The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Miles City is to have literary club.
Butte clerks are agitating an early closing
hour.
The Benton school had . spelling match
last Friday.
The River Pres proposes to publish . daily
next spring.
Over two hundred students are enrolled In
the Bozeman public schools.
Mr.. Ames has charge Of the United States
telegraph Office at Miles City.
The Helena dog tax has brought s192 into
the City Treasury.
The Presbyterians Of Helena will hold q
festival Thanksgiving evening.
O. B. Bailey Is about to start dancing
school In Helena.
G. Goldberg, formerly merchanrof Hell.
ena, died in Ogden last Monday.
An effort Is being made to close the bus /.
ness houses Of Helena on Sunday.
A dead Chinaman was found near Dillon
the other day. 1t is thought that he died in
&c.
II. T. Brown, of the Miner, has gone east to
buy new type and get cuts for the holiday
edition.
A hunter on the Red Water was gored to
death by wounded buffalo q couple OF
weeks since.
The Independent says two inches of snow
fell in Helena in fifteen minutes last Satur-
day evening.
The Catholics Of White Sulphur Springs
propose to erect church and q hospital at
an early day.
Josie, three-year-old daughter of II. G.
Kessler, of Butte, had an arm broken last
Friday by fall.
Father Kelleher In to have charge Of St.
Ignatius Mission in place of Father Van
Corp, transferred.
Joe Meek, q colored man, has struck a
1000 ounce lead on Old Badly Mountain in
the Barker country.
The new United States Attorney, Mr.. East
man, made his appearance in the court room
at Helena last week.
The Hecla Consolidated Mining Company
Of Glendale has declared its fifth monthly div
idend Of one per cent.
The sixth year of the Hus6andman has been
completed, and the paper is in q deservedly
prosperous condition.
Z. B. and 8. B. Hyde, of Spokan Falls, have
made arrangements to build at Missoula next
spring large brick hotel.
Harry Il. Mills, of the Neos, had thumb
badly hurt last Saturday, while getting the
power press into operation.
Al. Lester Of Benton received q flesh
wound in bis right leg last week by the acct
dental discharge Of his pistol.
Mrs. s. L. Holman, formerly Of Helena,
died in Denver, Col, on the 18th inst. She
was formerly Miss Dora Sands.
The AVant Courier Of last week inflicted
adozen stanzas Of obituary poetry on its
readers. 4 bad ending for its tenth volume.
The Postoffice Department offers a reward
Of $500 for the arrest Of the highwaymen
who recently robbed the Tongue river coach.
The Catholic young ladies and gentlemen
Esther for the benefit of the Orphan Asy-
lum.
The Neos says that after the railroad
reaches Butte the stock on the Overland road
will be put on the Helena and Missoula
routes.
Gen. A. J. Smith, ex-Surveyor-G Genera, has
gone east. 10. Hussey has purchased his
Meagher county sheep ranch, paying 5000
therefor.
The Butte National Bank has received
$50 900 in new notes from the Treasury De-
partment. They are signed by Z. w. knight
as cashier.
Nath. ManneIing was thrown from a load
Of wood in Whites Gulch last week, and the
wagon wheel passed over an ankle, badly
bruisingit.
A heather Chinee pas ,ed so Confeder-
ate note ON Helena dry goods clerk, re-
carving 81 worth Of goods and Sis in Uncle
Sans money.
The Avant Courier has entered its
eleventh volume, and promises to keep pace
with the energetic and progressive spirit Of
the age. Good.
Paymaster William Arthur OF Helena,
brother of the President, has received notice
Of an order transferring him to the Depart
ment Of the East.
The Apant Courier says the appropria-
ton for the improvement Of the channel of
the Yellowstone river is being used to good
advantage this year.
The Neso North West brags that Deer Lodge
has the dozen prettiest girls in the Territory.
Do you want to bet anything on that, Cap
tain?-Hadisonian. You bet.
A man name Brown, from Crooked river,
Oregon, has located near Bohemian, and will
engage in raising goats. He starts in with
forty-one head Of the Angora breed.
The Catholic choir Of Helena will render
on Christmas morning Lambillote's Paschal
Mass in D, the music having been recently
received from France at a cost of s2s.
8. Blake, of Bitter Root valley, lost a girl
and boy last week by scarlet fever. In the
same valley, Messrs. Walton and Fowler
lost each . child from the same disease.
Judge James G. spratt died in his Office in
Butte last Saturday night from an attack of
apoplexy. He was about sixty years old and
had been in this Territory twenty years.
In the United States District Court at Hell
ena, Chryston Carlish, charged with assist
ing soldiers to desert, plead guilty, and was
sentenced to SIX mosths in the penitentiary.
The interest Of T. d. Wright in the River
Press has been purchased by the remaining
partners, Jerry Collins and j. e. Stevens
Mr.. Wright continues in the Office As an en-
ploye.
A Butte paper asserts that there are at
present $500 men engaged in woodchopping
within radius Of twelve miles of Butte, and
that they chop 125,OO0 cords Of wood per
month.
The Independent Of the 9th publishes at
length golden dream Of Colonel Keeler's
in regard to millions Of gold lying concealed
in the bed Of an ancient river just below
Helena.
Jim Jam Hong and Vow Kun were mar
rfod In Rrtfa 1aaf rrl,ursd- o hx, fIa v,ol;oa