The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-02-13

Belknap is the boom town of Mon
tana at present.
Butte is shipping about 500, 900 worth
if bullion a week.
N Bah Wing, a Chinese merchant, has
Opened a store at Miles City.
Marshal Botkin is now enjoying a
visit east, his first in several years.
A post office named Drummond has
been established in Deer Lodge county.
Deer Lodge is to have a new court
house, school house, and church this
season
Green Gray was arrested at Helena
last Saturday for passing a counterfeit
gold coin.
Ben Hogan has returned to Butte to
continue the work of saving sinners in
that wicked city.
Mart. Mitchell has just returned from
the Occur d'Alenes and speaks very tav-
orably of the country.
Mr.. Condenay, Of Miles City, sold the
other day upwards of 100 head OF two
year cattle for S26 each.
The Yellowstone national park, by
act Of congress-, is to be attached to Gal
latin county for judicial purposes.
Glendive's independent boat, to ply
between that town and Fort Pierre, is
not likely to materialiZe-not this sea-
son., at least.
Major Conger, the present superinten-
bounced. The Congers do not stick
very we'll in the northwest.
Saturdays north bound train on the
I1+~I 800 NT~-@I 500 x.Aal I~I on "a
sengers, most of them bound for the
commence.
Governor Crosby has. recommended
Hon. w. A. CLARK and Suryeyor-Gen-
eral Harris for appointment by President
Arthur as commissioners to the worlds
exposition to be held at New Orleans
next winter.
The contract has been let for the brick
work Of the new school house at Deer
lodge. 1t is about time Benton's school
board should take the same subject i'll
hand, it we are to have a new school
house this year.
.. Deutch, a civil engineer of the Vel
loWstone, has been arrested for breach
of trust. He was given q check by a
Cooke City party for $3.50 to have cashed
ut Bozeman and failed, it seems, to re-
turn the money.
James Nichols has been arrested at
Helena for forgery. The offense con-
sisted in signing the name Of J. b.
White, a Marysville contractor, to notes
to the amount of nearly $500. He has
been held to answer to the grand jury.
Mrs J. d. Deckard, of Miles city,
whose husband died last fall, received
last week a check for So, 600 from the
Knights Of Honor, of Which society the
husband was a member. Miles City has
the only lodge of the order in the terri
tory.
The stage driver between this city and
Buford reports the inhabitants of the
valley as busy stalking off claims on
railroad land. They mean to pick up
the best claims in case the Northern Pa
cific land grant is revoked.-Glendive
Times.
The Green Mountain stock company
propose to bring 5000 head OF cattle from
Texas TO the range near Miles City this
season. Instead Of driving them clear
through. as has been the method here
tofore, they will ship them by railroad
as far as the Union Pacific, and then
drive them the remaining short dis
lance.
A Billings gentleman informs us that
Hon. P. w. Meadow, of Billings. and
we'll known throughout Montana, has
lately married Mrs. c.. T.. Tomlinson.
the LADY real estate boomer and gen
eral rustler. The ceremony took place
in the east, and the high contracting
parties have not yet returned from their
wedding tour. Truth is stranger than
fiction. -Livingston Enterprise.