The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-01-27
THE TERRITORY.
PiQna 10.

IHE 1EttHIlOH4 y
Pioneer 10. $t
II The Indian who was shot by DEPUTY T.
8. Marshal Hugh O'Ncill, -has- since died
He was one of party of Indians who muir
dered and robbed of 81 900 four white men
on Libby Greek, in 1867, and bad injun.
Missouia is urged to bring in water from
Ratllesnake creek as . protection against
fire.
q. G. Roberts has established . match
factory at Frenchtown.
Miss Emma G. Slack has charge of the
Missoula school.
Placer digging, said to be good for 81
to SIS per day. Have been struck near Point
of Rocks, IL miles from Missouls.
Mr Frank Tudor, who has been exploring
the Lou Lou Fork Pass in the interest of
the N. p. r. Il. cached his supplies 1t Warm
Springs and has returned to Fort Owen.
The farmers about Stevensville were
blowing last week.
| Gazette. 81.
1t is believed tho murderer of Nellie
Montgomery is Frenchman named John
A. Hanson. who last summer drove team
for Hugh K,rkendsll. Tic has been arrested
and denies oil knowledge of the affair. The
jury found she came 10 her death by the
hand of some unknown person or persons
Two miners at Unionville met to fight q
duel with navy's, ut fifteen PAGES, and were
all ready to blaze away when mutual friends
intcrfered.
Mr.. A. ]. Simmons started for the Black.
foot Agency by Wells, Fargo & Cos stage
yesterday morning.
Gazette -.
The Gazette believes that John Hanson,
charged with the murder of Nellie Mont.
gomery, is guiltless, having passed the ex-
animation satisfactorily, and that Dickson,
the negro, is the murderer
The editor is in receipt of hind quarter
of buffalo, from Mr. Aruaux. who, with a
party, recently killed fifteen of the wild
ones, near Fort Benton.
The Laundresscs of Unionyillc made an
organized raid on the China washmen re.
Gently and compelled the Johns to decamp.
The grocery market presents no new fca.
lures Of interest. The purchase here, by q
Deer Lodge firm, of about fifty tons Of As.
sorted merchandise. is probably the most
noticeable transaction of the week.
Pick and Piow, 81.
Thos r. Street, Esq, will hereafter have
control CT the business of the Pick and Plow
Office and Mr.. John II. Dranchfowcr will
act rs general collecting agent.
Wages diggings are reported on Pole
Creek, thirty miles west of Bozcmau toward
Virginia
1t is reported that the official bond of
John L. Noble, late Probate Judge of this
county. has mysteriously disappeared from
the desk Of Its legal custodian. Significant
hints and insinuations are common enough.
but VIC feel that it would be unjust to cx.
press an opinion until official Investigation
shall have definitely settled whether Judge
Noble hos violated his oath Of ONCE.
WI. OCA. 0tOnuAAC1 0uu party 6t0ItCtl lOE
the new diggings yesterday morning. They
say they will go right through to the mines,
should the weather continue favorable: 9th.
crwise, they will crowd Is near as possible.
and wait for the opening Of spring.
Last week Benjamin Cope, Of the West
Gallatin, sowed and narrowed in several
acres of wheat; and our fellow. townsman
MI. Fridley, about the same time, put in
few acres Of rye. This is the earliest SOW.
ing ever attempted in the Gallatin Valley.
Mr.: +. B. Gray, Treasurer Of Gallatin Co.,
feels called upon by some aspcrsions
against his integrity to publish series of
explanations ~ advertisements.
= INK Gazstte, ~
Harris mule train arrived yesterday from
Corinne with consignmcnts of goods from
Creighton + Monroe, for our Merchants,
A friend writing from Virginia City, says:
"Judge McSIath is still dangerously ill.
The Orc Cache mill is running day and
night on S45 ore Tho tunnel isin 400 it. on
the lode and the creyice 10 three feet wide.
Browns Gulch mill, also under John How,
is running day and night on t25 quarts. b.