The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-12-10

Two weeks till Christmas. ,.M.S
The ice crop was frosted last week
Fifty-one prisoners in Castle Bofkin,
Commissioners session win last all week. !
Firewood is $40 cordi Butte and Helena
and - i'm Virginia City. In Deer Lodge II i
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1t Is such winter rs this that reconciles
enc TO being the owner of only wild cai
stock.
The Kennedy case Is set for trialin Helena
December q, but 1t Is doubtful If il will b
reached this term. .1ss ..'e. g.aa.a
Persons desiring Christmas turkeys can OBJ
tain them BY leaving orders with Agent
Brakeman to-day-no later. 9m ei
An Deer Lodge county warrants registered
previous TO December I, 1879, are now being
paid by Treasurer Coleman. ~ 5t
The total assessed valuation of property IN
Deer Lodge county this year il, in round
numbers, "a 100000. N s.ta8 1T
Vim. Way came in from Moose Creek yes
terday with a load of venison. He says the
!" biacktails" were never before 50 fat or so
scarce. Ss5. a7fe 8st6 ~
The Collegiate Institute will be completed
In few days. The event win be celebrated
by a Christmas Eve Ball,particulars Of which
viii be announced next week. 4i 1
Messrs. Kennon & Zenor win next spring
reconstruct their store building, making IL
eight feet wider, several feet higher and rum
ming IL back one hundred and thirty feet OF
stone and brick. As 6sas3 dl -
RESPONSIVENESS against the land lease sys-
tenn, endorsed by the Surveyors-G MT
Salt Lake, are being circulated and signed
extensiv ely here. We win refer 70 the mat
ter in another issue. NJ n, 800
In dewn town crowd the other day Ii was
alleged that q certain Deer LEDGER smoked
too much. 1t was Indignantly denied by an
other, who vowed he couldn't smoke much,
for he was eternally lighting his pipe"
The Grand Jury was " business in min
ute" Fortunately 1t found the county in an
exceptionally gratifying condition, without
single new case demanding its attention,
and after O few hours session IL was dis
charged.
The Marquis of Ripon, Governor-General
of India, had q slight sunstroke few days
ago Missouri had thunder and lightning
cyclone, and people were having their noses
frozen in Montana. You can have almost
any kind Of weatherif you circulate around.
Peter Walton notified his herders during
the cold snap that they might as wells
their blankets. The unusual suggestion clio
iped "Why?" e Because you will have to
feed hay all day and skin dead sheep all night
and will have no use for blankets The boss
herder Immediately sent in his resignation!
The Idaho Avalanche says NJ. T. Reagan, of
Silver City, has received q challenge .sfrom q
gentleman in Montana to rum his famous
horse, Humboldt a half mile for 5000 TO
5000, and to pay Ryan's expenses 70 Mon
tana If he will 90, or come 10 Idaho II Ryan
will pay his expenses IL adds that Ryan
has written TO the Montanian TO come or.
Who is the Montanian? aEJIr ai! -
The Husbandmd,, thinks we werein error in
stating the postoffice name OF olden, near
Fort Maginnis, Meagher county had been
changedto Parker. Perhaps we we're ~.
was an inference from the phrasing Of SUBJ
scriber at Olden in ordering his NEW NoRTH-
WEST changed from olden to Parker. The
Parker posioifice Is at Fort Maginnis; Old
en- is 90 miles south Of thafa TT
The new county officers win be sworn in
next Monday week The Board Of Commits
sioners will fix the rate of taxation for the
ensuing year at the first meeting after that.
1t In thought by some that the rate can be
safely placed at even less than rs miliss
Treasurer Coleman has ALREADY over $4,000
to apply on the county debt, and is paying
up all warrants to tins date last year.
Mr.. III. M. Freeman, whs has been merchan-
dining at Hemvilla, and was considered mn
upright, sagacioE and prosperous business
man, left few days ago ostensibly on bust
ness, and writes back from Ogden that for
reasons best known to himself he will not
return, and that his creditors must take his
effects for his accounts. He claims that his
assets exceed his liabilities by 81 900. The
act il mystery.
The authentic report of q couple of years
ago that one cliff Of the Bear Tooth on the
Missouri river, some 900 feet high, had top
Piled over, was doubted by many ut first, bat
was soon demonstrated to be correct Wo
now see it stated in a Seattle paper that with
In the past few days one of the highest spurs
Of Mount Rainier, known as the Pack Sal
die, had broken off and, it Is supposed, fell
into the crater. 1t is also stated on pretty
good authority that the mountain shows ev-
cry indication of being in state Of eruption
as large volumes of smoke can be seen ona
clear day rising from the old landmark. II
This kind Of thing continues, in few mil
lion years the mountain ranges win be only
holes In the ground ,a sts,. .sF4
tl.sf The Cold Snap. I -
The almost unbroken cold weather of the
past six weeks, with the thermometer below