The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-02

Y Masonic temple Is I'D be erehsed In
Butte.
Beer is selling in Butte for five cents
II schooner.
4 Masonic lodge liz about to be eetah-
lished at Billings.
J. G. kerley has retired from the staff
Of the Butte Miner.
The Northern Pacific track il within
$50 miles Of Bogeman
There were fifteen persons in the
Butte jail on the 25th.
w. G. Smith Of Denver has purchased
the Merchants hotel 1T Miles City.
Stuart Is the name OF the newest town
or the Westside. IT anticipates boom.
Some Of the esDung gentlemen of Hell
ena are affected with the lawn tennis
craze.
The August term OF the supreme court
commences the second Monday of the
month.
Jay Rials Uncle Toms Cabin troupe
plays IL week at Helena, commencing
August 7th.
The Billings Post wants Custer county
divided. OF course Billings will want q
county seat.
The crop prospects IN the Deer Lodge
valley arc excellent and the acreage lar
ger thun ever before.
The amount Of wood now cut in the
wood camps adjacent TO Butte is esti-
| mated at 400, 900 cords.
DR. Mc1lhenny, Of White Sulphur
| Springs, is in Billings and is said to have
an eye on some real estate.
Y2aIo,f zso,IIsrn+nn Of p.vt+s, ,ISD3 .f
heart disease on the road, while engaged
| in hauling wood to that city.
| Three thousand head Of cattle were
driven through Bozeuan recently de-
stined for the Sun River range.
| Ed. Anderson, son Of the editor Of the
| 4utt12t Courier, is lying dangerously i'll
with typhoid fever at Coulson.
Track is being laid at the rate OF two
! miles day west Of Cabinet Landing. It
cannot be long until Billings is reached.
The Second National bank OF Helena
has received its organization certificate
and will begin business In 81 few weeks.
An experiment, which may prove OF
great value to the Yellowstone district,
| is being Haadc-the domostication Of
sorghum.
| headed out so early is regarded as sign
of severe winter by the prophets from
away back.
| Miss Cutler, who was shot by Joe
| Harrison near Sweet Grass few weeks
since, is still fighting for life, and will
| probably recover.
| r. I. Dawes announces himself . can
didate for sheriff Of Gallatin county,
AZ y a
county convention.
Mccullough, the eminent tragedian,
t will accompany the Secretary OF Wax,
and Gen Sheridan on their coming trip
| to the National Park.
! The Cinnamon arrested ~ Butte for
opium smoking are generally acquitted,
and the officers who make the arrests
are becoming disgusted.
/ The uniform rank *. OF Z. will cele-
| brate their anniversary on the 5Oth OF
August in Butte. All the lodges OF the
territory have been invited.
| Tt is now stated that Billings will hear
| the whistle OF the locomotive before
| August 15-but then we have been mis-
| Led so often as to this matter!
There will be nearly $1,000 head OF
sheep driven to Montana this year, ana
| most of them are destined for the ranges
Of Choteau and Meagher counties.
| tt is rumored that Catholic bishop
| for the newly created diocese OF Montana
has been appointed, but the name OF the
clergyman raised to tho dignity has not
yet been made public.
| An immense body Of coal has been dis
| covered near Benson's Landing, ana
| party of Workmen under the auspices OF
| the Northern Pacific company are now
! engaged in developing the same.
| A distinguished party Of journalists
composed Of New York editors are ex-
pected in Billings on the 18th prox., En-
route for the Yellowstone National Park.
| The party will number about 800.
| Father Camp, who is now at Boze-
| man, has purchased the ground and
steps will at once be taken for the erec-
| ton of Catholic church at that place,
and also in time sisters hospital.
| A petition for increased mail service
| between Coulson and Mar1insdaie has
been nuinerously signed at the lornef
place. They ask for service three tunes
| q week instead of once as at present.
| The following additional money order
| offices have been decided upon by the
postoffice department and will be estab-
| iished after August 7th in Montana:
| Dillon, Fort Assinaboine, Glendlve,
Salisbury, Sherid,m and White Sulphur
| Springs.
distractions were placed on the track
| cf tho ITYah q Northern near RutfH. re-