The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-26
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

4OIN1AL i INAos
Court is in session in Miles City.
From Bismarck to Benton by river is / ,Os5
miles.
Alice stock in New York Is worth from
s2.65 to S2.S5.
j. B. Dabney has become collector for the
Auant Courier.
Missoula now hrs nine saloors, with two
more Matching
There are $50 boxes in the Butte postofice
and 30 more ordered
The widow with five small children was
doing Helena last week.
The Hecla Company owps fifteen patented
properties near Lion City.
Guy X. Piatt has resumed his position as
local editor of the Independent.
Thos Motif has been committed in Butte
on the charge of illegal voting.
The Bozeman school district is offering
$40 900 worth of bends for sale.
The Big Horn tunnel, near Billings, has
been completed. 1t is 1850 feet long.
White Sulphur Springs is to have resi-
dent clergyman by the middle of July.
Mary A. Porter, of Bozeman, has secured
| . divorce from her husband, VIM. Porter.
The military telegraph line between Dead
wood and Fort Keogh is to be abandoned.
| It is reported that the fiocks in the Sun
River country are affected more or less with
scab.
NJ. E. Miner, the cattle man of Benton,
has returned from his winters visit to Chi
cago.
| One of the rous.abouts on the Big Horn
fell overheard and was drowned during the
trip up.
e. Hofer and another Bozeman man
killed four hundred ground squirrels one day
last week.
On the 18th of May the wind blew at Ben
ton for short time at the rate of seventy
miles an hour.
The Eastern Montana Race Association
will hold races at Bozeman on the Fourth
and fifth of July.
The net receipts from the ball given in
Butte last week for the benefit of the Sisters
Hospital were $500.
One hundred and thirty-seven Benton town
lots were recently sold to Minneapolis par.
ties, the price being 81 $3.50.
A 175 yard foot-race for $50 side was wer
at Laurin's last week by John A. Med Donald
who came out six feet ahead.
The latest out is canned buffalo, killed il
Montana, shipped to New York and canned
and reshipped back here for sale.
, The four days walking match of Georg'
, Wilcox against Adams and Wade, for 81 ,0Oo
was to commence in Butte yesterday.
To avoid law suit, Hugh Galen gave to
passenger, who was injured by the upsettini
of one of The coaches, the sum of $500.
A young German at Canon Ferry had hi
hand badly lacerated Tuesday by the burst
ing of gun with which he was shooting at
bird.
C The military telegraph repair party re
s Gently killed bear weighing about six huI
d dred pounds near Crows Nest, CGu
0 d'Alenes.
i Col w. +. Sanders bought recently of Wn
9 Mclean seventy acres of land mile and
: half north of Helena, paying therefor $1,000
s or $40 per acre.
The Crows are richer in horse, or rathe
pony flesh, than any other Indian nation o
> the continent, having an aggregate Of froI
u, 900 to 10000 head.
|. The Nellie Peck had case of varioloid o
4 board on its arrival at Benton on the 16t
It inst, but the officers called it measles to q
past the quarantine.
O. - ~
t recently sold four thousand head of cattle q
= SIS per head, to English parties, to be drive
h into the British possessions.
n A man named John Weber, verging on
\. state of idiocy, was found by the police o
Monday evening living in q prospect hole I
n Orofino Gulch, near Helena.
r John II. Black languished in the Bozema
4 Jail last week for contempt Of Court, he ha,
ing failed to make sufficient answer to Gel
9 tain interrogatories Of the Court.
Tramps boarded freight train ut Silve
Bow the other day and when ordered to 81
k off several of them pulled six-shooters an
said they preferred riding. They rode.
Judge Tilton, of Pennsylvania, Is In Boz.
n man looking up q suitable location for . co
5 ony Of 80 to 100 Pennsylvania families. Th
colony win consist principally Of farmers.
The Annual Conference Of the Methods
Episcopal Church South. for the District Z
Il Helena, Is in session at Fairview Church, 1
b the Prickly Pear Valley. and win remain i
= 2 session until Sunday evening.
& Mr.. Erickson, father o. Nate Erickson, wit
i Spencer Bros, at White Sulphur Springs,fe
4 overheard from the Big Horn, near Flo,
b Stephenson. He was promptly rescued, bu
g died in two days afterwards from the effect
4 Of the injuries.
n Geo. M. Hatch, Of the firm Of Wallace
. Hatch, drovers, started last week for Mile
!, = City with 5000 head Of mutton sheep. II
IS win shear at Miles City aud then ship cas-
marketing at whatever point offers the be-
prices.-Huebusdm0n
Jacob Powers, the new mail contractor 0
= the Benton line, bought the coaches, stool
IL ETC., from the former contractors ut the 70
% lowing prices: Coaches, 500 each; stag
!. stations, $500 each horses, s135 each fou
: horse harness, 500 per sett.
.. tt. Lynde 8 Co., n. p. contractors,
In Bozeman, recently purchased the Salesvil
he mill property, including the water powe
IL and about seven acres Of land, for the sum
b III, 10 The parties have also contract,
ID with Mr.. Sales for about two and = half mi