The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-18

| Inc toe or immigration to Montana dur
ing the year 1882 will be exceedingly large,
the new people coming from all points. A
number from England have decided to locate
in Helena, and will arrive here in the sum-
mer, Thirty families from Chicago now
en-route, are going on ranches in the Yellow
| stone country. Besides these quite number
of Germans have written from the East for
information. as they intend to come this way
to settle.-Herald.
| The incoming Tongue River coach (on
runners) upset on the Bozeman Divide Sat
urday evening, throwing driver, passengers
and baggage into one promiscuous heap.
The horses succeeded in getting away from
the driver, and ran distance of half mile,
when 1t appears tL..s one of them fell and
broke his leg Thesother animals were taken
back to tue sleigh, and everything was
brought into town without further loss or
damage.
| The Northern Pacific has tied and ironed
| its road to q point twenty miles west of
Miles City. The track-layers are now up
with the grade, and can proceed no further
until spring. The graders, largely increased
| in number, are still in the field, with mild
| weather favoring their work. There are
many parties engaged whiting down rocky
points, and this kind of work will continue
during the winter. With an adequate sup
ply of bridge timber and ties considerable
| advance of the road could be made from this
time to the first of March.
On Tuesday evening while Mile City
prisoner by the name Of Rose was attending
0 some work, Jim Conley, wh was guard
ng him, happening to turn his back, the
fellow made bold strike for freedom and
went off at sweeping run. Jim fired at
! him and as he turned the corner Sheriff r.
vine, with his customary GOODNESS, called
upon him to stop, but the fellow not needing,
| he raised his arm to take aim at him and
weuld undoubtedly have dropped him in hi,
| tracks had he (the sheriff. not run against
wire fence which considerably disarranged
| his aim, and saved the mans life. The man
WAS caught five minutes later in q pile of
wood and carried back to ''durance vile."
AT the 1873 September term of the District
| Dourt in Deer Lodge county, John Collins
was convicted of murderin the second degree
and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
| The circumstance will be remembered, that
he and q companion in drunken debauch
having hung Chinaman on the ridge pole
of cabin about half way between Rocker
and Butte. Collins remained in prison in
close confinement until Tuesday Of this week
when on petition of Judge Hiram Knowles,
Hon. A. E. Mayhem, six of the juors who
convicted him, and one hundred and twenty
other citizens he was pardoned conditional
ly. He left on Wednesday morning for San
Francisco, where he will ship as a seaman,
that being his vocation. He has been we'll
behaved and manifests deep contrition. He
has always protested he was crazy from Ii
quor when the aforementioned crime was
committed, and says no intoxcants will
cross his lips again under any circumstances.
An Ada yellowstone Valley correspon-
dent Of the Miles City Journal writes: Thurs
| day evening-as near as we can learn
while passing Mr.. Russel's of this place, a
man in the employ Of freighting outfit
stole Buffalo robe that was hanging on
| the fence in front of the house. Russell soon
| missed the robe and followed the train where
they had gone into camp, one-half
mile from Calm & Henning's store. he
| called the wagon boss to one side and in
| formed him that one of the outfit had taken
his robe and that he wanted it. The wagons
were searched and the robe found. Some
words were p ssed after which Russell drew
| q revolver and fired two shots at the man
who boastingly acknowledged that he took
the robe, the last shot taking effect in his
head, causing instant death. Russell went to
Miles City for the purpose of giving himself
up to the authorities. The body still remains
where it fell, guarded by three men, await
ing the arrival of the coroner.
I1adependent:-Fro MI. John r. Quigley
we learn that placer mining in the vicinity
of Blackfoot is receiving fresh impetus.
Three Mile Gulch, SO called becauss three
miles from Blackfoot. has been opened up by
% inch f1ume at the lower end, and good
prospects of coarse gold have been found,
which promise handsome returns in the
spring. AS the gulch is six miles long, with
a width of from 300 to 500 feet, it will fur
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