The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The new Benton hotel will be compie'eu
by the first Of August.
Thirty-three quartz lodes were located in
Madison county during April.
II is thought Wilcox, shot in Butte cleo
ton day by Boiler, will recover.
The Dillon people voted to sell the ola
school house aud build q new one. - Y
Three-card monte sharps are working the
Utah 81 Northern emigrant trains.
Jacob NJ. Powers has bought the Helena
and Benton Stage Company's outfit.
The six men injured at the boiler explo-
sion in Butte last week will all recover.
Fifty or sixty atle-bodied men can find
employment in and about Alder gulch.
The Crows are said to be ordering the set
tiers in the Yellowstone country to leave.
Col. voolfolk, of the Independent, has re-
tired from the paper for few weeks rest
A little girl was born May LIST on the south
bound train on the Utah & Northern road.
Charles Mann had poem two columns
and half long in the Herald of the 4th inst
The Overland Hotel property, Helena, has
been sold to Massena Billiard, Esq, for So
600.
A stray boy-baby was picked up on the
placer ground below Butte one day last
week.
The new Secretary of Montana is expected
to reach the Territory the latter part of this
month.
An attempted burglary at Butte Monday
| night was frustrated by the wakeful ness oil
an employee.
The Indians have raded Sweetgrass, near
Bohemian, and taken about all the horses in
that section.
The "Right-of-Way" bill of the Northern
Pacific through the Crow reservation, has
become a law.
Miles City used /, O53 gallons of whisky last
month and tho citizens were not so very
drunk, either
p w. Meadow owns 800 acres adjoining
the Billings TOWNSHIP, and also an addition te
Bozeman. Lucky.
Fourteen head of horses were stolen from
the Belknap Agency Indians by the Piegans
last Thursday night.
The saloon men of Missoula "pooled theil
issues" on the first and raised the price o.
drinks to quarter.
! Up to last Friday there had been twelve
cases and one death.
The nomination of Henry j. Armstrong a.
agent of the Crow Indians has been con
tirmed by the Senate.
A little son of Samuel G. Burch, Old Agen
cy, fell over his fathers boots one day las
week and broke leg.
For beating his divorced wife, breaking
her furniture, etc, John Ii. Norton now Ian
guishes in the Butte Jail.
The operretta Penelope win be produce.
the latter part Of May by the young folks o.
the Butte Episcopal church.
Edward Atwater, an engineer on the Vel
lowstone Division of the Northern Pacific
was recently frozen to death.
Mrs. Archie Hyndcman, of Silver Springs
Madison county, gave birth on the 23d O
April to a sixteen-pound girl.
The Hater-Mountains of Butte has suspende,
the daily edition, the proprietors failing II
find any money in the business.
J. H. Wolfe, arestaurant keeper of Helena
is supposed to have left for parts unknown
leaving many unpaid bills behind.
Major Richard L, Morris, of the Fifth In
fantry, died ut Fort Assinaboine last Satul
day evening of paralysis of the brain.
Mr.. Bohannon, formerly telegraph opera
tor at Helena and Butte, is said to have LEI
the country $500 short in his accounts.
A couple of large Scotch grey hounds ar
being shipped to White Sulphur Springs IAN
are believed to be serviceable for killing
wolves. -
James Fisher had leg broken last wee
between Sun River and Teton by the hors
he was riding falling and throwing him IN
derneath.
George Staring, an employee in the Ind
pendent, had finger nearly severed from tn
hand by being caught in the cog-wheels G
the job press, .-.@ -~=T
Helena had but five deaths during tn
month of April; one each from cerebro sp
, nal meningitis, paralysis, scarlet fever, e,
haustion, and suicide.
Cassius G. Cullen, the Helena poet, con
mitted suicide at Jefferson City, last week
by taking dose of nitric acid. He said b
had no further use for life. ..s.4
Charles III. Gould, Miles City land office r,
ceiver, has arranged blank book that wi
greatly simplify the business of the Office
He will have it copyrighted. H.. e.
Five United States prisoners in Jail q
Miles City could not be taken to Bozeman
be tried at the recent term of court on az
count of the bad condition OF the roads.
Montana has one bank for every 1900 pc,
pie within her borders land the average ban
J deposits fer each citizen are S5132. The a,
erage for all other Territories Is but S11 90
The total land sales of the Northern p,
cific Railroad Company for the month I
April amounted to 12s,901 acres, for SALT
9s3.09, and 285 town lots were sold for $50
415. -...sr- zss. ..a
The Josephine, the first boat of the season
reached Benton May Sd, being twenty -sevs
days ahead of the first arrival last year an
within five days of the earliest arrival o
record. z@t
DR.. Il. w. Hoyt, an eclectic and magnet
physician of Missoula, has been arrested an
bound over on a charge OF attempted aboI
! ton, the woman being widow living nes
Missoula.
Charles I'll. Adams and j. B. Waid,
Butte, accept the challenge of George i
Wilcox to walk six days against two me
for $500. The latter is walking in Salt LAX