The new North-west., 1882-06-16
TERRITORIAL. ITEMS.
smallpox prevails at Coulson.

Henry Horr Is said to be writing humorous
/ articles for the New York Weekly.
The editor OF the Billings Post has gone to
! st. Paul to buy a new printing outfit
The county seat question in Beaverhead
has subsidized, with Dillon still on top.
Prof E. r. Howell has been elected princi'
pal of the Butte schools for the next year.
The people of Benton have subscribed 81
, $50 toward building an Odd Fellows Hall
The Pilot says a party of cowboys with
seventy-six horses are bound Montanaward
DIR. J. f. Clutter is county physician for
Beaverhead, with salary of s5oOpe annum.
The Methodists of Butte will have a grand
Sunday school picnic 10 Melrose on the I'D
inst.
A. u. Bell, who kill Johns on, the Swede
at Huntley. was not indicted by the grand
jury.
Colonel Mauldin, an old Californian, died
in Butte last Saturday, aged about seventy
years.
Albert Kleinschmidt has become connect
ed with the grocery house of Richter & Co,
Helena.
J. AL SawteIle, is said to be en- route to
Montana with comedy company of twelve
persons.
The first daily through train from st. Paul
j to Miles City arrived ut the latter place on
the lst inst D..
/, The Merchants and Drovers Bank of Miles
City will become q National Bank the first of
next month
= Isaac Keller of Helena, is to make 200, 900
common brick and 10000 fire brick for the
Gregory mill
! Smallpox was reported at Butte this week
but on medical investigation it turned out to
be chicken-pox.
! r. Z. Kicks, Jr., had his collar-bone fractur-
ed last Saturday by being thrown from n
horse near Helena.
Butte has decided to spread the wings of
the American eagle to their greatest limit on
the coming Fourth.
. small frame building in Helena, belong
ing to James Ballard was destroyed by fire
last week. Loss $500
1t is reliably reported that more thorough
bred stock has been purchased for Montana
this year than ever before.
Mr.. Nate Vestel, of Bear Tooth, was kick
, ell in the face by cayuse last Friday and re-
ceived some painful injuries.
daily stage line will be established be-
tween Coulson and Benton within sixty
days. The distance is 175 miles.
Judge Conger recently sentenced man
named Titus to thirty years, imprisonment
in
A large proportion of the workmen in the
| Butte mines hold poll tax receipts from Utah.
1t is supposed many of these are fraudulent
Silver Bow county granted $500 to Butte
to aid in paying the smallpox expenses. The
! total amount invested in that scare was So
1871.
Monday morning of last.gweek a Magma
Charta boiler house at Walkerville was
burned to the ground. Loss estimated at
$1,000.
A colony of emigrants has arrived and are |
located temporarily at Silver Bow Junction. |
There are fifteen cases of measles In the |
party.
AT the railroad bridge on Tongue river
there is IA tie lifting machine by which a car |
can be loaded with $50 ties In just thirteen
minutes.
Miss Lillian Edgington, assisted by amateurs,
is soon to present TO the Butte public several
of the standard dramas, including Romeo |
and Juliet.
The product of gold from the last two
clean-ups off, Boston & Montana's Gloster
mills, amounted to S27, lis for twenty.six
days of running.
The Miles City Baptist church is the only
Protestant church editice between Mandap
and Bozeman, on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad
Two Mounted Police recruits were drowned
on the trip up of the Red Cloud. One fell off
the boat, and the other went in swimming
and disappeared.
one-half of the $1,000 of Bohemian schoo
district bonds, bearing interest at per cent,
were sold at Ill per cent. premium. The rest
are still for sale. ]:
The Benton Record speaks of Major Pat |
TICK, the man who originated the colony that
arrived in Benton from Missouri recently. as | l
'an old dead beat"
Sheriff Healy shut up the gambling houses
'f Benton last Saturday at midnight and
would not allow them to open business until
Sunday at midnight.
Ihe land sales of the Northern Pacific for | j,
Nay amounted to q ,449 acres, which brought
n sI5,359. OF town lots 232 were sold for
'22,2 ,249. Total, s97,6oS. r
The Presbyterian Church has member
mp OF 40 In Montana with 653 in the Sun
lay Schools. The amount raised for support p
# the ministry is s6,275. 7
Jay Rial is to be in Montana this summer a
nth an "Uncle Toms Crbin" troupe. He ia a
ute well known in tho east, having handled r
he play for several years
stabbing affray occurred In Helena an tl
ne 9Th, in which Horace Hughes stabbed a a
IAN named Smith. The difficulty was about o
dog. Smith will get WELL r
The Cable Company have ordered n a. :
lamp gold mill from Messrs Fraser & Cbal-
'ers, Chicago, which, 1t is claimed. will be
40 best ever built in Montana.
Mr.. Louis @. Hillebrecht. of Helena and
liss Clara G. Man, Of SaI Francisco, were
larried In the former city last week. Their Of
ridal tour viii extend to Europe. =,
X w. Smith died in Benton last week Ha
40 Just returned from visit east, where he =
ad married, leaving his bride there while O.
came back to fit up home for her. re
The brick school building that causad so
uch talk at Butte last fall on account af H.
security, has been accepted by the School :
oard ana IS to be used for school purposes.
WIN. Preston, cattle man, was murdered
Billings last week by a man named Dan
aahey, saloon keeper. The murder was N
ltireiy unprovoked. Leahey was arrested,
James kearney was shot and killed by :
ghwayman few days ago near Maiden
days before an old man named Howard "A
- Killed In an equally cold blooded man.
II.
= = scanoid at 2 new building in Helena fell
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