The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-01
MONTANA MENTION.

mais are at Butte.
The Montana Building & Loan asso-
citation has been organized at Helena.
Cook Bros, Of the Judith, last week
shipped $500 fat sheep to the eastern
markets.
Anaconda is an infant. something
over than a year old, and has twenty
one saloons.
Butte citizens have subscribed 81, 200
for the celebration Of ".the ever memo
rable and glorious"
Work on the Helena artesian hole is
to be resumed, the contract having been
LET for sinking it 1000 feet.
Miles McNally and Dune. Mcdonald
will fight with soft Gloves at Butte
soon for the championship of the terri
tory.
The masons are now laying brick
on the fifth story of the Grand Central
hotel, the first fve-story building in
Helena.
The loss to the Montana Sheep Com
pany by the recent storms was some
thing over 100 instead of 900 as at first
reported.
Deputy Sheriff Marion Brown, of
Billings, died on the 23d inst. from the
effects of an accidental gunshot wound
in the leg.
j. w. Durham, of White Sulphur
Springs, has 100 acres sown in timothy
this year. It is the largest patch Of
tame grass in Montana
J. w. Jones, of Deer Lodge county,
was killed by lightning last week. He
was out hunting stock and his horse and
dog were killed at the same time.
The contract for the bridge over the
Musselshell at Roundup has been
awarded by the commissioners OF YeI-
lowstone county to S. H. Ewin, for
So, $50.
Mr.. G.. w. Tubbs recently sold 900
head of sheep to our butchers at So. so .
per head. They were wethers. recently
shipped from Nashington terrlts4
Independent.
The wife of Mr.. Hynk, night opera
tor at Butte, ran away with "hand-
soner man, and thereupon Hynk
swallowed q dose of cold poison. He
will probably die.
Governor Carpenter has appointed
Harry G. Kessler, of Butte, as chief
mastering officer Of the Montana mill
tia, in place Of Chas. S. Warren, who
declined the office.
It is announced that the alleged "His-
tory Of Montana will soon be ready for
deliyery. 1t will be, undoubtedly, af-
ter the Bancroft text book sWindle, the
biggest fraud of the year.
DR.. Ditzler, one of the most dis
tinguished diviues Of the NJ. II. Church
South. and DR.. Ray Of the Baptist de-
nomination, will commence an extend
ed debate at Bozenan in a short time.
J. ". Wade, Of Helena. is one or the
candidates for Surveyor General OF
Montana. He is a Missourian and Of
course stands in high favor with TIE
of Montana appointments.
The cage in which the grizzly bear
and mastiff Will fight on the 4th of July
at Miles City, is 16x20 feet square. It's
sides are built of 3-inch water pipe and Z
ks scantling, and it's ends are built Of
I5-inch pipe and 2x4 scantling.
Bill Sorrenson, well-knoWn typo Of
Butte, will make. leap on the Fourth
# July, at Eagle Rock, from the rail-
way bridge, into Snake river, distance
If sixty feet. Two years ago he jumped
rom vessel in Racine harbor, Lake
Michigan, a distance of seventy-fiye
eett.
G. E. Barney, a prominent business
nan of Billings, publishes a notice in
he Gazette that his wife and daughter
AVE been shopping" too extensively of
ate and warning all whom it may con-
en that he will pay no more bills of
heir contracting unless on written
rder from himself.
A. L. Stokes was yesterday chosen as
eneral agent of the Northern Pacific
Helena, to succeed S. Ct. Fulton, ap-
ointed assistant general freight agent.
[r. Stokes is at present travelling freight
gent of the company, but was formerly
aneral freight and passenger agent of
le Oregon Navigation. He was also,
uring the Willard regime, assistant SUI
arintendent of freight traffic for the
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