The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Il .
1908.
See notice Of meeting Of Deer Lodge Coun-
ty Teachers Institute.
Engineer @. A, Kellogg was engaged a
couple Of days this week surveying the Brat.
ton ranch.
A. L. Buell., Contractor and Builder, City
Hotel, will build fues or do other brick work;
also first-class kalsomining. n.
| Mr.. Moore, of the st Louis Journal Of Com
naerce, In collecting data for an article he is
preparing for that paper descriptive of Deer
Lodge.
MID. #. Fox, d. @. NJ. United workmen,
has Instituted Lodge of that Order in Mis-
soula with thirty charter members and will
be In Deer Lodge on Monday next TO estab-
iish Lodge here.
| Mr. shoup, of Mcclellan GuIch, has sold
his placer and quartz interest in Mcclellan
and Madison gulches to Judd Wiggin & Co.
for the sum Of 5000. Judd Wiggin & Co.
are operating the Mcclellan and other mines
employing since last May on an average
twenty men.
Kleinschmidt Il 60. have just received new
stocks Of children's hose. ladies' cashmere
hsSe, German stockings, cheap Pique prints,
ties, feather-edge braid, corsets, combs vel
vet ribbon, black satin, curtain net, scarlet
underwear, trunks and valises. Their entire
stock of misses and children's cloaks will be
CLOSED out at a discount and very close TO
cost. Also in stock, full line of groceries. A.
| | creamery butter in fifty-pound buckets,
harness, saddles, etc. 1t
DIR. johnson, who teaches the detection of
| counterfeit paper money, left on Wednesday
for Virginia City, having given instruction
TO quite number of our business men. The
method he teaches is efficient and easily
learned. With the incoming of railroads
there will doubtless be great deal of coun-
| terfeit money offered In Montana, and per-
sons handling money will find it advanta-
geous to understand It's detection. He goes
| from Virginia to Bozeman, Helena, and Fort
, Benton.
The old saying that "when the days begin
to lengthen, then the cold begins to strength
en- IL having verification. From the finest
winter weather Montana has ever had ii be-
gan breaking down this week and Thursday
| morning run into cold snap, thermometers IN
various places registering from 90 to -25',
soon after daylight. The snow is light, how
ever, the days bright and stock in excellent
condition to withstand cold. At the worst
we can only have a short winter now and
this may be- only an exceptional "spell"
Mr.. G. ii. Manning handed us a couple of
letters this week, one describing the manner
in which his dwelling was occupied during
the existence of small pox there and his rea-
| sons for not removing the floors; the other
stating that we erred last week IN the As
sumption that he did not leave Wunderlich's
Immediately after learning that smallpox ex-
| listed there. He says he did remove his fam :
lily three miles latter zoe thought ID uas small
pox." We give Mr.. Manning the benefit of
this denial, and do not care to 90 into re-
view of the matter.
| During Miss Lincoln's stay in Deer Lodge
she has taken orders for several Chiekering
pianos, including three of the grand square.
| Some years ago these were the finest singing
| instruments manufactured in the world. and
ID said they fully maintain their reputation.
Miss Lincoln also sells the Knabe and Decker
pianos, standard and excellent makes, and is
agent for different Organ Companies. Per-
sons desiring musical instruments should call
on or address Miss q. p. Lincoln at Butte.
| Her instruments are selected with special
care by friends in the east. The prices asked
are ~ low ~ they can be purchased any where
and by special railroad contract she is ena-
bled to deliver them at very low freight
rates.
Some months since Mrs. Barker, of Lewis
and Clarke county. aged nearly seventy
years. was committed to the Insane Asylum
nj Warm Springs In addition to her mental
infirmities fungus growth in her right hand
had enlarged until 1t occupied the entire
palm and was extending to the hack of the
hand. It was very offensive and its rapid
| growth and characteristics evidenced IL would
ca,se death in ashort time. Drs. Mussigbred
and Mitchell concluded to amp itate ut the
| wrist, and did 80 on January 81, with some
miSgivings as TO the result. On January 7th
| DIR. Mussigbrod dressed the stump and TO his
pleasurable establishment found 10 had com
menced healing shy first intention" and
was doing excellently. The surprise was in
the healing characteristics in so aged per.
| son.
We receied the past week the Chicago
| Inter Ocean the Omaha Bee, the San Fran
| cisco On, onicle, and the Salt Lake Tribune
| Holiday Numbers. The latter Is a splendid
paper for Utah and the work on IL liz de-
scribed ~ fellows I" The edition was 20,o0t
1 copies. Each copy consisted Of eighteen
pages of ten columns each, and each column
contained thirty inches Of matter. In
all there was in each copy three hundred and
fifty feet of reading matter, not counting the
advertisements This gives in all seven mill
ion feet of reading matter for the outside
world, regarding the resources of Utah and
the business of Salt Lake. The columns, II
cut in lengths and pasted together, including
reading matter, advertisements, and all
would measure nearly fifteen hundred miles
The weight of the paper used i'm this edition
was nearly five tons"
At the 1873 September term of the District
Court In Deer Lodge county, John Collins
was convicted of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to the p.nitentiary for life
Thr circumstance will be remembered In hs
and companion in drunken debauch hav
ing hung Chinaman on the ridge pole of I
cabin about half way between Rocker anc
Butte Collins remained In prison in Gloss
confinement until Tuesday of this week wher
on petition of Judge Hiram Knowles, Hon
A. Il. MAYHEM. six Of the Jurors who con
victed him, and one hundred and twent,
other citizens. he was pardoned conditional
Iy. He left on Wednesday morning for Sar
Francisco. where he win ship AZ seaman
that being his vocation. He has been wei
behaved and manifests deep contrition. HI,
has always protested he was crazy from II
qnor when the aforementioned crime wa
committed and says no intoxicants will eros
his lips again under any circumstances
The case of K-nnon against Gilmer s. Sal