The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-16
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The Helena fire department has a new hose
reel. -
The Sun River school district has 2a9 chill
dren. rs .e
Virginia City has provided herself with
pest house.
The Butte Miner has been enlarged to six
column quarto.
Iron Rod postofiice, Madison county, has
been discontinued.
Dr. J. B. Atchison is county physician for
Lewis and Clarke county.
Houses intended for Miles City are being
built in sections in Chicago.
Nate Bell of Sun River, has sold his feed
stables to Ed. Carruthers for 5000.
George E. Rockwell will establish bank
ing house in Miles City next June.
Miles City has fruit peddler who has no
feet. Both were frozen OF last winter.
Twenty of the forty stamps in the Moulton
mill will be started up within week.
The running time on the Northern Pacific
| between st. Paul and Miles City is forty
hours.
Inc TUspHtoUt"t
has gone into the leather business in st.
| Louis.
George w. Dillon, a Yellowstone buffalo
hunter. claims to have killed 5000 buifaloes
this year.
The Butte Lodge of Odd Fellows have Sc
cured an elegant silk banner from Kalama-
zoo, Mich.
The Sisters of Charity in Butte will receive
$3.50 per capita per week for the care Of the
county sick
| A teamster named Briggs, near Sheridan,
had an arm broken last week by being thrown
from wagon.
Father Van Corp, of St. Ignatius Mission,
has taken charge of the Catholic chapel at
Spokan Falls.
Butte is enthusiastic ever the rendition of
the cantata of Esther" which took place
there last week.
Judge w. A. shroyer, of Madison county,
had partial stroke of paralysis last week,
but is doing well.
Buffalo meat sells in Glendive at three and
n half cents per pound and venison at from
| eight TO ten cents.
The District Court at Helena last week
granted Hannah Fiugleton a divorce from
Patrick Fingleton.
The wife of DR.. Girard, of Fort Keogh, was
injured recently by her horse falling while
she was out riding
War has been declared between three of
the Butte clothing houses. They are selling
their goods at auction.
A Dillon barber advertises +. A. Thomson
and ID. L. Bohannon as having left that town
without paying their bills.
Missoula has 226 children, ia of them be-
ing ofscheol age. There has been gain OF
fifty-two children during the year.
| Mr. II. c. Kessler to-day received n dis
patch from Philadelphia announcing the un.
expected death of his sister inter Mountain
9Th.
The tenth dividend of the Alice Company
amounting to 10000. was paid last Saturday
the 10th inst. Total dividends to date, $780,,
900.
| A petition is in crcu laiion at Butte asking
for the pardon of John Dolan, convicted last
fall of stealing bullion from the Clipper
mill.
IT has been discovered that the man found
dead ia The Yellowstone a few weeks ago
was Colin Campbell, of Pictou county, Novi
Scotia.
Mr.. A. Fl. Hersey is furnishing The Yellow
stone Journal with series of interesting ar
ticles descriptive of the upper Yel!owsiou,
country.
Charles A. Carson will issue the first mum
Der of the Galiatin Ne,os at Bozeman, Janu
airy 4th The new paper will be Democratic
in politics.
Miss Flora Caldwell took sixty-niue order
in Helena I'm one month for the Encyclopedia
Britannica, representing a money value o
1 over SIC, 900.
The man named Klink, who was attacke
by smallpox few days ago and taken to tn
Inter Mouatdin, Sa.
Mr. Charles r. Kessler returned Saturda
2 night from his visit to Philadelphia. II
went east bachelor, but returned with NJ rs
, Kessler.-Hner, 18Th.
: p S. Nelson, OF Helena, has purchased q
!, s. II. Sweet, Chicago, the stallion Handle
4 tonian Pilot by Menelaus, dam Woodbur
: Maid by WOODBURY. Pilot, for $1,000.
i. Henry futile, of Glend:ve, ran across thre
A silver tipped bears last week-killed two @
them. He only wounded the third. One o
,he beasts killed weighed over zoo pounds.
, Virginia City Chinameu last week attemp
ed 10 shoot All Yen, one of the Celestials r.
Gently acquitted of the charge OF murde
but failed 10 kin him, or even to wound hin
JEFF Conway, otherwise known as ale
Y Davis" died at his ranch at Grange Ha
4 Monday night last. Too much tarantu
juice was the prime cause of his sudden d.
parture.
Is James Parfet, superintendent of the Hecl
Company's mines at Lion City, was recent
presented with handsome gold watch by b
numerous friends. He has gone east TO spen
u the winter.
A policeman guarding one of the quara,
tined houses in Butte badly thrashed a Oh
: namau who had been working at the hou,
: and who attempted to &c into the CT,
- whe, her or no.
"a The Inser Mountain has sued Leigh X. Ere
It man for 81 600 damages for publishing I'll
Is Inter- Mountains, and also asks for an injun
k ton restraining Freeman from publishir
o his paper under its present name.
d A Bitter Root nother, wife of DR.. Tod
d last week heard her baby cry, and on goin
3 into the room in which it was, found ever
1t thing in blaze. The baby was rescued III
n harmed and the fire was extinguished.
IL A new banking house has been started |
Q Butte by Salt Lake parties, under the nam
Of Hoge, Brownlee & Co., the members {
the firm being VIM. l.. Hoge, M. B. Brow
% lee, +. Z. Sargent and T. r. Mcconnell.
! A correspondent of the Independent war;
) the Helena school trustees that the outlets
:, the graded-schoel building In that city Al
!, such as to make possible in case of fire iii
:, aster similar to that which lately occurred |
the Vienna theatre