The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-10-28
LOCAL oREvITIES.

Court term will end at Butte on Saturday.
The Deer Lodge coach leaves Butte at 9
=. IN.
The weather for the past week was fine
enough for anybody.
Several outside parties are looking for de-
sirable building lots in Deer Lodge.
Mr.. Hamiltons N. p. survey party passed
through town last Saturday TO the Missoula
front.
r. Boisvert has rented his bakery and
saloon to Eli Dezourd, who is conducting 1t
in good style.
Henry Harris is the champion potato raiser
of the valley. If you don't think SO, ask
Howard Zenor.
A small force of men Is now working on
the Utah and Northern near the Hump, be-
tween Silver Bow Junction and Deer Lodge.
A very fine specimen of the Gala lily
bloomed this week in the rooms Mrs. j. IL.
Mills. It's beauty was the subject of much
comment.
The station known a. Silver Bow Junction
was established on "Wednesday and the
coaches have been running to and from that
instead of Melrose.
The quarterly examination of the public
schools will take place "Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday afternoons of next week. The
examination will be a written one.
A petition, numerously signed, for the par
don of Collins, now and for the past nine
years IN the pententiary under life sentence,
has been forwarded to the Governor for his
action.
The case of the Territory against Joseph
Suprenant for assaulling one Napoleon Collet
some months ago with intent to Kill, was dis
posed of in the Butte court Wednesday by
the discharge of Suprenant.
Persons familiar with Indians say it Is an
old game of theirs for one to trade OF
horse for some valuable consideration and
then for another to come along and demand
the horse as stolen property. This seems to
have been the trouble at Stevensville.
Two or three teams are at work hauling
bridge and culvert timbers on the east side
road and Mr.. Dessard will try and have the
| heaviest part Of the road in travelling order
next week. But in order to make the road
all it should be, more money will be wanted.
The Hasenwinkle Dramatic Company is
playing in Salt Lake. Their Montana trip
was not q profitable one. The success OF
some companies during preceding years led
to the Territory being overshowed during the
early part of the summer and probably every
company except Katie Putnam's lost money
Inquiry few days since brought out the
fact that Thos. Lavatta built the first house
| in this vicinity-a log honse northeast Of the
| towpsite. Ii was built in 1859. In 1860 Leon
Quesnelle built log house on what is now
Third street, near the liver. In 1861 John
| Grant built the log house under the bill near
where Conrad KohrS residence now Is.
The Granite street market has been pur'
chased by Mr.. Johu Mills, who will keep the
choicest delicacies in the oystee and fish
line 10 be- Obtained in The city. Ranch but
ter, chickens, hams. e.c., will be special
feature nc This market Mr.. Mills has also
established the Office of the Mitchell Wagon
Agency at the above place.-I"ter Noun
tan.
The discovery of coal in the Upper Valley
is not new. Coal has been taken out there FOL
several years. There are also large Goa
seams, or Ignite, opened between Deei
Lodge and Pioheer, at Carbon Moor and or
Dog Creek, in this county. The probability
Is that abundance of coal exists In the coun
try. 1t seems to be a characteristic, and
bad one, that the veins dip" from the ex
posure, rendering drainage difficult.
Henry the Third, of Germany, was borr
October 81, 1917. Dauton, one of The bodies
leaders Of the F.enth Revolution OF the lat
ter part of the last century, was born Oct -
1868. The philosopher, John Locke, died OF
this day of IiUi. The battle of White Plains
n ", took place Oct. q, 1916; of Arroyo de
Moline, Spain, Oct. ~, 1911; and OF johnson
VILE. Tenn, Oct. -, 1864. Metz was surren
dered by The French TO the Germans Oct. -
1870.
q. b. OBapnon, Esq. who several year
since took up and invested considerable
money in developing coal mine near lh'
crossing of the Dearborn, has just completed
the entry. He and S. T. Hauser, Esq, hav,
brought from the government $50 acres, pay
ing therefor ten dollars per acre. The vein l.
quite Large, the coal of excellent quality AM
the Rocky Mountain Railroad line Is SUI
veyed within few hundred feet, of the drift
Ii is likely TO prove very valuable properly