The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-22
MONTANA MATTERS.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.


torial Exchanges.
A gun club has been organized at Butte.
Coulson has six s'coons" and two Celes-
tiaIs.
The festive horse thief is numerous at
Coulson.
The Mullan tunnel will be lighted by the
electric ray.
Postmaster Dickinson, of Missouls, has
been roappointed.
Madlsons debt has been reduced nearly
81 500the past year.
Emigrant fare from Chicago TO Miles City
has been reduced to $34.
1t is reported that there are several cases of
small pox in the Bitter Root valley.
Frank n. Seizer, of Colorado, will be
chief clerk in the Office of Surveyor General
Harris
The lawyers had slim picking at the late
term of the Helena district court The docket
was very light one.
Montana is getting out of debt rapidly. In
nearly all the counties there have been re-
ductions the past year
1t is said that sale Of one Of the leading
mining properties of Butte is on the tapis.
Wonder if 10 the Alice ?
Helena and Butte are agitated over the
forthcoming municipal elections. Both par
ties are rallying their cohorts.
The municipal elections occur at Helena
and Butte on the first Monday of April. The
political cauIdron begins tto boil,
The Indebtedness of Galatin County op
March 1st, 1882, was $40. 565 SO. reduction
during the past year Of s6,53C2O.
Charley Adams an actor of Butte. has lit
out leaving various small accounts unbal-
anced. He is advertised As a boss blk.
The Miles City Journal urges the mer-
chants of that place to unite in the work of
locating and building road 70 the Maginns
country.
Miles City is taking pious turn. A few
of the merchants close their stores On the
Sabbath, and this proper practice is expected
to become general coon.
| The Commissioners Of Beayerhead county
resolved against petty prosecutions. The
only purpose they serve is to fee the offices
and pile up the expenses Of the county.
Mr.. and Mrs P D. Kenyon, Of Fort Lo
gan, met with great sffiictien last week ir
the death of their two little daughters, Ev'
and Nellie, aged respectively eight and fou
years.
On last Thursday night Sanford s. Evan
saw mill, at Eleven Mile, was burned to th'
ground. The fire is supposed to have origi
mated from sparks from the engine. Los
S., 900 no insurance.
The following is the ticket nominated |,
the Republicans of Helena, to be voted fo
at the municipal election For Mayor, job
Kinna; Police Magistrate, Joseph Davis
City Treasurer, J. T. Ward.
Mr.. Comstock. a capitalist from Chicago
arrived in town this week and is very favor
ably Impressed with the country. He wi
locate sheep ranch near Coulson, an
thinks strongly of opening bank. -Cou
son Post.
. The Northern Pacific Engineer Depar
ment has dispatched three surveying partis
so far One party isto survey branch roa
from Coulson to Fort Benton !; one is to su
vey road to the National Park. and one
to complete the main line survey frol
Young's Point to the Rocky Mountains
YeHonssone Journal.
The newspapers of Montana, as who'll
: are not excelled by those of any State {
Territory between the Mississippi and tt
Rockies. Clearly printed, short, sharp an
incisive in editorial and news department
and presented to the readers in most inv
ting shape, they lead in the developments
the richest agricultural and mineral counts
{ on the northern half of the continent
/ Omaha Bee.
: The financial statement of Deer Lode
| county shows that on the 1st of March, 1888
the Indebtedness of the county was 500 334
! 63. On March LIST, 1882. this debt was r
duced to $31 ,5l911, reduction of $34, s27