The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-19
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MONTANA MATTERS.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.
Chicken thieves are alarmingly numerous
at Helena
Helena has rung out the old and rung in
the new city officials.
The Leo Theatre Combination appear in
Helena on the Goth inst
The Fort Shaw base ball club is training
to meet the Helena nine on the diamond
field.
Butte is to have a new postofice, to be
Uncle Sam foots the bill of expense.
There is stampede from Bozeman in the
direction of the mineral fields thrown open
by the passage OF the Grow treaty bill.
John Gbbon, Jr, son of General Gibbon,
has been appointed cadet to the military
academy at West Point, and is credited 10
Montana.
The west bound Union Pacific immigrant
train which left Omaha on the 7th inst. had
OUu passengers, mOSt VI WuOu WClC tiCActcu
through to Montana.
The contract for building the new Custer
county court house at Miles City has been
let to Joseph Leighton, of ST. Paul. The
contract price is $37. 900.
Clarence Eagle and John Tuckerman,
horse thieves confined in the Butte Jail, re-
Gently made their escape. A reward of $500
is offered for their apprehension.
Alvah j. Noyes and Miss Hattie Buck, of
Butte, the latter the daugher of Mr. G. nj.
Buck, and but fifteen years of age, were
clandestinely married few weeks since
The parents, claiming the marriage illegal.
refuse to surrender the bride. and the hus-
band will begin legal proceedings to recover
her The quid nuncs of Butte are busy dis
cussing the affair in all its various phases.
We are informed that a few days since
s,me section men on the Utah s. Northern
railroad discovered place where persons,
with view 10 robbing the up coming train,
tore up q portion of the track at point
where the cars would run over a steep en-
bankment if the villianous scheme had no
been detected. 1t was evidently the intention
of the robbers to make sure things of kill
ing all the passengers and thus avoid trouble
in carrying out their purpose. pendent
On Tuesday, Mr.. Herman Clark returned
from New York, accompanied by the gener-
al manager of the Kansas s. Topeka railroad
and capitalist from st. Paul. MIR. Clark
has secured the contract for the entire noun
tain division Of the Northern Pacific, exclu-
sive of tunneling, and will soon commence
sub-letting. He, as head of the New York
syndicate of capitalists, has purchased the
railroad townsite on Clark's Fork bottom.
with the right to locate it at any point on the
line of the Northern Pacific favorable for
the junction point of the proposed Benton
railroad. Engineers have been detailed for
the purpose Of surveying line from Clark s
Fork bottom north to the Missouri river at
Benton, and the new point will become the
local point of q large amount of railroad
traffic. YelIoaostone Journal.
Yesterday morning a well mounted caval-
cade Of six old Montanians, equipped with
wagons and teams, besides q good coIored
cook and other essentials to comfort, started
from Helena with view to spending q
month on the Judith and locating some of
the fertile lands in that vicinity. The gentle
men composing the party were Colonel W.
F. Chadwick, Colonel w. W. DeLacy, R.
B. Parrott, Esq, John A. ziegler, Upton
Hallett and Fletcher Maddox. They were
well provided with guns, fishing tackle, ETC.,
and in addition to making the expedition
profitable in the way of securing valuable
lands, we have no doubt the party will have
splendid time in other respects. Some of
the party, like Colonel Chadwick, have never
vet aYailed themselves Of their right to make
pre-emption Of timber and desert land loca-
tions, and wisely concluded that their time
had about come around. II prior claims