The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-11-09
MONTANA NJ ALTERS.

The Sisters have built a hospital at Butte.
The total assessment for Lewis and CLARK
county is So, $50, 099
The Ophir mine at Butte has been leased
and bonded for $50, 900.
The total length Of the Northern Pacific
railroad when completed will be 1900 miles
The Alice mine, at Butte, produced $oO,-
$50 worth of bullion during the month OF
October
The Nettie hosting works, near Butte
were wholly destroyed by 6re on Monday
night of last week.
Two thousand men with 900 mules are at
work on the Yellowstone division of the
Northern Pacific railroad.
A special tax of two mills on the dollar
has been levied at Missoula to defray the ex-
penses Of school house improYem ents.
A company has been organized in Chicago
for the purpose Of establishing German col
onies in Dakota and Montana.
II. Warrington, of Virginia City, has
made an assignmentin in favor of his creditors
His debts are principally in Montana and st.
Paul.
Coulson is one of the places on the Yellow
stone where the Northern Pacific road has
laid out town, and boom has already set
i'd there.
The whistle of the locomotive can now be
heard ia Butte on clear nights. 1t will not
be but few weeks until the iron horse
shows up there
The Catholic congregation is the largest at
Butte. It is stated that there are as many
commandments of this denomination as of all
others combined.
G. w. Perkins, of Glendale, has made an
assignment to n Armstrong & Co., bankers.
St. Paul and California merchants are the
ones caught by the failure.
An effort is being made to organize
Lodge of Royal Templars of Temperance
in Helena. The order combines life insur-
ance with temperance work,
Last week FIVE men were thrown 100 feet
with rock explosion near New Chicago,
landing in He'll Gate river, and strange to re-
late, escaped with but slight injuries.
A reward Of 81, 900 is offered BY the Utah
s. Northern railroad company for the arrest
and conviction of the murderers OF joel
Hinkley, the Franklyn, Idaho, operator.
The residence Of Col. a. J. Wall, Of Hell
ena, was destroyed by fire last week. The
loss was between four and five thousand
dollars, which was partly covered by insur
| ance,
Manson T. Loft, who was sentenced to the
| penitentiary from Butte for seven years, for
manslaughter, has been pardoned by Cover
nor Potts, He had served two Of the seven
years.
The mail route between Helena and Mis-
soula has been reduced t. the original con-
tract price, sc, SO. frcm Sis,759. The route
from Butte to New Chicago ls.cut from $l2,
527 to $7,515.
The Hus5andns0n suggests that the build
ing of Touring mill on the Judith would be
q paying investment There is certainly q
| good opening in that section and another in
the neighborhood Of Reaton.
Dcoley, the man who shot Enrich at New
| Chicago, waived an examination and YVES
| bound over in the sum of 1000 to await the
action Of the Graud jury He claims to have
done the deed in self defense.
The Yellowstone .Jolr1zaz has been en-
larged to.a seven column quarto with patent
| s'inards" The publisher is now East pur.
chasing new dress, and . decided improve
ment in the paper is to follow.
/ Two men named Cullen and Ryan were
| recently 3ssent up from Butte for five years
for robbery Cullen asserted at the trial thai
he alone was guilty and Ryan innocent. On
the strength Of this an effort is being made
| to secure pardon for the latter.
Captain John f. Weston, eommissary OF
subsistence for the military district of Mon.
tana, and headquartered at Helena for the
past four years, has been notified Of q change
| Of station, and will be succeeded by Captain
/ John j. Clague, of ST. Paul Captain Wes-
| ton goes to Boston.
| The citizens of Dawson county are kick
/ ing because they are, under the general
/ laws of Montana, prohibited from taking
any part in elections while, nevertheless, the
/ tex gatherer is as sure as death. La other
words they are crying out again taxation