The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-11-03
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Nelson Story Is building big mill two
miles below Bozeman.
The new Grand Union Hotel at Benton has
been insured for s20,0Oe.
A Miles City man named Hyerdahl has
mysteriously disappeared.
The question of lighting Miles City by
electricity is being agitated.
A free school has been started ut Billings,
with Miss Eva Ash as teacher.
The Western Union wire on the Northern
Pacific has reached Miles City.
The Madisoniaa has entered u pom its tenth
volume. 1t bears its years well.
Two more dead bodies have been found in
the Yellowstone, near Huntley.
The postoffice at Glendale has been re-
duced from thir.i to fourth class.
About twenty-five families have recently
settled near Como on Bitter Root.
Con Kohrs loaded eighty-one cars with
beef cattle at Miles City last week.
Miles City was enlivened last week by a
visit from eighty Oregon cowboys.
At the Blood reservation are 3.542 Indians
who have been paid this year s1s,110.
C.M. Jennison accidentally shot himselfin
the leg at Miles City one day last week.
The new postofice at Butte has been COM
pietsd and postmaster Smith is moving in.
The River Press has entered upon its third
year. 1t is an excellent paper and deserves
a long life.
John III. Curtis, Esq, has been made the
Democratic candidate for coroner of Silver
Bow county. 80
Rev. J. Z. Smith, Congregational minister
of Butte, has received $1,000 from the East
to help build a church
No bill was found against McElrath for
embezzlement and forgery, at the United
! States court at Bozeman.
A. L. Russell, recently of Ohio, has become
associated with Mr.. Carson In the publica-
ton Of the Galatin Nc,os. 80
Prof Howe, formerly principal of the
Bozeman schools is going to San Francisco,
| where he has been offered school.
The new Northern Pacific hotel at Mis-
soula has cost $40, 900 to build, and $1,000 or
$1,000 will be spent in furnishing it.
Among the requests made in the will of
| the late Nelson Curtis, of Boston. is one of
$1,000 to Gen. Miles, the Indian fighter.
1t is stated that Helena Masons have taken
about $1,000 of stock in the Benton Masonic
Temple, now in course of construction.
b. III. Tatem is a Republican candidate for
| the Legislature from Lewis and Clarke coun-
ty, in place Of Colonel Sanders, declined.
Messrs Ellis Brothers, near Bozeman, had
| 100 acres of their farm in oats this year,
which averaged little over GA bushels per
| acre.
Portland advices of the 10th inst, say that
| on that day the first through freight for Mis-
| soula, over the Northern Pacific railroad was
shipped.
| Morton Kahn was accidently shot by a
guntrap in the Judith mountains last Friday
and killed. He was in the employ of an en-
cheering firm.
Helena has fourteen-year-old school girl
| who is crIticizing Herbert Spencer's views on
| education. The precocious little damsel is a
daughter of Chief Justice Wade.
Andrew Benz, of Bozeman, notifies the
public that his son, Andrew Benz, has left
home without the consent of his father, who
prodigal may contract.
Some Montana Iapers are publishing the
we'll known humbug card of"Rev. Joseph
+. Inman," the returned m missionary" who
offers to send free of charge recipe for the
cure of certain diseases.
The recent fire at the Piegan Reserve was
much more serious than at first supposed In
stead of $50 sacks of -four being burned the
number was about 800. The loss, including
the buildings is about $4,000.
The -old-time name Of Regina, the point
selected by Lieut.. Governor Dewdney for
the future capital of the British Northwest,
Is Pile o. Bones. The papers are giving
Dewdney game on account of it.
!. George White, of Helena, has a well de-.
veloped case of varioloid, and his residences
has been quarantined. The Board of Health
has alss given public notice of the fact and
requested all persons to be vaccinated~
In the Tidal Wave district, Madison coun-
ty, last week, by premature explosion of
giant powder, Swede named Anderson had
his right arm shattered, his head badly in
jured, and both his eyes blow out. It is not
thought his injuries will prove fatal.
Theophilus Cyr, an N. P. contractor, at
work on the Flathead reservation, was shot
in the breast one day last week by Gus Dick
son, cook who had been discharged by Cyr.
Dickson escaped arrest. Cyr is in the Mis-
soula hospital, doing we'll
"a
accidentally shot and killed himself with q
carbine at Baxter's ranch, near Butte,
Thursday of last week. No one else was
present at the time of the accident The boy
was brother OF Mrs. Mark M. Musgrove.
Miss Middle Morgan, the talented stock
reporter of New York City is making Miles
City visit with a view of writing up Mon
tana stock interests for the New York Times
Miss Morgan is a writer of more than aver
age ability, and knows mere about stock
than any other woman in the world.
Operator Newman, at one time connected
with the q. s. signal Office in Helena, but for
the past year stationed at Crows Nest, re-
pair station in the Occur dAlene mountains,
has been assigned to duty in the telegraph
Office at Fort Ellis. His place at Crows
Nest will be filed by Mr.. Monier, recently of
Fort Ellis.
Sigmund Weiskopf, former resident of
Butte, was murdered at Thompson, the ter.
mipal town of Clarks Fork division of the
Northern Pacific, about two weeks ago. He
had won $500 at faro and left the gaming
table at a late hour, intending TO go home
Nothing was seen of him for several days
when he was found in the river below town
with his pockets rified and showing evil
dence of having been foully dealt with
In Butte the other day young man named
George Morden sued his employer, Colgrove,
for wages due. Colgrove returned the COM
pliment by getting out a search-warrant for
money said to be stolen, and the amount was
found in Morden's valise. At his trial, how
ever, the evidence developed the probability
that Colgrove had placed the money in MGR
denis valise to make case against him, and