The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-30

Last Sunday week John Dnnnegan shot
and killed John Hanley at Rodgers tie camp
near Saltwater. Hanley had taken krg I
whisky from Dunnegans tent. and upon II Q
latter demanding its return Hanley refused,
whereupon Dunnegan fired upon him with a
shotgun, with fatal results.
miner named Edward Hurley recently
elopri with Mrs. Byron r. Nntten, wifi OF
the hotel keeper mt Jefferson City. Nutten
followed the couple to Butte, where he found
them domiciled at the 81, Nicholas. H. hal
them arrested. but the matter was eompro-
missed, the woman returning TO her parents
In Utah.
Col. Ira ii Pierce, of Bozeman was found
dead in his bed at Miles City last Friday
morning, his death presumably resulting
from apoplcxy. He was mt the time of his
dea'h, III his way TO Washington TO attend
to bust aess connected with getting the Clark
Fork mines set apart from the Crow Indian
reservation.
Several men at Rosebud under the leader,
ship of n man called Tex" plotted to steal
fifty or more Crow ponies from herd al
Rosebud, and drive south to find market.
Their plots were overheard and the machi-
nations brought to nought, though it would
appear they were permitted to remain in the
neighborhood alive.
Chauncey Harris, who led the crowd that
dispersed the Chinese woodchoppers near
Butte has been placed under 500 bonds TO
appear before the next grand jury. Adolph
OLSON, Victor Johnson, Joseph Anderson,
David Sanborn, aud w. w. Mcmillan. bling
unable TO give bonds of $3.50 each, went TO
Jail to await the next term of court.
A shooting scrape occurred in King &
Lowry's saloon, Butte, Christm as, about one
O'Clock, between Joseph Rails and Joseph
Campbell. Several shots were fired, Rails
being MORALLY wounded aud diving next day,
and Campbell receiving four shots in various
parts of his body, none of them. however,
dangerous A bystander named VIM. Mar
tin wa also shot, but it is thought his xound
will not be fatal.
A recent dispatch from Washington gives
the following of interest TO Montana: Del =
gate Maginns is TO introduce bin to ratify
the Crow treaty and subsequent arrange
mrnts, by which the Montana Crows sell to
the United States the western portion of
their reservation, which contains valuable
mineral lands; bill to restore the Fort Ben
ton military reservation 10 the public 10 .
man. and other bills looking 10 the reduc-
ton of the great Blood, Piegan and Black
feet Indian reservations in Montana
Last weeks Nssoui'an was holiday num-
Der. Among other articles, il contained a
christmas Greeting from Bear" by j ID.
Armstrong; a description of the stampede IN
1861 from Bear to Medicine creek. by j. s.
Booth; The Story of Tezi goe." furnished
by Major Roman from some of Father De
Smet's works; "reminiscences of life in Mis-
soula county, by Chauucey Barbour: de-
scription of Fort Missoula and vicinity. ia
ken from an eastern paper; AN Indian
Scare" by X A. Pelkey and various articles
on the scenery, agricultural prospect, etc ,
by the editor AMI otherS. Altog, Their the num-
Der Is very interesting The paper takes q
holiday this week.
Mr.. Cockrell, of Missouri, has introduced
into the United States Senate n bill which
contemplates the project of uniting the WA
ters of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, If
found TO he practicable, and manv engineers
claim il to be- so. The bill authorizes the
Secretary OF War to cause o preliminary sur
vey to be made of one or more of the passes
between one or more of the affiuents of the
Upper Columbia river, with the object of Az
certaining the distances between the naviga-
bic waters of said rivers, and the character,
elevation, water supply and facilities of the
intervening country, and the practicabiIity
of uniting the two rivers by canal or slack
water navigation, and the probable cost. and
the reasonable benefits &" result thercfrom,
and TO report to Congress. The bill calls for
10000 for expenses.
A couple Of months since Mr. Isaac Green
hood, of Helena, offered prize of n gold
watch to the girl in the public schools who
should prove to be the best deelaimer The
contest took place last Friday the citiz ems OF
Helena having i'm the meantime rails ed sixty
dollars to be given as additional prizes, Sill
to the second best declaimer, $40 to the third
and 50 each to the next seven. The Judges
were Hon. ID. ). Wade, Hon. J. X. Tools and
G. ID. Curtis, Esq. The GREENWOOD prize
was awarded to Catherine Scanneli who re.
sit1i iNAt SdiHoHs Dy MIL
Ter; the second prize went to Celia Inger-
soil, who rendered Paul Revere's Ride
the third to Alma Alden, who acclaimed
Bryant's Hymn to Death" fourth Annie
Flowerree, who gave Whittier's Wreck OF
River Mouth" fifth, Frinda Scott, in Pop
ping the Question:" sixth. Norma Kinna in
Longf"llow's "Famine;" seventh. Clair Bot.
kin, in Lohgfellow's Bridge y eighth. Ber.
tina Jones, in The Dead Doll,' ninth. Hattie
Pope. in Little ChriStel;" tenth, Grace G.
Fisk, in Whitter's Ranger"