The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-03-12
THE RIVER E.

commander. There are now three posts
OF the army in Montana-at Helena,
Deer Lodge and Butte.
Hereafter the Overland bar will com
blne the 'bit" and two bit'' system,
GOOD liquors OF all kinds, and cigars also,
VIII be on sale at the small price of 1919.
and for two bits a man can be sure of
getting as III Whiskey or cigars as can
be purchased in the territory.
Governor Crosby has pardoned John
Ryan, an inmate of the penitentiary,
who was convicted of larceny. Tt Has
recently been shown almost beyond
question hat Ryan is innocent, and
hence the pardon, the first one during
Governor Crosby's incumbency, over a
year
The stockmen seem to be thoroughly
aroused, and propose to make it hot for
Doth red and white cattle thieves. They
offer a reward of $500 for the conviction
OF the murderers of Bill Jones, and have
employed able counsel to prosecute the
parties recently arrested for killing cat
tie on the range.
We acknowledge the receipt of a spe-
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Daily Enterprise. This large number
is a credit to the enterprise Of both the
publishers and the business houses by
which it is SO literally patronized. The
number is devoted to advertising the
possibilities and natural resources of
Livingston and the tributary country.
A fine photographic view of the city,
with the Snowy mountains in the back
ground, accompanies the paper. The
mineral resources of the surrounding
mining camps are well written up, in
Guiding Maiden, Barker, Snow creek
and Neihart. The advantages of Mon
Itana as a stock country are forcibly set
forth. It shows that $500, $40 were ex-
pended in erecting buildings during the
year 1883. This is certainly a creditable
showing for a town which is not two
years old till next July.
Faom Fridays Daily.
The bill to extend the National Park
has passed the senate.
A case of diphtheria has appeared in.
Helena-the first this winter.
j. Ell. Mcknight, Of Fort Shaw, left
Helena for the east Tuesday.
A prospector named Davis was found
dead in his cabin in Washington gulch,
a few days ago.
Patents fop desert land claims have
been received at the land office for w.
A. Nickerson and T. E. Collins of this
county.
Hugh McQuaid, Of Helena, who had
been spending the winter at Washing
ton and other points east, returned home
Tuesday.
Judge Wade wants the grand jury of
Lewis and Clarke county to discover the
perpetrators Of the lynching at Green
horn last summon.
Daniel Lloyd, a resident of the upper
Deer Lodge valley was cleaning out his
we'll last Saturday, when the bucket fell
on his head, killing him on the
spot.
1t took a Helena man twenty-one
days to get from Rathdrum to Eagle
City. We guess they have not got their
railroad completed yet into the new
mines.
A telegraph operator named w. A.
Wells was run over and killed on the
Sd inst. by a Northern Pacific train, at
Butler station, in Lewis and Clarke
county.
A Helenaite, p. w. Scott, enjoys the
honor Of being the only Montana nan
who has been elected an honorary mem
Der of the Royal Geographical society
Of Great Britain.
Owing to the large number of passen:-
gers going north, two four-horse teams
will be sent out to-day in place of the
regular Macleod coach, by I. G. Baker
& Co, the proprietors Of the line.
One Of Ax1eby's gang of horse thieves,
Harry futile, was taken from the hos
pital at Spearfish by the vigilantes last
week and hung. Tuttle was wounded
in the recent fight on the Little Mis-
souri, between Deputy-Marshal Will
lard,s-party and the band Of outlaws.
w. II. Hunt and family Teff on the
Helena coach this morning for New
York. He expects that the remains Of
his father, the late minister to Russia,
will arrive soon to be buried in his ma
soon as possible, but his family will re-
main in New York till summer.
We see by the army notes of the st.
Paul Pioneer Press that our former Fort
Benton physician, who is now Lieut..
William Il. Kneedler, assistant surgeon,
has been ordered from Philadelphia to
Fort Smelling, Mimi, to report in per-
son to the. commanding general Of the
department Of Dakota for assignment to
duty. -
The mail and passengers from Fort,
Ass:naboine are still brought across the
Marias in a skiff. Not that the water is
too high to ford, but the ice is piled npt
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