Sun River sun., 1885-01-01
TERRITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

Butte nos over 0,UUV ScnOOl cnllO
rem.
Fort Benton is stuck for Touring
mill.
4 Butteite. rccontly drew $3.50
IOttstt prize.
Tsains on tho N. P. are making
poor time.
AntcoudA gives sneak thieves fif-
teen in Jail.
Missouls il excited ovor . murder
at Horse Plains.
The Typographical Union he's
rated" tho Miner.
A bald eagle was recently killed
near Stonevihe.
Fsle scalps are worth q and coy
otas q, u O1stsr county.
JSGassa county will shortly have
paose sbrnssasa The Times
Montana contributed 1892 toward
tho Garfield monument fund.
Wheat sold Tor 16 cents bushcl
It q sheriff's sale recently, in Missouri.
county.
John Judge, ton year man, was
recently pardoned out by Acting Gov
ernor Tooker.
Highwaymen are plying their voca-
ton in Anaconda.1S. BOIL was re-
heysd q $50.
TIE new railroad hospital ut Mis-
soula Is open to tho general public at
from 81 to $40 per week.
The docter at the Warm Springs
asylum treated oil the patients to
present on Christmas. 1t cost him
over $500.
Miss Nellie Mckay, ono OF the
Joveliest Of the Grow Greek bellies,
was in town Inst week. Tranchant.
We call 'em sleigh bells over here.
The Madisonias has both feet now
ON the democratic side OF tho fence.
Heretofore that journal has success
fully straddlod. the political ques
tiOn.
A gentleman by the name Of Jones
arrived yesterday from Wyoming in
search Of twenty-threo head Of horses
stolen by the Piegan Indians a short
time since. Press.
A5Meaghsr county house breaker
wasrpn, down last week. When his
captors asked him what they should do
with him; he replied: II don't
amount to much anyway, and I guess
you'd better hang me-"
On Monday last Mr.. Rose, John
Bcrg and . colored man were out
hunting few miles from the Springs
when Mr.. Berg lost his way and has
not been seen since. The colored
man says Berg started for camp about
tho time he did. and supposed he WIS
following until reaching the camp.
After waiting some time dilligent
search was made, without finding
him. It is believed that he has per-
ished III the cold.-Husbandman.
There is nothing little about Mon
tana. She would be willing to donat.
to the government as homestead fYr
it, native wards, township out Of
one Of her counties equal in extent to
Rhode Island, Delaware. or some Of
tho eastern states, but she can SEQ no
resson why q fcw hundred pauper
Indians should hold domain on her
northern boundary larger than the
state OF Indiana, another in her CEN
ter Of over $4,000 square miles, and
still another in Custer county Of over
$4,000 acres.--Stockgrowers Jour-
nal.
Col. Eugcno NJ. Baker, of the I'd
died on the 10Th inst. at Now
York. Col. Baker has been in the
service twenty-five years, having
graduated at West Point in 1859. He
participated in nearly all tho memo
rial battles in Virginia during the
war. He has been on frontier service
since 1865, and was one of tho bravest
officers in the serves. 1t was he who,
in December, 1869, was sent out to
punish the Indians who were raiding
northorn Montana, killing settlers,
and gaining for himself the gratitude
Of the people of Choteau county by
his prompt and energetic action,
making forced march to the Marias
under tho guidance of Joe Kipp,
where he came upon and attacked
Piegan encampment with results
which are familiarity known to every
one. His action at the time made the
Indians cease their maraudings and
become as good as Indians can be.
The affair created such a stir in the
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