The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-10-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Bozeman has hurdy house.

A mining board is 10 be organized at
Butte.
Wheat brings at H elena from 2 to p cents
a pound.
Sawtelle is al Miles City with a theatrical
company.
Buffalo are reported plenty in the Bear
Paw Mountains.
The River Press is year old and Is quite
respectable newspaper
James A. Wells, of Benton, has gone to
Florida to spend the winter.
1t is rumored that the famous Drum Lumon |
mine near Helena is to be sold.
Mountain Jim" has killed IL 900 buffalo, |
says the Yellowstone Journal.
Glendive and Miles City seem to be the |
hard" towns of the Territory.
Fl Keogh has been reinforced by 200 addi-
tioual troops in the last 30 days.
Little Maud, in a rattle at Missoula last
week.
George Steel talks of putting in ferry
across the Missouri at the mouth of Sun
River.
Frederick Moriarity had a leg broken last
| week while cutting wood In the timber near
| Butte.
Fifteen or twenty horses were stolen in the
Judith Basin last week. White men were
| the operators.
The Bullion dancing club of Butte has
membership of over one hundred. The first
dance takes place tonight
Last Friday night freight conductor
called scotty" was seriously injured at Sill
yer Bow while coupling cars.
The First Presbyterian Sunday School Of
Covlngton, KY, has sent the Butte Presby-
terlans five hundred pound bell.
The Glendive Times is earnestly advoca-
ting the establishment of a school in the
town. One is certainly needed there.
A child Of A. NJ. Hotter, Helena, was Bit
ten in the face by dog last Monday morn
ing. The dog was killed by the City Mar
shall.
Typhoid fever is prevailing among the lit
tie folks of Missoula, and the older people
are more or less troubled with various all
ments.
A Miles City saloon keeper recently at
tempted to kill d. f. Mcmillan, Chairman of
the Custer County Commissioners, but he
failed.
Gen. r. w. johnson, of st. Pau, the fathee
of H. s. johnson. of Benton, is the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of the State Of
Minnesota.
A Chinanau of Butte was convicted last
week OF keeping an opium den, and white
man and woman were fined for indulging in
opium smoking.
Mr. w. II. Buck, late editor of the Benton
Record, was recently married in New York
City to Mrs. Douglass, lady OF fine social
position and wealth.
DIR. L. T. Yager for sixteen years a resi-
dent of Virginia City, has gone to Denver 10
locate. He was the originator Of the Mon
tana Medical Society.
, Hon. Jas. Arnoux, during one of his peri
, odical trips to town, contracted last week
with Messrs. Goodhue & Young for 5000 for
est trees iper Press.
, A stone mason who left Fort Maginnis for
, Rocky Point, short time since, was knocked
down and robbed of two hundred and fifty
, dollars he had with him.
Captain George L. Tyler, of the Second
Cavalry, who served nearly eleven years in
Montana, died on the 10th inst. in Frederick,
! Mary land, from paralysis.
The Attorney-General of Montana has
given an opinion that the Governor has nc
authority to organize Dawson county, as he
has been petitioned to do.
The Avant Courier confesses to tendency
to rowdyism In Bozeman. We fear
the moral influences of that journal are moi
as cogent as they should be.
: Manford Bennett tackled a bear nea Boz o
I man recently and came near being used up
. A companion caused the animal to retreat
and Bennett got away alive.
$ The convocation of the Episcopal Church
in Montana will be held in Helena Monday
: November 9TH. st. Peters Church will b'
a consecrated the day previous.
Miss Cassie wisswell has been offered thu
position of teacher at the Crow Agency, ant
Miss Jennie Alwyn that of Matron. Boil
ladies are residents of Bozeman.
$ Persons who have been digging potatoes
: since the freeze, state that the loss is not Sc
+ great rs was apprehended, probably less thai
e one-fourth being Observation-Disclosures
e The U. & n. engineers in Jefferson Cafiol
Il have had a couple of rough fights with tn
70 bears, two young men having to return hom
' on account of the injuries they received.
Z jim whitlach, formerly of Helena, ha
. bought the Kansas mine, Montgomery dis
: trict, Colorado, gold bearing quartz min
. that is expected to yield very handsome re
: tuIns. .- ....,
The Glendive Times everlastingly pitche
q into the prosecuting attorney in that distric
;. for failing to successfully prosecute ont
Mansfield, charged with the murder of a maj
named Cole.
j. A freighter named McCauley left Dillo
e September Goth with fleighs for Helena, bu
?, he has not appeared at that town yet. and tn
Q consignees begin to fear he has gone TO Loo
> for Kings balloon.
IS Henrietta Vaughn, VIM. Wood, Mrs. Mi
g Ter, Henry Bloome, and Mrs. Hall wer
p granted divorces from the partners of thei
{, Joys and sorrows at the recent term of th
l. Custer County court.
Harrison Bro and otherI OF the yellow
- stone valley lost forty head of horses wee
N or two since by Indian raids Some of tn
g horses were recovered, but most of them wer
% driven across the line.
The Kennedy Hoose at Missoula cam
near burning to the ground last week. TIL
" fire, however. was extinguished after causin
= loss of 500. Five canary birds wer
!. smothered by The smoke.
e party of three from Missoula bound 70
a Washington Territory-Dave Baldwin, 81
= Brown and John Crooks-got lost in the L
A Lo mountains during the storm two weeh
ago and az last accounts had not BEEN hear
II from.
A new town is building on Sweathous
e creek, up the Bitter Root, the quartz disco,
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