The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-15
MONTANA MATTERS.

Miss Wizards lecture in Butte was
attended by 200 people.
A lodge of Knights Of Honor has been
organized in Miles City.
Butte has the champion fat boy. He
is seven and a half years old and weighs
$50 pounds.
A Helena twain expect to be made one
by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher when he
arrives in that city.
The tax levy in Custer county this
year is % mills to the dollar, in addition
to the poor tax and road tax.
The Grand Lodge of Odd fellows will
meet in Deer Lodge August 22d, and
a ball will be given on the 23d.
j. Anderson, a hash house keeper of
MIssoula, has woodbined, leaving debts
behind him to the amount of So, 200.
The fare from Butte to San Francisco.
for the round trip, to the triennial con-
clave of knights Templar, is only $75.
A train of six emigrant ago came
in from the west this morning, and
struck the Musselshell trail.-BiUinqs
Herald.
oLd1ACS 1AlICCAy, Vi Vd1ldClu GUILTY.,
recently purchased IN Idaho 800 cattle,
which are now being driven into the
territory.
Mai service on route sc, 1874 is increas-
ed to six times a week, and changed to
run from Townsend to Diamond City,
instead of Bedford.
Sheds saw mill at Hill5dale, Gallatin
county, burned last week, the mill
building, engine house and 10, 900 feet of
lumber being destroyed.
Helena Isl said to be the wealthiest
city, in proportion to population, in the
United States. We don't believe it can
beat Fort Benton very much, if any.
The building now used at Bozeman as
an agricultural implement warehouse by
Il. G. Power & Co. will be RACED and re-
placed with a brick structu re 4OxS0 feet
in size this fall.
The examination of the six Indians
charged with killing a steer up the
Tongue river last week was called in the
probate court this afternoon. AS there
were nc witnesses to testify against them
and no attainable evidence to fix the
offence upon them, they We're discharg-
ed from custody.-MGles city Press.
C. B. Child, Northern Pacific agent
at Billings furnishes the following
estimate Of the business of his office
during the month of July: Receipts on
freight, $4,000; ticket sales, $3.50.
Shipments, merchandise 170,0 900 lbs;
hides, $4,000 lbs; hogs, $4,000 lbs; cattle,
100000 lbs; sheep, 395, 900 lbs; wool,
$4,000 lbs; bullion, 203,O 900.
A section Of Prof. Pumpelly's trans
continental survey which has worked
down through the Musselshell and Bull
Mountain country, arrived in Billings
this morning. They report first-class
prospects of coal OH the Northern Pacific
sections, and a dry time on the way in
from the Bull Mountains. They will 60
to Bozeman from here.-Her0td.
Major 2. H. Conger, superintendent
of the Yellowstone National Park, was
in Bozeman on Tuesday. He spoke EN-
couragingly about matters in the Park,
and predicted that the season would last
until about the middle of October. AL
ready a large number of tourists have
visited the Park and at least 5000 more
will see its wonders before the season
ends.
On Tuesday the first Northern Pacific
train to cross the main range Of the
Rocky mountains passed over the over
head line. 1t consisted of a locomotive
with five loaded cars. They made the
trip with ease, showing the overhead
line to be perfectly practicable and
a thorough success. This is the highest
point on the Northern Pacific between
st. Paul and Portland, the altitude be-
ing about 1000 feet. Helena snow con-
nected by rail with the Pacific slope.
A fire at Grow Agency, August 1st,
destroyed the Home building, used for
the schooling and boarding of the chill
dren. Furniture, bedding, clothes and
other effects were lost. This was the
largest building at the Agency, being
two stories in height with an l. for a
kitchen. On the lower floor there were
five rooms, and accommodations for
twenty pupils of either sex. The loss
will exceed 1000. The origin of the
fire IS thought to have been a defective
fue.
The new agency for the Crow Indians
is to be located some ninety miles east of
the present agency, and about sixteen
miles from Fort Custer. The site select
ed is on the Little Big Horn and is adj
mirably suited for the purposes of the
nomads and convenient of access.
Twenty-Five buildings for the use of the
Indians are being put up under the SUI
pervision of Col. Melborn, of Washing
ton, ID. G.. Col. Melborn is an inspector
in the Indian Bureau and has been de-
tailed to superintend the work.
At the last annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Montana Railway
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