize when he slips and falls. Is there uot something radically wrong here? We think there is and we believe it should be remedied immediately. A brakeman on these car tops whether icy or not is liable to make a mis-step and fall at any moment; once down what show has be to save himself from going to the ground ten, fifteen, twenty, possibly fifty, feet below': A broken arm or leg is the smallest he can receive, and his injur- ies are oftener fatal than otherwise. Now we ask, why not put a safety railing around the sides or eaves of freight cars. It would save many a life. Letter List. The following is a list of letters re- maining in the poetoffice at Fort Benton, Mont., for the week ended December 7, 1889. Belime Bobein Ade- Lepple John lay Long Wm J Blevens Miss Fannie Lyndnham A H Connolly Fred McComb Win Davis Geo Clarence .nrray Jas Darby Wm Nicoll Win Denham Elbert Patterson Mrs S B Hayne J R Reichel Frank Kitson John Sutton Goo L Leclerr Jos Turner W P Persons calling for any of the above let- ters will please say \advertised.\ C. W. PRICE, P. M. - Read This. I have just received a nice new stock of goods from the east and will only sell for strictly cash after December 12th, 1889. I will not be undersold for cash. All ac- counts on my books now must be settled by January 1st, 1890, with cash or a good marketable note drawing 12 per cent. per annum interest. A I accounts unsettled by January lot, 1890, will he put into le- gal hands for collection. GEo. A. FRY, Bynum, Mont. MARRIED. A Prominent Choteau County Wool Grower Weds a Southern Belle, a Niecebf Sir Donald Smith. The Ottawa Daily Free Press of Octo- ber 29th says: \Mr. Joseph C. McCuaig, an old Ottoway boy, and brother of Mr. W. H. McCuaig, of the post office depart- ment, arrived in the city on Saturday. He does not visit Ottov;ay alone this time. On Tuesday last lie was married at Wash- ington, D. C., to Miss Effie Smith, daugh- ter of a wealthy southern planter, who now resides in Washington, and niece of Sir Donald Smith, of Montreal. Mr. Mc- Cuaig has not been idle since he went to the far west to make his fortune, and as a result of his industry is proprietor of one of the largest sheep ranches in Montana, as well as having an interest in two others and a valunble coal deposit which has re- cently been discovered near . Dupuyer, Niontana. After a few days' sojourn at the capital Mr. and Mrs. McCuaig will start for their western home, remaining over for a short time at Chicago and Min- neapolis, where Mr. McCuaig has some business interests to look after.\ Mr. Jos. C. McCuaig is a cousin of Mr. A. F. Mc- Cuaig, of the inland revenue department, Picton. Milk River Survey. [The following letter just received by this office explains itself. Sixteen town- ships will be included in the proposed sur- vey. Ed.] U. S. SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF MONTANA, HELENA. Mont., November 30, 1889. E. W. Stevens, Chinook, Choteau county, Montana: Sir —I am in receipt of your letter of November 20th, asking information in re- gard to surveys in the neighborhood of Chinook, and also if it would be necessa- ry to make application to this office for such survey. In the act of congress making appropri- ations for public land surveys for the present fiscal year, the sum of $10,000 was set aside for the survey of lands in the Blackfeet reservation. In order to accommodate the greater number of settlers residing within the Blackfeet reservation, the land selected for survey is that lying along the valley of the Milk river, between the towns of Dodson and Toledo. This would include a survey of the lands in the neighbor- hood of Chinook. A contract for this work is about to be let by this office. The work will be coin- menced early in the spring and completed during the summer. Very respectfully, GEO. 0. EATON, Surveyor General. WINDOM'S SILVER POLICY. Secretary Wildom's silver policy is what may be called, in street parlance, \a Joe dandy.\ It reminds one of the proposi- tion the Yankee made to the Indian to divide the game killed by them. Said the Yankee: \You take the buzzard and I'll take the turkey, or I'll take the tur- key and you take the buzzard.\ \But said the Indian, \you don't say turkey to me nary time.\ Mr. Windom doesn't say turkey to the silver men, it is buzzard for them every time and turkey for the gold bugs. This scheme is objectionable from every point of view. In the first place it would destroy the royal character of silver as money and make gold the unit of value. In the next places the secretary of the treasury is given discretionary power to suspend the receipts of silver bullion for payment in notes at the mints. In the third place the mints are open to the free deposit of silver only when the market value of the same does not exceed one dollar for 412% grains of standard power. In the fourth place it places the holders of silver notes at the mercy of the bulls and bears of Wall street. In other words the value of the notes would fluctuate as the market price of silver would rise or fall. In the fifth place the secretary could redeem the notes held by a pre- ferred class in gold, thus throwing all the gold in the country into Wall street. But the one fact that under Mr. Win- dom's policy the secretary of the treasury may close the mints of the country against the free deposit of silver when ever he sees proper to do so condemns the scheme. No one man should exercise such vast power over the money circula- tioa of the country. It would be dan- gerous in the extreme to invest him with it. A pronounced gold bug like Mr. Win- dom could find a reason to suspend the receipts of silver at the mints for an in- definite period of time. Again, with a pliant secretary of the treasury a few pre- ferred speculators could, in a short time, control all the gold in the country, and by alternately \bearing\ and \bulling\ silver the confidence of the people in the stability of the metal as a monetary me- dium would be impaired or altogether de- stroyed and thus create such a demand for gold that holders would realize for- tunes in premiums while the value of sil- ver would be correspondingly depreciated. These are a few of the more objection- able features of Mr. Windom's silver pol- icy. The silver miners of the west will not take kindly to it, but there is not a gold bug in the country that will oppose it. They are prepared to take anything rather than to submit to free and unlim- ited coinage of silver. Wooin g the Goddess Fortune in Roston The latest favored gentleman at the court of good fortune is r. John If. Ha - Vey, who does business at 304 West Broad- way. He is a popular citizen of the South Boston, Mass., district, where he has lived as man and boy for 38 years of his life He was a holder of a twentieth of the second capital prize drawn at the last drawing of the Louisiana state Lottery, and he received $5,000 in crisp bills last week. The full amount that was drawn by the number he held was 8100,000.— Boston (Mass.) Herald, Oct. 2. Barley as a Crop. Mr. John Wasesha of Pen d'Oreille cou- lee gives us his experience with a little field of oats, which he planted last spring that is interesting and proves a thing or two. Mixed with the oats sown was quite a sprinkting of barley. It will be remem- bered that his place is quite elevated as compared with the Teton and Missouri valleys, boing on the bench lands at the head of a long tributary of the Marias river. It is well known that this year was the driest ever known in Montana. Mr Wasesha had not a drop of water with which to irrigate and did not expect to raise a grain of oats or barley. Strange to say. however, the oats came up and some of them actually headed out making fair sized heads of well filled grain. But the barley proved a greater. He says that the barley seed seemed to be perfectly at home in that soil. The plants stooled out, making as many as a dozen straws to each stool. They did not grow over a foot high, but the heads were of remarkable length and size and. were full of matured grain as fine as any he ever saw. This proves to his satisfac- tion that barley will do better than oats in any season in Montana, and that it is one of the safest crops that can be plant- ed in this country. He is now satisfied that in any ordinary year barley will not fail of a good crop on our bench lands. He thinks this is also true of wheat. This year of drouth will not have come in vain if our people will only study and apply its lessons. What It Does. A trip back to the old home or a visit to friends at a distance gives a pleasant change from the routine of every day life. Railway trips are not so expensive as in the early clays of railroad building, and a jaunt through the fields, forests, towns and cities along the Manitoba road gives new life and vigor to young and old. Your ticket agent or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn., will reply to inquiries concerning rates and routes via the Manitoba Palace Dining and Sleeping Car Line. Notice to Stockholders. The , regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Port Benton for the election of directors for the ensuing year, wikbe held in Tuesday, January 14th, 1890, at the ba k- ing house. JOS. A. BAKER, Cashie Dated Fort Benton, Dec. 10, 1889. Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a q uarter of a century. It is used by the United States Government. Endorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. Protect Your Eyes! li otsCHBE RG:s . o kovED DiAmo ti elACTAc L E s o PAT? JULYIU 1879. Mr. H. HIRSCHBERG The wee -known optician of 8211011re St. (N. E. ('or. Seveuth and Olive sta.), St. Louis, has appointed W. J. MIN AR, of Fort Benton, as agent for his celebrat- ed Diamond Spectacles and Eyeglasses, and also for his Diamond Non -Changeable Spectacles and Eyeglasses These Glasses are the greatest inven- tion ever made in Spectacles. By a proper con- struction of the Lens a person purchasin g a pair of these Non -Changeable Glasses never has to change these Glasses from the eyes, and every pair pur- chased are guaranteed, so that if they ever leave the eyes (no matter how rusted or scratched the Lenses are they will furnish the party with a new pair of Glasses free of charge. W. .1. 311 - NA it has a full assortment and invites all who wish to satisfy themselves of the ,, ,, reat superiority of these glasses over any and all others now in use, to call and examine the same at W. J. MINAR, Druggist ::ancl :: Optician, Sole Agent for Fort Benton. pEr No peddlers supplied. The Montana Stockman. A monthly journal devoted to the inter eats %1 IllhIlh st ekmen in general. ::yubsoriptiou pr.,- 1.50 _per 1890. l]E)DE Choice Winter Reading! Having made specially low clubbing arrangements with the publishers of the DETROIT FREE PRESS, we are able to offer that well-known and popular publication at low rates, to subscribers of the RIVER PRESS. The River Press and Detroit Free Press ONE YEAR, for $3.50. To new subscribers paying one 'ear in advance, we %yin send the RIVER PRESS and Detroit Free Press as above. The RIVER PRESS gives a com- plete record of home and outside news; while the Detroit Free Press contains an abundance of choice reading all the year round. Twelve Volumes of Dickens, Together with the RIVER PRESS and Detroit Free Press for one year. We are able to offer the above combination to new subscribers at $4.00, and submit the same as one of the best values ever presented. The 12 volumes of Dickens are complete and unabridged, neatly bound in paper covers, and will be delivered free to any address. Remember—Twelve volumes of Dickens, River Press one year, Detroit Free Press one year—the whole combination for $4.00. TO OLD SUBSCRIBERS. While the above proposition is made for the purpose of securing new subscribers to the River Press for 1890, we would extend its advantages to old subscribers as follows: Subscribers paying one year in advance to December 31, 1890, together with arrearages where such exist, will receive the River Press and Detroit Free Press one year at $3.50. The set of 12 volumes of Dickens, River Press one year, and Detroit Free Press one year, for $4.00. River Press Publishing Co., Fort Benton. 1 4 etklil aeirEL I . (Under New Management. ) The only FIRST-CLASS House in GREAT FALLS. OFFICE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Firk Billiard Room, and Bar Stoeked with CHOICE LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Central Avenue and Park Drive. JULIUS HORST, Proprietor. FURNITURE! Largest Assortnrent, Latest Designs, Lowest Prices. Bed Room Sets from tIO to $75, consisting of Bureau, Washstand and Bedstead. Folding Beds, the celebrated Acme and Chicago Bed Springs, Mattresses and Pillows. Parlor Furniture In Great Variety. Brocaded Velvet Sets, consisting of seven pieces, $40 to $75. Student, Easy and Rocking Chairs, Ottomans, Sofas and Bed Lounges. Immense variety of Rattan and Reed Chairs, Tables and Lounges, Center and Library Tables, Book Cases, Sideboards, Cabinets and Chiffonniers. Hall, Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture in great quantity and variety. Camp Stools, Chairs and Cots. ESamine our stock before buying. a s - 1E 71 tiC13 P4. - Fort Benton, - - - Montana. I have now on exhibition the largest, finest and most complete assortment of HOLIDAY GOODS to be found in the City. CALL AND SEE THEM! F. W. BUCKSEN Front Street. - - - Fort Benton, Mont. Wood and Coal F CITY RESH DELIVERY. BEEF. FOR SALE. GEO. W. SBEIVDAN. Fine Book and Job Printing a specialty the RivEs PRI4SS office Mt. John Nettliert announces to the citizens of Fort Benton that he will deliver fresh beef three times a week throughout the city. Hind -quarter, 61 4 centa: fore q uarter, 514 cents ; loin steak, 10 cents: chuck steak, 5 cents: boilin g pieces, 5 cents. THERESA NEUBEEr. Teton Valley JOHN NIUSEHT, Agent. rlf A 'too premium and the RrvEs RFNS otie year. for t3.50.