The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-01-05
MONTANA MITES.
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" punk IN the territory
this year will exceed by one-third that of any
other season. Notwithstanding the hlef
price Of grain, our farmers find that swine
growing is profitable.
Lieut.. Reynold, quartermaster at Fort Hall,
was robbed lately BY two recruits, named
Marion and Fitzgerald, Of $3.50, by breaking
open the safe. They were caught at Laramie
city.
The following came in from Benton on the
29th "Thermometer 50 deg. tbelow zero
this morning. Mean temperature for the day,
81 deg below zero, and not add stick of
wood in town.
a gentleman who came in recently from
Granville Stuart's cattle ranch in the Judith
Basin country, says that the storm did not
reach much beyond Diamond city. He said
there was no snow in Smith River valley and
but little in the Musselshell.
[Husbandman.l
The Canadian prophet who said we were "a
have q snow storm on the 22nd that would
continue until it reached a depth of eleven
feet, has thus far missed it only by about ten
feet.
1t is proposed to make q good road over the
Duck creek divide next summer. This route
is several miles shorter than any other route
from the Springs to Helena.
The Benton Line, it is thought, will have
all the transportation it can do next year and
it is estimated that it will be able to move five
ar civ thnucana tnno of fro;rhf hao;doc &ho,,a
ands Of passengers. Montana may well be
proud Of her enterprising citizen, II. O..
Power, the owner Of this line.
A mountain lion which made several visits
to VIM. Ford's sheep corrals last week and
killed six or eight head of sheep finally came
to grief at the hands of James Ramsey. 1t
was night and the moon gave a poor light,
but a random shot pierced a vital part,
though only 40 yards distant a needle gun did
not drive q ball through him. Mr. Ford
brought the beast to town and sent it to Gen.
A. J. Smith, who will have the skin stuffed
by a taxaoermist and ship it East to friends.
The schOl census Of Meagher county reveals
the TACT that the rising generation is about
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1875 boys and 1913 girls. The census of the
county taken last June shows that there are
three males in the county to every female.
If grown persons alone were enumerated
there would be about seven men to every Wo-
man. The Territorial census gives the same
proportion, three males to one female.
The public has been exercised to a con-
siderable degree for some time past in regard
to the probable course of the Northern Pacific
railroad. The Yellowstone Journal publishes
it as authentic that the road is to come via
the Musselsaell, while the Courier argues
that it will 60 up the Yellowstone. Other
%jurnals Of the Territory take sides as their
various interests dictate. AS for ourself we
have thought but little about it as we are con-
1ident that the matter will be determined in
the councils Of the company who know moth
ing and care less as to what any Montana
journal may say. But while we are willing
to admit that the Yellowstone route is and
has long been the ~favorite one with the COM
pany, we are quite sure that when the ad-
vantages of the Musselshell route are brought
before the company and are thrown into the
scales against those Of the Yellowstone, the
former is as liable to be adopted.
independently
We learn that . mail bag was found on the
overland road last Friday evening between
Helena and Montana city. It ives not brought
TO town, but left on the roadside, and perhaps
did not reach its destination at all.
The MSss0u15a,l the 25th inst, says chap
tiste Ducharme, of Frenchtown, who, a few
weeks since, made final entry on his pre-
emption claim at Frenchtown, quite aston
ished Judge Moody, when he sWore his age
was SO years. Ducharme has lived on his
farm since 1860, and says he came to Mon
tana with a trapper named Ashley before
Captain Bonneville made his famous explora-
lions hereabouts. The old man appears stout
and healthy yet, and rustles for himself just
the same as if he was fifty years younger"
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