The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-09
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Glendale has a school house at last.

one case OF sinai pOS Is reporteu NJ Glen-
| dale.
Miles City has three hundred school chill.
| dren.
DIR. Corey states that there is no small box
| at Silver Bsw.
| The suelter at Barker was set in motion
November 9th
The Butte High School has a library of
one hundred volumes.
Counterfeit ten-doIar gold piece. are nu-
merous in Mics City.
The new Wickes smelter was to have
started UP last Monday.
Lewis and Clark county will pay So a week
fer the keep of the posr.
Miles City has a debating club-though
they put on style aud call it n lyceum
George w. Savage and Miss May Pruden
were married in Miles City last week.
Dave Gilmore, Of Helena, came near dv-
ing last week from neuralgia of the heart.
4 weeks receipts for desert lands at the
Helena Land Office recently reached ST.
00O
Butte school district has about fifteen
hundred youngsters under twenty-one wears
Of age.
There are no turkeys in CuSier county and
therefore Thanksgiving Day could not be
celebrated.
Paul Boyton will issue book descriptive
Of his travel down the Yellowstone and Mis-
souri, rivers.
Austin & McKenly, in the Gallatiu valley.
| This fall tbra. hall Az
forIy-Seven days
q. w. Basbaw: Helena policeman, acct
den,ally shot himself Though the band Iaet
| Saturday, morning.
Tho citizens of Lewis aud Clarke county
paid ninety per cent. OF tbec tases before
the 1st OF December.
TwenIy thousand ties are said TO be frozen
Up in the Yellosstone within seventeen
miles of Piummer rancho.
A telt phone line connecting Mi~soula and
Fort Missoula is talked of. Lieut.. Reale
already has the nstruments.
a carpenter named Cumming fell from
the Northern Pacific bridge over Powder
liver last week and broke thigh.
A suDerebundance 81 tramps is one of the
! iDcouyeniences experienced in Eastern
Montana since the railroad has penetrated
the Territory.
The Helena school census shows a total of
,22S minors, Of whom twenty fvo are of AT
rican descent. Ofthe Others $50 are bsys
aud 610 are girls
1t is said that a tie-cutter named Palmer
died in Reaverhead county last week of
ANAL po%, he having contracted the disease
at Wund2tl ich's.
The publication at Butte of Kind Words, a
poothly missionary paper, edi,ed by j. j.
Carviu, has been commenced. 1t is issued
from the liner Mountain office
| Sergeant Stewart, of Fort AssinabOne, re-
Gently SO badly frozen while on escort duty
| with the paymaster, died last week from the
effects Of the amputa,isn OF his fec.
The land on Lone Horse prairie, that has
been secured for the 'Deutche Colonie ;" to
be called La ndtsheim, has been surveyed and
set apart for occupation in the spring.
A little boy near Miles City sirayed from
home one night recently aud was found late
at night in the bad lauds, four miles from
home, asleep in camp of sage brush,
Mail and passengers at tbs Fort Keogh
! Government ferry ale taken across by means
| of basket strung on wire The ice in the
Yellowstone prevents the ferry boat from
running.
Isaac Morris, who was chopping wood on
the Missouri near Helena, slipped and fell
last Friday, breaking an arm His fall start
. ed heavy log TO rolling which crushed one
| of his feet.
The suit of the publishers of tbs h,depead-
ent against the Territorial Auditor for pub
fishing the codiied statutes in 1879, has been
decided by Chief Justice Wade in favor of
the plaintiffs.
| DR.. A. c. Hill, of the BIacIfoot Agency,
who killed an Indian accidentally not long
since, has given up his position and gone
| East, fearing some of the tribe would take
his life in revenge.
| Thanksgiving Day, Miss Works, teacher
Of the primary department in the Bozeman
schools, bired a four-horse team and large
sleigh, and gave all her little pupils de-
lightful sleigh ride.
The Missou'ion favors a CHRISTMAS tree fer
all bad boys who do not attend Sunday
school, as we'll as for the good boys The
| "toe'"t"" iotCc eApeCb 10 RtJ u cNa0Ct II
| such tee is built
The discontinuance OF The expedited mail
| service between Helena and Missoula has
been rescinded, telegram having been re-
ceived from Washington Wednesday even
ing announcing that fact
Eddy, Hammond s. Co. have bought out the
business OF 7. j. Demers at Frenchtown and
| Flathead Agency. The goods at the former
point will be moved to Missoula, while the
| Jocko store will be continued.
The Alice Company paid 1884 taxes this
| year, which is one-tenth The to- al taxation Of
| Silver Bow County. Marchesseau & Vail
ton pay Sl,70l.2O county taxes, and the other
city and special taxes will probably increase
| the amount to So 900.
Michael WEIGH a noted scout and hunter.
was killed by Pat Doyle, a buffalo hunter,
| Nov. 9th, at the mouth of Little Dry Creek,
between the Mussslshell aud Wolf Point
The Benton Recocd says of him:-"He was
scout and guide for Gen. How
ard during the Nee Perez campaign and for
many years has alternately been hunter,
wood yard keeper and Indian trader along
the river. He was Of his class a good man,
brave, honest and true, and, above treach-
| cry himself, was just the kind of a man to
meet death at the hands of some one want
ing in these characteristics. Welch was q
peacable man and was much respected among
| men Of his class"