Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-30
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Hay costs t25 per ton IN Butte, Mon.
tana.
Ours,. The U,e chic {. is said IN be worth
t3OO.OOO.
Helena has a lodge of colored Good
Nmplars.
Mrs Ann Eliza Yuunglectured 10 Austin,
MIMI, Jan. 9Th.
A democratic daily is 1901 to be started
ut Rochester, MINI.
THE assessment Of Custer county, Mon.
tana. tor 1879 was 1881 ,25S.
Cheyenne has organized Q telephone ex-
change with q capital stock Of 5000.
A military telegraph repair citation has
been established at the Coal Banks. Mon
fsna.
The Rocky Mountain Mining Review,
published at Denver, is a 16.page weekly
paper.
The Benton Record has enlarged. 1t has
'hirty.six long columns filled with reading
matter.
The Salt Lake Tribune issued a 12.page
holiday number, with an edition of 5000
copies.
The Record. Union of San Francisco, is
sued sixteen page holiday sheet, printing
100000 copies.
The total gold and silver product Of the
county west of the Missouri for 1879. ia
put at $75. 349.t 01.
Several prominent democrats. are prepar-
ing to address the democrats Of Oregon in
the coming campaign.
The development of the old bonanza,
tho PonQhaOOf nina IN Mo~Hn~o I.:--n
forth astonishing results.
The revival meetings In Rochester, Miu-
%nesota, under charge of Major Wittle, are
attracting crowds of interested people.
During a severe wind storm at Fort
Missoula M. T., q halfbreed was discover.
ed aittiBg on the roof of bis home to hold
it down.
Montana is credited with a gold and
silver product of 5000 O2O Tor 1879. Utah
is credited with an excess over Montana of
$l,750,000.
Montana had a reunion of the veterans
of the Mexican war in Helena, on the 9th,
with a banquet in the evening, which was
a grand affair.
A thermometer At Fort Shaw, Montana,
made a rise Of 81 degrees in ten minutes,
on January 7th. A chinook wind was
accountable for it.
There are now three daily papers pub
lished In Leadville. Colorado,-the Herald,
md Democrat. morning Journals, and the
Chronicle, an evening paper,
Now, for the fret time 10 the history of
Montana, the territory has not one out.
standing warrant which it is not able and
ready TO pay on presentation.
Three disastrous incendiary fires in
Helena, inside of twenty four hours, cause
the people TO rise as one man, against
the miserable fire iend, whomever he may
be.
At Deer Lodge. Montana, a long trial has
just been concluded, in which a notorious
rough who had shot and killed a Chinaman
was sentenced to the penitentiary for Is
years.
The grand jury at Denver has indicted
nearly four hundred liquor dealers for vi
olation of the dormant Sunday law. The
jury was carefully drawn from among .. d
ribbon men.
1t is said that Francis j. Dickens, a son
of the late Charles Dickens, is an ipspector
10 the northwest mounted police force, and
has heen stationed for the past four wears at
Fort Walsh.
Montana Muscular: A story which
comes to US entirely Oh hearsay evidence is
sfloat to the effect that one man, who has a
claim at Beartown, pounded out with a
mortar from decomposcd quartz something
over 5000 10 six hours. II is said that
miners who have had q glimpse at the
claim. pronounce It one of the richest ever
seen.
It. Is predicted that the yield of precious
metals in Utah for 1880 will he as follows
The Park. Sc. 500 600; Bingham, $2.OOO,.
000; Alta. 81. SOC, 900; Big Cottonwood,
$500 600; Stockton. Oh,r and Dry Canvon.
$500 600: Frisco. $1,000 OOO: Silver Reef,
f2gO00.0 900; Tin:ic. $4OO OOo: American
Fork and other d,atricts, $780, 900; making
q total of 10000 600.
A. G. Bntkin, formerly of the Milwaukee
Sentinel. but now United States marshal ol
the territory of Montana. lie at present suf-
fering from partial paralysis of the Limits,
the result Of an affection of the spiral mar
row. brought on bv over exertion and ex-
posu-e during q recent trip to Fort Sully
on official business. The disability COM
pels Mr.. Botkin to move about ON clutches.
He intends to go to Philadelphia for treat
ment ss soon as be can put the business OF
his office 10 proper shape to be entrusted
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