The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1886-01-20
Territorial Trines.

The new placer mines in the Big Hole
| basin are near the Gibbon battle ground.
2. L. Burton, ex-receiver of the land
office, has accepted a deputyship under
Sheriff Churchill.
Silver Bow county will redeem $4,000
of her bonds soon, il the holders care. to
present them for payment.
Bozenan people are petifioning the war
! department for the enlargement OF Fort
Ellis to twelve company post.
The Montana company, of Marysville,
during the month of December crushed
3. 900 tons Of ore, yielding $40, 200.
+ The superintendent Of the Alice mining
company paid out $50 900 III Walkeryille
Monday for work done during December,
The tax levy il Missoula county this
year is % mills which includes !. levy Of
II mills for county purposes and 5 mills
for. interest and sinking fund,
Seventy-one persons were admitted TO
the insane asylum during Il1e past year,
and AZ discharged. The nsasnLer OF pa-
tients IN the asylum January 1st, 1886,
was 10Y.
Ex-Agent Armstrong OF the Grow res
ervation, after a visit TO his home in Wy
andotte, Kansas, will return to his ranch
near Saltwater and engage in the stock
business.
Gen. John r. Brooke, commander of
military district, is president OF the court
now convened at Fort Keogh to try Lieuts
Edward S. Avis and j. e. r. Tillson, of
the 9Th infantry.
This week Nelson Story shipped 5000
sacks of White Rose flour to Chicago, at
an expense of 81 cents per hundred pounds,
receiving a net return Of 1926 per sack
Bozeman Courier.
The Granite mine still continues to i'm
prove with development. The mill is
running steadily OH second class ore.
The bullion shipment for December, 1885,
was over 100, 900 ounces.
The commissioners OF Mfssoula county
instructed the assessor to value stock as
follows the present year Cows, $25; ).
steers, years old and over so; steers, 2
years old and over $40; yearlings, sl2;
sheep, 50.
We are informed that Messrs. Hugh 6
Dustin, who are building 9 saughtering
establishment at Miles, are under contract
to ship east each day next season, two
hundred beef carcasses, and one hundred
Of mutton.
The license collection in Silver Bow
county for the first three quarters of 1885
were as follows: First quarter $9,7O1;
second, $15, 5000; third, $1,000; total,
s42 ,5905O. The total for the last quarter
has not yet been made up.
Judging by the following from the
Glendive independent there is something
of an exodus from Montana to Alaska: A
steamboat left Portland yesterday for Sit
ka, Alaska, having the following Glen
divians on board: DR.. d. N. Mcintosh,
wife and children, Mrs. j. f. Maloney,
Herman Hart, J. G. Moore, Miss Ida Will
liams, and two cowboys who formerly
worked for the Mabray Cattle Co. Sew
eral parties from Miles City were also pas
sengers on the same boat.
The city Of Butte has. been suffering
great damage of late from fires, to which
most people are inclined to ascrIbe an in
cendiary origin, inasmuch as no definite
cause can be assigned for the recent blazes.
On Monday night a two-story frame house
on the corner Of Wyoming and Galena
streets, in that city, was discovered OH fire,
and despite the efforts of the fremen was
destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated at 5000. The building had been
found on fire three separate times before,
but on each occasion the flames were ex-
Linguished before they had gained any
great headWay.
Tropical Montana.