The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-01
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MONTANA MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.
Seven prisoners langulsh in the Bozeman
Jail.
Frank D. Carpenter died at Helena on the
24.h inst.
Helena shipped bullion valued at $1O,5OO
week before last.
Butte is out $4,000 as the result of the
smallpox visitation.
The Glendive Times will soon issue
''boom" illustrated number.
The distance from Bozeman to Miles City
is 1896 miles, and the stage time rs hours.
The Northern Pacific railroad bridge across
Tongue river is approaching completion.
A dressed porker which weighed 484
pounds was on exhibition at Bozeman last
week.
A case of 'pink-eye,' the new-fangled
horse disease, has put in an appearance near
Bozeman
There are about dozen movable saloons
en- route to Coulson, the boom city on the
Northern Pacific.
A Chinese row at Bozeman on Saturday
night week ago resulted in the death of
one Of the participants.
Glendive has Sunday school in prosper
Gus condition. The boys adjourn from the
fifteen saloons and attend regularly.
There are thirty children in regular attend
ance at the Glendive school. That is pretty
good for frontier town six months DID,
The Gagnon lead at Butte, which is the
original discovery, continues to yield LOCO
tons of ore month. The ledge is 100 feet
wide.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific rail-
road for December, 1881, were $434 331, an
increase of $213, 338 over the corresponding
month of '80
Montana can beat Ireland for potatoes. A
man near Glendive netted $1,000 from his
last seasons crop, and it was not very good
year for potatoes, either.
and proposes to make a lecture tour of the
Territory. Rev. w. is brother of Colonel
Voolfolk of the Independent.
On February 22d, King Carnival will rnle
the day at Butte. A grand Mardi Gras mas
querade and carnival, with masque ball in
the evening, are the important ltems on the
programme.
A large colony of Germans, families hav-
ing each from $4,000 to $4,000, will settle on
Lone Horse Prairie, near Glendive, early in
the spring. No better or more progressive
class of settlers are to be found.
| The Inter Mountains wants a paper mill
| in Montana, and thinks that cottonwood pulp
would be just the thing for good article of
paper. If newspapers continue to multiply
in the Territory paper mill will soon be a
necessity.
! The output of the Hecla Consolidated
Mining Company, at Glendale, for the tnir-
teen months ending with December, 1881,
was 1884, 112 40; expenses for the same per-
iod, 1886, 382 73; net earnings, $237, ,728 n.
Quar'z is king.
| We acknowledge the receipt of the first
number of the Rocky Mountain Messenger,
very neat little monthly publication under
the editorial charge of Rev. W. B. Reed. of
| Helena The mechanical work is done by
| the Herald in its usual artistic manner.
Peter Roman has been reappointed Indian
Agent at the Flathead Agency and the ap-
pointment confirmed by the Senate. Mr..
Roman seems 10 be the right man for the
place, and his many friends in the Territory
will be glad to learn that he is secure for an
other term.
| Dickinson is the name of another new town
in Eastern Montana on the Northern Pacific
railroad. Towns are springing up rapidly
| along that line, and before many years the
Yellowstone will be rich and populous val