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


Cinnamon eat skunks.
See notice of meeting of Collegiate Insti-
tute Trustee on Saturday evening.
There was thunder September 10Th. Oys-
tiers are never good when IL thunders.
Laborers were never so difficult to obtain
~ now In this valley. 1t IL almost impossi-
BILE to get workmen at any wages.
Nothing has yet been heard of the Peniten-
tiary prisoners who escaped last week.
There is not adwelling to let in Deer Lodge
and there are numerous applicants for resi-
dences and private board.
The annual meeting of the Medical Asso-
citation of Montana will be held in Helena
on "Wednesday, September %, 1881.
Our citizens will not forget that the Helena
fair begins next Monday. We have heard of
a number of parties who are going over
Mr.. s. +. Larabie invested in some horse
flesh while up the Bitter Root. buying the
fine stallion Happy Jack Of Thomas Fruin.
A Flathead Indian boy ran a race on Main
street, Friday evening, with white boy,
and the copper-colored native was the victor.
Mr.. Hamilton's party of ". p. surveyors
are running preliminary line on the east
side of the river, and are nov about five
miles above Deer Lodge.
One hundred and one years ago to-day Maj.
Andre was captured on his way from
West Point to New York to consummate the
treason of Benedict Arnold.
Ogden apples were sold on the streets this
week at So 30 to 81 per forty-pound boxes.
While these may appear good rates TO States
people, Ii seemed very low 10 US.
1t Is reported now that no change in the
Utah Il Northern terminus will be made
until the road is completed TO Silver Bow.
Stages will continue to run to Melrose.
Mr.. schaffer, barber, who is injured in
health by too close application to business,
expects to leave in few days for a trip ria
Ceur d'Alene, walla Walla and Boise, to re-
cuperate.
Tomorrow, Saturday, September 18th, will
be the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, or
New Years Day. The fast of Yum Kippor,
or the Day Of Atonement, will be celebrated
Monday, October 3D..
As the down coach from Deer Lodge left
Pioneer Wednesday night frightened horse
overturned the coach. The shoulder of the
driver, j. ii. Sturgeon. was dislocated. No
passengers were hurt
Twenty fonts of new job type have been
received at the New NORTHWEST office
during the past week, together with censid-
cradle other material. If you want any job
work, now Is the time to have 1t done.
The Hasenwinkle Dramatic Company, az
ter a very successfulseason in Butte, returned
yesterday and were billed last evening for an
appearance at C'Neill's theatre. They have
the Opera House at Helena during Fair
week.
Washington, Dunn s. Co. have posters out
this week for 800 iaborers and teamsters to
work on the Northern Pacific contract In
He'll Gate canon. They offer permanent EN-
ployment, $40 per month wages, and will
furnish board and shelter at eighty cents per
day.
Ell. Bonner & Co., of Deer Lodge, putin
the lowest bid for supplying the Penitentiary
with groceries and -four, and will receive the
contract A. Hammond, Of Missoula, gets
the contract for vegetables, and Addison
Smith, of Deer Lodge. for wood. The prices
are said to be quite low.
Alpheus A. Buzzell was found dead in his
cabin ut Butte last Saturday night. A Cor
oner's jury found that he came TO his death
from disease of the lungs and heart. Papers
and letters on his person showed he had
lived at Bear Mouth, this county, and that
he had brother living in Boston, Mass.
Mr.. HasenwinkIe, Of the Ideal Dramatic
Company, received very severe fail al
Butte one evening last week, that prevented
his appearance on the stage one night. He
stepped out the back door of drug store
! and fell to the ground, several feet below,
the steps having been removed for some pur
pose.
The attention of Justices and Constables
\ and all peace officers is called to the Ac,
| published In this issue in relation to CONNER
cial travellers. The Treasurer has reason to
believe that parties evade the law in this
county, and 1T is published that the attention
of officers may be called to their rights and
/ duties under this Act.
Kennon Il Zenor have within the past few
DAYS put 5000 square feet Of tin roofing on
the New NORTHWEST building-in the best
style of the art Any newcomers, profess
sional gentlemen, who wish "to hang on
their shingles" in Deer Lodge, can now b.
accommodated with the choice from fine
| collection of shingles warranted TO be thor
oughly acclimated and hardy in all varieties
of weather applicable to this climate.
Maria f. Malibran, the great opera singel
of our grandfathers' days, died this day o
1896. To-day IL the anniversary Of the brit
of Encke, the great astronomer, who wa
born in 1871. Three battles have been tough
on September 23d-that Of Bloreheath, In
England, in 1459; the Bon Homme Richard
and Scraps, in 1779; and Assaye, India, il
| 1908. The number of planets known TO on
astronomers was increased September 23'l
1916, by the discovery of Neptune.
Mr.. Cockrell, who came in from Melrose
few days ago, says he met about 200 laborer
from the Utah & Northern passing south
1t looks az though construction to Butte wer
abandoned, at least for the winter, aud w
think the project of building down the Dee
Lodge valley will be abandoned when 1t ]
demonstrated the Northern Pacific Is deter
mined to build over that line. 1t Is gay q
talk of "paralleling" the Northern Pacifi
with u narrow gauge, but when It comes Z
putting up money for that purpose, there i
a sad reluctance in the purse strings Of tn
Union Pacific managers.
The Independent thinks IL Is q good joke OF
Deer Lodge, because Marshal Wheeler, o
that village, recently told a citizen Of Dee
Lodge arriving in Helena with q bird do
that 1t was not necessary 10 put collar oil
him-that 81 it was customary to give conntr
dogs the freedom of the city" The fact Ii
IL Is customary to keep dogs In the leas
when in good bird limits, and the Dee
Ledger thought that he had best tie up thu
dog for that reason. Freedom of the city
forsooth. That accounts for the indignan
look of a man we met where the Virgin
and Silver City roads cross Last Chanc