The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

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colored man and brother is asserting hi
rights.
On the first Saturday in February the pee
pie OF Bozeman will vote on the proposition
OF erecting or not erecting a school house o.
the east side, the cost of the same to be SIS,
900 or less. At a former election the projec
was defeated.
Major j. W. Walker, sometimes men
toned in connection with the Governor
ship Of Montana, had dispute with hi
landlord about board bill before leayinl
Helena for Washington. and the associates
press is giving him plenty of free advertising
Sorrel Mike is coming home to Montana
He has cleaned up everything he has strucl
from Missouri to h we mean Texas, and
IS now in the latter salubrlous cline, putting
in well-earned winter of rest In the spring
he Will return to the mountain country.-In
dependent.
Vic Smith, with but one skinner, realized
from one hunt of 10 days, the handsome sum
of $1,076, not counting 60 wolves still or
hand, the market price of which is So each.
He sold the hides on the ground, thereby
losing $500, which was the clear gain of the
freighters, hauling thom to this point Glen.
dioe Times
MIR. Joseph J. Kennedy, sentenced in May,
1880, to seventeen years in the penitentiary
for killing Thomas 81. O'Connor, granted a
new trial and change of venue to Lewis and
Clarke county, and since confined in Jail at
Helena, was released on $4,000 bond by or
der of the Supreme Court, and returned here
this week.-Neao North West.
White Sulphur Springs will have q log jail,
the commissioners having let a contract for
the construction of the same. The plans and
specifications are not very intricate. But
then log Jail is fs- better than no Jail at all,
and at the end of year will result in the
saving Of many dollar 1t is pretty ex-
pensve business to board prisoners at Hele-
ma, as has been done by Neagher county
heretofore.
The Helena Land League had an interest
ing meeting at Harmonic Iall on Saturday
evening, the room being crowded to its full
est capacity. Col. A. M. Voolfolk, Alex
G. Botkin, W. E. Cullen, Col J. P. Richard
son, E. W. Toole and others made speeches,
and the performance was interspersed with
music and recitations. In every respect the
meeting was a splendid success, and doubt
less added many to the friends Of the Irish
cause at Helena.
The Nep NORTH Vest has the following in
to r. H. Williams, once widely
known throughout the Territory as brilliant
lawyer and orator: 1--WE are informed that
r. II. Williams, Esq, known as Judge Will
liams during his practice of law here and in
Helena, some years ago, and who has been
for long time an inmate of the Insane Asy-
lum, has nearly reached the end of his pill
grimage. 1t is not believed he can survive
many days longer. Life has been burden
to him mentally and physically for years"
James Muir, the veteran tunnel builder,
has been awarded the contract for boring the
Bozeman tunnel, which IS to pierce the lofty
divide separating the valleys of the Yellow
stone and Gallatin. The length of the tunnel
completed will be upwards of 5000 feet, or
within few feet Of the length of the Mullan
tunnel, now building through the main Rocky
range neal Helena. The machinery for the
work was some time since shipped from New
York and is now due at Dillon. from which
point the wagon haul will be made Heraz1
We are informed that Geo. Anderson and
on, of Miles City purpose Starting paper,
o be called the Lioulsoaa Transcript, at the
lew and fourishing town of Coulson. The
own is located at the lower end of Clark's
Fork bottom, the finest and most extensive
stretch of agricultural land in the Yellow
tone valley. The Northern Pacific railroad,
which crosses the Yellowstone river at this
Joint, will build extensive machine shops at
Joulson, and perhaps. in the near future,
construct branch road from there to Fort
Benton Courier.
A Fort Logan correspondent furnishes the
the following account of fire
y which Messrs. Harston, Hoagland and
Kelly, well known Meagher county miners,
Ost all their worldly goods: Last Sunday
Tohn Harston, Dan. Hoagland and John
Kelly met with quite loss. Their cabin
nd all they had burned up. They had laid |
q stock of groceries and clothing to last !
hem year, and they did not ssve anything. |