The river press., 1882-08-23
MONTANA MATTERS.
Various Items of Interest Culled Frcm Our
Exchanges.

Dillon is to have new $4,000 school
house.
Watermelons are ripe in the Yellow
stone Valley.
A new paper, the Herald, is about to
be started at Bismarck.
r. S. Price is building new store at
White Sulphur Springs.
The wires for the electric lighs are be-
ing put up rapidly at Helena
There are five men down with the
small pox at Boulder Hot Springs.
The Utah & Northern was to have
reached Warm Springs on the 18th.
The Democratic primaries in Lewis
and Clark county were held Saturday.
n. B. Smith has located at White Sui
phur Springs in the practice of the law.
Five hundred people were on the
grounds at the opening of the Butte ra-
ces.
The Montana exhibit at the Denver
mining exposition is very creditable
one
Both tickets are in the field in Beaver
head county, and the battle may said to
be on.
Miles City is to the front, having now
female faro dealer and brace of boot
blacks.
On the 18th the body of an unknown
Hole river.
A Polander named Martin Gawalksky
was crushed to death between two ore
wagons at Hecla City recently.
The Herald reports that man named
Chas. Francis was killed by lightning
near Sheridan last Friday. sFrancis re-
sided at Glendale.
The Tribune reports that wool is not
coming into the Dillon maket very lively
yet, and thinks the growers are holding
off for better prices.
The sheriff Of Gallatin county offers
q reward of $500 for the arrest of the
murderer Of George King near Bridger
canyon about August 1st.
The smallpox patients at Boulder
Springs are James Reilly, John Morlin,
Il man named Rice and another man
whose name is unknown.
The Smokehouse lead in Butte has
been jumped and re-christened the Mys-
terry. The surface ground of this lead is
the most desirable part of the townsite.
A railroader named Thomas Christie
was killed last week at Billings by tho
accidental discharge Of gun in the
hands of a man named William Nc
Cord.
Phil. Il. Evans, Of Deer Lodge county,
has forty acres ofWheat which he thinks
will average sixty or seventy bushels to
the acre. Montana can beat the world
Rising wheat.
w. w. Chapman announces himself
as a candidate for clerk and recorder Of
Silver Bow county, subject to the deci-
sion Of the democratic convention. Mr..
G. is an old-timer in the camp.
Thieves Taided the Pacific saloon at
Miles City on the 10th inst and secured
$3.50 in cash, gold watch and other val
nables. Mr.. Dixon, proprietor Of the
saloon, went to Miles City from Mime
apolis last fall
A bartender named Fred Lot shot and
mortally wounded the night watchman,
Brown, at the Bozeman tunnel last Sun
day week. Brown first tried to get in
his work but was not quick enough.
Lot was dismissed by the authorities on
the ground that the act was justifiable.
On Saturday night Frank Murphy
was robbed of $221 at the Bozeman tun-
nel Murphy is a civil, inoffensive
young man, free from vices, and some
of the thieves which at present invest
the railroad camp, watched his room un-
til he was asleep and then crawled in
and stole ali Of his hard earnings Ter
dkd
John Henderson, who owned ranch
at the Rosebud, and was much respected
all over Custer county, was drowned
Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock. He was
endeayoring to cross the Yellowstone on
young and fractious horse which lie
was breaking To ride, and when he was
in the middle Of the stream he was seen