The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-31
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Lou II. Smith came down from Butte
yesterday.
Mr.. Con. Kohrs reached Hoboken last
Thursday on his return from Germany, and
win be home in few days.
George w. Irwin, Esq, IL expected from
Butte to-day. Mrs. Irwin will 90 east next
asthma.
Capt. ID. I'll. Trufant has returned from his
winter visit to 1.-THE old folks at home," and
Is fitting up his store at Yamhill fer the sum-
mer campaign. Welcome back.
DIR. w. w. Higgins, who has been con-
tism, made his many friends glad by appear
ing on the streets again wednesda.
Mr.. G. L. Fyhrie, of Dillon, one of the N.
p. II. X. contractors, was i'm town few even
ings ago, bound for Helena and Bedford,
where he has considerable work i'm progress.
Mr.. George Birney, the old popular stage
agent here, has been in the valley the past
week, transacting business for I. c. Power s.
Co. We hope there il money in sight for
him to be resident again.
Mr.. s. Ed. Larabie returned this week from
a short visit to the States. ed" purchased
a number of fine horses In the States and a
lot of Shetland ponies One of these, two
years old and weighing 16s pounds, was
| shipped by express, and is due here tomor-
| row.
General and Mrs. w. III. Penrose, of Fort
MisSoula, came up few days since to meet
their sons, G. III. and G. W., of Butte. This
! il the second time the entire family have
been together in thirteen years, and the re-
| union at the McBurney House will be pleas
antly remembered.
Mr.. Z. ID. Holland returned this week from
| Texas. He had a pleasant trip, notwith-
| standing he was unable on account of the
floods, to reach the residences of some rela.
tives-in one case eighteen miles of water in.
| tervening, only navigated by canoes carrying
the mail, with portages of mule power. He
represents the floods of the South as some
| thing terrible, and il glad to get back to dry
land and the mountains. Despite all reports
to the contrary, Mr.. Holland returns unwed
| ded.
Messrs. Peter Walton and Charles Rouleau
have advices from Thomas Pambrum, of Sur
| River, that VIM. Dubray died at his place
March Dist of dropsy of the heart. He leaves
three children in low circumstances, his i'll
ness Of over one year having exhausted al
his means. He was about fifty-six years o.
age, was for some time in the employ of T
j. Demers, Of Frenchtown, and worked fol
| III. g. Walton here in 1901. Mr.. Dubray /,
spoken of as good man. A receipt for dues
| frnu a (vnlifnrpia lnIua 7 n n II M
in his papers.
| Mr.. Joseyh A. Hyde was in town this weel
en- route to Helena having stopped one da.
in Butte after his return from California
"Joe tells some enrapturing stories of tn,
orange groves of California. Some half
dozen Montanians-Tom Cover, ALDER
Kleinschmidt, Lee w. Foster, and others
have groves near Riverside, about five hun
bred miles south of San Francisco, and liv
in perpetual spring. Vacant land there, san
dy loan, but said to be thirty or forty fee
deep, sells up to $3.50 per acre, but planted il
grapes and oranges, yields large profits afte
four of five years, even at those prices. MI
Hyde did not not buy place there, howeve
and that's where he got off wrong.
DIR. A, II. Mitchell returned from the cas-
this week, having been absent about eleve
weeks and gone as far south as Austin, Tex
and as far east as Boston, Mass. He visite
insane asylums in many States, and derive
much information az to methods and treai
meut The best institution he visited wa
that of DR.. Kirkbride, in the environs o
Philadelphia Another excellent institutio
is under charge of DR. Calendar, at Mast
| vile. At St. Vincent Asylum, st. Louis, o
March 20th he found Dr. Il. T. Yeager, fo1
merly physician of Virginia City, NJ. T
now an inmate of that institution, and suffei
ing from great mental ALTERATION. He wa
found In Colorado or Wyoming with his fee
frozen, and committed to the asylum Janr
ary 8, 1882 DIR. Mitchell brought with hir
namesake nephew, aged IA years, fror
Richmond, Texas. OF the many who 60 an
return, the welcome home is to none NOR
cordially and generally extended than to ID
Mitchell, and 1t is hoped many years will In
tervene before he again desires respite fror
professional cares and "a trip to the east"
Hon. Granville Stuart, manager of the /
HI. & Co.'S cattle ranch, near Fort Maginni
was with us day this week, and warml
welcomed by old friends. Granville say
their lives run quiet as summer dream
over there at present, but he, as an arder
and experienced meterologist, can never re
oncile himself to the actions of the baron
eter in that region. He is Just east of I'll
most easteriy range of mountains that mar
the western confines of the great plains, an
the waves of heavy air that pile up again'
them from the east, send the barometer Il
TO the most exalted condition just before
severe eastern storm. He says it is perpe
ual and irreconcilable war over there betwee
the climate of the Rocky Mountains and TIL
of the Mississippi, and 1t was not until |
had achieved among his neighbors the rep
tatien of being the faisest prophet on top
earth that he studied out the anomal
turned his barometer upside down an
, learned to guess the weather rightly. M
, Stuart went to Butte Thursday.