The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-20
THE RIVER PRESS

Our |fnIOlnlatlGH Is lHal he was SiSaeiy
swelIed UP and ~discolored, and may pos
sibiy be dead ere this.
Mrs. Mary Hughes was q passenger
on the incoming Martinsda!e stage last
night. She came from the east by way
Of the Northern Pacific, and goes to As
sinaboine Monday to join her husband,
who is located at that place.
a convict named Peterson, recently
discharged from the ~penitentiary, was
found dead on the street in Butte Friday
evening. He had been drinking hard,
but a bottle which had contained lauda-
mum was found in his pocket.
Dave Browne has twenty tons Of coal
IL loaded on the other side Of the river
which he will get across as soon as the
ice will hold up q team. 1t is all sold in
advance Of delivery. The teams wi go
back to the coal minefor another load.
The Miles City Press makes a very
poor exhibition ofjournalistic enterpr sc
when it prints the same editorials tw ce
in succession, as it did on the 9Th nd
18th inst. You ought to he ashamed OF
yourself, and claiming Miles City 10 be
such d live town, too. !.
The ether day a stage driver in the
Black Hills undertook to horseWhip the
passengers into getting out Of the stage
and pushing it up hill, but the passen
gers emptied their revolvers into him a
few times, held a coroner's n4nest, and
found that he died of pneumonia.
Mr.. LeMarche, who drove a band of
horses up north last summer, is now in
Benton, having disposed of his animals.
He is intending TO purchase another
band, probably in Missoula county, and
drive them across the line. His first
venture must have paid.
Among the sketches taken by the
Vest Shore artist, while in Butte, was.
one OF the Anaconda shaft house, show
ing in the distance Il portion Of the Sum
nit valley and the mountain range from
whence the waters flow both ways, OIL
the eait reaching the Gulf Of Mexico.
through the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers, and on the west flowing into the
Columbia river and thence to the Pacific
ocean.
A conference OF the various division
superintendent Of the Northern Pacific
has lately been held for the purpose Q
compiling a new time card for through
trains. It is generally supposed thatthe
time will be greatly shortened between
ST. Paul and the terminal station, and
that passenger trains going west will
reach Billings for supper. By the new
| regulation through trains will probably
run to Livingston.
Monday afternoon an insane man was
| found in possession of the Catholic
/ church, in Helena. he having gone in at
the front door and locked it on the in
side. He refused to open the door when
requested, SO officers were sent for.
These and some citizens effected an EN-
trance into the church, and the crazy
man was secured without difficulty.
His condition is said to be the result OF
a protracted spree. He is now in a crit
zeal condition at the jail, and is hardly
~expected to live.
r.. e. Collins and Jacob Severance start
this morning for Severance s. Co. s sheep
ranch near Okla, Meagher county. Mr.
| Severance is returning to his home,
while Mr.. Collins will so OF to Martins
dale, White Sulphur Springs and return
by way Of Helena. He will be absent
about two weeks, and will try to get
back So as to spend Christmas at hone.
He will receive many q hearty welcome
from his old friends in Meagher, to the
prosperity of which county he has, in
by-gone years. contributed SO much by
faithful service in positions OF trust.
Yesterday forenoon w. B. Ellis, OF
jefferson, started out Of town ~ horse
back toward Jefferson. His horse was
unshod, and, as as the road was quite
icy, it was a difficult matter for the horse
to keep on his feet. At a point in Dry
| gulch, on Fifth avenue, the road was
very slippery, and Mr.. Ellis nag fell.
| The riders right leg was caught under
the horse end was broken at the ankle.
| Mr.. Ellis also received other painful in
iuries. He was taken to the Sisters
hospital where his broken limb was set
| and his other Injuries attended to.-I1-