The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Court is in session at Helena.
The Nadisonidn n eight years old.
Grain Is 8 cents a pound at Carroll.

The Kadisonian u eight years old.
Grain Is cents pound at Carroll.
WE. Stanley, Butte, has Pneumonia.
The Ophir mine, Butte, has been bonded
for 100000.
Bentons new hotel will not be completed
this winter.
The Missoulian wants the county Jail
Strengthened.
The town-site Of Helena is said to be three
miles square.
Forty-two houses are in course of construc-
ton at Helena.
Extensive gold discoveries are reported
near Fl. MaRinnis. a.~t.. a lgr asst
Bozeman and vicinity sent si63 to the Gar
field Monument Fund.
..Glendive Is to have school house built by
voluntary contributions.
The soldiers At TT. Missoula have organ
ICED dramatic company.
Captain Hathaway, Of TT. Keogh, expects
to leave for the east shortly.
Missoula people fear their mail will be cut
down to three times 4 week.
JEFF. Jalbert, of Benton, has scalp recent
ly taken from Cree by q Piegan.
Tom Alexander, while hauling ties, lost a
valuable span of horses in the Rosebud.
"A young woman with little child has
been deserted by her husband in Helena.
An earthquake occurred in the Belt noun
tain, last week, the second within year.
Nearly half . million pounds Of freight
were received in Helena one day last week.
c. NJ. Lanning, of Benton, is preparing an
Indian English lexicon Of the Blackfoot
tongue.
One thousand Crows under the chief, Big
Noon, are encamped at the mouth Of Big
Porcupine.
A VAUDEVILLE damsel tried to commit su.
icide the other day on account Of disappoint-
ment in love.
Forty sacks Of mail arrived at Benton last
Sunday. 1t was the largest mail ever received
at that place.
Freight rates from Helena to Benton So
% per hundred, while from Benton to Helena
they are only 81. -.-.
Peck, "the unknown" footracer. beat Nc
Comb four feet in the 10O-yard race for $500
at Butte Tuesday.
The bear and deer skins and other trophies
Of the hunt of the Jameson party weighed
over 200 pounds. ......-....-.
burned Sunday night. Loss reported at 81 600
with no insurance. a-.
The accidental discharge of q shotgun one
day last week caused II. Goodwin, of Miles
City, to lose an arm.
The quartz mills Of Butte consume 1900
TONS Of salt annually, the freight on which
amounts to $500, 600. .
The total bullion production Of the Alice
Company for the month Of October aggrega-
ted In assay value Ss6, $50. rs +.
. Col. j. A. Walls residences, Helena, was
burned last Monday. The building and fur
niture were insured for $500.
1Misoula has voted in favor Of q special
school tax of two mills on the dollar to build
an addition to the school house.
!. George Wilson, machinist in the, Alice
mill at Butte, was kicked by 8 horse the other
day and one Of his knees fractured.
/. It is thought Ed. Zimmerman Is in Butte to
complete negotiations for leasing and rum
ming the Caplice building AZ hotel.
The four companies which left Fort ASSN
iboine about two weeks ago to repel North
err indians, have returned to their post.
The Helena papers say there Is 81, 25O, 900 il
cash in the srks Of that city. That will BE-
quite an item Of interes: 70 eastern burglars
JsAes n orris and Howard Presca. who
did the Indian shooting ut Stevensville last
week, are lodged in the Missouia Jail awaiting
trial
Col. George Gibson, OF the Third infantry
lately 1t Missoula, will command 1t FL Shax
until the return Of General Brooke In thes
spring. else aNE @AtgAtz
The horse thieves along the Missouri have
cleaned out the stock to such an extent that
prices Of horses have doubled In the past few
months.
Hon. James Arnoux Is willing to wager
ono hundred dollars that his oats crop in th
Highwood valley will average 100 bushels to
the acre. f "a 4
The wife Of Mr.. John Lewis, Of Meadow
Creek, Madison county, died as Bridgeport,
Ill., Oct. 10th. She had been visiting her
parsnfs there since last spring. AZ
The Butte and Helena coach W. hadIy
wrecked In the Park Last Sunday. The dd-
went to sleep and the horsss took the cosoh
over rock that tore the axles ont,
The Nsttis Hoisting wosks Hsar Batte
were burned Monday Night. The Nstsie Aad