The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-08
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Helena will soon have ffty-five electric
lights in operation.
The Dillon Tribune has started circulate
ing library. A good idea.
A National bank is to be established in
Bozeman in the near future.
Court is In session at Dillon. There are
| six divorce cases on the calendar.
DIR. III. d. Barley stabbed man named
George Slawson at Bedford last Sunday.
R. o. Hickman was elected school trustee
at Virginia City and A. J. Bennett, clerk.
General Terry says the Second cavalry
band, Fort Custer, is the best in his depart
ment. Of ." ? 3D." ..
new Yellowstone town, within few
weeks.
| Hurlburt, a Miles City ticket agert, has
disappeared, and is short in his accounts IL is
stated.
There have been several attempts 1t bur
glary at Bohemian within the past week or
ten days.
Leigh r. Freeman, the Butte newspaper
man. is laid up in the Miss oula hospital with
erysipelas.
The har and other privileges for the Boze-
man races were sold last Saturday evening
for S76S 80.
At Maiden, A. NJ. Esler has thirty men at
work preparing for the erection of a twenty
stamp mill.
For the first six months of the present
year Montana mines paid dividends aggre-
eating S22l 200.
White Sulphur Springs expects to have a
resident Presbyterian minister within the
next thirty days.
The crops in all parts of Madison county
are reported as equal to If not better than
those of former years.
Helena had five deaths in August i wo from
consumption, one from hemorrhage, one from
jaundice, and one suicide.
Dave Anderson fell down into the cellar of
the Centennial hotel at Butte, last Monday
night, and broke his wrist.
Ed. Morehouse got his hand under one Of
the stamps Of the Moulton mill last Saturday
and lost two fingers thereby.
The new Benton hotel has been leased to
Stephen Spitzley, and will he opened az soon
As the furniture can be put in.
A party of half breeds stole herd of fifty
seven beef cattle from Leighton & Jordan,
near Gl-ndive few days ago.
Herman Clark, the N. p. contractor, was
held up by highwavmen last week, while on
his way to the National Park.
III IL thought that the new Meagher court
house at White Sulphur Springs will be COM
pleted for the fall term of court.
The Nesos estimates that there will be be-
tween COO and 800 more votes cast in Gallatin
county this fall than ever before.
A. j. O'Neal, who lives near Brdgevile,
had his hand severely mangled last Sunday
by the accidental discharge of a pistol.
A coiored boy employed by Col Hundley
at Helena, lost q thumb last week by the
bursting OF gun he was firing at u hawk.
A gentleman who recently came up the
Yellowstone estimates that u hundred men
have been drowned in that river this sum-
ner.
BY the accidental discharge of a pistol,
George Byron, OF Meagher county, last
week received severe flesh wound in the
thigh.
The Nddisonian last week published the
second annual address of Bishop Brewer be-
fore the Convocation recently held in Vir-
ginia City.
V. L orndoff, formerly quite well known
in this Territory as an accomplished knight
of the cue, died in San Francisco on tue 3Oth
ult., Of consumption.
The stable of Jack Adams. on Clore street,
Helena, was burned last saturday, and 500
horse persisted IN III. flames. The aggregate
loss was nearly $500.
1t Is stated that the Yellowstone Journal
has put up 5000 for the privilege of getting
the exclusive right to Associate Press dis
patches ut Miles City.
Jerry Sullivan got shot in the neck lat
week at Bridgeville. The ball, a 45-caliber
Winchester, was cut out. The Wound is no;
Considered dangerous.
The Gatiatin Ne@s Is out with neat new
heal which embraces q map ofth. Northern
Pacific line in Montana, Bozemaa of course
being the central point.
A deaf mute at Missoula named John
Smith, fell from the scaffold of u building
where he was working, breaking leg and
receiving other injuries.
At the Bozeman school election on the 18th
OF August Peter Koch was elected trustee
terrain influence prevailed. 0
Jack Dempsey, charged with highway rob-
berry at Forsythe, had hearing in Miles
City last week, and was held in $4,000 bail
to appear at the next term of court. D.. ....
James w. Davis, a bookkeeper in the EN-
ploy Of Parchen & D'Acheul. Butte, is a
defaulter and has skipped the country. The
extent of his defalcation is not known.
Two hundred and fifty tons of hay, belong
ing to James McDevitt and w. II. Wright,
was burned by prairie fire on Highwood
last week. The whole country il in flames
Atwell F. Mowry was found dead in his
bed at Butte last Friday morning. His death
is attr 'buted to the excessive use Of alcoholic
beverages. He was about forty-six years Of
age. .z@~a #amn a H
Mrs. Peolenfeld, and Miss Holzschuer, Of
Italy, sister and niece of Madam Captain,
the celebrated singer, now at Benton, arrived
in Helena Thursday evening direct from New
York. aarHH a,E sr...=f #,H
Through the efforts of Rev. Mr.. Leonard, "A
Congregational church has been organized
at Benton, and the building of house of
worship will soon be- commenced ut that
place. sf.s
colored man named Billy wetzel was
shot in Benton the other day and his recov-
cry is considered doubtful. Two other
colored men have been arrested for the
shooting.
NJ. e. Miner, Of Fort Benton, who was a
candidate before the Democratic convention
for Legislative honors, has now turned
around and sworn allegiance to the Republic
can party saIw l53.Ee7 LH Lac 9t
Another leaiing Democrat, Mr.. A. w.
Tanner, Of Gailatin, follows the example OF
Miner. of Choteau, and withdraws further
allegiance 10 the party he has long and faith.
fully served. 81. ~ .8a#eg. s. u