The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-29
MONTANA MATTERS.


Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.
Miles City is to have new court house.
The Butte Inter- Mountains is a year old.
Fort Ellis soldiers have their hands full
suppressing the indefatigable tie cutter.
The Helena schools will close In a few
DAYS as the money to the credit Of the dis
trict is exhausted.
Fred nj. Wilson, the travelling man of the
Herald, is establishing dairy ranch on
Nevada creek, near Deer Lodge.
The Miner says that not single case OF
small pox exists in the Bitter Root valley,
rumors to the contrary nothw thstanding.
kench s. Hummeil ha.e bought OF VIM.
Roberts his ranch of 100 acres at the crossing
Of the Prlckly Pear, on the Bozeman road,
paying therefor $3 900.
Three thousand head Of cattle were pur-
chased last week by D. W. Flowers, In
Len,hi valley. The cattle are purchased tor
. new Montana company.
The Democrats of Helena have, nominated
the following ticket: For Mayor, h. w.
knight; Police Magistrate, W. D. Smith;
Treasurer and Assessor, jacob Loeb.
Gen. Brisbin, the 'sGath" of the North
west, is trying to boom the Clark's Fork
mines. He has spread their fame IN a
lengthy letter to the New York Herald.
The citizens of Jefferson county are agitat-
ing the question of removing the county seat
from Rauersburg to more central location.
Jeffel son City is candidate for the honor.
The Brush Electrical Light and Power
company OF Helena has been fully organized
and before many months the Capital will be
illuminated by the electric ray. The leading
business men OF the city are interested.
Agent Armstrong of the Crow Agency has
been anstructed by the Secretary of the In
terror to send 100 Crow youth to certain des
ignated farmers of Ohio, to be educated ant
initiated into the mysteries of agriculture
Mr.. j. e. Moe, Register of the Land Office
returned to Helena last week from shor
visit to the States. Mr. Moe is one of ,h'
most efficient and popular federal officers il
, Montana and we cordially unite with tn
Neao North West in the wish that 'shis day
will be long in the land and the land office. !"
The disease known as ''pink-eye' has de
veloped among Deer Lodge horses The dis
ease only lasts five or six days generally
and is not as severe as the epizootic. |
shows up in swelling of the head and neck
stiffness of the limbs, and lethargc condi
ton. 1t is treated by relief from work anG
protection from cold, and soon disappears
Neao North Vest
j. NJ Thurmond, who was driven from
Alder Gulch by the vigilantes because ht
acted as attorney for the road agents at theil
trial, was killed in Dallas, Texas, on the 10Th
inst by Robert Cowant, prominent lawyer.
Thurmond had been mayor of the city, and
had been removed by the council, Cowant
acting as attorney for the latter body. The
difficulty arose from this and similar. causes
--Ne,o North Vest.
Governor Potts is said to have granted the
following pardons recently, viz: Frederick
Fox, of G.llatin, sentenced in September.
1880, to three years in the penitentiarY for
grand larceny Tong All At, sentenced al
Deer Lodge ia March, 1880, to seven years
in the penitentiary for shooting another Chi
namen Francis Cassidy, sentenced in Cho
teau county ia November, 1881, to one year
| in the penitentiary, for grand larceny.