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


Hay Is worth $50 at Barker.
Butte schools will open January I'd.
Benton desires a larger school building.
Miles City has a new Catholic Church
The Baptists of Helena are going to build
church.
Custer County has cash balance of SIG 00C
on hand.
John Cone died very suddenly at Chico
last Saturday.
A war party of Yanktons are out looking
for the Crows.
A Yellowstone hunter recently killed i07
buffaloes in one day.
The distance by rail between Butte and
Ogden IL 4l6 miles.
Assinahoine is said TO be the model mill
tary post of the west.
The fare from Ogden to Butte over the
Utah & Northern is so.
A Masonic Temple will be built at White
Sulphur Springs next season.
The Benton Building Association are pre-
pared to invest in real estate.
A young man named Edgeville died o,
smallpox at Dillon last week.
The Northern Pacific telegraph wires are
now in operation to Miles City.
Butteites are paving $40 apiece to learn
how TO detect counterfeit money.
The Catholic Church at Helena possesses
the only pipe organ in the Territory.
The First National Bank of Butte moved
into its new building last Wednesday.
w. H. Buck founder of the Benton Record,
has returned TO Montana from New York.
There IN not a single real estate owner de-
linquent in his taxes in Madison county this
year.
C. NJ Moore lost the end of finger ut
Bates's planning mill, Butte, one day last
week.
A horse fell into mining shaft at Butte
unframed.
Four yonng hogs slaughtered by Charles
Rich, of Bozeman, weighed in the aggregate
1917 pounds.
Christmas night. He was under the infiu-
ence of liquor.
Paymaster William Arthur U. s. A, has
entered upon his duties ut Governors Island,
New York harbor.
A. X. Nininger & Co, who failed in Miles
City couple of weeks ago, hope to be able
to resume business.
Missoula must be a cold place; the Their
moineter was 7; below zero there Thursday
morning of last week.
And now it's the Rirer Press that comes out
with rwo-page supplement, all on account
of an advertising boom.
There were about 100 applications for min
ing claims in Summit Valley district and adj
joining districts this year
Twelve hundred emigrants are said by the
Glendive Times to have arrived in that vii
lage in the last three weeks.
The Bannack and MarysvilIe gold quartz
lodes have been sold to a New York and
London company for $4,000.
Indians stampeded a herd of cattle on Res
ervation creek "A couple OF weeks ago aud got
away with n good deal of beef.
Al st. Louis guleh, near Helena, last week
George Fillmore fell and broke his arm and
sustained other painful injuries.
b. +. White, the we'll known forwarding
agent, contemplates going into the agricul-
tural implement business in Butte.
Montana sheep sold in Chicago the past
season AT ~ cents per pound, gross, and
weighed from 100 to 10 pounds per head.
Early in January the Inter Mountain will
begin the publication of u mi-weekly edi.
ton, at the subscription price of - 80 per
year.
An eastern firm intends to begin the manu-
faeture OF buttons from buffalo horns and has
ordered several car loads of horns from Miles
City.
Over 200 claims in the Summit Valley dis
trict will have TO be represented prior to
January LIST, or they will be subject to relo-
cation.
Mcsweeny, an employe at the Barker
smelter, had his left hand caught in a crusher
Monday of last week and mangled in n fear
full manner.
Theo. HI. Figimis. an employe at the Col.
ora,lo Smelter, Butte, broke a leg last Mon
day by falling on the ground, caused by slip
perry walks.
Twenty-six thousand dollars worth Of
Meagher county bonds were sold to r. T..
Collins at 10i4, 500 worth at 10l !, and $500
worth at 1Ois
4 r.
ried 10 Miss Susie Pulley, at the residence of
the brides parents in Cooper county, Mis-
souri,, December 1st.
p. s. Prices Sunday advertisement i'm the
Husbdadmaa has been reprinted in the N. Y.
sun of the 18th inst, under the title of " A
Good Man in Montana"
The school board of Benton has decided to
admit colored children into the white schools,
to which action the Record objects ON the
ground Of inexpediency.
Frank NJ Eastman, Esq. u s. Attorney
for Montana, is a nephew of T. o. Howe, the
new Postmaster General, and was for some
years his private secretary.
Rev. J. M. Spencer, well known in Mon
tana, was married last Thursday to Miss Net
tie Anthony, at the residence of the brides
mother in Henry county, Virginia.
George Gohn, county commissioner of
Madison county, has gone on visit to his
old home in Pennsylvania afferan absence of
twenty-five years. He came TO Montana in
1863.
Tip Owen, of Michigan, who was taken
from Glendive some time since on the charge
Of forgery, and who complained afterward
that the officers had no warrant, has been &C.
quilted.
Alice stock was quoted Mt the New York
Mining Exchange on the 10th, at $3.50. At
the American Mining Exchange on the same
day, the closing price for Alta Montana
stock, was Si.s0.
The best rife shot On the Yellowstone Ii
said to be man named Vic. Smith. The
GIendiye Times says that he recently shot
101 buffalo at one killing. This is the biggest
killing yet made By one man.
AT dance at Clancy last week two men