The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-12-14
MONTANA MATTERS.

MATTHIAS.
Il ems Of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.
Miles City has $50 school children.
Deer Lodge is TO have a parlor skating
club.
esther" was played in Butte to crowded
houses.
The editor of the Bismarck Tribune is Wis
ting Miles City.
\ DR.. ]. B. Atchison has been appointed
county physician of Lewis and Clarke.
The Cinnamon in Virginia City are still
indulging in pistol practice against one a.
other.
Near Sheridan, last week, 8 man named
Briggs had his arm broken by being thrown
from a wagon.
The public schools of Deer Lodge have
been closed for two weeks through fears Of
the smallpox.
VIM. McGibbon, an employee of the n. F..
r. r. was run over by the cars at Terry last
week and instantly killed.
Assman named jimmy O'Day froze his feet
in a recent snow storm in Beaverhead valley,
and will have to have q portion Of them am
putated.
5" Col. w. E. Sanders has gone to Miles City
on business connected with the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad. The Col. will probably go
East from there.
A check for $28, 552.5 0 was on Monday
drawn by the Treasurer Of Silver Bow coun-
ty in favor Of Deer Lodge county, which
squares accounts between the two counties.
A banking house will be established at
Miles City in June next by Mr.. George
Rockwell. Mr.. Rockwell recently purchased
the John Smith properly in that city, which
he Will use for the bank. The price paid for
the same is $4,000.
The Northern Pacific Railroad was com
pleted to Miles City Monday, Nov. % b. It
crossed Tongue River and reached Fl. Keogh
the day following, and IS expected to make
r sebud hythe 1T Of January. Daily pas
seDger trains commenced running from Bis
marck to Miles City this week.
The men who murdered Joel Hinckley,
the Franklin operator, having been tried at
Malsd for the crime were found guilty OF
murder, Mike Mooney il the first degree and
Barnes in the second degree. Mooney has
been sentenced to be hanged on the ooh Of
January, and Barnes was given fifteen years
in the penitentiary at Boise.
On the 1st a construction train crossed
Tongue river and steamed west Of that point
to Fort Keogh. On arriving the rail was
laid amid firing of cannon, mnsic by the
band and great rejoicing. A permanent
bridge over Tongue river has been begun
and will be completed in ten days. The
weather is very mild, and the men work
with their coats off. Five miles Of track per
day are being laid.
MIR. Jack has recently discovered a vein Of
quartz east Of the foot Of Mullan bill 10 the
vicinity Ct the tunnel. The assay made on
his specimens Of ore is as follows: Silver
per ton "a 44-1O0; gold per ton ST. so. The
vein is ABOUT SIX feet in width. M. Jack has
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named his discovery the West Point Lode.
He says that a numbe Of locations have been
made since autumn in that section, and thal
at no distant date the new camp will be q
large and Furnishing one.
II is alleged that Henry A. Mcintosh, who
has been living On the Varney ranch ID the
Madison valley, has Of late been ii the habi
Of brutally ill-treating his family, the cause
of his unmanly cruelty being that they Woule
notspermit him to crafty his lust upon tht
person of his young step-daughter. He hat
been arrested and held to answer at the dis
trict court to the charge of assault with in
tent TO rape. Being unable to procure bonds
he WAS sent to jail IN default.
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