The new North-west., 1881-09-30
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Butte lawyers have organized i'ar Asso-
citation.
Miles City has no clergyman located with
in her limits.
Helena has go Chinese, of which twenty
five are women.
Piety Flat, or Graveyard Bottom, is located
near Miles City.
Sawtelle is on the way to this Territory
with dramatic company.
The Three-mile Diggings up Bitter Root pay
from "a to So per day per man.
The assessment In Lewis and Clarke
county amounts to over s3,sO5,499.
The Benton public schools have between
eighty and ninety children enrolled.
The Helena papers say a good many hard
characters are in attendance at the fair.
The members of the Christian Church hold
a convention in Helena tomorrow night.
Arrangements are being made to connect
Miles City and Fort Keogh by telephone
line.
DIR. A. H. Hersy has been appointed Cor
oner Of Custer county, vice DIR. 7. A. Davie,
resigned.
There are over fifty cases of typho- -malarial
fever in Butte. The disease is considered
dangerous.
Four prize fights occurred at Rosebud one
day last week. Several of the fighters were
severely punished.
Miss Alice s. Nichols, of Minnesota, will
have charge Of the school at White Sulphur
Springs this winter.
The Benton Record wants to know the
whereabouts of Andrew johnson, formerly
of Fleseberg, Norway.
A Butte daily paper of September oath has
market report bearing date of August 25th.
That's enterprise for you.
The River Press urges the organization of
a stock and agricultural association for Cho-
teau county for annual exhibitions.
Jerry Cox died in an clubhouse at Miles
City, one day last week, being brought there
to by hear. disease and bad whisky.
A prisoner escaped from the Miles City
Jail the other day. There was plot among
all the prisoners to escape, but only one was
successful
VIM. Martin killed George Meyers, at Fort
Custer, one day last week. He has been ar
rested, but it is generally considered he COM
mitted the crime in self-defense.
Edward Moale, Jr., son of Captain Edward
Moale, Company A, Third Infantry, has
been appointed a cadet to the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
Maj. Jordan, commandant at Fort Mis-
soula, recently took his daughter overland to
Spokane Falls, w. T., and thence to Port
land, Or, where she will attend school.
The paper on which this issue is printed
cost us twenty-four cents pound, three
times Its price in Chicago or St. Louis. 1t
comes high, but we must have it.-Rirer Press
A correspondent of the London Times
travelling with the Lorne party, recently sent
from Benton, by the military telegraph line,
a message the fees on which amounted to
s274.
w. III. H. Bowers has contract to build
way Mining Company, and also for the con-
struction of two miles of tramway from the
mine to the mill.
A fire at Dillon last Monday destroyed the
business houses of John III. Rourk ard e. NJ.
Trask, and the restaurant of Mrs. A. X. Will.
The loss amounts from 5000 to $4,000, with
very light insurance.
Paul Boyton swims down the Yellowstone
and Missouri, starting from Clendive. He
left there on the 18th, and arrived at Fort
Buford on the Goth, making the 100 miles be-
tween those points in thirty hours.
Judge J. G. Spratt has sold his one-eighth
interest in the Shonbar, his one-sixth interest
est in the Sorrel Mike leads, at Butte, to
Amede Basett, Of Bannack, for $4,000.
And now the Helena papers are talking of
the silver spike closing the gap between the
two ends of the Northern Pacific being
driven in the city of Helena two years from
now That's little too far ahead to brag
about.
Reese w. Tunnell, who was taken from the
Penitentiary a week or two ago to have a
new trial at Radersburg, for killing Geo. w.
Jones, at Boulder Valley, has been released,
the Prosecuting Attorney entering a noHe.
On his first trial he was sent up for five years.
The Montana Branches of the Irish Land
League have sent the following amounts to
the general fund: Beartown, s7S %; Butte
City, s467 10; Canton, $40; Fort Keogh,
$50; Lyon City, s127 80. Persons who do
not belong to the League have contributed
81 ,2s5 TO-
John NJ. Robinson, of Middle creek, Gal
Lat tl,s A l., -
wheat on 100 acres of land. This, with the
pear, apple, cherry and plum trees on the
ranch, makes, in the opinion of the Auant
Courier, a strong argument in favor of Mon
tana agriculture and horticulture.
DIR. e. 7. wager, of Virginia City, COM
plains that many interesting points In the
National Park are being sadly marred by
the hatchets and hammers of tourists. He
thinks this unnecessary, as the most beauti-
full specimens can be obtained by little
search and without interfering in any man.
ner with the natural scenery.
The population of some of the Territorial
towns at the time the census was taken last
year was as follows: Helena, 1924; Butte,
1858; Benton, ,618; Deer Lodge, $40 Boze-
Hla1, oJf NlrBinld Cityt ozf rorh custer,
739; Miles City, $50; Fort Keogh, 600 or
course, there has been large increase in
some of the towns since then.
Glendive has been found to be within the
limits of Dawson county, and its citizens are
taking steps to perfect the county organiza-
tion. n. w. Comford, FL. +. Douglass and
Hope Davis were selected as County Com
missioners. The Times, however, thinks the
county cannot complete its organization un-
til the meeting of the next Legislature.
One day last week, while party Of soldiers
were haying few miles from Ft. Maginnis, a
party of thieves descended upon their horses,
which were grazing near by, and drove them
off. Two men, named Mcdonald and Iliff,
were suspected of being the thieves, and the
soldiers are looking for them. There is a
large amount of horse stealing going on in
Eastern Montana, much of it being done in
the boldest manner possible.
The NEW NORTHWEST of the 10th instant
L. a. r.