The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
LOCAL BREvITrEs.

escaped Penitentiary convicts, win b recap
tured.
Gus Zosel lost . nne Mountain Chief horse
by death last week that he was offered $500
for the day previous.
Owing to the illness Of Ms. Peters, the
proposed Ball 1t Warm Spring Crossing 10
indefinitely postponed.
Some wretch . few days since poisoned p.
Valiton's hunter "Flora." II Is believed
poison was thrown In the yard.
We learn that N. p. surveying party Is
IN route from Helena to complete the Deer
Lodge valley line begun by Mr.. Hamilton.
Benton Hoover raised the largest potato
that has come to town this year. 1t is stated
TO have weighed three pounds and seven
ounce when first brought here.
Chas. Bielenberg has bought out his late
partner, s. Maturin, in the firm Of Bielen-
berg & Maturin and will hereafter personal
ly and solely conduct the business.
Raleigh and Clarke, Of Helena, have pur-
chased two hundred and twenty acres Of
placer mining ground on Nevada creek, Deer
Lodge county, from John B. Wilson.
The young gentlemen Of Deer Lodge talk
Of getting up dancing club for the winters
amusement. Why not, when Deer Lodge
has the dozen prettiest girls in the Territory?
Washington Dunn & CO. are the contrac-
tors where the recent explosion occurred. It
was reported at first that Mr.. L. j. Fisk, of
the Company, was injured, but It was an
error.
The Utah & Northern surveyors located
their line down the river this week and like
those of old passed By on the other side"
However, 1t will suit Deer Lodge just a. well
IL the track Is across the river.
Prof. Mountoy purchased few days since
fine piano in Helena and has placed 1t in
the Collegiate Institute. The musical class
Of Miss Grimes il now SO large that two pi-
amos are required; hence the purchase.
Messrs j. J. Dickey Division superintend-
ent Of the w. U. Telegraph Line, and Mr.. A.
J. Pattison, Of Ogden, are in Butte. 1t Is
surmised their business Is the location of q
Western Union Office at Butte and the extern
sion Of the line to that point. Mr.. -Bohannan,
now in the Helena office, will have charge of
the Butte Office.
A whisky lunatic named Brown, who has
served term at the Warm Springs Asylum
and who is straight enough when sober, got
some tangle-foot on board Tuesday and crea-
ted considerable stir in the south end of town.
Hugh O'Neil walked him off to Jail thinking
he was crazy, but it appears to have been
only whisky deiirium.
A gentleman residing in Butte and who has
interests here contemplated bringing his wife
here for a few days before going east. On
thinking it over, however, he concluded i,
was too hard . trip to Deer Lodge-'it is
ference between forty miles On q coach and
three thousand on the cars.
Governor Potts, Governor Neil and Gener
al McCook all hail from Ohio-the first and
last from the southeastern corner. Had the
Gubernatorial party been . Legislative body
80 bill for the improvement Of Yellow Creek
would have passed over the absolute veto OF
the Governor Of Utah II 1t required ths en-
tire military force Of Camp Douglas to sup
press him.
The Miner says the Butte depot has been es.
tablished, Messrs. Noyes, Upton, Mathews,
Mitchell, Mussigbrod, Marsh, Talbot and
Wells having conveyed the company strip
OF ground 100000 feet . short distance east
of the lower end Of Main street. The Inter
Mountain says one ofthe parties above named
refused to sign the papers; that the other
owners say IL this proposition is not accepted
they will not allow the road to pass oyer their
ground and that IL IL feared another deadlock
has occurred.
There Is q joke out on Pat Lannan and Jot
Travis at Salt Lake. Jot offered Pat $500 for
colt. Pat took it, surprised 1t Jot's extrav-
agance. Jot said "if you had only had the
nerve you could just ~ well have had 81 ,oo0
for him; he Is the best bargain in horse flesh
I ever made and will 60 in $50 in three
years" 1.-THE devilw says Pat, "and II you
had had the sense 10 offer $50 for the colt
you could have had him just that much
cheaper" Travis, however, values his colt
at $500 and Is not as sore as Lannan.
General Alexander McCook, now in COM
mand at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake, was one of
the Gubernatorial party visiting Butte. The
w
braith saw him was on the field of ChIca-
manga where McCook commanded q corps
and they served in it-Warren as commander
| of . company and Galbraith as signal officer
on the staff. Their meeting was affectionate
| Iy cordial Charley Warren did character
istic act in presenting his old General with
| half his interests in the Snow FLAKE mine at
! Butte.
Manson T. Lobb, who shot and killed a
| man In Butte in row when he believed he
was an officer Of the peace, and who was
found guilty Of granddaughter in
September, 1879, and sentenced to seven
years In the Penitentiary, was on Wednes-
day pardoned by Governor Potts. The pc
tition was signed by g. w. Stapleton, A. H
Mitchell, o. B. OBannon, Samuel Word, H
A. D'Acheul, G. l.. Dahler and forty others
1t always appeared to US from the evidence
that Lobb had an over severe sentence
Crime was rampant at the time; the juries
and court felt constrained to do severe thing
to check 1t and Lobb happened to be vic
Il - Il In prnds