The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-02-20

There are ninety pupils enrolled in
the Deer Lodge public schools.
Rev. Chas. Archer c~ontenplates Or
ganizing a Good Templar's lodge at Mai
den.
Castle Mountain lodge, I. @. O. f., is
about to be organized at White Sulphur
springs.
Bozeman banks heavily upon her coal
beds for being the future great of
Montana.
During the year 1888 Montana is cred
tied with a production of 1000 tons Of
silver lead bullion.
The Original mine, at Butte, has paid
dividends monthly for the last thirty
months-a total of 100000.
The citizens of Butte got up an enter
tainment for the benefit of Mrs. Ritter,
the woman with q brute husband.
A man named John Smith, Of Liv-
ingston, tried to ''cross the range" by
the laudanum route, last week. A cou-
pie of doctors saved him.
G. w. Lewis, of Bozeman, gives warn
ing to the public not to negotiate for a
note OF 1915 given to him by Samuel
Iutz, OF Ubet. 1T was stolen from
Lewis. #1.
About one hundred ponies were stolen
from the Crows by white men in the
vicinity Of Billings, some days ago, and
the officers are on the lookout for the
thieves.
Meagher county papers claim that the
assessment will be increased o~ne-fourth
this year. It is too soon to guess on the
subject. The increase may be much
more han that, as Meagher is a great
county.
There are on the assessment rolls Of
the city of Helena l19 town lots, valued
at from S14 to $3.50 each, the names Of
the owners of which cannot be ascer-
tanned. They seem, in fact. to be with
out II
Tom Irwin and Jim Couley, OF Miles
CITY, have established a detective as
ISOLATION, giving special attention to
horse thieves and fugitives from justice.
They ought to make x. Beidler an
honorary member.
The Townsend Tranchant reports the
loss of some cattle in the Missouri valley
from some unknown disease, probably
the same that recently caused the death
of four head of stock belonging to Her
mar Brinknan, Of this city.
Cy. Mount informs us chat Geo. Hou-
ston has arrived from Emigrant with
the news Of the death of g. J. Bachelor,
better known as "Batch," whose ~lifeless
body was found in an opium den at
that place.-Bozeman Chronicle.
Oscar Ritter, the would-be wife pol
luter Of Butte, was arralgned on the
charge of vagrancy, and got only thirty
days-the limit of the law. The people
should have added 100 stripes to the
sentence, and have had them laid on in
good style.
Upon further inquiry into the NOR
tality list of the sheep Of the Marquis
de Mores and the causes Of it, it Is now
positively known that the sheep were in
a deplorable condition when they were
placed on their range on the Little Mis-
souri, and did not dare to move around,
SO timid were they. They have had to
depend on their own rulstling since their
arrival, and being raw hands in the
country did not succeed. The water
being alkali is also said to have caused
their deaths.-Miles City Journal.
It is stated that at least twenty per
cent. of the skim milk yyearlings last
wear shipped into the territory from
iowa. illinois, Wisconsin, and other
eastern states, will be lost this winter.
This kind Of stock know nothing about
'trustling,n and the weather conditions
have to be altogether favorable to en-
I
courage the youngsters to search for
grass.-Herald.
Considering the favorable winter for
stock up to this time, the estimate of
loss is entirely too great unless the
present cold snap is unduly protracfed.
The Presbytery Of Montana met in
Bozeman February /, 1854. The meet
ing was. the most interesting.ever held
in Montana. The Presbyterian church
now has twelve ministers and thirteen
churches in the territory. The outlook
is very encouraging-the reports from
nearly all the churches indicating pro-
gress. Mr.. Il. j. Groeneveld and j. w.
Streye1le, ESQ.,, Of Miles City, were
elected commissioners to represent the
presbytery in the general assembly,
which meets at Saratoga, N. Y, in May
next.
According to the K%ootenai Courier
some very fair gold bearing galena has
been struck at Wolf Lodge, which is
on the MulIan wagon road, and about
90 miles southeast Of Rathdrum, OH the
Northern Pacific. The Caledonia shows
four feet of pay ore averaging $14 in
gold and 50. Al in silver This vein can
be traced for a mile on the surface of the
ground. The Lake Shore lead is five
feet wide, and assays SCI in silver and
Sd in gold. They can trace this lead two
miles. The Silver Crown has been
traced for a nile, and shows a good
wide vein carrying So in silver and
So in gold to the ton. These mines are
only q few miles south of the new
mining camp Of Eagle City.
The Miles City Journal says Of ar
tesian we'll No. 2: IF men were to
encounter the same hardsllips and meet