The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-09-30
slaughtering at Medora and is shipping
live stock to Chicago from Dickenson.o

NOHua lcW udyS ago ny BRICK Hills /
Jennie," both women of the town. The
killing was done with knife at variety
house. The ''green eyed monster figured
in the case.
The city of Butte has contracted with /
the Electric Light company to light
that city at the rate of 500 per month for
each arc light of 1000 candle power
The gas company offered TO do it for So. 80
per street lamp.
The widow of the late Murrish, who
was killed in the Lexington mine, will
draw the pay which her unfortunate hus-
band would have earned for the next three
months. This is a generous act on the
part of the company.
The three cowboys who stopped train
near Mingusville some time ago, and ter
rified the conductor and passengers, were
fined 500 each. with costs, in the United |
States court at Miles City. They had q
60 d deal of fun for few minutes, but it |
turns out to he a very expensive kind.
tract for the ensui' e year with the Helena
Electric Light Company for supplying the
city with sixteen lights at SIS per month
each, Or $3.50 per year, the contract to
take effect on the 1st of October The
present contract price is SO, 800 for six,een
lights. The new contract will be saving
Of nearly $500.
The. Northern Pacific stockholders, at
their Iate meeting, resolved against Sin
curing any Indebtedness whatever for the
construction of new roads, This is q
quietas for the present on the Butte con-
necton. A share Of the Utah & North
ern profits is satisfactory for the present.
Frank Esler dissents from the statement
that Emigrant an Electric peaks in the
Yellowstone range, and Snowy peaks in
the Crazies, represent the greatest alti-
tudes in Montana. Mr.. Esler believes that
Index peak in the Clark's Fork range, is
much higher than either of the peaks
mentioned, and he has lately procured an
aneroid for the purpose of measuring al
titudes.-Courier.
On the night of the 18th, the store, ware
houses and contents, belonging to Lynde
& Co., at Salesyille, were consumed
by fire. The fire was discovered by the
clerk about 80 a. M. on the rear outside
wall Of the rear warehouse. The buildings
and nearly all of their contents were con-
sumed. Loss is about $1,000, less the
small amount saved. The fire was evi-
IDENTIFY the work of an incendiary.c
\ lit Il now said the Cinnamon are arming
i'll expectation that they will be compelled
I'd defend themselves against al attack af-
\ ter the 1st of October Those who are in
position to know assert that the precau-
ton is needless and that there never has
been any idea on the part of the Knights
Of Labor to use force. All they ever in
tended to do was to boycott the people
who persisted in employing them.-Mi-
ner.
In speaking Of the effort Of Ranchero to
beat his record Of 2::28114, the Miner says:
s'He struck the quarter in SO, on to the
half, which he reached in IA, then to the
three fourth pole, which he reached in
/ | 80, and turned into the stretch for the
final effort He came down the stretch
like a whirlwind and held himself down
to within four lengths of the score, when
he broke and run under the wire, Jeffries
holding him hard to get him down. This
break cost him at least half a second, and
the time was then hung out 2:24115, the
best ever made in Montana
After nearly ten years of idleness the
smelter at Cooke City, owned by the
Eastern Montana Mining and Smelling
Company was fired up week before last by
Frank Esler, and in sixty-four hours 100
tons Of ore were smelted and % tons of
bullion were drawn off. The bullion was
AZ on ce 1aulea to Cinnabar, from whence
it will be shipped east to be refined. a
bar of this bullion, the bulk of which is
lead. is now on exhibition at the Bozeman
National bank, and is worth from $50 to
800 per ton in silver, while the lead will
pay the margin for shipping. ~-s
Some rapid work was done Saturday IN
commencing on the penitentiary addition
contract at Deer Lodge. Mr.. Mcconnell
signed the contract at Helena Friday at
6 b. m, and by the same hour next even
ing all the excavation for the foundation
of the new building was done, requiring
the removal OF 80 cubic yards Of earth.
This haste was caused by the limited time
named iii the contract-one hundred days.