The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-06-07
MONTANA MATTERS.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges
The purse for the Bozeman Fourth Of July
races aggregate $500.
The Northern Pacific expects TO celebrates
its Fourth at Billings
The placers Of Alder Gulch are producing
about $1,000 week.
postof1ice has been established at Mullan
Tunnel with daily service from Helena.
The Northern Pacific railroad will sink
several artesian wells along the line of its
road
Statistics go to show that one ton Of freight
was received in Montana last year for every
individual.
t. B. Hays has been jugged at Helena for
larceny. 1t is not the fellow who stole the
Presidency in 1876
1t is now " Secretary McCutcheon and Ex-
Secretary Mills, the former having duly
qualified on the 1st inst
Track laying on the Deer Lodge extension
of the Utah 81 Northern is announced to COM
mence ON the 10Th inst
Forty of Omaha business men will make
tour of Montana this year, taking in The
principal cities and the National Park.
On Saturday evening there was received at
the U. s. Assay Office at Helena 1.OSO,s4
ounces of gold retort from the Gloster niue
Report says that Miles City is soon to have
daily paper to be called the DAILY Press.
John n. Davidson of ST. Paul is the projec-
; tor.
The new Catholic church building at Butte
is to be the handsomest church editlce in
Montana. Ground has been broke for the
building.
| Theatrical parties are not ''doing' Montana
30 extensively this season. The returns from
last years tours were not such as to encour-
age the business.
| Hunlley 81 Clark, the new stage contrac-
tors. between Helena and Wuite Sulphur
Springs, have four new coaches en- 'oute TO
Helena from the S aes.
| Mss-ena Bulnrd Esq, has succeeded Hon
c. Hedges as City Attorney and clerk OF Hell
ena. The Democrats have the distribution
OF the loaves and fishes now
Miss Ella, by Inquirer, foaled In 1874 cn.
m, fi st dam Maielia, by imported Aus'r 1!lan
was sold Saturday by FL f. Baker, OF Hell
ena, t. Con K hrs, Of Deer Lodge, for $9oO.
In response to call for volunteers to go
to Lady Franklin Bay, in the region OF per-
netual snow and ice, Serg't. Wall, of Fort
Shaw. Private Roggs, Of Missoula, and Pri-
yate Dennison, OF Assinaboine, have Offered
their services and are now en- route to Wash
ington for inspection.
Chief Justice Wade and family will soon
ileaye on q teur Of the Pacific coast. Ihey
will spend month or more in California,
visiting San Francisco. Los Angeles, the
Geyser region, the Big Tree groves, Yosemite
snd other interesting parts Of the State. The
q Judge will return in time for the August term
of the Supreme Court.
s Major Armstrong, the Crow Agent, denies
{ in letter to the Bozeman Courier that ne
r has ordered squaw men off the reservation,
e and adds: 81 did not come here to civilizt
: white men, and so will be just as severe as
i the law will permit upon all such as are sc
: low down that they are willing to follow the
camp and live in tepee; but any white mar
who is legally married TO an Indian woman
and who will settle down and live in house
and tr, to make home for mis- family as
). white man should, will not be molested 81
:, me.