The new North-west., 1871-11-04
LOCAL BREvlT1E.

Hon. N. p. Langford has returned to st.
Paul :- -.s ..a
The town was crowded with strangers on
Monday and Tuesday paying taxes.
Mr.. L. r. Maillette has sold out in French
Gulch and will locate in Stevcnsvillc.
The new county officers elect qualify and
take possession of their Offices next Monday.
Messrs. y. M. Timbcrlake, J. A. Hagan,
and Jas. Holcomb, miners on Pilgrim bar.
left for the States during the past week.
Gilmer & Salisbury last week put on a
new Corinnc built, 11.passenger hack be.
tween Deer Lodge and Missoula.
Mr.. E. Roberts, one of the substantial and
deserving miners of Pioneer, left on Friday
for Kansas, thence to his home in Bangor,
Wis.
Courtsworth indicted for the murder of
MCLAUGHLIN in Helena, was found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to two years in
the peuitentiary.
There was a considerable snowfall in the
valley of the Little Blackfoot this weeks
few inches. At the same time trains were
blockaded on the U. P. X. r.
One of Our Deer Lodgers bought piece
of quartz property a few days since. Ibid
you pay cash for it, Jackl" mo, but
made my jaw. bone rattle like schuttler
wagon"
One of the three peaks at Yellowstone
City (mouth of Emigrant Gulch) is 12.50O
feet above sea level, as measured by Prof
Hayden. Is not that the highest measured
mountain in Montana!
Mining is about ended at Pilgrim Bar, and
water will be turned out of the bitches for
the season. THIS will necessitate the aban.
donment of the town of Yamhill, as there is
no water save that furnished by the bitches.
Mr.. J. Fl. Edgerly, an old dairyman of
the East, Omaha and Helena, is about to
start tactical vehicle in Deer Lodge, and
guarantees pure milk and prompt attention
to business. -
Mr.. Horace Countryman is up from
Jocko. having all the work for the Agency
mill completed that can be done before the
arrival Of the machinery, which should now
be here. Mr.. C.'s family recently joined
him At the Agency. IT,
Mr.. A. P. Rose, our mercantile friend of
Lincoln 0ulch, leaves on Tuesday pext for
Mercer, Pa, where he will spend the winter
May you bloom ever, and come back a
double Mr.. d. W. Culp will attend to his
business duling his absence.
Parties in Central City, Colorado-prac
tical millcrs-are corresponding with per-
sons here a. TO the inducements to build "A
FIGURING Mill in Deer Lodge. The enter
prise should bc encouraged. Grain would
be sown extensively, if farmers had any as
surancc mill would be built.
Mr.. Giles Olin has undertaken to erect at
Philipsburg furnace Of sufficient capacity
to make such castings as are necessary for
keeping in repair the Stuart Mill. He be-
licves the stone coal on the Mountain lead
will smclt old castings without coking.
The Montanian is running its press by
steam, and announces Daily, about the
same size of the Helena I)ailies, on and
after Oct. Goth. Really, we like to see Fred
Cope with the difficulties of newspapering
and surmount them 50 handsomely.
Helena had Il general Jail delivery, Thurs
day night. Five prisoners escaped Chas.
II. Goodwin, (Shavy), Henry Smith, Henry
Lewis, and two of the alleged Road Agents.
Spearling and Darling. The escape was
discovered in time to prevent seven others
from getting out.