The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-21
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


$1,000.
Alta Montana is selling at si.55 in New
York.
The mechanics of Butte have formed a
Union.
Helena seems to have had case of 3-7-7'
last week.
There is talk of building Masonic Hall in
Bozeman. -
The Glendive Times has enlarged to seven
columns.
1t is rumored that Fort Missoula has q
scandal case.
Dillon claims to have the champ ion fool
racer of Montana.
The Missoulin has caught on to two Chi
nese laundry lads"
A postotfice has been established at the
Mullan tunnel.
The steamer Bachelor entered the Yellow
stone April 18th.
The steamer Black Hills left Bismarck for
Benton April 18th.
Mrs. Charles Anceny, of Hamilton, Gala
tin county, died last Thursday.
Captain Higgins stallion, Index, died at
Missoula last week of pink-eye.
1t is said there are three newspaper outfits
en- rou'e to Billings, late Coulson.
Il. Berry Durham has been appointed Jus
tice of the Peace in Gallatin county.
The Coulson Post contempates an enlarge
ment and improvement of the paper.
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Mountain is to be established July LIST.
C. J. Nesbitt, of st. Louis, will start pa
per in the Barker district in May or June.
The value of all the buffalo robes shipped
from Montana for the year 1881 Is S14S,533
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of A. C. Botkin as U. S. Marshal of Montana.
A postoffice has been established at Ar
denne, Missoula, with c. C. O'Keefe as post
msster.
The Meagher county debt March 1st 1882,
was s22,5S3.9i, decrease during the year
of $3.50.
An eastern paper says the Third Infantry,
| now In Montana, are soon to be transferred
to Utah.
Hoodlums have broken nearly every piece
| of glass in the new Butte school house build
| ing.
| The steamer Eclipse left Bismarck. on the
18th for Poplar River agency on the Mis-
| souri,.
Seven hundred dollars reward is offered
murderer.
The Miner says machine shops for the Utah
| and Northern will probably be built at or
near Deer Lodge.
Tommy Woods, a favorte Montana jockey,
has gone to Denver to ride for the stables of
Mr. Clifton Bell e..
A quartz mill soon to be started up at
Diamond City will somewhat enliven that
old time camp
Ringwald & Co., of Helena, money and
diamond brokers, contemplate branch houses
at Butte an Missoula.
The mother of Judge Conger died recently
at her home in Illinois, at the remarkable
age of eighty-six years.
The grand jury of Meagher county state in
their report that the poor of the county are
kept at an enormous expense.
VIM. Curren had leg broken last week
while at work in the Moulton mine at Butte,
a falling rock being the cause.
j. .. Nash, of Helena, died at Silver City
last Sunday. Twenty-Five Masons went out
from Helena to attend the funeral
John J. Piatt, the Cincinnati poet, and
brother of Guy Y. Piatt, WILL it is asserted
hn NJ ntY,nf .1 ~
Rev. l.. b. Stateler, of Bozeman, has gone
to Nashville, Tenn, to represent Montana in
the Southern Methodist General Conference
The name of Coulson is to be changed to
Billings and already sos 900 worth of lots in
the new town have been sold in New York.
Mr.. Ebenezer Sharpe, of indianapolis, In
diana, is in Helena trying to organize anoth-
er National bank with capital of 5000 600
VIM. Twitchel, leveler of the Northern
Pacific engineer corps, was injured on Hunt
ly Bluff last Wednesday by rock from a
blast
L. l.. Bonner & Co. expect another saw
mill, this one with sixty-horse power, to be-
gin operations soon on their He'll gate con-
tract.
Alfred Renshaw fell from step-ladder one
day last week while cleaning the windows of
bis fathers store in Butte, and received some
painful injuries.
ID. q. Dennis, who has been connected
with l. q. Bakers store in Benton, has left |
for Winnipeg, where he goes into business
with his brother
reward of $500 is offered by Sheriff Low
ry of Butte for the apprehension of Clarence
Earle and John Tuckerman, the two horse
thieves who recently escaped from the Butte |
Jail.
Henry Mcdonald, of Choteau county. re-
ports having lost but two head of sheen bv |
poverty during the past winter out of a flock |
of six thousand - |
W. ri. Todd has sold his interest in the |
Benton Ferry. Mr.. Todd paid 81 800 and
sold for $780, netting $500 on the invest
ment i'll three weeks. .5. ......E
A man named Fleming, playing draw polk
er at Butte the other night, raked In the pot
with queen full and six-shooter against
hand. %
AT the last term of the Meagher county
district Court Judson Naples was granted
divorce from Melissa Naples, and Eliza
Caldwell from James Caldwell.
The Husbdndman commends Judge Wade
for hearing the suit between b. r. Sherman
ana AIDA j. Sherman with closed doors
The former was granted divorce
Charles Anceny, of Gallatin county, re.
Gently sold to Robert Milligan, of jefferson
county, twenty head of thoroughbred short
horns for $1,000, an average of $500 per head.
ladder & Walkers team with the driver
went into q sixteen foot prospect hole at
Butte the other day. Fortunately the injur-
les sustained, though painful, were not seri-
Gus.
Owing to confusion in the shipment of
goods to Mr.. John Caplices various stores
N the Territory, the title of the establishment
at Butte will hereafter be James Shields
& Co.
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