The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-11

Miles Clty Is lO nave d ueW Dduk.
The new Bozeman paper has not yet come
to hand.
Grain is reported very scarce in the Mus
selshell valley.
Bullion valued at 1858, 800 was shipped
from Butte last week.
There are $40 pupils in attendance at the
Bozeman public schools.
Major J. W. Walker has gone East to look
after his Gubernatorial boom.
The semi-weekly Miner has come to hand
1t is the same size as the weekly.
There are 800, 900 lbs of bullion at the
Wickes smelter awaiting shipment.
Work on the Bozeman tunnel will begin
soon. The machinery is on the way now.
Thirty families are on their way from Chi
cage to take up ranches On the Yellowstone,
During the calendar year $40 miles Of
track were laid on the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
Campbell and Martin. wounded at the
Christmas shooting at Butte, are improving
rapidly.
The Independent estimates the building i'm
provetnents at Helena for the past year at
$262, $50.
Hank Porter, q treighter, was recently
''held up" by a veritable road agent near Dill
lon and relieved of 500.
A fire at Miles City on the 7th instant des-
troyed the itty saloon, the st. Paul house
and Fanny Greyson's house.
Court Sheriff and Samuel Marshall, of
Canyon Ferry, have gone to the States on a
visit to friends and relatives.
The about-to-tumble-down new school
house at Butte is offered for sale, and a new
one will be built in its stead.
The Indebtedness of Deer Lodge county is
$41, 600 and the tax levy for the ensuing
year is Is mills on the dollar.
Col. Ira. Ii. Pierce, of Bozeman, who died
suddenly at Miles City a few weeks ago,
is a nephew of ex-President Pierce.
Gallatin county produced 118, 900 bushels
of wheat and 294. 900 bushels of oats the past
season, which is certainly a good record.
The wife of a Bedford citizen ran away
with a S'mule skinner thus furnishing the
gossipers of that burg a sweet morsel Of
scandal.
The express Office at Glendive was robbed
last Wednesday night, and the mail sacks
cut open and rifed. Fuller particulars are
not yet at hand.
H~asenwinkle is coming to Montana again
next summer with a new theatrical company.
We thought his experience of last year
would satisfy him.
The total number Of deaths in Helena for
the year 1881 was rs, and Of these 26 were
under five years Of age. The death rate for
the year per thousand was 90 SO.
Miles city is to have two papers. The
Journal. according to the Bismarck Tribune,
has been purchased by II. Clark, a Northern
Pacific contractor, and be put upon its
pegs again.
The Holiday LITTER Mountain is q twenty
page paper, filed to Overlooking with inter-
esting info.ma ion concerning Butte and
Montana at la sc. The mining resources of
the Silver City are shown up in splendid
style. The map Of the district is a volume
ia itself. Montana will be benefited in no
small way by the extensive circulation of the
Holiday Inter- MOI sta5n.
The two Michigan law officers who Cap
tured Tip Owen at Glendive two months
since, and took him out of the Territory
without any authority to do SO, and on a
charge of forgery supported by no evidence,
are likely to be properly rewarded for their
laundering. Governor Potts will call upon
the Governor of Michigan to deliver them
over to the Territorial authorities for trial.
1t now transpires that kellogg, Hotter &
Co., who located and patented what they
supposed to bethe Newland lead were nearly
q thousand feet off, and that this famous
mine has lain for the past three years subject
to re-location. James Brewer, one of the
former owners, in making examinations Of
the mines in Uopperopolis district discovered
the fact and has laid his claim to it and it is
his.-Hus60u0Nsan.
The small pox is said to prevail at the
Edgehill place on the Beaverhead. It is
stated that a physician found four children
down with the diSease, On the Gath inst, two
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