The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-18
MATTERS.
Various Items Of interest Culled Prom Our
Exchanges.

10 q six column folio.
A Boze1nan Chinaman was shot ana
killed by q woman last Saturday.
jefferson county's assessment Will loot
no q million and q half this year.
Marshal Botkin and Col. Sanders are
"stumping" the Yellowstone country.
Dawson county comedies to Chofeau
the right TO II the councilman 'hls
time.
The Billings Post h:s hoisted the
name of Alex. C. Botkin for delegate to
congress.
The end of the Northern Pacific track
frosn the VESTS now within l25 miles OF
Missoula.
The winner Of the Greenhood, BONN q
Go. prize piano has not yet turned up
z, 76S Is the lucky number.
A woman named Carter committed
suicide at Billings last week by jumpins
into the turbid Yellowstone.
"Muggins" Taylor, deputy sheriff OF
Custer county, who was shot at Billings
while making an arrest, is dead.
The Billings Post says the cattle men
who have shipped from that point have
received $50 per head tor their stock.
Big.
A vein Of peroxide Of manganese has
a.. S5n.o,ox,J r> 4ic Vn31nyySfnnn hV
Col. Cav an engineer IN the ~irrigating
canal.
Judge Hawkes., Of Billings, who was
struck by a railroad engine some days
ago has died from the effects Of his in
iurtes.
Madame Cappiani displayed some fine
vegetables, grown On her Belt creek
ranch, at the Helena fair, and received
special mention on the same
A new four story hotel IL to be built by
6chwsb & Zimmerman, on Main street,
Helena, with a front of 100 feet. Work
will begin on 1t mex spring.
Myer Marcus, who formerly resided
Ia Helena, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in Lincoln Park, Chicago,
on the Sd inst. Financial troubles.
The 'tboomers'' on the Yellowstone
having shown what can be done with
printers ink at Billings are now seeking
new fields farther on, and Gross River
Ia their cry.
The grave-digger at the Butte GEM
e4ery furnishes us the following Stats
tics: Number of suicides graves, 80;
persons killed by accident, q; homi-
cides, Mountain.
Over ak hundred men were paid in
Glendiye last pay day. The money thus
disbursed amounted to nearly S4O,OOO,
! which Is sufficient evidence OF good times
for n n,onth.-Glendive Times.
The Bozen,an Courier has been en-
larged one column to the page, and
treated to d new head and dress. 1t is
now a.model in typographical appear
anoe and general newspaper excellence.
Philip Brady, the republican candi-
date for sheriffof Custer county, is an old
resident Of the county, and at present il
largely interested in railroad contracts.
He is expected togo in by an overwhelm-
Ing majority.
G.. A. Carson Of the GuNatia NeWs, Is
writing up the Clark's Fork mines, for
the General Ticket agent Of the North
err Pacific, and expects as the result the
building Of q dozen smelters in that dis
tdct In 1888!
The Miner says, the shipments of bull
lion last week were probably the largest
evez. reached in the history of that camp.
The shipments OF bullion, not including
matte and ore for reduction, aggregated
the handsome sum of $l02, 100.
The following nominations have been
made by the democrats Of Custer county:
Councilman. G. g. Cox; representatives,
p. w. Meadow and John x. Davidson;
sheriff, J. w. johnson; clerk, L. s. Tay-
Tor: treasurer, w. ". Garland.
The Northern Pacific has a strike of
two thousand employees at Portland,
one hundred miles west of Missoula.
The strikers have driven off the China
men and taken possession Of the cashiers
Office. Gen Ruger has been called On
for military assistance.
Five carloads of Montana sheep. be-
LONGING IN a Mr.. Bell. passed through