The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
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MONTANA MATTERS,

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MONTANA MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Cleaned from Our Terri.
torial Exchanges,
| The Miner urges the lighting Butte by cleo.
tricity.
The tax levy of Silver Bow county is Is
mills on the dollar.
half interest in the Jesuit mine at Butte
has been bonded for $4,000
Miles City's new bank will be known as
the Merchants and Drovers' Bank"
Richland is the name Of new post office
established in Gallatin county with service
from Bozeman.
The post office at Miles City is ssthird
class" institution, and the 2. H. receives a
salary Of $4,000.
There are two express lines running from
Helena to the Mullan tunnel, and another
one is to be started.
There are two hundred and fifty delinquent
tax payers in Silver Bow county this year,
and in Choteau not one.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
have bought the steamer Bachelor, now ly-
ing at Bismarck, for 1000
Montana property for 1881 assesses at
nearly $50 600, 900, an increase of about So
600, 600 over the former year.
1t costs three and half cents pound to
have freight brought from the terminus OF
the Utah & Northern to Helena.
The GaNatin News, Bozeman's new paper.
was issued last Saturday, or such, at least.
was the intention of the publisher.
P. J. Conway has arrived in Helena from
New York to take charge of the boys de-
partment of the Catholic Academy.
Butte shipped $13,5oO worth of bullion
last Wednesday, being the product for one
week of the Alice and Moulton mills.
Edward K. Punnett, the new Auditor of
the Northern Pacific road, has arrived in
Helena, which is to be his headquarters
The Mullan tunnel has penetrated the
mountain oyer one hundred feet, and the hole
is advancing at the rate of five feet per day.
a movement is on foot to gather together
the California '49ers and 5Oers" at Helena,
next fair time, to have big dinner and
jolly time.
The water company at Butte ask $3, 600
per annum for the use of water for fire and
sprinkling purposes. Pretty expensive, we
should think.
! A number Of horse ranches will be estab-
lished in the Territory the present year This
branch of the stock industry is becoming
favorite one with many.
An additional telegraph wire is being strung
from Ogden north into Montana, and will be
in working order before many weeks. Il
will fill long felt want.
Julius Horst is now so far recovered from
the effects of the inj uries received from A.
Patenaude, the Helena crank, as to be able
to be on the streets again.
The YeIloanstone Journal has the first delin-
quent tax list we have seen this year. 1t is a
formidable one. Choteau county has never
published delinquent list.
Butte's soap factory has commenced oper-
ations. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and
Butte can now make up by the former attrib.
ute the extensive lack of the latter.
The first number of the Rocky Mountain
Messenger. monthly religious journal pub
lished at Helena, is out. Rev. w. B. Reed,
pastor of the Presbyterian church, is the ed
itor.
John Steiner, who was adjudged insane,
has been released, it having been shown to
the satisfaction of the Probate Court tha
his insanity is not of such character as to
render him fit subject for an insane asylum,
'Broncho Tom," one of the boardels at
The Helena bastile, took French leave last
Wednesday evening, and 1t last accounts
had not been recaptured. Tom was held in |
1urance vile for horse stealing at the Three |
Forks.