The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18
MONTANA MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.

A rink for roller skating is to be started in
Helena.
| The newly started gymnasium in Helena
is being well patronized
A Land League meeting is to be held in
Helena next Saturday night.
A waltzing match for $10O has been made
by two of Helenas young men.
1t is stated by knowing ones that 400 miles
| of railroad will be built in Montana this year.
A seventy-two hours ge-as- -you-please Pc
destrian tournament is in contemplation. at
Butte.
The Independent local has manufactured
| another explanation Of the Tacke ghost
story.
Butte and Helena will have telephone ex-
changes next summer. Benton should not
be counted out.
The Yellowstone Chronicle has become the
Journal again, and Mr.. w. D. knight is
sole proprietor.
About 900 men are employed in grading
on the Northern Pacific between Indian
creek and Spokane.
As many as 100000 pounds of bullion
have been turned out of the Wickes smelter
within the past thirty days.
The wedding of the Rev. J. J. Garvin and
Miss Eva Goodrich took place in the Metho-
dist church at Butte on Tuesday evening.
G. A. Hasenwinkle writes that he will
bring frst-class company of singers to Mon
tana next season and produce all the popular
light operas.
For the first time in the history of Missoula
county the Treasurer has the ready cash to
meet current expenses. Warrants are worth
their face. 5sa
Butte is to have new and larger post
Office. We Wish the P. O. agent would
drop down in Benton and make note of
our needs in that direction.
1t is said that in New York the mines of
Butte have better reputation for richness,
permanence and extent than those of any
other camp on the Continent.
The Coulson Post will be the next Mon
tana paper, after the Gallatin News. MIR.
Yerkes is now purchasing material for his
Office, and will soon begin the publication of
the Post.
Julius Horst, who seemed for time nearly
we'll of his wounds received at the hands of
poto nd hos hoe Hio
wounds are infaming and it is feared that
erysipelas is setting in.
In the mail service between Horse Plains
and Pen d. Grille, which had been petitioned
for and recommended by Delegate Maglnnis,
has been refused On the grounds that there is
no postof1ce to be supplied.
1t is stated that the Government contem-
plates beginning suit again Gimer, Salisbury
& Co. for 100000 paid to them over and
above the original contract price on various
mail routes operated by them.
The silver quartz lode recently discovered
near Bozeman, is being developed by Mr..
Bennett, the photographer, with very en-
wider and richer as the sinking progresses.
P.W. Meadow & Bro. have executed a
deed to the Northern Pacific company of the
land for depot purposes at Bozeman. The
amount of land conveyed was forty acres,
worth 800 per acre, and was gratui.iously
conveyed.
Mrs. Allen, of White Sulphur Springs,
who was partially insane. has been sent
home to her father at Yankton, Dakota.
She left Helena by Thursdays coach accom-
panied by her child. She was aided in going
by contributions from the generous people
of the Springs.
The Herald estimates that Helena received
during the past year about thirteen thousand
tons of freight. Benton can beat that easily.
Some sixteen thousand tons were shipped
by our merchants by river alone, to say
nothing of the goods that came eto Helena
late in the season. We believe there is not a
town in the Territory that receives and sells
as many goods as Benton. "a
At Glendive, on the 9th inst, the railroad
express Office was broken open, and 20 mail
sacks from Forts Keogh and Custer and
Miles City, bound east, were taken out, cut
open, the contents taken and the sacks
thrown away. Two watchmen were sleep
ing in the building at the time. No clue to
the robbers. The value OF the mail is not