The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-05-10
RATES OF ADTERTISiNG ::
MONTANA MATTERS,
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned from Our Terri
torial Exchanges.
A gold bar of the assay value Of 81, 900
was the product of twelve days run at the
Gloster mill recently.
The Northern Pacific is now being extend
ed up the Yellowstone at the rate of over a
mile and a quarter day.
Potatoes are worth fen cents pound at
Coulson and oats can not be had at any price. !.
1t will be different next year.
An effort is being made to locate colony
of Jewish refugees in the Yellowstone valley
between Glendive and Miles City.
D. A. G. Floweree last week made final
proof of his claim under the desert land act
to 629 acres lying near Fort Shaw.
The contract for grading the N, 2. road
between Indian creek and Helena has been
let and active operations will begin at once
Helena finds large supply of consolation
in the fact that at the recent municipal cleo
Father Camp conducted successful mis-
sion at Butte recently and on the 9Th inst.
left Helena for Missoula to engage in the
same work.
The value Of buffalo robes shipped from
Montana during the past winter is set down
at nearly $3.50, 900, and it wasn't very good
winter for buffalo either.
Judge Wade, accompanied by Mrs. Wade
and daughter Clara, will shortly leave on an
extended trip to the Pacific coast, visiting the
principal points of interest.
The land sales Of the Northern Pacific for
the quarter ending April / amounted to 49,
$50 acres, which netted $161, ,935. A large
share of these lands are in Montana
A large printing outfit is on the way from
the Black Hills to Billings. This is about
the sixth paper we have heard of that is 60
ing to start up in that town. What do they
all expect to live on-air
The Democrats of Butte scored the victory
in the municipal contest on the 1st inst. The
friends in Benton of sold Bill Owsley" will
now please address him as Mayor Owsley or
Hon. William OWsley.
J. Ell. Woolf, late proprietor of hash
house at Helena, left the town between two
days, negleciing in the hurry and worry in
cdent to his departure to liquidate several
little bills amounting to probably thousand
dollars.
Hugh W. Smith, resident of Phillipsburg
Deer Lodge county, was killed week
before last, by the accidental discharge
of revolver in the hands of man named
VIM. Morrow. The accident occurred at
cabin near Coulson to which point the de-
ceased was journeying.
T.. d. Carson, a miner working on Big
Indian creek. became suddenly deranged last
week, and imagining that he was about to be
ARE sted for numbering three men at Helena
armed himself with two revolvers and fled
to the mountains. Several parties have been
hunting for him but at last accounts without
success.
The following are the newlv elected officers
of the Grand Lodge, |. 0. O. F., of Montana:
Grand Master, Mas eua Ballard, of Helena;
Deputy Grand Master, A. H. Mitchell, Deer
Lodge; Grand Warden, John T. Williams,
Virginia City; Grand Secretary, Jacob Loeb,
Helena; Grand Treasurer, G. M. Jeffries,
Helena.
Montana will soon have good stock of
horses judging by the large number of fine
animals being importe this year. Dalton j.
Radborn, of Centerville, recently shipped
from Illinois two car loads, numbering thirty
two head, of fine Clydesdale and Norman
brood mares from llliEois to their ranch in
Meagher county.
Cassius q. Cullen committed suicide 1T
Jefferson City on the 4th inst. BY taking 3
dose of nitric acid. The reasons for the rash
&C. are not k1own. Cullen had some literary
merit, severasSof his poems having appeared