Sun River sun., 1884-12-18

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capitalists have invested S3,000,OU,
in Montana ranches.
All the Sabbath schools in Bentor
have consolidated, to save fuel anc
articulatcd salvation.
The body Of Mullanc, who was kill
ed by McDermott at Barker last sum
NOR, has been taken east for final in
| terment.
The Knights Of Phythias, Of Mon.
tana are going to institute n Grand
Lodge in Butte on the 18th Of Jan
uary next.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in
circulation in Butte. Happy Butte.
to have dollars in circulation, though
they be spurious. We envy thee.
1t is said that Butte City officials
levied and collected five-mill city
tux this year, while the charter does
uot authorize tax-levy exceeding
three mills on the dollar.
To give an idea OF the enormous
quantity Of wood recently Contracted
for BY the Anaconda company, may
be stated that it would make a pile
100 feet high and Is! miles long.
Fred Adler, known as big Fred"
made his escape from the Dawson
county Jail last week by making n
hole through the wall with a pcnknife.
On account of the present crowded
condition Of the Deer Lodge peniten-
tiary, no convicts from any of the
counties in Montana will be received
in that reformntory institution.
A spring in Gallitan County spurts
a strong stream Of water that rivals
the famous Appollinaris. Thus Pro-
vidcncc has provided an antidote for
Bozeman whisky. Inter Mountain.
Charles Hays and George Conelly,
cooks employed in the kitchen ut the
penitentiary, escaped about G:30 p.
m. last Monday, and have not yet
been recaptured.-New North West
At the Arion shooting gallery, in
Butte, Charles Ellis, foreman of the
Alice mills, made 118 bulls eyes out
Of possible 100. The prize shot for
was a silver pitcher.
A 14-year old girl was found fast
pned to log by chain hitched to her
ankle in Missoula gulch n few days
ago. She was released by n passer-
by, but refused to explain how it hap
penctk
The Northern Pacific road announ-
,es that it will reduce its time between
st. Paul and Portland from 11G hours
% 10l hours, SO as to meet the reduced
limo announced by the Union Pacific
'oad.
A notorious rounder named Murray
was caught doing the rolling act at
Anaconda last week and was being
from telegraph pole when
IN officer put in an appearance and
rescued him.
Last week Michael Gannoa, a ranch
II in the Bitter Root valley, drove his
'amily IA wife and eight children)
rom the house in which he lived and
suicide. Cannon was just
from protracted spree.
A Sun River girl bet twenty kisses
against sealskin sacque that Blaine
would carry Montana by n large ma
ority. The editor Of the Sun River
Sun was appointed umpire, but owing
% his recent marriage has refused to |
receive the stakes. It is needless to |
say that the other party to the bet is
. man.--Glendive Independent.
Fort Benton wants Touring mill,
.hc wheat to be shipped up the Mis-
souri, river from Dakota. --Bozeman
Courier. The Courier forgets tina.
Benton is situated in the midst Of the
oest wheat producing section of Men
;ana,or prehaps that journal is ignor-
mt Of tho fact; in which case we are
pleased to inform its editor that such
IS the case, and that Benton's propoe.
ID Touring mill is not the only one
hat will he built in Northern Mon
ANA within the next two years.
james Fergus, in letter to the Hus-
Dandman, says that his firm had only Is
per cent us many steers to sell this fall as
last, and less than 70 per cent. as many as
hey had five years ago, Notwithstanding
The natural increase, no COWS having been
sold and their cattle have been on new
range. He has no faith in the law rs q |
remedy for horse and cattle stealing, and
mentions the fact that at n SESSION of court
at White Sulphur Springs in 1889, out Of
four criminal cases, being all there were
on the docket, two Of which were for
one for horse stealing and one Il
coWhov for shoot M Off his ravnlyer With