The Mineral argus., 1884-04-03
MONTANA NEWS.

N1OAAldAAd
ISOLATION.
The Benton Record is quarreling
with the local preacher.
Flora Smith, of Billings, is the cham
pion skater of the Yellowstone valley.
Summer freight rates on the North
ern Pacific went into effect April ISL
An appropriation of S2Io,ooo is
asked for improvements in the National
Park.
The Billings Herald advises ranch
men to give more attention to the raiS-
ing of oats.
The first round trip of the Living
t O and White Sulphur Springs stage
has been made.
The Cooke City smelter started up
on the 10th ult., ran out IS bars OF
very rich bullion and then closed
down.-Enterprise.
Moses Manuel, the discoverer OF the
Homestake mine in the Black Hills,
has been in the Cour d'Alene since
the beginning of February. lie says
the outlook for good quartz claims is
. favorable.
The Miles City Press says the Aries
ian Well company in that city will short
lvresume work and sink well No. 2 to a
greater depth, as the present supply OF
of water from their former strike does
not suffice to supply the demand.
T. c. Power has obtained the con.
tract for carrying government stores
from Yankton and Bismarck to Benton
On the last route the prices paid are.
carrying officers 81 cts. per mlle' enhs'
ted men III cents; ANIMALS 4 cents
stores, 1874.
Wn. Mcknight and Sam. Denison
who have been in the Occur d'Alen'
mines for several months, returned
last Tuesday night. They do no
speak in very high terms of the coun
try, and it is very doubtful If the.
return there.-Townsend Tranchant
A&kAAtA
II. Clark & Co., on Saturday receive
an order for the Judith roundup
Their trade, and the trade of all GU
merchants, from the northern countr
is opening up well, and as soon as tn
roads become better there will be
great rush of business. Billings Pos
immigration is pouring into tn
new northwest from all parts OF tn
east. Notwithstanding the season
backward everywhere. The Norther
Pacific Portland Express yesterds
took out 14S through emigrants, beside
numbers of frst-class through passel
gers. Those, in addition to the Sc
tiers and passengers for Montan
together with the local passenger Il
aggregate s6I people on the ira
when It left St. Paul.-Press.
Miss Mary Virginia Nutall, the I'll
white girl born in Montana, was m;
ried the 28th of last month at Rate
New Mexico, to Edward ]. We
Rev. Mr.. Boyle, of Trinidad, ofhclatlI
The young lady was ushered into t
territorial world at Virginia City,
the spring of 1864, where her peol
then lived, and her Christian nal
of Virginia owes its origin to her bir
rlace. The young bride will be twel
years old in April, and is said to BE-
lovely woman.-Helena Herald.
A gentleman who has compile
table Of the going out of ice at ]
marck since I84s with the except
of the years of I867-S-o, of whichth
is no known record), states that
twenty the break up occurred IN Al
and for thirteen years in March. :
earliest date recorded is March II
1873, and the latest April 2oth, Il
The record in 1916 and for many y
thereafter was kept by Fred Ger
an Indian trader now a resident
Mandan. At this place, howe
abont a thousand miles above
marck, the ice frequently goes on
February, and scarcely ever later
March.-River Press.