The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-23
rERRIToRIAL ITEMS.


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The Masons Of Helena will give grand
ball October 9th.
Crops in Choteau county are unusually
good this season. a
The Jefferson county assessment this year
is 81 ,165 ,l5e so.
A new town near Fort Maginnis has been
called Overland" a =.aT
Custer county has an assessed valuation Of
over million dollars.
A Rosebud horsethief, named Dwanett,
has been jailed at Miles City Es
The Western Union telegraph wire will be
extended to Butte within two weeks.
The Helena base ball club is trying to ar
range for game with Salt Lake nine.
VIM. Z. Savage, of Miles City, married
Miss Lizzie o. Sweet in Bismarck, Septem-
Der 8.
Mrs Neubert was thrown from her buggy
at Benton last Friday, and quite seriously
injured. s.
The Belle of Butte has been bonded to
John Longmaid for an English company for
$4,000. ~ fl
Missoula Is fragrant from the visits of
numerous animals of the genus me.1itis
Americana ...
S. T. Hauser, of Helena, is Vice-president
for Montana of the American Bankers Asso-
citation this year. .a..... .. ....I
Bob Burns, q Lion City miner, died in
Glendale on the 18th instant from intoxica-
ton and exposure. ...- .... .
The old Union League aud Good Templar
hall at Diamond City has been removed to
White Sulphur Springs. .r ....t- ..
J. G. Baker, who run the Virginia City
chop-house at Butte, is going into the ship
ping business in Ogden. .... .
One hundred soldiers recently arrived in
Forts Ellis and Missoula.
Fred Bush, a prospector, accidently shot
himself in the left hand one day last week
while hunting on the Jefferson.
Sixty electric lights have been subscribed
for in Helena, and it looks as though the city
would soon be lighted by the Brush system.
The R,pe. Prees wants a thousand of the
surperfuous maidens of the east shipped to
Montana, where there are so many lone lorn
bachelors. ....
the Sweetgrass country, about q month ago,
are to be arrested and tried under United
States laws.
Lucy B;ggs was divorced from Hiram
Biggs at the last term Of court in Beaver
head county, the former getting custody Of
the children.
John Harr was killed three weeks ago at
his ranch, on the Musselshell, by man
named Mcdonald. The shooting was done
! in self-defense.
The Missoulidn says that the display of
vegetables, fruits and flowers at the fair last
week was the finest ever given. The stock
| exhibit was rather poor.
The Missouliaa says that JEFF Pelkey, now
of walla w ALA, is the oldest white native
Montanian. He was born q few miles below
Missoula in January, 1861.
In Big Hole Basin, Thursday last, four
en-year-old boy, named Henry Weibold,
tried to pull a gun out of a wagon, of course
taking hold of the muzzle and receiving the
charge in his arm.
Jesus Narvaro, of Bozeman, died at the
| Metropolitan Hotel, Helena, last Saturday.
He was on his way to see his children In
1 Missoula county, but was taken sick and
died within the week.
Isaac Danford, who escaped from the vir-
! ginia City Jail last week, was recaptured on
the Yellowstone, between Cages and Big
Timber, by James w. Hathaway, Deputy
| United States Marshal. s
Ira Dickson was killed on the 9Th instan,
by bank caving in upon him while he was
at work in a cut on the Northern Pacific
grade in Eastern Montana. He was 30 years
old, and was from Lafayette county, Wis.
Alonzo ID. Burkett died at Butte last Sun
day of typhoid pneumonia. He was q years
old, and native of Iowa. He had been in
Butte four years, and previous to his illness
was receiving clerk and storekeeper at the
Moulton mine.
Mrs. r. c. Gallop gives notice to the public
through the columns Of the Audnt Courie,
that her husband has deserted her without
just cause or provocation, and that the pub
lie must not harbor or trust him on her &c
count, as she will pay no debts of his con
tracing.
Ed Torney, who bilked the Butteites out o.
$500 couple of months ago, went from there
to Scranton, Pa, and played brief but bril-
liant engagement as a Rocky Mountain
Terror" indulging in numerous fights. A
woman told of his dark deeds at Butte, bu
he denied everything and had the woman ar
rested for Islander.
The Stock Protection Society of Chetear
and Meagher counties offer $500 reward TO
the apprehension Of any persons furnishing
Indians or half-breeds with liquor on thu
ranges of members of the association. The
same reward Is offered for the apprehension
of any persons who maliciously or carelessl,
set out prairie fires on the same ranges.
"Nigger Andy" quite we'll known II
Eastern Montana, was killed about month
since near the mouth of the Big Horn by
! man named Stone. The two had INDUCED il
wordy quarrel, using some vile epithets to
ward one another, but had separated. Late
in the day Stone approached Andy from be
hind, and putting rifle close to his back
blew terrible hole In his side Andy wa
fatally wounded, but jumped 1t Stone
knocked him down and pounded him as loni
as life lasted. Stone was arrested but after
wards escaped. Andy had lost both feet fiv,
years ago by their being frozen SO badly as q
require amputation. .
The indictment for highway robber,
against skinny" Warehouse was nou
prosed at the recent term of court at Benton
He was, however, Indicted for breaking jail
and sentenced to two years in the Penitenti
airy. James Cassidy was found guilty o
stealing horse, and sent up for one year
G. M. tanning was found guilty Of fornica
ton, and sentenced to sixty days In tn,
county Jail, and to pay fine Of $3.50. Jen
ME Woodhurst was divorced from StepheI
Woodhnrst, Anthony A. Juneau from Jose
phine juneau, Camille Foley from Thoma
Foley, Charles Armand from Jessie Arnaud
Charles p. Thomas from Mary Thomas, an,