The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-01
NOTES OF NEWS.
Dom estaC.

The fight will be sharp THERE'S nc question
that Sherman is the faYorite son of the Buck
eye State.
General Butler, contrary to current report,
has no idea Of abstaining from active partici-
patton in political affairs, and instead of re-
turning to private life, he intends to organize
an independent party in Massachusetts, and
| thousand voters, to hold the balance Of
vower in the old Commonwealth. It is Gen
eral Buffers purpose to come to the front in
next years State campaign, and if the times
ernorship, in the expectation that his support
Of General Hancock will give him every Dem
ocralic vote in the State of Massachusetts.
The Republicans here say, however, that
lc votes, be will not be able to take any Re-
pubicans over with him to the Democratic
party.
Temperance people will be interested to
know that during Lieutenant schwatka's
great sedge expedition of more than three
thousand miles through the Arctic regions
not drop of spirituous liquor was made
use Of
1t is said on competent authority that only
twenty per cent of the shares Of the Comstock
mines are held in the brokers' offices in San
Francisco. The other eighty per cent. are
presumed to be held in private hands.
A high mountain near Colorado Springs
has proven to be genuine volcano. Two
eruptiOns have taken place within the past
two months, and the flow of lava has extend
ed three miles, 1t threatens Colorado Springs
with the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The Missouri Republican Ohio has just
about one hundred more inhabitants than
Illinois, according to the census Of 1880, and
yet while Illinois cast only 554 0G6 votes at
the recent election, Ohio cast $50, III. Poll
tical wiseacres will find it hard to make any
adequate explanation of this extraordinary
difference in the proportion Of voters to pop
ulation, without making allowance for large
fraudulent vote in OHIO.
The Chicago Times Wichita special says:
A prospecting party has returned from the
Wichita Mountains with excellent specimens
Of gold, silver and copper. The discoveries
were made in the southwestern part Of the
Indian Territory, which is occupied by sew
eral wild tribes. A mining company has
been organized under the presidency Of DR..
r. Wilson, of Texas, who explored the gold
and diamond mines Of South Africa and
equipped an expedition to go in search of
Livingstone.
The counsel for the prosecution in the
Morey letter case for some time past have
been carefully examining the letter and the
envelope in which it was enclosed. 1t is GER
tain that the envelope originally bore neither
name. Photographic copies Of it very much
enlarged have been taken and these reveal
that the address has been neatly erased from
it, The name was either Cox or Fox, care
of some one in the same county.
The Greenback party, it is claimed, will
have nine representatives in the House, viz:
Murch and Ladd of Maine, Brumm of Penn
sylvania, Lowe of Alabama, Hazelton, Ford,
Burrows and Rice Of Missouri and Jones of
Texas.
The 7qibune's Portland, Oregon, special
says: The official vote gives Garfield, 20,618;
Hancock, 49, 900: Weaver, 245.
Orders have been received from President
Dillon, creating the Office Of Assistant Gener-
al Manager Of the Union Pacific railroad,
and appointing Thos. L. Kimbal, heretofore
General Passenger and Ticket Agent, to the
position.
The Chicago Times New York special says:
Search to find Edwin Fox, the reporter for
the Truth, who probably originally received |!
the envelope which figures in the Morey case,
discovers that Fox recently left town and is /
now in Nova Scotia. A TraM employe,
named Warren is suspected of being the per-
son who went to Maryland to secure false
witnesses.
The Leadville Chronicle says: Sixty labor
ers were buried in a snow slide, recently,
near Clark Creek on the Cokomo extension
Of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.
Abous II q. m. they noticed the pine trees
trembling and in an instant the slide came
with loud roar, tearing up the track for q
distance of quarter of mile and burying
so men. John Dine was killed and 19 men
badly injured. The slide carried the track
0yer the heads Of the men and most Of the
wounds were probably caused by the iron
striking them.
The information in regard to the consoli-
lation of the Atchison and Burlington roads,
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