The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-05-28
LOCAL NOTES.

Peter Bertrang of Old Agency is in the
city.
F. P. Wilkinson, Warm Spring creek,
is at the
Helena, Deer Lodge and Missoula are
now connected by telephone.-
g-The Deer Lodge penitentiary now
holds 100 convicts. Its capacity is Sc.
r. Tulloch, of Dent & Tulloch, wool
growers of Arrow creek, is in the city.
Butte will give Mcdonald, the beaten,
battered and bruised prize fighter, a
benefit.
Work is to be resumed on the artesian
well at Billings, which now has a depth
of 875 feet. |
The Caur d'Alene Eagle claims that
the placer output of Pritchard creek
averages $50, 900 a week.
Wagons, moving machines, rakes
and gang and sulky plows for sale at
less than cost at Wetzei's.
Bishop Brewer and Rev. Mr.. WEBB
= arrived in the city on yesterdays coach.
The bishop is the guest of Mr.. G.. E..
| Conrad.
K Col. c.. A. Broadwater arrived in the
city last evening from Helena, making
the trip from Sun River by private con-
veyance. ~~~---1
Z Ben Lapyere, the accommodating
clerk at the post office, has been called
home to St. Louis, on account of the SER
rious illness of his father.
y ,xu 100 - H.. ---LL- ~
hurt yesterday while working on the
boom; He will probably be laid up
few days in consequence, but we are
clad to say it is nothing serious.
Sam Wilde, a Billings attorney, is on
trial before the court now in session in
Yellowstone county, on the charge of
grand larceny, and is nnder 81 900 bail
for contempt of court, he having threat
ened to kill a witness who was testify
ing against him.
All ~privates of the Second cavalry
now in Montana but soon to be sent to
the Pacific, whose terms of enlistment
expire before September next and who
wish to remain in this department will
be permitted to do so, being exchanged
into the First cavalry.
An over full of coal has been cooked
at the Maxey mine, and the charge was
to have been removed to-day and the
ovens reflied. The coke produced was
of fair quality, though the foreman in
charge of the work said that good coke
would not be obtained till a third oven
full had been burned.-Livingston En-
terprise.
The roundup boys showed up in force
on Mnn6au and yoa6n n1r cfranfc xunor
a more than usually animated appear
ance. The general roundup consists of
about sixty men and three hundred and
sixty horses. Wallace Taylor arrived
about noon from the Teton with his
outfit, consisting of eight men and
fifty horses. This range is said to be
ridden by the smartest and most orderly
set of cowboys of any range in the ter
ritory, and we believe it to be true
Sun River Sun.
The ranch of the Bernner brothers,
on Horse Prairie, is probably the largest
in southern Montana. In speaking of
the size of this ranch recently Surveyor
Page said that he had been engaged for
twenty-five years in running lines in
the western states and territories and
that the largest ranch he had yer sur
veyed belonged to the Bernner brothers.
Mr.. Page remarked hat he had been
faithfully at work for five and a half
days running the exterior lines of this
ranch-running from ten to twelve
miles a day.
From Sundays Daily.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Gar
ndFriday
The territory Of Montana was twenty
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