The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-01


From, the Dillon Tribune.
Coal sells in Dillon at sl4 per ton.
Freighters have been putting in heir time
this week oiling harness.
There were 50 passengers on board the train
Monday night; mostly emigrants.
The Helena bound coach left this place
last Tuesday morning with % passengers.
There were 10 on the inside and eighteen on
top, and .joIlier crew never before left the
terminus.
MEAGHER COUNTY.
From the Husbandmdn.
Flour Is selling at s6per sack.
ID. l.. Mcfarland passed through town last
Friday with crew of men en- route to the
Yellowstone country where he has contract
to survey Government lands. His contract
il for 200 acres lying in the immediate vicin-
ity of Miles City.
The F,athead Indians on their way up got
into drunken row at j. Z. Halls, on the
Musselshell, In which one of the number was
killed.
MADISON COUNTY.
From the Madisonidsa.
The elopement of John Wilson, CAV Lo-
thario of Butte, with Ida Womack, a 14-year
old maiden of Spring Hill was nipped in the
bud by the arrest Of the loving but errant
couple before they got farther than Dillon
They had made previous unsuccessful at
tempts to live together, but the girls cold
folks were too smart for them, running the
would-be Benedict off with the shotgun pol.
icy.
Rev. Henry Shelves, formerly pastor of
u Chpr lad ut Tia II n
ON the 18th inst.
For the Michigan mine at Red Bluff, $50
600 were recently offered and refused. The
mine is owned by Hon. Samuel Word and
Martin Peel, and produces ore that yields
handsome profit on the cost of extraction and
shipmentt to eastern reduction works.
Two Chinese chiefs from San Francisco are
visiting the city, to settle up the difficulty ex-
isting between the celestial factions.
GALLATIN COUNTY.
From the Courier.
From present indications, we shall have no
less than three ck-yards-running full
blast-in the vicinity of town during the COM
ing summer.
w. Y. Smith returned on Sunday from his
freighting expedition to Benson's Landing.
ly sent down to the Saltwater country, sold
readily at 81 to 81 per sack.
At the election on the rati fcation Of the act
10 build new school house In Bozeman,
there was majority Of % against iii . total
vote Of lob The Courier opposed the meas
use from its inception to the end.
CUSTER COUNTY.
From the Yellowstone Journal.
A large number Of new houses have been
commenced since the food and are rapidly
being pushed to completion.
A large number Of graders are at work on
the railroad grade from Glendive to Powder
River and making rapid progress TO the latter
place.
Several large washouts are reported along
| the line Of the Northern Pacific, between the
terminus and Mandan, completely delaying
travel.
x. Beidler, who arrived from up the Boze-
man road, from his people, says that the mag
pie has come In with piece of sagebrrish and
prickly pear in her mouth, and that the
food has suhsided amongst his people-the
Crows.
MIssouLA COUNTY.
From The Missossiiaa.
A rumor Is afioat that company Is being
organized here for the purpose of prospects
ing for quartz in the CGur dAiene noun
tains.
L. II. Keim writes from Nine Mile that the
snow Is but u feet deep in that camp, which
Is quite an impryoement on last year II this
timc, when there was from to feet Of
snow. He says al the Cinnamon arc now -