The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-07
TERRITORIAL ITEMS:
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/ Work has commenced on tue bihoh IpAS
copal church.
Maiden Is about thirty-eight hundred feet
above sea level.
| Matt Anderson and his Massachusetts, bride
will locate in Bozeman.
| It ia rumored that campaign paper is to
be started in Benton soon. .saH-~ F
The Butte steam laundry has started up and
the Chinese look disturbed
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. o. j. Sails
bury in Salt Lake last week.
Alice stock ranged in price from $3.50 to
| so 10 in New York last week.
The Beaverhead river has been higher this
year than at any time since 1859.
Miss Leonora Pearson. the well-known
soprano, has returned to Chicago.
More snow fell in eastern Montana in May
than during all the winter months.
The military telegraph station at Froze-to-
Death, Montana, has been re-opened.
Peter Wilde, of Meagher county, almost
| cut his foot off with an axe last week.
A rainbow in the north ut midnight was in
view from Benton last Tuesday night.
Benton's new Congregational minister left
Minneapolis for Benton on the 23d inst.
waterman's strawberry patch Mt Bozeman
was damaged $500 by the frost last week.
Mail service between Fort Shaw and Old
Agency has been increased to twice week.
During the month OF June there was but
one death in Helena, and that from accident.
The Government allows 1.0s5 miles. river
measurement, between Bismarck and Ben
ton.
Alfred Olsen. of Helena aged twelve years.
fell from horse last Friday and broke his
arm.
A pestofice has been established at Muir
(Bozeman tunneD with A. J. McCray "a post
master.
II IL estimated that the assessment Of Ben
ton town property this year will amount to
s750.O0O.
A pnstoffice, called Terminus. has been
established Mt the end of the Northern Paci-
fic track
Glendale IL to he provided with telegraph
ic connection with the outside world in the
near futnre.
Republican candidates for sheriff of Beaver
head county.
Fort Ellis is said 70 he one of the pleasant
est and most comfortably equipped military
posts in the west
The onlv hump. backed Chinaman in the
United States is resident Of the Chinatown
suburb Of Helena
Horse thieves l.st week at Benton stole %
horse ont Of Sheriff Healy's corral, which
was rather cheeky.
An ex-soldier named Nelson is in Jail nj
Miles CITY for attempting rape on six-yeaI-
old girl at Corlson.
Captain Laharge, who brought the first
steamer 70 the Benton levee, still navigates
the upper Missouri.
Butte will make an effort TO raise 5000 10
nav the expense Of exhibiting her ores at the
Denver Exposition.
A Miles CITY Jail bird last week cut his wav
ont of nrison with pair of scissors. The log
was foot in diameter.
A colored deck hand on the steamer Hell
ena fell overheard on the last trip and was
drowned His body was not recovered.
On her last trip up the river the Josephine
had on board a colony of Russian Jewish ref
ugees, who will settle at Painted Wood.
Cockrells bridge. spanning the Madison at
Dunn's Landing. was destroyed last Sunday |
at noon by the driving of herd of cattle |
over IL.
On the LIST of July the Postoffice COMPANY,
Bn'te, filed articles of incorporation in the |
Territorial Secretarys office. The capital is |
$4,000. .a.
Samuel Neel died in Helena last Saturday. |
His funeral Sunday was more largely attend
ed than any other funeral that ever took |
place there.
A notice has been posted at wickes that
all men in the employ of the Alta Montana
COMPANY WILL il found patronizing a saloon,
be discharged.
During the fiscal year ending June 80, 1882,
the cash receipts Of the q. s. Land Office, IN
Helena, were ssi ,1724I, which includes cash
entries, fees, etc.
The driver on the Buford and Poplar
creek stage line skipped out last week with
all the stock and everything else he could
Law his hands on.
There was prize fight last "Wednesday
week at Bozeman between Charley warfield
and James Quin for s75 dollars side. Quin
came out first best.
Geo. Ayres attempted to cross the booming
Judith last week with load of lumber. He
and the team got across, but the wagon and
lumber went down stream.
A son of Colonel w. r. Sanders, Helena.
has acolleotion of 90 autographs of Presi-
dents. generals, poets, fnanciers, and other
prominent men Of this country.
It Is estimated that there will be 55,OO0
sheep sheared in Beaverhead county this
year. The clip will amount to about $4,000
pounds, worth nearly or quite $4,000.
Colonel Rausenwein. an engineer of ths N
p, recently made trip down the Yellow.
stone In skiff from Junction CITY to Miles
city, lou miles, in fourteen hours and fifty
The Butte sports gambled quite extensive
" as to whether Guiteau would be hanged
asst Friday. The odds were heavy In favor
If the assassin falling next to the box-tle
burial box.
A very rich and extensive coal deposit has
been discovered on Deep Creek, about forty
niles from Benton. A stock company with
! capital stock of 500, 900 has been formed in
Benton to work It.
"Buckskin jack" (whoever that may be,
rom the Little Missouri country. mean,iered
'round the oity, Sunday. He claimed to be |
a bad man-wild, woolly and hard boss to |
curry" No Deaths Yellowstone Journal. Z
The newly elected directors Of the First
National Bank, Of Butte, are A. j. Davis, g.
!. Hauser, E. w. knight; Jas Talbot, and ,
4. d. Hauser. A. j. Davis was reelected
PRESIDENT, and s. T. Hauser, vice-president.
Mr.. John II. Waters has made an examina- \
ion Of the Missouri river above the present |
lead OF navigation, and is ready to build and ),
un couple Of small packets provided an !.
appropriation Is secured from the Govern
aent to make certain needed improvements
n the river.
While the nightwatchman was climbing
p on the water tank at Forsythe, one night
scently, his pistol dropped out of his hin