The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-02-13
no. l6.
MONTANA MATTERS.

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Billings bastile.
house this year.
Wheat sells for seventy-five cents
/ bushel at Missoula
Ex-Delegate VIM. H. Ciaggett is in
| the Cmur d d'Alenes.
| There are nineteen prisoners in the
Lewis and Clarke county Jail.
O. G. Bundy photographed the consti
| tutional convention last week.
| Miles City is ambitious, and wants the
electric light and telephone exchange.
Ben Hogan expects to tackle Miles
| City next. 1t is an inviting field for
| him.
E. S. Topping's "Chronicles of the
Yellowstoneo will be published in q few
| days.
Artesian well No ., at Miles City, had
| advanced 42O feet towards China at last
| report.
Galloway, Fergus and McClintock
voted in favor of excepting God out OF
the constitution"
E. Remington, ason of the celebrated
arms manufacturer, has a horse ranch
on Powder river.
Jesse B. Pruden has been arrested at
Miles City for stealing cattle and horses
from the Sioux reservation.
There are now seventy-eight patients
in the Warm Springs asylum, and the
number is rapidly increasing.
Peter Lansing, a general merchant Of
Deer Lodge, has made an assignment
for the benefit Of his creditors.
Miners and others from DeadWood are
arriving at Miles City in great numbers,
Ell route to the Cnur d 'Alenes.
Cans & Klein's upper Main street
store building. Helena, will be turned
into hotel. Kranich & Kenck are the
lessees.
At its annual meeting, held last week,
the Montana Flume and Mining COM
pany, Of Virginia City, declared divi-
dend Of 81 800.
The paper to be published under the
auspices of the Marquis de Mores at the
Little Missouri is to be called the g. Bad
Lands Cow Boy"
Sherwood Wheaton, formerly military
operator at this place, has returned to
Helena to resume his position in the
Western Union office.
It is said that Robert Harris salary as
president of the Northern Pacific road
is $50, 900. AS vice president of the Erie
he received $4,000.
The ''house warming" att III. Ming's
mansion at Helena, Tuesday evening,
was one of the most notable social events
in the annals of Montana.
The Northern Pacific has opened an
office at Deadwood, where tickets are
sold for the Ceur d Alene mines. They
take the railroad at Miles City.
The Northern Pacific express company
has established offices at Trout creek
and Belknap, and is now carrying
large amount of express matter to these
points.
J. S. Walker, a Washington attorney,
has been appointed assistant Z. S. at
torney for Montana, and he arrived ;.5
Helena last Wednesday to assume lis
duties. This is a new federal office.
Messrs. Howes, Strevell and Miles
have purchased 1000 head of stock cat
tie in Texas. which will be driven to
their range ON Tongue river the coming
summer, and added to their already
large herd.-Miles City Press.
In the Deer Lodge penitentiary there
are eighty-nine prisoners-seventy-e EIGHT
territorial and eleven United States-at
cost to Montana of 81, ,830.50 per
IuOuJu. AZ lCdSU IlCSc dIG tuC ISuIeS
for the month of January 1884.
Telephone lines have been completed
within the past few days, which connect
Helena with Marysville, Gloster, Greg
ory, Wickes, Comet and Corbinyille, in
addition to the connections already eX-
listing with Jefferson City and Clancy.
The crowd in the Cnur d 'Alenes haye
resolved to hang the first Chinaman
that puts in an appearance at the camp.
and as they were without rope, they at
once dispatched a man on snoWshoes to
Trout Creek to obtain a needed supply
of that article.
Two horse thieves (names unknown),
on Powder river, Custer county, were
overtaken by the stockmen whose ami
mails had been confscated, and were
shot down. the bodies afterwards being
strung up as a warning to any members
OF the gang that should pass that way.
A gentleman just returned from the
Musselshell country, reports that the
cattle over that way are not looking
very well. There is good deal of snow
on the ground, the weather is cold, and
the grass is covered, SO that the cattle
are not faring very well. Horses, being
better rustlers, are looking Well.--Inde-
pendent.
Town lots at Belknap are selling at
$25 per front foot, although there is not
a house in town that is made of any
more substantial material than canvas
One of the two original claimants to the
townsite a few days ago received $500
for a quit-claim deed to his interest in
the place.
DrllmmOnd DronrietOr of q hoard;nu